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what's up everyone John renter from technobuffalo here after many weeks I am ready to finally announce the winner of our come to CES with TechnoBuffalo contest if he entered stick around see what Co so first let me thank our sponsors at AT&T they've been awesome to work with this is a contest that I've been wanting to do for many many years I've always wanted to give someone the chance to sort of get a head start in the world to check journalism it's really hard to break into it yourself noticed something that I would have loved had the opportunity to do when I was first starting something that I'm really really proud to be able to have offer to our audience we had hundreds of entries we're looking for someone either as a writer or a video producer really didn't matter who we tried to pick the winner we had again had several hundred entries are able to limit it down to the top about 16 then I went to the top 10 the top 5 and finally the top three and the TechnoBuffalo executive team voted 1 2 & 3 without anybody knowing who they voted for results were just sent to me we assign point values to places 12 and 13 tabulated a winner and we have our winner I like to congratulate mr. David Taylor on coming with us to CES David is on the video side of things he has a youtube channel called Robo 13 link will be down below if you want to check him out on the rest of technobuffalo staff i'm making this video for the video response to the contest to go to CES with you guys in january and i'm making this quick little biography right before my I think my personal best review of a product my ipad mini review this is just something to go right before that I actually called him before I film this video so if you want to see his reaction and hear that conversation went it's going to be after the video so stay tuned after the outro to hear how everything went down David did an absolutely awesome job he is studying video production in college right now he's 19 and the sophomore in school so really excited to have him be there with us to cover videos for us and you'll see his videos up on our YouTube channel throughout CES probably do about 3 and a lots of his videos is going to be a recap of his experience what it was like going to CES what did he expect not expect what's it like to actually go to a tree Joe working and not go just to explore all the fun stuff that is there guys thank you so so very much for all the entries well we can only pick one winner other words several folks who really shined up to us I may reach out to actually for jobs in the future so it was this contest great to give people opportunity to come to see yes it's also great for us as a company to see some of the great writing and video talent out there and a few people are really going to look to hopefully higher over the next few months I'm hoping that something we can do every year and give someone fresh a chance to win and to come to CES I'm sorry we couldn't pick more than one winner we can only pick one but it really was a very tough decision there are a lot of great talent and it was very fun contest to be able to run we're giving out anything like an iPad or a phone or a tablet we're giving out this time as an opportunity and a chance to grow to grow your brand to get noticed he really have a head start in the world of consumer electronic journalism so thank you everybody who entered David looking forward to meeting you in just a couple weeks i'm jon rettinger i'll see you next video buh-bye you alright so we're about to call the winner of our CES contest David he does no idea to use a winner in fact heaven filmed the video yet announcing the winner so he'll be the very first one to hear it so we can get him on the phone hope he answers always be a super boring video hey I can speak to David please hey hey dude this is John rent you're from technobuffalo how are you doing oh I am doing very well do you know why I'm calling you yeah congratulations you are our CES 2013 winner so let me give you a bit of a disclaimer um see if it's okay with you I'm actually recording this phone call I want to put it as a little bit of an outtake when I film the announcement win is that okay with you but very cool congratulations we had hundreds of entries from video guys and writers and a lot of really talented people we felt that you would be the best to work with us I'd see yes oh my god thank you so much so we are absolutely thrilled thank you for thank you for entering and thank you for putting together really nice post and the nice video intro that you did we watched a ton of videos we read a ton of posts and took us a while to come to our decision and we did early this morning we're gonna announce it publicly later on today but I thought it'd be fun to get you on the phone and just sort of share how excited we are to have you be a part of our team at CS and we can go over some logistics for the show its innovation from you so we can make sure you are out there on time ok um so I stopped the video at this point I just added