Nerdtacular '10

Wow, wow, wow!

This was my second year going to the greatest event I have every attended in Utah. Nerdtacular 2010 at the District in South Jordan, UTAH. Viewing one of the greatest movies of this year, IRON MAN 2.

I went with my friend Matt, AKA "TURGID" whom I went to High School with and have had a distant but solid friendship for many, many, many years. He was actually the one that originally told me about WoW when it was in it's early development stages. so I would have to credit him for my addiction.

Anyway, my family had a yard sale planned and they just happened to fall on the same day as Nerdtacular. Luckily I don't have to travel out of the state to go to the event. Unfortunately after the movie I was unable to stay for the after party and hook up with fellow gamers and bloggers. (ON A POSITIVE NOTE... we made $350 at the yard sale and plan on extending the yard sale to next weekend if you want to raid my 'bank' email me if you would like directions) But there is always next year. Because this event will only get bigger and better every year I will FOR SURE make sure to be there!

I went to the event and received a copy of WoW magazine Issue #1. That was pretty cool. And as I said the Movie was SPECTACULAR! The two minutes at the end of the movie after the credits were the highlight for me though.

To all those I missed... sadly we will have to hook up next year. For those I met... I hope to see you again next year and keep in touch!

And the winner is... (Update)

I would like to thank "Brajana" for sending me a pic of her in her newest cloth armor in homage to Arthas.

Congrats on your Nerdtacular '09 win!

Contest is OVER =[

Unfortunately not a whole lot of entries were submitted into the "Pimp your Noob" contest despite my best efforts to promote it.

As such winners were selected by default. "Brajana" has been given their prize from the "Nerdtacular '09" contest as promised. I have contacted Brajana via Twitter to gather the appropriate information to send the shirt.

Rabidlemming won the gift code from J!NX. Unfortunately I haven't a way to contact them. Hopefully they will comment here or email me as soon as possible. If I do not hear from you, I will be forced to redraw another entry.

Hopefully the next contest will have more support and response.

Nerdtacular '09 continues... PRIZE GIVEAWAY

Rise of Arthas J!NX.com link here

I am giving away this shirt to a random reader of my blog. What I am expecting with this contest is simple... POST A REPLY HERE! Let me know that you are out there! Please let your friends and neighbors know I am here as well.

If I see donations to the blog I will QUADRUPLE your entries into the contest.

This shirt is a size XL and was too small for yours truly, but I am sure for those of you that weigh less than 260 lbs it would fit you just fine. ;)

GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL!!!

Nerdtacular 2009

So I had one of the best times at a movie I have had in a long time. NERDTACULAR hosted and put together by the great Scott Johnson of Extralife Radio & more commonly known in the WoW community... The Instance.

Nerdtacular is a fan appreciation event created by, Scott Johnson, creator of Extralife and host of ELR and The Instance podcasts. The first event was held in 2007 in Salt Lake City, during the premier weekend of Spiderman III. The whole idea was to try and figure out a way that Mr. Johnson could give a little something back to the amazing community. He rented a movie theater and invited fans from all over the world, and gave out prizes and other phat lewts to some lucky attendees.

In 2008, Nerdtacular was held during the premier of Batman: The Dark Knight, with doubled attendance and loads more prizes. It was also the year where a good 3rd of the crowd were from out of state, and in some cases, the country.

This year was held this morning and the prizes were awesome! A contest for the best dressed Trekkie received XBOX 360's. There was a Twitter contest where you had to have fast fingers to send a Twitter to Scott and the third post would get a prize. in addition those that registered for the event ha their names added to Mr.Johnson's hat and were drawn at random. Yours truly received a hat and a shirt from J!NX.
J!NX Side Hack
Rise of Arthas one size too small. =[ Time for old Xan to lose some weight!

Afterwards we went to a nearby park to socialize and have some junk food and just talk about the amazing movie and get to meet and greet personalities like Scott Johnson, Randy Jordan & Brian Dunaway. Guest co-host and ex-Brother in law of mine, Mark Larson was also there. It was nice to see him again, unfortunately the person taking the pictures cut him out. Sorry Mark!

Scott Johnson, Randy Jordan & Yours Truly

Scott Johnson, Randy Jordan, Brian Dunaway & Me (Poor Mark is on the right smiling a cheezy smile but no one will ever see it) Boo