Red Bull Creation Contest - 23b Shop

[John Norman]

Hi guys,

We just completed a grueling 72 hour build-off contest where we
competed against 11 other teams around the country. Red Bull sponsored
this again, and the theme this year was "Game of Games." We basically
had to build a playable game, and the only stipulations were that it
must fit inside an 8x7.5x7.5' cube when disassembled, weigh less than
2,000lbs and be safe for people to use.

Well, we did it, and the result is: BATTLE GOLF!

Now we need your help to try and win this. They opened up public
voting for the winner about an hour ago, and we are shooting for a $5K
prize and a trip to the Maker Fair in NYC to demo the project. Unlike
last year however, we are up against a team from Instructables.com and
Hackaday.com, and we all know that they have a much bigger soap box
than we do.

However, we're hackers and hackers stick together. We're counting on
our fellow Defcon attendees to make this come together.

Video and voting link are here:
http://creation.redbullusa.com/#/?page=23B

More details on the project:
http://blog.shop.23b.org/2012/07/72-hour-of-amazing-hell-is-over-now-its.html

It's an annoying Facebook voting thing with a pop-up, so I'm not going
to fault anyone who doesn't want to vote.  And I think there's a team from Scottsdale in this, so I also understand if y'all are duty-bound to vote for them.

But if you can, please help us out.

See you at Defcon!

Arclight

[Will Bradley]

Cant... click... vote button...

[Jacob Rosenthal]

You're probably blocking flash and popups, both being necessary to vote in the future I guess?

Also I already bitched on twitter but it seems.. flawed  (for both sides) to allow media brands to compete AND to make it a popularity contest.

[John Norman]

Seriously, I want to strangle whoever built that site link.

Does anyone want to take a stab at making a mobile-friendly link for that? Last year, we had an iFrame to do this.

Arclight

[John Norman]

Hi guys,

A lot of folks seem to be having trouble with the Red Bull Creation
voting system still.

After some testing, we have a work-around. Here is a link that will
let you vote for 23b with one click, as long as your browser is logged
in to Facebook.

Check out:

http://vote.phatlabs.org/  ("vote" is upper right)

The main site, where you can see the video/etc is here:
http://creation.redbullusa.com

This does not cast extra votes or anything. It just makes it easier to
vote, especially from a mobile device.


Thanks!

Arclight