One of many most important promoting gimmicks of tonight’s Sport Awards was a promotion being run by Valve that will see one viewer win one of many firm’s prized Steam Deck handhelds each minute.
As we reported final week to be eligible you needed to be watching the present on Valve’s personal Steam.TV web site:
As introduced November 30, Valve is celebrating The Sport Awards with a large Steam Deck giveaway. The corporate shall be giving out a free handheld PC to a single individual each minute for your entire run of The Sport Awards. (By no means in historical past has somebody needed The Sport Awards to run lengthy, till now…) To have an opportunity, you’ll must first register for the drawing, which you are able to do now, then watch The Sport Awards through Valve’s Steam.TV web site.
It was a promo humorous for various causes. Firstly as a result of as early as the primary main award presentation the present was clearly operating means over time, one thing even host Geoff Keighley needed to acknowledge in relation to the giveaway, however secondly due to who gained.
Throughout Christopher Decide’s acceptance speech, which sure did run lengthy however was additionally extremely emotional and heart-warming, the winners of Steam Decks began popping up. So whereas Decide was up there pouring out his coronary heart, the remainder of us have been witness to:
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Individuals who have been both upset (a minority) or who discovered it extremely humorous (the bulk) started tweeting their congratulations to Mr or Mrs Hunter, which led at one level to “Milf Hunter” changing into a trending matter in the USA throughout all of Twitter.
Given “Milf Hunter” can also be the identify of a porn outlet, and The Sport Awards have nearly zero cultural penetration outdoors this bubble, you’ll be able to perceive some individuals’s confusion:
I imply, it’s undoubtedly the place this website is heading, don’t get me flawed. Simply not tonight.
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