{"id":20401,"date":"2012-05-03T13:26:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=20401"},"modified":"2012-05-03T13:26:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:26:42","slug":"perth-prepares-for-geeky-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=20401","title":{"rendered":"Perth prepares for geeky overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>3 May 2012:<\/strong> Perth-based Internet service provider, iiNet, has announced the finalists in its search for the country\u2019s top geek, a competition designed to celebrate everyone\u2019s inner geek.<\/p>\n<p>The TopGeek 2.0 finalists, Skaidris Gunsmith, Cem Selamet, Rhys Elsmore, Rhiannon Davies, Steve Wright and Cody Davies (People\u2019s Choice), will fight for the TopGeek title and an all-expenses paid trip to a US geek convention of their choice at the final contest on 10 May 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by award-winning comedian and self-proclaimed geek, Lawrence Leung, the final geek-off will be streamed live around the country on <a href=\"http:\/\/freezone.iinet.net.au\/\">iiNet\u2019s Freezone<\/a> from 7pm WST.<\/p>\n<p>iiNet\u2019s Communications Manager, Anthony Fisk, said the competition has been hard fought with a high calibre of entries received from passionate geeks all around the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt iiNet we celebrate all things geek and believe that everyone has an inner geek inside just waiting to be unleashed. TopGeek 2.0 is really about recognising geeks as passionate, intelligent and talented individuals \u2013 not spectacles and braces,\u201d Mr Fisk said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at the pointy end of the competition now and looking forward to the final battle where our top six will be tested on a range of geeky topics including fandom, Internet, technology, art and gaming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the TopGeek 2.0 final, iiNet has launched the TopGeek 2.0 app so everyone can create and share their geek avatar. The app is free and available now from the <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/topgeek-2.0\/id518981437?mt=8\">Apple app store<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.iinet.topgeek&amp;hl=en\">Google Play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on TopGeek 2.0, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topgeek.iinet.net.au\">www.topgeek.iinet.net.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 May 2012: Perth-based Internet service provider, iiNet, has announced the finalists in its search for the country\u2019s top geek, a competition designed to celebrate everyone\u2019s inner geek. The TopGeek 2.0 finalists, Skaidris Gunsmith, Cem Selamet, Rhys Elsmore, Rhiannon Davies, Steve Wright and Cody Davies (People\u2019s Choice), will fight for the TopGeek title and an<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=20401\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20409,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions\/20409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}