Thanks for all yourcaption submissionsforNBA Live 09, people! The winner, as selected by your Destructoid editors, is Butmac! I’m not going to lie — it may have helped that he threw in some Gillette Fusion™ garnishing. Regardless, send your info tosamit[at]destructoid[dot]com, Butmac, and you’ll soon have your brand-spanking-new copy ofNBA Live 09for the Xbox 360!
Today, we’re giving awayNASCAR 09for the Xbox 360, so get ready to drive left for hours on end! Here’s what you have to do to win. Give me apalindrome— minimum length of eight characters, so “racecar” is ineligible — andanswer this questionas well:Who won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series this year?Send your answers tosamit[at]destructoid[dot]com; those who provide both will be entered into a random drawing for the game. Get Googling, you guys and gals! Entries will be accepted through5 PM EST tomorrow, November 20th — only one per person, please! The contest is open to anyone, anywhere.
If you’re curious about the EA Sports/Gillette contest itself, hit the jump for details. Also,votingfor ourBlitz: The League IIPS3 giveaway endstonightat11:59 PM EST(that’s in less than three hours)!
The full details can be foundhere, but in a nutshell, you compete in an Xbox Live tournament with any of five different EA Sports titles (Madden NFL 09,NBA Live 09,NASCAR 09,FIFA Soccer 09, andTiger Woods PGA Tour 09) for bragging rights, as well as prizes to certify your sports gaming prowess. There are nine weekly Qualifying Rounds, running from October 31-December 28, a week of leaderboard qualifying in a Knock Out Round from January 4-11, 2009, and a Global Competition around July 19, 2025, held in Orlando, Florida.
There are tournaments in North America, Asia, and Europe — the Global Competition will feature one winner per game from each of the three regions. Those fifteen winners will be flown to Orlando to compete against each other, and the winners will have a chance to play against the Gillette Champions: Tiger Woods, Derek Jeter, Thierry Henry, Denny Hamlin, and Roger Federer! Pretty cool, eh? Weekly winners get a Gillette razor and a 3-month Xbox Live Gold subscription; weekly first prize winners receive a Gillette shave kit, a copy of EA’sFaceBreaker, a 12-month Gold subscription, and 1,600 MS Points. Oh, and in addition to being flown to Orlando, the finalists will get a shave kit, 3 EA Sports games, a 12-month Gold subscription, and 4,000 MS Points.
