This Guy Is Hell-Bent On Getting A DotA 2 Beta Key

Valve opened a photo-submission contest offering beta keys for DotA 2 that asked fans to show just how much they want one. The contest guidelines included the requirement that images be larger than 600 by 400 pixels. Think a billboard will do?

Steven Addison talked a rep for US media company Clear Channel, owner of this digital billboard in his neighbourhood, into displaying this image for a brief time for free. There are many creative and, well, uncomfortable submissions in the official forum thread. If any of these could get someone a key, Addison’s should do it.

DotA 2 Billboard by Ninjelephant [Neutral Creeps via Joystiq]

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(10 Comments)
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    SunSkorpion

    Monday, October 3, 2011 at 4:20 PM

    Networking FTW!

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      Sam

      Monday, October 3, 2011 at 10:47 PM

      I see that and think Networking ftl : /
      Fairness ftw!

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    Mase

    Monday, October 3, 2011 at 5:14 PM

    If this guy doesn’t get a beta key I’ll be very disappointed in Valve

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      Cats

      Monday, October 3, 2011 at 9:03 PM

      Haha me too

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    El Phantasmogoro

    Monday, October 3, 2011 at 5:49 PM

    This sure is a Thing.

    Man… some people really like DOTA

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    jerpderp

    Monday, October 3, 2011 at 7:17 PM

    photoshop?

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      Kid

      Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 1:06 AM

      Thats what I thought. It’d be so much easier.

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    manic2k

    Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 2:54 AM

    Deff photoshop.

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    Lolwut

    Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 6:26 AM

    Although i would scream photoshop as well, but the actual cost of “renting” a billboard is not that high, moreover its a one shot like this, still in the hundreds though

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      Tigerion

      Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 1:14 PM

      If you read the blurb, he talk a rep into doing it for free. It is a digital board and it was “displaying this image for a brief time for free.”

      Sounds like he just got hold of a fellow gamer who managed to slip it through

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