LoseTheGame.com presents Game Awards to those people who have made an outstanding number of people lose The Game. If you can make thousands of people lose The Game and send us some proof you'll be eligible for a Game Award and send you a free Lose The Game t-shirt. You can try getting the rules of The Game explained on TV or radio, in a newspaper or magazine, or come up with something really crazy to get lots of people to lose. Check out our strategies page for more ideas.
LoseTheGame.com has caused some notable mass losses in the past, not to mention making over 1.5 million people lose by visiting this site. In September 2007 our hoax website porthemmet.com was mentioned in nearly every British national newspaper and on the BBC national 10PM television news. Moments after five million viewers watched the news we redirected our website to LoseTheGame.com and made 30,000 people lose in one night. In December 2008 we convinced writers of the British newspaper The Metro (see below) of The Game's popularity and they wrote a full-page article that infected three million people.
In the last five years we have presented a total of 26 Game Awards to those people whose effort and creativity has made thousands (and sometimes millions) of people lose The Game. Below are the details of who they are and what they have done.
Hank (vlogbrothers) - YouTube
19th June 2010, Hank, one of the Vlog Brothers, lost The Game and explained its awesomeness in his video "You just lost THE GAME!" (see below). Within 24 hours, the video had been viewed over 40,000 times and received over 4,000 comments by people announcing their loss. The Vlog Brothers are the most popular YouTube channel to talk about The Game, with nearly 80 million total upload views. Meekakitty (see below) is another very popular YouTuber who regularly loses The Game, she has a total of 30 million upload views. If you know any other popular YouTubers, please infect them with The Game so that they can help to enlighten the world!
21st May 2010, Jenn, also known as "JenxTheJinx" and "TealPirate", won a Game Award for regularly losing The Game on her YouTube channel which has over 3,000,000 upload views and 20,000 subscribers. Below is the video in which she first explains the rules of The Game.
Meekakitty - YouTube
14th March 2010, Tessa, better known as "Meekakitty", won a Game Award for her YouTube video "51 Things I found in my Suitcase" (see below). She uploaded it in December 2008 and since then it has made over 200,000 people lose The Game. She's also wearing a t-shirt about The Game on her YouTube channel page which has been viewed over 3 million times!
Guy Hurst - Interior Design
14th March 2010, Guy Hurst from London won a Legendary Game Award for an awesome Game-related prank. While his friend Simon was away for a week, Guy and some friends covered Simon's flat and everything in it with The Game (see below). This is a perfect example of the kind of pranks we hope everyone can get involved in for Lose The Game Week 2010.
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Andrew Bisante - YouTube
7th February 2010, Andrew Bisante won a Game Award for his "F_CK!?" YouTube video. He uploaded it on 3rd September 2009 and in five months made over 65,000 people lose The Game. Unfortunately he has since made this video private so others cannot watch it.
Dawn Watkinson - MyYearbook Chatter
25th January 2010, Dawn Watkinson from... wait for it... Gamesley, Derbyshire, England, lost The Game on MyYearbook Chatter and made more than 2000 other people lose in 15 minutes. If everyone does something like this during Lose The Game Week 2010 we really can succeed in our mission of making the world lose by 10/10/10!
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Amanda Hession - Bebo
12th May 2009, Amanda Hession from Dublin, Ireland, made a Bebo group, IL0STTHEGAME, which was joined by over 10,000 people in just four days. After twenty days it had over 35,000 members.
Unkown - TIME magazine
"TIME.com's technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts to hack the vote."
- TIME magazine (article)
Below are the results of TIME magazine's poll for the world's 100 most influential people in 2009. Try reading the first letter of each of the 21 names down the list and see what they spell out.
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You can find a very detailed explanation of how the results were manipulated here and here.
"All they had to do was look at the two words in the captcha, enter the proper label for the ‘easy’ one and enter the word “penis” for the hard one."
- Paul Lamere, MusicMachinery.com
We've awarded everyone involved a legendary Game Award for the most creative and amusing mass loss yet devised. Also, The Game.
Whyte Lyte - LoseTheGame.com Song Competition 2008
25th April 2009, John D AKA "Whyte Lyte", an MC from Manhattan, Kansas, won the 2008 Lose The Game Song Competition and was awarded a Game Award for his truly awesome song "The Game".
* Right click here and save target as to download the MP3
* Whyte Lyte's Facebook page
* Whyte Lyte's MySpace page
* Lyrics for "The Game"
* Let us know what you think about the song in the forum
Sanne Rooseboom - De Pers
15th December 2008, Sanne Rooseboom explained The Game in "Nederland gaat nu ook verliezen" (Now The Netherlands are going to lose too) for De Pers, a free Dutch newspaper with 350,000 readers.
* Online article
* PDF of printed newspaper
* English translation
Fred Attewill & John White - The Metro
4th December 2008, Fred Attewill and John White documented The Game in the UK Metro. The Game is mentioned on the front page and explained in a full-page article on page 3. With a readership of over 3 million people, the UK experienced the biggest mass loss in human history!
* Digital edition of the printed article (see the front page and page 3)
* Online article
* Online explanation of the rules
* PDF of the page 3
* JPGs of the front page and page 3
This article was read by a Cambridge academic who was most likely involved in creating The Game over 30 years ago. After he contacted LoseTheGame.com, we have uncovered a very plausable account of who created The Game and why.
Jason Rose - University Radio York
2nd December 2008 , Jason Rose explained the rules of The Game on University Radio York.
Nick Margerrison & Alex Baker - Kerrang! Radio
In September 2008, Nick Margerrison interviewed LoseTheGame.com on The Night Before show on Kerrang! Radio. Alex Baker, the show's producer, arranged the interview. With hundreds of thousands of listeners, they were responsible for causing nationwide loss in epic proportions. They have been regularly losing The Game on air for years and may well be the most famous losers in the world!
Right-click and "Save target as" to download an MP3 of the interview
Graham Campbell & James Cook - London to Monglia
19th July 2008, Graham Campbell and James Cook departed across Europe and Asia on a mission, a mission to make the world lose The Game. They drove 10,000 miles from London, England to Ulanbataar, the capital of Mongolia, all in a 1 litre Suzuki Alto with "LoseTheGame.com" painted all over it. Were they insane? Yes. Did they die? Probably. Did they make thousands of people lose The Game on the way? Almost certainly. They arrived just in time for Lose The Game Day 2008 and raised £1000 ($1,500) for these charities.
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Ray Hickey III - Rutland Herald
3rd October 2007, Ray Hickey wrote an article for the Rutland Herald, Don't think about the game, which was read by around 17,000 people. We can't find any contact details to tell him about the award or to send him his t-shirt, so if you know him please let us know.
Justine Wettschreck - Worthington Daily Globe
31st May 2008, Justine Wettschreck, the coolest Mum in America, published Playing 'The Game' with the other kids for the Worthington Daily Globe which has a circulation of around 12,000. She also mentioned Trogdor the Burninator whom we all know and love.
Gabriel Pollard - Wikinews
7th June 2008, Gabriel Pollard published Wikinews loses The Game which also appeared in an RSS feed with over 3000 subscribers.
Shannon Montgomery - Canadian Press
17th January 2008, Shannon Montgomery published Teens around the world are playing 'the game' for the Canadian Press which was also featured in a number of newspapers. This story was used as secondary source required for the 2008 recreation of The Game article on Wikipedia.
Isaiah Lemmon - LOST
On the 15th March 2008, Isaiah Lemmon made it into the top ten on the online game LOST.
His efforts have helped LoseTheGame.com to keep our
first place position, causing the half a million LOST players to
lose The Game whenever they look at the scoreboard.
Randall Munroe - xkcd
On the 3rd March 2008 Randall Munroe mentioned The Game in an xkcd comic. Randall estimates that his comic caused around 500,000 people to lose The Game by telling them they have won.
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On the 24th September 2007 Greg Dean made a Real Life comic featuring The Game. With an estimated daily readership of 60,000 people Greg has made a lot of people lose The Game.
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The I just lost "The Game" Facebook group
I just lost "The Game" was the first Game group on Facebook to reach 10,000 members. Created
in July 2006 by Rachel Kaston, it has acquired hundreds new members every day with over 150,000 members by 2010. We
encourage everyone to join this group to give us an idea of just how many
people are regularly losing The Game. LoseTheGame.com uses this group as our official forum for discussing The Game.
Andy Boyle - Daily Nebraskan
On the 19th March 2007, Andy Boyle published tan article about The Game in the Daily Nebraskan, which has a readership of around 20,000 people. He clearly states The Game's rules and undoubtably made thousands of new people lose The Game.
* Online article
* Printed article
Caleb Anderson - Kiwi FM
Caleb Anderson lost The Game and explained the rules on Kiwi FM, a New Zealand national radio station.
* Right-click here and save target to download the MP3
Here is a transcript of the converation:
Caleb: I just lost The Game.
DJ: Lost what game?
Caleb: The Game. Don't you know about The Game?
DJ: Have we been drawn into something here?
Caleb: Not really. Basically, rule one is everyone is playing The Game, so
you've been playing it whether you knew it or not. Rule two, if you
think about The Game, you lose.
DJ: Oh no!
Caleb: And rule three, you have to announce it. So you've all just lost for the first time. Congratulations.
DJ: Can we play again tomorrow?
Caleb: Yeah, you're always playing, as soon as you forget about it you're winning again.
Jeroen Verelst - De Morgan
Jeroen Verelst published an article about The Game in the Belgian newspaper De Morgen. It gives a clear explanaition of The Game's rules and other Game-related information. The newspaper has a daily circulation of over 50,000 copies, as well as being online.
* English translation
* Printed article
James Lyndon Fairbairn - Sogen Con
The first Game Award was presented to James Fairbairn for printing the rules of The Game in the Sogen Con guidebook and directed the audience to it. He is also indirectly responsible for The Game being featured in the No Brand Con guide book.
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