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Sony's Big GT5 Charity Bash

Thursday, December 09, 2010
Here is a great report from NZgamer about the event we we supporting with PlayStation.  

Grey Lynn, the heart of Colonial Auckland, played host Tuesday to Sony's Gran Turismo 5 Charity Challenge. Sixteen celebrities were challenged to race each other on Sony's flagship racing game, with the winner to receive $2000 to go to their nominated charity.

The event was held in the basement of luxury car dealer, Giltrap Prestige, with PlayStation 3 systems setup around Lamborghinis and Aston Martins, amongst others. 

The celebrity's goal? Simple. In a one-on-one knock out competition, they simply had to win every race to continue - one loss and they were out, like yesterday's news.  The competition was split into four pools, to allow for simultaneous knockouts at the start, followed by the more intense finals rounds once the learner drivers (i'm looking at you, Ben) were kicked to the curb.
 		The driving skills on display were many and varied, with some genuinely talented stars squaring off against some that needed to be told how to grip a steering wheel. We picked our favorite, GT Academy winner Tony Autridge, and he very quickly earned that selection, easily besting his early competition.

Greg Murphy, legendary V8 racing driver, was similarly impressive - whether it's testament to GT's realism or Greg's natural affinity to videogames we couldn't tell you (we suspect the former...). Regardless, Greg easily defeated Simon Evans (an upcoming motorsports star) to face off with our Tony in the next round.

Read the full review here. 
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