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Gamer Wins $1M For Pitching Virtual "Perfect Game"

Posted by Soulskill on from the yes-it-was-against-the-mets dept.

A few months ago, 2K Sports announced a unique contest to promote a new game they were working on, Major League Baseball 2K10. They said whichever gamer was the first to pitch a perfect game and provide proof would win $1 million, with the contest running for two months. Reader yukk tips news that the two months have now passed, and 2K Sports has announced a winner. It turns out the prize was won on the very first day, by a player who had put less than an hour and a half of effort into it.

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  1. Misleading by Ollabelle · · Score: 3, Interesting
    And for long did they know the prize was already won and everyone else had zero chance to win? That's the part that bothers me.

    I remember a similar situation with Virginia's scratch-off lottery tickets: a fixed number of tickets are printed with winning numbers, and once those prizes are all claimed, the Lottery Agency is supposed to pull the remaining tickets since they're all losers. But of course, they don't.

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