X08 Recollections (Part 2): Fan Night

After attending the X08 press event, it was time for Fan Night. It was an Xbox Live Goldsubscribers-only event. I went to register and collect my goodie bag. I think most of the people there got a pleasant surprise when we found 2 free games inside the goodie bag. Sure, they may be old 2006/2007 titles but it was something that probably no one expected. Free games are always good. haha. Another nice touch was that they gave us all a name tag to wear. It really helped in identifying each other that night. It felt like an online-meets-RL kinda thing when I started recognizing people based on their Gamertags. haha.

I met up with Raccon & friends for dinner at Kenny Rogers. (I didn't take any photos, though so I'll have to wait for someone to put up theirs...).

After dinner, we walked around and waited until the Fan Night events began at 8 pm. It started off the same as the press event; speech by Alan Chou and then Alison Carroll doing her 'performance' again.

The hightlight of the night came when it was time to vote for the new Xbox Xpert. The four of them went on-stage to give a little speech. I knew 3 of the guys from online forums; all of them are pretty cool people. Then the M.C. announced that they were all going to play a 'surprise game'. To everyone's surprise, the game was Street Fighter IV and there was a lot of cheering from the crowd. Sadly, it was not head-to-head so we only got to watch them play against the CPU. Zzz.





After the little SFIV show, we were all told to cast our votes by dropping them into bags held up by the booth babes standing aound. While waiting for the votes to be tallied, they got members of the crowd to play Street Fighter IV. The condition being that they had to dress up as the character they played using the one of the four costumes provided. haha. So yeah, there were E-Hondas, Sagats and Ryus on stage. Someone tried to fit into the Chun Li costume but failed (wardrobe malfunction?!).




This was followed by a short Guitar Hero: World Tour demo, and then the results of the votes were out. Merdeka came up victorious with a 2-vote lead. By now, it was close to 10 pm and I was very tired so I left in a hurry.

I initially planned to attend all 3 days of the X08 but seeing that all the major events were on Friday itself, there was nothing much left to see for the other two days. This means I can stay at home and enjoy the super-long weekend!

So whoever is reading this... Happy Deepavali. Enjoy your long weekend!