Gamecon prize mix up says blog, no says organisers

An attendee of Gamecon 9 says the winner of a one-on-one competition was “Shafted by the Admins” when a prize of an Xbox 360 was replaced with a set of surround sound speakers, the event organisers deny the claim.

"After the multiplayer games event, blogger James Galvin wrote, “It had been announced that the winner of the UT 1v1 would receive an Xbox 360 as a prize. But when the winner turned out to be kRoNic, one of the admins gave thumbs down”, explaining that “(because he won an Xbox 360 at GameCon 8, and sold it soon after) and decided to give him some Logitech® Z-5400 Digital 5.1 speakers instead”.

When Games Toaster put this to the Gamecon organisers, event manager Jermain  Williams (‘Jazz’) said “We dont advertise our prizes, because we only deside what will be given out on the day”. When we clarified that by ‘advertised’ we actually meant vocally on the day, he told us that “Sorry… but your information is wrong, im in charge of the Prizes and I didnt make any announcement”.

After relaying this to Galvin, he said “I was at the event and heard the announcement, along with 80 other people, but I suppose this is one of those things that they would just deny flat out”, adding “Maybe Jazz himself didn't announce it but whichever GameCon admin that was standing on the stage with the microphone did”.

Games Toaster has been unable to contact ‘kRoNic’, the winner of the UT 1v1.

Comments

[James]

You're 6 weeks late... it must be a slow news day? :)

This makes it look like I'm stirring shit and/or whining. Just to make it clear, I'm a fan of GameCon and I only mentioned the incident as part of my thoughts on the LAN. It was up to kRoNic if he wanted to pursue it, don't know if he did or not.