Last weekend one of our San Diego Razer employees spent a night at Howie’s Game Shack in Costa Mesa, California taking on all comers in a Quake4 shootout. Here is his account of that evening.

Hey guys, my name is Evan Bradshaw, aka Nomadic. I work for Razer and this past weekend I had the honor of representing Razer at Howie’s Gameshack in Mission Viejo for their Customer Appreciation Night. Coming Along with me was fellow gamer Elin ‘Trinelin’ Olsson who would be helping me throughout the evening. Razer sponsors Howie’s Gameshack and provides all of their locations with top of the line gaming mice. At this Event I was going to be putting my former professional Quake4 skills to the test against the gamers of Howie’s Gameshack, and their manager Greg. Additionally we had a lot of great prizes we would be giving away throughout the night and we had no shortage of gamers looking to upgrade their gaming hardware.

The event was set to kick off at around midnight on Saturday. Elin and I arrived around 11:30PM to start setting up for the Shootout and the Giveaway. We met up with Greg from Howie’s and he showed us around a bit. I was very impressed with the size of the venue. When you first walk in, there is a dead straight line of console setups, each featuring very large and comfortable chairs for gamers to sit in while they play Xbox 360’s. We saw some very skilled Guitar Hero3 players as well as some DDR pros; I was quite impressed when I was watching these guys blow through expert mode as if it was just a simple combination of steps.

When you’ve made your way past the console area in the front, you find yourself immersed in rows of PC’s (Over 200, all armed with Razer Diamondbacks), where everything from World of Warcraft, to Call of Duty4, to Dota was being played. I don’t think I saw a single free PC the entire night.

After we finished the tour of the venue and setting up the shootout, Greg challenged me to some Quake4 1v1, which I think made him realize that his game could use a little more practice…

Now it was nearing 12:30AM and it was time for the shootouts to begin, and time for me to begin the Rage. I would be doing three rounds of shootouts; one every hour for three hours and whichever challenger did the best against me in each round would be walking away with a brand new Razer DeathAdder.

Among the challengers was a young boy who did surprising well against me. For his good showing Elin awarded him with an eXactMat Bundle.

After the shootout we held the raffle which would be for the giveaway of a Razer Destructor Mouse Mat, one pair of Razer Piranha Gaming Communicator Headsets, and the all new Razer Boomslang Collector’s Edition. As the night came to a close (around 6AM) Elin and I hadn’t even realized what time it was. We had met so many awesome gamers and had such a good time holding the shootout that we were disappointed because the night seemed to have gone by so quickly. I want to thank Joe and Greg over at Howie’s for including Razer in their customer appreciation night. And special thanks to all the gamers who participated in the shootout.