Your last chance to nominate for the Gameops.com Best of 2006 Awards has passed.

Next we will start talking to our panel of industry pros to sort through what has been seen, written about and nominated.  We will post the Best of 2006 on December 4, 2006.

Thanks for your insights and nominations.

-cudo

This from the Lake Elisnore Storm, but again I don’t know what the team is doing with it.  It stars the team mascots in a epic (i.e. really really long video) that has been posted on Google Video with links from the team site.

I have to be honest….I have no idea what they are doing with this video, but it’s a major production involving a mascot that was passed on to me.  It’s worth a look just for production values alone.

As with all video links, just click “more” to see the video link (it makes the page download much quicker) (more…)

The Philadelphia Flyers invite their fans to be a part of history and help the team break the Guinness World Record for “most people wearing wigs at a single sporting event” when the team takes the ice at Wachovia Center against the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday, October 30. For tickets to the game, click here.

All fans will be given a FREE orange wig and prompted to wear them during the game to “orange crush” the current record (6,213 fans) set by the Detroit Pistons on March 19, 2004 at The Palace of Auburn Hills.

In addition to the world record attempt, in anticipation of Halloween, the Flyers will have numerous living ghouls and scary characters and trick or treating for kids on the concourse, as well as a costume contest for adults and kids in the Cingular Pavilion.

http://www.philadelphiaflyers.com/pressbox/archive/2790.asp

Call me a skeptic, but whenever I see the Guinness Book reference on a promotion I just doubt it’s legit.  In some cases it could be that some teams have broken records without going through the Guinness Book (note: I am not doubting their claim here, I am just saying I have the reaction of skepticism when I see it).

If anyone can help explain the process of working through the Guinness Book and your experience with that I would love to hear from you.  You can email me directly or connect here and I will follow up.

–Cudo

The New Mexico Scorpions hockey team are connecting their game action to another arena event.  Friday November 3rd was WWE night where fans could win tickets to an upcoming WWE show, as well as meet and get an autograph from a WWE performer. 

The team also teased it with video of a player asking fans if they were “ready to rumble….on the ice.”

Bart Rogers with the ECHL Peoria Rivermen talked about using celebrities like this to expand their audience in the October 1999 Gameops.com Interview. 

-Cudo