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EA Sports/Gillette contest, Day 2: NBA Live courtside! Win the game! photo

Before we tell you what today’s contest is, we should probably announce the winner of yesterday’s ’shoop-some-facial-hair-on-Madden contest. Drumroll, please: the funniest image came from...Ballistic! The winner might have been someone else if we were asking for the best ’shoop, but we literally lol’d when we saw Ballistic’s Pai Mei-inspired picture. Great work! Send your information to samit[at]destructoid[dot]com, and we’ll get you your copy of Madden NFL 09 very soon! Congrats!

Now, as for today’s contest, we’re giving away a copy of NBA Live 09 on the Xbox 360. Keeping with the simple theme, we’re just asking for a caption this time -- and again, the funniest one wins. The photo is in the gallery; it shows a pensive Yao Ming sitting on the bench, courtside, and boy, does he have some awful facial hair. Again, we’ll only allow one entry per person; if you submit multiple captions, please pick one to be considered in the giveaway. The contest is open to anyone, anywhere! We’ll be accepting entries through 4 PM EST tomorrow, November 19th.

If you’re wondering what this EA Sports/Gillette contest is all about, check out the details after the jump. And remember to keep voting to pick the winner of our Blitz: The League II PS3 giveaway; voting ends tomorrow night at 11:59 PM EST!

The full details can be found here, but in a nutshell, you compete in an Xbox Live tournament with any of five different EA Sports titles (Madden NFL 09, NBA Live 09, NASCAR 09, FIFA Soccer 09, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09) for bragging rights, as well as prizes to certify your sports gaming prowess. There are nine weekly Qualifying Rounds, running from October 31-December 28, a week of leaderboard qualifying in a Knock Out Round from January 4-11, 2009, and a Global Competition around February 3, 2009, held in Orlando, Florida.

There are tournaments in North America, Asia, and Europe -- the Global Competition will feature one winner per game from each of the three regions. Those fifteen winners will be flown to Orlando to compete against each other, and the winners will have a chance to play against the Gillette Champions: Tiger Woods, Derek Jeter, Thierry Henry, Denny Hamlin, and Roger Federer! Pretty cool, eh? Weekly winners get a Gillette razor and a 3-month Xbox Live Gold subscription; weekly first prize winners receive a Gillette shave kit, a copy of EA’s FaceBreaker, a 12-month Gold subscription, and 1,600 MS Points. Oh, and in addition to being flown to Orlando, the finalists will get a shave kit, 3 EA Sports games, a 12-month Gold subscription, and 4,000 MS Points.


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Atlas's Avatar
Atlas at 11/18/2008 20:06
"I'm not wearing any pants"
Ballistic's Avatar
Ballistic at 11/18/2008 20:10
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! Thank you so much destructoid!!!! I'd gloat, but I'm too glad that I won to care!
Atlas's Avatar
Atlas at 11/18/2008 20:15
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Atlas at 11/18/2008 20:17
That basically illustrates my point.
bruceleethree's Avatar
bruceleethree at 11/18/2008 20:22
"I'm trying to pick my nose and scratch my ear at the same time."
manasteel88's Avatar
manasteel88 at 11/18/2008 20:24


Cause I know thats what I was thinking when the Rockets signed him.
electricmole's Avatar
electricmole at 11/18/2008 20:50
*looks at referee*

"damn. after 8 long years in the nba they still think im chinese."
AgentMOO's Avatar
AgentMOO at 11/18/2008 21:07
oh shit, ended yesterday? oh well, here's mine just for fun



http://agentmoo.com/images/dump/DESTRUCTOID/madden-curly-big.jpg
Electro Lemon's Avatar
Electro Lemon at 11/18/2008 21:16
"Hmm... what would Chairman Mao do?"
AgentMOO's Avatar
AgentMOO at 11/18/2008 21:21
Okay here we go: now the correct topic

Coonskin05's Avatar
Coonskin05 at 11/18/2008 22:49
"When I grow up I want a moustache just like Bryan Coffee's..."
Zanezibar's Avatar
Zanezibar at 11/19/2008 02:39
"Fuck You! I have a finger sideburn.
Batthink's Avatar
Batthink at 11/19/2008 04:27
Yao Ming was so unused to being without his mobile phone, he couldn't help posing without it.

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Seriously, Atlas' shoop and Zanezibar's quote made me lol, so it should be between them. :OD
jeremyw95's Avatar
jeremyw95 at 11/19/2008 10:01
How the hell did I get gum on my shoe.
aznrock2000's Avatar
aznrock2000 at 11/19/2008 10:46
My post-season beard is coming along quite nicely. Two months down, five more to go.
slimmswitch's Avatar
slimmswitch at 11/19/2008 10:56
"eeee, I cant hold on much longer, hopefully it will be silent"
actionj007's Avatar
actionj007 at 11/19/2008 11:24
"Maybe I should change my name to Lebron Ming or Kobe Ming? Hmmmm...."
batye's Avatar
batye at 11/19/2008 11:37
Ming Oh my hair wing wing
cheesly_c's Avatar
cheesly_c at 11/19/2008 11:46
I should've listened to my mother and joined the National Ping Pong team.
Furnimus's Avatar
Furnimus at 11/19/2008 12:35


He just doesn't understand...
Furnimus's Avatar
Furnimus at 11/19/2008 12:36
I fail at image posting.

<a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/8429/70607noscaleyaofacedk2.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/></a><br/><a href="http://g.imageshack.us/img167/70607noscaleyaofacedk2.jpg/1/"><img src="http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/70607noscaleyaofacedk2.jpg/1/w420.png" border="0"></a>

He just doesn't understand...
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Furnimus at 11/19/2008 12:37
DUDE! I fail hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<a href="http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?image=70607noscaleyaofacedk2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/8429/70607noscaleyaofacedk2.th.jpg" border="0" alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://img604.imageshack.us/content.php?page=blogpost&files=img167/8429/70607noscaleyaofacedk2.jpg" title="QuickPost"><img src="http://imageshack.us/img/butansn.png" alt="QuickPost" border="0"></a> Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others!

Please work...
Furnimus's Avatar
Furnimus at 11/19/2008 12:39
Okay this is ridiculous. I am ridiculous lol I never thought I could fail so bad.

Infinite Obscurity's Avatar
Infinite Obscurity at 11/19/2008 12:51
"Crap, they can't know that I'm actually transforming into a werewolf."
NihonTiger90's Avatar
NihonTiger90 at 11/19/2008 13:16
"Great, now I'll never win that beard-off next week..."
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sirjester at 11/19/2008 13:19
my terrible excuse for an entry.....couldnt think of anything clever so I just refrenced a crazy gay asian that calls himself razor ramone.

Butmac's Avatar
Butmac at 11/19/2008 13:20
My entry:

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TrailerParkJesus at 11/19/2008 13:22
"If I play the whole game with my hand on my chin like this, then maybe my face won't look so ridiculous..."
sirjester's Avatar
sirjester at 11/19/2008 13:23
sufficiently less fail than yesterday....
AIDN1's Avatar
AIDN1 at 11/19/2008 14:34
This is my secret code to the aliens out there that they need to beam me down some skills...now.
Niero's Avatar
Niero at 11/19/2008 15:58
lol, well played Buttmac
Atlas's Avatar
Atlas at 11/19/2008 17:37
The anticipation is coming to an end. Will Butmac and friends prevail over the evil Team Rocket? Can Sirjester hope to succeed in the face of insurmountable odds?

Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z!
hawk99's Avatar
hawk99 at 11/20/2008 11:52
"Do you think I started to grow this playoff beard too soon? Remember I'm asian"
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