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2008 SXSW Bowling Champions!

Team Refresh took first place with an amazing two game score of 1481! For their amazing performance the Refresh team won the coveted SXSW Bowling Trophy, The Golden Keyboard. Each member received their own 1st place golden diskette, a copy of Mac Office 2008 and Mac Office bowling Jerseys; all courtesy of Mac Office 2008.

Second Place Bowling Team

Team Lebowski came in second place scoring just 10 points shy of first place!

Third Place Bowling Team

Team nGen Works came in third place with a two game total just under 1400, so close. And we promise, we didn’t alter the score just because they are one of our amazing sponsors! Varick just bowls a mean game.

Top Individual Bowler

Varick Rosete of team “nGen Works” had an unbelievable individual two game score of 345. Varick won an 80gig Apple iPod courtesy of AOL.

Most Beer Drunk at Bowling

The “Beer Liberation Front” stayed true to their name and each member took home a copy of Mac Office 2008. Hey, they even came in 17th place after all that beer drinking.

Best Bowling Costume

Team Auttomatic took first for representing with best costume! Each member received a copy of Mac Office 2008.

Most Spirited Team

Team Fish Bowl might not have bowled a high scoring game, but they definitely had the most fun. They took first for most team spirit and each member received a copy of Mac Office 2008.

How All The Teams Did:

We had over three hundred bowlers this years! All did a great job and some even walked away with door prizes such as copies of Mac Office 2008 and a few Xbox games; thank you Microsoft!

  1. Refresh scored 1481
  2. Lebowski scored 1471
  3. nGen Works scored 1394
  4. VCWear scored 1360
  5. iCanHazGutterball? scored 1347
  6. I’d Rather Be Wii Bowling scored 1336
  7. John Denver Sucks A$$ scored 1311
  8. Blue Lava scored 1310
  9. 404: Team Not Found scored 1285
  10. The Rolling Rocks scored 1283
  11. Russell’s Paradox scored 1277
  12. Viget scored 259
  13. I Can’t Believe it’s not Gutter scored 1258
  14. Refresh DC scored 1256
  15. IndyHallsBowlingBalls scored 1244
  16. Integremlins scored 1217
  17. Triforce Junkies scored 1214
  18. Beer Liberation Front scored 1206
  19. Blue Flavor scored 1197
  20. Marklars scored 1191
  21. Viewzi scored 1190
  22. Happy Cog, Part 1 scored 1186
  23. Little Lebowski Urban Achievers” scored 1184
  24. Refresh Miami scored 1183
  25. Yay for Gutters scored 1175
  26. Electric Pulp scored 1160
  27. Hit or Miss scored 1150
  28. We can haz strikez scored 1142
  29. Wii Rock scored 1139
  30. Wii’re Opera scored 1129
  31. Belgimerinadians scored 1123
  32. Happy Cog, Part 2 scored 1113
  33. Blue Flavor Too scored 1108
  34. Refresh Phoenix scored 1100
  35. Automattic scored 1089
  36. Yahoo! scored 1086
  37. Motley Fool scored 1075
  38. Creative Space scored 1068
  39. Ashevillains scored 1067
  40. MapQuest scored 1066
  41. Spare Me scored 1065
  42. b5media scored 1063
  43. Funk Rock scored 1059
  44. Yahoo! II scored 1025
  45. OHMSS scored 998
  46. Hot Babes of Open Source scored 996
  47. Flower Power scored 984
  48. Fish Bowl scored 804
  49. Pin Pals scored 543 (only one game played)
  50. Sidebar Creative scored 700 +/- (only one game played)

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors!

There was free food, free beer, awesome prizes and a lot of bowling! The 2008 Geeks Love Bowling event during SXSWi was free to everyone and it is due to our great sponsors that made that happen. Please take a moment to check out our sponsors — they really like it when you reach out and say hi!