Barely a week has passed since CeBIT 2008 came to a close and the roar of the frenzied crowd is still ringing in my ears. For those who weren’t in attendance, a good part of the excitement was drummed up by two gentlemen from Team Dignitas, who we invited—in their capacities as Team Razer progamers—to man our hugely successful booth. Here’s what one of them had to say about his CeBIT experience:

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“Hello, my name is Gareth “GaRpY” Marshall. I have just recently come back from CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. I was quite excited when Razer asked me to go to CeBIT because I have always heard about it but had never been.

On the first day when I arrived at CeBIT, I was totally amazed by the sheer size of the venue. It was like nothing I had seen before, with 35 football size stands, and it took about 30-45 minutes to walk from one side to the other, just to give you an idea of the enormity of the place.

The next thing that really popped into my head—and this really became really evident when we actually started the shows at the Razer booth—was how mental the Germans were!

It was like a battlefield as they all rushed in to get to the front of the stand where I was sitting waiting to do shootouts on Unreal Tournament 3 against the crowd for Razer prizes.

On Tuesday night, Razer took us out for a meal, where I got to meet most of the people who manage and run Razer. The one person who I had a real good laugh with was Min, the CEO of Razer. This is because, at the start of the meal, we introduced ourselves, and when I said I was a pro-gamer doing shootouts at the Razer stand in Unreal Tournament 3, he started to smack talk me, saying he was the best and that he would show us how to play… I started to laugh and said “I could beat you with my monitor turned off”. So he challenged me and my team mate to a duel the next day at the booth. All night long we were geeing each other up.

The next day at the booth, Min wanted to put a wager on the match, so if we lost, we would have had to dye our hair Razer green. If we won, he said he would produce 10 limited edition mice and keyboards for us! This was so cool – we could have our own logos, names or whatever we wanted, and he was going to add on to the back of the mice this phrase: “I pwned the CEO of Razer”.

Although I play in loads of competitions with large prize money and don’t get nervous or shaky, I was actually quite nervous when playing against Min because it was such an awesome prize if we won. Me and my team mate had to get to 10 frags before Min got 1 or we would lose.

Let’s just say if he took up my offer of playing with our monitors off, he might’ve stood a chance… ? [CEO’s Note: I had him down to 30 health at one point that lucky bastard! Rematch rematch!]

Another thing that really hits me when I think back is what the crowd would actually do to get their hands on Razer gear! On one particular day, the booth was rammed full of people and when the show was going on, a woman climbed up the side of the booth and shouted over: “I will strip if I can have a Razer mouse”, so everyone was like “yeah OK!” She came up on the stage and gave us a nice show; let’s just say she well-deserved that Razer mouse!

Also, what was really funny was that the lads in the crowd would come up on stage and strip down to their pants and run around the booth shouting “Razer! Razer! Razer!” I tell you they would do anything for Razer gear. It was just insane to see!

I hope to do a lot more with Razer because my experience at CeBIT was unbelievable and the Razer booth was simply the best stand there!

Ps. I won’t mention the Party or the Poker we had!

Cheers,
Gareth “GaRpY” Marshall”

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