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Whose Slide Is It Anyway?
In-Person Contest
Friday: 18:30-19:30, Tracks 1 & 2
If someone had told us this silly contest would be in its 8th year there's no way we would have believed it. Even when we thought "hey, the gag is getting old, maybe it's time to hang it up" that turned out to be the year we'd gotten the most accolades from con goers during and after the contest. That was enough to recharge us and decide we'll do this until DC no longer exists. Proud isn't a grand enough word to describe how we feel to still be here and still making people laugh/feel better about themselves not being as stupid as us.
But to answer Why Us? WSIIA has always been about community. Whether you killed your deck or went down in a spectacular blaze of flames, this game is nothing without the people who play it and the audience who watches it. And if we're not doing it for the community, why the fuck are we even here? We'll remain here as long as you'll have us, riding on a wing, a prayer, and airplane bottles of Malort all the way to Year 10. Now on to the boilerplate pitch:
We're an unholy union of improv comedy, hacking and slide deck sado-masochism.
Our team of slide monkeys will create a stupid amount of short slide decks on whatever nonsense tickles our fancies. Slides are not exclusive to technology, they can and will be about anything. Contestants will take the stage and choose a random number corresponding to a specific slide deck. They will then improvise a minimum 5 minute / maximum 10 minute lightning talk, becoming instant subject matter experts on whatever topic/stream of consciousness appears on the screen.
Whether you delight in the chaos of watching your fellow hackers squirm or would like to sacrifice yourself to the Contest Gods, it’s a night of schadenfreude for the whole family.
Twitter: @WhoseSlide
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Whose Slide Is It Anyway?
In-Person Contest
Friday: 18:30-19:30, Tracks 1 & 2
If someone had told us this silly contest would be in its 8th year there's no way we would have believed it. Even when we thought "hey, the gag is getting old, maybe it's time to hang it up" that turned out to be the year we'd gotten the most accolades from con goers during and after the contest. That was enough to recharge us and decide we'll do this until DC no longer exists. Proud isn't a grand enough word to describe how we feel to still be here and still making people laugh/feel better about themselves not being as stupid as us.
But to answer Why Us? WSIIA has always been about community. Whether you killed your deck or went down in a spectacular blaze of flames, this game is nothing without the people who play it and the audience who watches it. And if we're not doing it for the community, why the fuck are we even here? We'll remain here as long as you'll have us, riding on a wing, a prayer, and airplane bottles of Malort all the way to Year 10. Now on to the boilerplate pitch:
We're an unholy union of improv comedy, hacking and slide deck sado-masochism.
Our team of slide monkeys will create a stupid amount of short slide decks on whatever nonsense tickles our fancies. Slides are not exclusive to technology, they can and will be about anything. Contestants will take the stage and choose a random number corresponding to a specific slide deck. They will then improvise a minimum 5 minute / maximum 10 minute lightning talk, becoming instant subject matter experts on whatever topic/stream of consciousness appears on the screen.
Whether you delight in the chaos of watching your fellow hackers squirm or would like to sacrifice yourself to the Contest Gods, it’s a night of schadenfreude for the whole family.
Twitter: @WhoseSlide