Future Shop’s Dorm Room Challenge

Sep 5, 2005 in General Discussions

Evidently, Future Shop (Canadian equivalent of Best Buy) was running a dorm room challenge this past week at various locations across the country.

Pictures from the Vancouver event.

What is a dorm room challenge?

They put 6 people in a plexiglass enclosure on the sidewalk outside a store. They filled said enclosure with all kinds of toys (TV’s, consoles, phones, laptops, etc.). The chosen few had to remain exposed to the world for 5 days.

The contestants blog’d about it.

In the end, the winner (I didn’t follow it so I have no idea how he was chosen) got to keep all the goodies. The others… they probably got to keep their awesome future shop t-shirt. Congrats to them.

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