PAX Omegathon Ending

I only sort of followed the blog reports from Penny Arcade Expo, but when one of them (Joystiq? Game|Life?) mentioned the pure adrenalin of the Omegathon final round, I had to watch the video.

The Omegathon is a competition among a small group of PAX attendees to see who is the ultimate gamer. Each round is a tournament on a well-known game.

For the final round, Tycho and Gabe (Jerry and Mike) have always picked an old game: Pong and Tetris have both shown up.

Not this year. The two of them did the intro perfectly, having the lights go out just as they claimed all technical difficulties had been worked out. At that point, the screens started flickering, and a band (The Minibosses) started to play the theme song to Halo 3. It's not out yet, but Bungie arranged to make the final Omegathon round a brand new level of Halo 3.

As the crowd begins to realize what's going on, they go ballistic. I don't have an Xbox so I've never played Halo, but it's hard to resist the sheer energy of the crowd.

Part 2 (slightly overlapped) is here