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Bachelor Contest Winner Chooses PS2, Not Girl
techstar25 writes "IGN is reporting that last night was singles night at a San Francisco Giants baseball game, and a 'The Bachelorette' type contest was held. The winning bachelor was given a choice to either take the beautiful, young, brunette bachelorette out on an all expenses paid date, or receive a Playstation 2. Naturally, the bachelor took the PS2, and 'The men in the audience cheered.'" The article notes: "Looks like when it comes down to a choice between video games and female attention, these days, videogames are winning out."
Enjoy your PS2, dude, you've earned it.
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"Pay to play" doesnt appeal to some gamers...
Sure the date could turn into a relationship, but with a contest situation it most likely would not. Heck, she may not even put out, making the one night just an ordeal!
The Playstation 2 on the other hand is guaranteed fun for a years. So many games, so little time.
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I agree. I also think that if the girl needed to get a date at a baseball game, she couldn't have been anything spectacular. By that I mean, why isn't she taken already? I would never go out with anyone that way either - too risky and I would always be wondering what is wrong with her (until I found out of course). The PS2 will last longer and give much more hours of fun. Plus, the fun he will have with the PS2 on a nightly basis (monthly/yearly basis if married) will last more than 10 seconds each time ;o)
But trading an all-expenses paid date for a ~$200 PS2 system? Granted, he might not have thought that the girl is his type, but think of the experience he could have had. Go do some fun things, then eat at a great restaurant, order the best stuff on the menu, have some expensive drinks, and maybe some decent conversation about Portuguese and life in Latin America. You could quite easily rack up $1000 worth of expenses that someone else is paying for, and who knows... the girl might turn out to be rather intelligent and interesting after all.
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Except that all expenses paid probably means dinner and a ball game. They will probably just receive $200 or so in vouchers ie a $100 gift certificate to some swanky restaurant and tickets to some Giants home game with maybe some beer and pretzel coupons.
I think he would be hard pressed to get more than $200 worth of expenses on the date.
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As another poster posited, an all-expenses-paid evening could easily surpass the soon-to-be-$149 pricetag of a PS2. Plus, even if she's not your type, you could have a nice time for one evening. Sometimes a date is *more* fun for both parties if you know there won't be another. But I suppose most of the guys reading the gaming section of /. wouldn't really know that...
Anyway, maybe he just asked her out anyway, when they walked off the field. "Hey baby, how 'bout I show you a thing or two on the PS2?" (HA!)
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This doesn't prove anything about "games being more valued than female attention," and besides maybe the whole thing was a Sony publicity stunt for their aging game platform...
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He won a date, not sex.
I mean, I'm okay with it cause I'm not sure I want anyone willing to participate in this sort of contest reproducing. But we're not even talking about humiliating yourself for national TV exposure (leading to lucrative endorsements) and a million dollar purse a la Survivor. Maybe the guy was just competitive and really wanted to win and maybe he decided midway through that the girl wasn't a keeper, but let me tell you that *I* wouldn't want to risk every girl I ever try to date in the future finding out via Google that I'd done that for $200 in gaming hardware (not to mention friends, tens of thousands of people at the game, and anyone watching on TV if it was televised)....
I'd take the PS2 then ask her back to my place for a fun filled game of SOCOM. (or some other good PS2 multiplayer game, I can't think of any)
If she says no, it was never meant to be. If she says yes....
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Ok for the company to set this up the company would need to PAY the girl to go on the date, oh im sure it'd be very good, and she'd laugh at all your jokes etc, but do you really want that?
The reason the men cheered is because women are ALREADY nasty and ALREADY in control, and this guy was proving to everyone that the woman was NOT in control.