Qui veut gagner un PC?

  Qui veut gagner un PC? A competition organized in Mauritius for the first time to make Mauritian aware of piracy and promote the use of Genuine softwares. More details about the events’ regulations and prizes

on The Media Guru.

The semi finals

(unfortunately i forgot to take a picture of this one)

100 contestants were selected and invited for the “semi finals” at the UOM Auditorium. A questionnaire with very easy questions were distributed to each participant, and the Top 10 were chosen to go in the finals. (Well.. i wasn’t in the top 10, unfortunately)

The audience special prize

Those who didn’t qualify for the top-10 were given each a free ticket for the finals, held the same day at 6.30pm. There was going to be an SMS question for the audience, and the one who would answer the fastest could also get a PC to take home.

The finals

The stage was really grandiose. Just by the looks of it, you knew this wasn’t organized by amateurs. The decoration, the lights, the sound, the cameras, the host, everything was really very good.

There were two rounds, 15 question each, and the winner of each round would go in the finals and win the laptops.

Some pictures

Which Microsoft Operating system will be launched by the end of 2009?

A. Windows XP
B. Windows 7
C. Windows Vista
D. None of the Above

Well, we now have the confirmation that Windows 7 will be released in 2009. oh yeah.. the answer is Windows 7 of course!

Which of the following is NOT a social network site?

A. Amazon
B. MySpace
C. LinkedIn
D. Twitter

I could have changed my name if the carrot got this one wrong.

There was this beautiful lady with a really beautiful voice who interpreted some really beautiful songs. The dude playing the guitar was also really…. playing very beautifully..

Beautiful! isn’t it?

The tie break question that sent Mr. Zuhayr to the Final two

The Final Round

The two selected finalist made it to the final round. Who was going to win the Dell Vostro?!

If i remember the names correctly, Chris and Zuhayr were the two finalist. I can tell you, it was a neck to neck until the last question! Which was a really easy question, What was the original codename of Vista. answer is Longhorn obviously.

The winner was Zuhayr. Congrats dude!

The Prizes

The sponsors were very generous! The Top-10 got the Emtel Broadband + a Wireless Desktop(Keyboard and mouse). The runner up got an Acer Travelmate TM5330, the the winner of course, got the Dell Vostro. Gift vouchers, and free training at Pascal Computers were also part of the prizes!

The Radio Plus Prize : Someguy got the MSI laptop

The Fastest SMS Audience Prize : YAY!! i got that one! and i got a Desktop PC! A big thanks to Pascal Computers!

Here is it! Side by side my old PC. The PC specifications are not Gigamonstrous, but for something that cost me 60cts… i shall not rant. Running Vista Home Basic Genuine. Full Stop.

A General Comment

Even though i am a blogger, and i deal with computers everyday, if not every hour of my ongoing life, i must admit that there were some things that i didn’t know about Piracy and the Computer World as a whole. I learnt a lot, and i don’t regret going to attend the finals! I encourage everybody to participate in these contests and i hope that the next one is soon.

I believe that the videos of the show will soon be available on SpinTv. I still cannot see proper pictures of the event on L’express.mu (an official sponsor). If i see any, i will ask them permission(yea! i will) to take some photos for my blog and facebook! Sorry for the quality of the pictures… that all i could achieve with my phone (the phone that won me a PC)

The word of the day : Say No to Piracy!

16th June has been a on the most emotional-ly-heavy day of my entire life… memorable indeed.