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Retrospective: Halo 3 Fights Diabetes

Posted 2007-10-12 10:32 PM in Diabetes | Gaming.

It was epic. Truly epic. Thfe stuff you tell, if not your grandchildren, your middle-aged nerdy neighbor about. We had a great time at Cinetopia and raised a lot of money for the American Diabetes Association.

You can make a tax-deductible donation today!

Big Thanks to Everyone involved:

Jason Mauer and Microsoft Portland for the Xboxes, the Halo 3 games, organization, logistics and his tireless work and two 42" plasmas.
Rich Claussen for all things business, negotiations, and convincing Cinetopia we had a good idea.
Greg Hughes for his press-contacting expertise and for spreading the word in creative ways in the Oregonian, the Willamette Week and on KXL radio.
The SAO for their sponsorship and for all their help the evening of the event!
John Poore, Michael Willits, Jennifer Bernstein and everyone at Robert Half Technology for their sponsorship and their commitment to the community!
Wendy Fatz and Rodger DeGeorge from CompView for believing in the dream and loaning us two projectors.
Lee Williamson and PADNUG for the Food and Drinks!
Aivea for their sponsorship and generous donation!
Rudyard and the team at Cinetopia, a locally-owned rockin' sweet luxury theatre, for shutting down 2 of their 8 Super-HD screens!

And lastly, to everyone who donated and everyone who was powned or dispensed pownage all evening long!

Let's do it again soon!

Saturday, October 13, 2007 7:49:40 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Looks like it was a good time! Wish I could have been there.

Not to nitpick, but isn't it technically "pwned," not "powned?"

Cam Soper

Saturday, October 13, 2007 10:18:19 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Wow - congrats all round on raising money and looked like a fab way to go about it too.

Gregor Suttie

Saturday, October 13, 2007 11:29:24 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

We will Halo again... oh yes...

-Jason

p.s. the plasma TVs are Microsoft's, too (I've got one sitting in my cubicle at the office :)

Jason Mauer

Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:27:12 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Hey Scott, this was truly a great event - something that probably just had been an imagination and topic of "how it would be like if..." conversations. We had to leave at 10 to do our 3 hr drive back but we enjoyed every moment of this event and absolute best theater! BTW, thanks for giving me primer on controls :)