Ruslan Shchedrin, a teenage gamer from Russia, has
won a bizarre prize for being the 100,000th visitor to a website that
sells in-game weapons and gear. He is being rewarded with a month-long
stay at a Moscow hotel in the company of an X-rated film star! The
unusual contest was held in celebration of Defender of the Fatherland
Day, a Russian holiday held every year, on February 23rd. Young Ruslan
turned out to be the 100,000th person to visit the website that day,
hitting the jackpot. “At first I did not believe it, but when I realized
that this is true, I thanked the site,” he said. “I am overjoyed and my
friends are also happy for me, although there is some envy.”
His family, however, is furious. They believe he’s already wasted too
much time on the video games and this prize will now be another
colossal waste of his time. “I am totally against it,” said his mother,
Vera Shchedrin. “He has exams, what do you mean a month with a P0*n
star? Even a week is too much! They should just give him 100,000 rubles
instead, we would be happy with that.”
The boy’s sister, 17-year-old Diana Schedrina agrees that the prize
is inappropriate. “I’m against it too. I don’t think it is any kind of
chance for him. He can find a girlfriend if he likes,” she said. “
I
wonder what would have happened if a married man had won? Or even a
young girl, I know some of them enjoy playing these games too.
It is totally the wrong idea for a prize.”
Organizers took that into consideration when they came up with the
idea, though, and the rules clearly state that the winner can pass on
their prize to an ‘official representatives’. In Ruslan’s case that
could be his father, although his mother won’t hear of it. “No,
absolutely not,” Vera said, adding that the controversial prize has
already led to family quarrels and made her son mad.
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