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Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Party Grand Prize Winner

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the congratulations-for-the-carnage dept.

From Brisbane to Beunos Aires... From the UK to France to Romania... from New York to San Francisco and everywhere in between, we had well over 100s of parties and over 2,300 registered attendees scattered around the world. Many of them got boxes of t-shirts and ThinkGeek gift certificates (and some of them even got them on time). We've seen cakes with legos and logos, we seen nerf gun fights, and even a lawn sporking. I've put a tiny sampling of my favorite pictures online. The grand prize winner is of the $1k store credit at ThinkGeek is Lindsi from Minneapolis. Their party featured a lolcats cake, a taco bar and a dude in a helmet smashing computers with a sledge hammer in a raining parking lot. They earned it. We had a great time in both Palo Alto and Ann Arbor- I hope you guys had fun wherever you gathered. See you again in 2017!

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  1. Ugh, lolcats?? by Tetsujin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is a punishable offense, not something to be rewarded...

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  2. Do my eyes deceive me? by paranode · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or is there an attractive female in those pics?!?

  3. My favorite photo by eknagy · · Score: 5, Funny

    My favorite photo is:
    http://www.math.bme.hu/~gergoe/cake.jpg

  4. Congratulations Lindsi! by Provocateur · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wondering what you would pick from ThinkGeek, do certain things come to mind right away, or you had to do several browse sessions?

    In short, what's on your THinkGeek wishlist (or shopping cart, if you hadn't made a wish list). Just curious what a /. winner would pick. Awright, you got me: I just want to live vicariously through you!

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    1. Re:Congratulations Lindsi! by lindsi · · Score: 5, Informative

      Thanks! We all had a blast at this party. I have to say the prize money will be split up amongst the other brains of the operation - I have to give credit where credit is due, to Corey (vibrant_com), Kris (kblommel) and Hudson (decepticoneazye) for their efforts. Maybe we can put it towards something everyone can enjoy at the next geeky-get together. (I heard /. has birthdays every year...! Ha.)

  5. Re:This God It's Over by AmaDaden · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you hate hearing about /. so much goto http://meta.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome and set it so you don't have to see those articles. Trolling about how this is a "circle-jerk" is not a solution.

  6. No way, the winner should be Skiboricus... by frankie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...because he never showed up at the party he hosted and apparently ran off with all the free swag. I'll pay $5 to anyone who helps me track down this lousy thief.

    1. Re:No way, the winner should be Skiboricus... by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Actually I think it should have the person that hosted the party in Port St. Lucie FL.
      I think we had the third biggest turnout in the state and we still haven't gotten any swag. Good burgers and good people though.
      Not even some Slashdot stickers!

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  7. that's CHEATING! by zanderredux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    no photoshopped pics! that was the rule as I understood!

  8. Creative! by gbridge · · Score: 4, Funny

    You really have to give them full marks for creativity. They even made cardboard cutouts of girls!