Team of 8 from Dallas Wins $40,000 Bonus from Nintendo - HOT!Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 @ 04:24:34 pm E.S.T
They completed a Nintendo scavenger
hunt, created a cyber mural and instigated a flash mob. After a summer
of fun and video games, the Dallas chapter of the Nintendo Street Team
has walked away with the ultimate reward for their hard work: a
$40,000 bonus, distributed equally among the eight members. That bonus
complements their regular salaries of $100 a day for six weeks of
three-day workweeks.
"Week after week the Dallas Nintendo Street Team met the
challenges we gave them with skill and creativity, and they came out
on top," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice
president of marketing and corporate communications. "In addition to
the cash, they take away a summer's worth of lessons in a variety of
skills that will help them no matter what careers they pursue."
The winning team is made up of eight Texans, including Brad
Rosenquist of Dallas, Tiffany King of Aledo, Corey Olcsvary of
Midlothian, Justin McIntosh of Carrolton, Brad Scarborough and Derek
Dodd of McKinney, and Bryan Adams and Charles Boltas of Irving.
Nintendo also organized Street Teams in Chicago, New York, Los
Angeles, Seattle and Atlanta. Each week judges awarded the teams
points, depending on how well they performed the various challenges.
Members of the public also cast votes online for their favorite teams.
After weeks of tough competition, Dallas emerged as the champion.
Additional details about the competition can be found online at
http://www.nintendostreetteam.com .
Nintendo tasked the six Street Teams with a series of five
challenges designed to test their creativity. Besides the scavenger
hunt, mural and video, the Dallas team members arranged a live radio
interview and instigated a flash mob among a convention of PC gamers.
The team performed these tasks in addition to their weekly promotional
duties of representing Nintendo at concerts, fairs and sporting
events.
The worldwide leader and innovator in the creation of interactive
entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and
markets hardware and software for its popular home and portable video
game systems. Each year, hundreds of all-new titles for the
best-selling Game Boy(R) Advance and Nintendo GameCube(TM) systems
extend Nintendo's vast game library and continue the tradition of
delivering a rich, diverse mix of quality video games for players of
all ages. Since the release of its first home video game system in
1983, Nintendo has sold more than 1.9 billion video games and more
than 170 million hardware units globally, creating enduring industry
icons such as Mario(TM) and Donkey Kong(R) and launching popular
culture franchise phenomena such as Metroid(R), Zelda(TM) and
Pokemon(R). A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based
in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in
the Western Hemisphere.
For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's Web site
at http://www.nintendo.com. Posted By: Adam Paoli - 104 Reads
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