Firebox held a competition to write a review of any of their products. The winners review not only gets posted on pocket lint (A gadget new and reviews website) but as you may have guessed from the title of the blog the winner also gets to go to the press event. I was home one weekend when I checked my twitter. I saw that firebox had posted the winners up. As I saw that the winners were Joel and 1 other person; that's when my hopes started to go up quite a bit.
I then quickly clicked on the link to see that this Joel they had mentioned in the tweet was indeed me. The winner of firebox writer of the year competition; I was speechless!
I never win anything. I mainly enter art competitions on a website called deviantart. And I'm always well aware that I am up against professional artists. But I enter them anyway so that I can say I've entered; and that I've used my time a bit more productively. But I had also entered a few writing competitions; I knew that my writing was a lot more developed than my art; but still I'm up against professional writers.
To be honest it was more the creativity that made the difference and the impact. Even though it was a review (something I'm practicing doing as often as I can) I decided to do my review as a poem. So that all of it rhymes, but describes all the products positives through rhyme.
It was a risk; I had no idea what the judges were looking for, and if pocket lint were going to submit a review like this on their website; as it was obviously COMPLETELY different from their style. So I hoped that they would like my different style of reviewing. Luckily for me they really did :)
So the press event itself. I went with my brother Jonathan and luckily the day was perfect, as we finished school at 12 o'clock due to their opening evening. This meant I had time to go up to london, shop a bit; and then get something to eat.
As I walked up to organizers; they said to me " Can I help you" sounding quite confused as if thinking " but you don't look very buisinessy!" I then told them that I was the competition winner and they showed me to one of firebox's organizers. She told us what it was and how we can simply go to whichever stool and product we want, and take a look.
I must say that it felt pretty good feeling quite important for once, among all these top journalists and gadgety people. We even found out that dragon Duncan ballantyne was there earlier showing off one of his new products.
The products there ranged from a remote control tron motorbike, to a giant nerf gun, all the way to a tiny desktop vacuum cleaner. We stayed for a couple of hours testing out the various new and soon to be released gadgets, and in some case trying to work out what an earth it is. Like a mini acupuncture bed, with plastic nails: is it meant to be relaxing-wow!
At the end of it after we had pretty much tried out everything; including really cool 3d cameras and the giant nerf gun (trying not to accidently hit the same person repeatedly) And we were both given a goody bag with various firebox products inside.
In the end it was a brilliant day; to roam around and have a bit of a play. But I Had thought earlier, that just winning was good enough; but it was still really cool; to see all their new stuff!
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