Geek Olympathon 2012!!
Geeks Unite on May 19th for the second annual Geek Olympathon in Portland Oregon! Last year’s GO was a blast, with geeky challenges and performances that blew my nerd-brain away, and I suspect this year’s GO will be even better.
If you haven’t heard about GO or the PGC3 before, here’s the run down:
The Geek Olymapthon is kind of like a giant celebration of our combined geekiness, where we play and challenge each other’s inner (or not so inner) geek. For the Geek Olympathon, you band together your group of geeks to compete in a series of challenges such as video game competitions and geek trivia to best the other teams for a chance to win prizes including tickets and hotel accommodations for five to the world’s premier gaming festival, PAX Prime in Seattle from August 31-September 2. Both weekend and single-day passes to this convention have completely sold out, so you won’t want to miss out on this opportunity! (You can sign up online for your teams here or sign up the day of at Backspace) Backspace will also provide free house coffee and facilities for last-minute team registration. Individual events will run from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and be hosted in a number of locations in Portland. Entry is $25 for teams of up to five people or $5 per individual, and teams can register online at PGC3.org/Olympathon.
After the day’s events are over, participants will face the final competitions and be awarded prizes at the Awardathon, an epic celebration at the Eagles Lodge at 4904 SE Hawthorne from 8 p.m. to close. Here, teams will compete in a special edition of Things From Another World’s Geek Trivia with Cort Webber & Bobby Roberts of “cortandfatboy” before they are awarded prizes for their performance in the Olympathon, as well as bonus awards for overall participation. In addition to a trip for five to PAX Prime, prizes include two Club-level tickets to a Portland Timbers game, as well as generous donations from Cognition the Robot Uprise, Geek Chic Cosmetics, Guardian Games, PDX YAR, Sock Dreams, Things From Another World, and more (probably including some of my geeky numberism shirts). A full schedule of events and the online form for team registration are available at pgc3.org/Olympathon
PGC3 or the Portland Council of Commerce and Culture is a group of geek minded businesses and individuals who banded together in 2010, to support the geek community in the Portland metro area. “We strive to unite and cultivate the Portland geeky community–those people who are enthusiastic and, perhaps, a little obsessive in the pursuit of their passions.” There are over 80 Geek-Portland businesses active in PGC3 today, including Things From Another World, Backspace, PDX Yar, Ground Kontrol, PSU Math, Dark Horse Comics, me and well, about 73 other amazing geeky people.
If you haven’t heard about GO or the PGC3 before, here’s the run down:
The Geek Olymapthon is kind of like a giant celebration of our combined geekiness, where we play and challenge each other’s inner (or not so inner) geek. For the Geek Olympathon, you band together your group of geeks to compete in a series of challenges such as video game competitions and geek trivia to best the other teams for a chance to win prizes including tickets and hotel accommodations for five to the world’s premier gaming festival, PAX Prime in Seattle from August 31-September 2. Both weekend and single-day passes to this convention have completely sold out, so you won’t want to miss out on this opportunity! (You can sign up online for your teams here or sign up the day of at Backspace) Backspace will also provide free house coffee and facilities for last-minute team registration. Individual events will run from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and be hosted in a number of locations in Portland. Entry is $25 for teams of up to five people or $5 per individual, and teams can register online at PGC3.org/Olympathon.
After the day’s events are over, participants will face the final competitions and be awarded prizes at the Awardathon, an epic celebration at the Eagles Lodge at 4904 SE Hawthorne from 8 p.m. to close. Here, teams will compete in a special edition of Things From Another World’s Geek Trivia with Cort Webber & Bobby Roberts of “cortandfatboy” before they are awarded prizes for their performance in the Olympathon, as well as bonus awards for overall participation. In addition to a trip for five to PAX Prime, prizes include two Club-level tickets to a Portland Timbers game, as well as generous donations from Cognition the Robot Uprise, Geek Chic Cosmetics, Guardian Games, PDX YAR, Sock Dreams, Things From Another World, and more (probably including some of my geeky numberism shirts). A full schedule of events and the online form for team registration are available at pgc3.org/Olympathon
PGC3 or the Portland Council of Commerce and Culture is a group of geek minded businesses and individuals who banded together in 2010, to support the geek community in the Portland metro area. “We strive to unite and cultivate the Portland geeky community–those people who are enthusiastic and, perhaps, a little obsessive in the pursuit of their passions.” There are over 80 Geek-Portland businesses active in PGC3 today, including Things From Another World, Backspace, PDX Yar, Ground Kontrol, PSU Math, Dark Horse Comics, me and well, about 73 other amazing geeky people.
