The Official bragster blog

Hey there brag fans, Milky here.

Just a quick note to tell you all about the shiny improved 'Official Bragster Records Group'...

This is the place to come if you think you can bet one of the many bragster records there are out there. If you think you hold a record, and there's not a dare in there for it, contact the group admin (me!) and one will be set up. Then you can sit back and bask in the glory the comes with being a record breaker. Until someone else breaks it... Well, it is bragster, right?

So head over to the group , join up and start smashing those challenges!

Over, and out...

Hey bragsters! You might have noticed from our “Guess how many Bragging Rights have been awarded” contest that bragster recently celebrated its very first birthday. Yes, October 16th marked a whole year of dares, brags, challenges, contests and general craziness. And what a year its been since our relaunch!

We’ve been behind some classic stunts, including the one day the fountains at Trafalgar Square were turned into a giant bubble bath wonderland. It was also bragster that offered £200 to the first person to hit racist goon Nick Griffin with some ethnic food, showing him how much fun international diversity can be. And who could forget when we projected big Neill onto the Tate Britain, or the time our illustrious co-founder Bertrand turned up on national TV, performing in front of the X-Factor judges dressed as a gorilla, a performance which either caused Simon Cowell to proclaim it the best audition ever, or storm off in disgust (we forget which).

Of course, as brilliant as our stunts and promotions are, we’d be nothing without you, the bragster user. From the very first brag uploaded, which was The_Half_Baked_Minds absolutely epic day out in the penis costume, you guys have found new ways to amaze, amuse, baffle, disgust, and entertain us day in day out. Some of the team at HQ's favourite things from the past year:

Wim: Legendary users, several users getting bragster tattoos, hearing people in public talking about bragster
Bertrand: Pulling off the credit card stunt and going on the X-Factor. Can't wait to do both again!
Ash: Going to the tango factory and seeing a bazillion upside down tango cans
Adam: Hiding in a bush trying to co-ordinate the Oxbridge stunt
Dan: Getting to talk to all our crazy cool users everyday

Finally: some awesome brands have been initiated into the world of Bragster. Tango were game for our dare to turn two and half million cans upside down, (with the bragster logo slapped on them to boot). Ever since then, Tango have been sponsoring dares with orange iPods and t-shirts as prizes. Adidas brought in premiership football superstars Jermain Defoe and Ashley Young to captain the great F50i challenge. Magic the Gathering brought their own brand of fantasy gaming loveliness with a series of dares, all with awesome prizes, including a trip to Rome! And we have loads more cool brands and promotions lined up, all wanting to get a piece of the bragster action, and give you guys and girls tons of sweet prizes!

So join us in a slice of (metaphorical) cake and let’s make the second year of bragster funnier, crazier and better than the first!

Then we want YOU!

Bragster are going to be doing some pretty cool stuff in and around London-town in the coming months, and we want to involve as many hard-core London bragsters as possible!!

Join the group here and get ready to rock and roll!

Rock on,

HQ

Hey dudes, Luke here.

Just thought I'd share some changes that are coming your way pretty soon.

Home Page

Bragster virgins - we need to break more of them in. So we’ve made a few more changes to the layout of the home page that better explains what we’re all about. With the new layout, It’s also easier to understand the link between dares, dare entries and regular brags. We’ve also done a bit of spring cleaning.

At the moment these changes do not affect signed-in users (My Home) but soon this page will improve too.

General Sexyness

Bragster.com will also become more sexy. The old girl is one year old now so it's time to give her a bit of a buff up. These subtle changes will affect the whole site, including the box style, site header and logo.

Bye bye BragTV...

Don't worry, it's just a name change! To put it simply, if a word is part of the navigation of a site, however cool it is, if it’s not easy to understand in the first 0.10201 nano-seconds then it’s a bit of a fail. Because bragTV is mainly about videos, we’re called it… dan dan dah… Videos.

And that's about it I think. Laters!

Well one of our most successful campaigns to date has wrapped, leaving some lucky bragsters with some very cool prizes! The team from adidas chose their favourite entry from each dare – a hard task given the crazy skills that were on display! Not only will these individual winners win prizes, but so will the top 8 players in each team! Woohoo!

Congratulations are in order for Team Young for their defeat, finishing up on a wopping 37,277 bragging rights. Kudos to all the standout players for the team, including BA27, sabariraj7, and sweepkeep14 who uploaded the following entry, showing their true bragster spirit in the dare to “show your best goal celebration”

All winners will be contacted soon, so sit tight and get ready to enjoy your adidas f50i goodies!

Bragster loves it when you guys win stuff. So we wanna make it even easier for you to do so! This week we rolled out some little extras to make it even more obvious when a PRIZE is up for grabs. Check out the cool ICON!

This will show up on any official dares where prizes are on offer! You will also notice some changes when you click on the dare description…We’ve added a countdown timer which tells you how long until the dare is closed, as well as an outline of that you can win!

Stay tuned for more ways to win :)

ROCK ON!

So we put the computer mice down, and picked up paintball guns instead – ready to let off 6 months of steam in one day of crazy fun playing SKIRMISH! The bragster team headed out into the English countryside, and took on 3 different battlefields…shooting eachother all in the name of paintball glory. For this photo, Wim channeled his inner “High School Musical”. Niiize.

Luke, our designer, was way too into it. And as a result, got some pretty serious bruises to show for it!

Here is Dan looking very spiffy in his combat gear…(Check Wim hoovering the pot noodles in the background)

I (Ash) was petrified and ended up with a concussion – which I didn’t realise I had until 6 days later when I went to the hospital with a swollen skull and headaches. But a fine time was had by all. And of course, it wouldn’t be a true bragster team event unless we hit the pub afterwards…

Where, after a few pints, we had a trampoline flip competition…which Adam definitely won at…

BIG THANKS to SKIRMISH in Essex. Check them out at http://skirmish.co.uk

You guys have probably noticed some NERF action on bragster.com lately, and we are pleased to announce that we’re doing some sweet giveaways of these amazing NERF BLASTERS!

Head to the NERF homepage to check out the current entries, and the great prizes up for grabs. The dare is a simple one – ambush your friends with a nerf blaster, and if you don’t have a nerf blaster then improvise! Pointed fingers, cardboard cutouts – get creative!

Keep your eyes peeled for more action with NERF and bragster. HELL YEAH!

In the meantime, checkout Luke and Adam at bragster HQ having some fun with nerf in this dare

gonna get married!

Bragster is sending love and congratulations to users RenkVictim and ICollectTheDead who got married as the result of a bragster dare! Check out the nuptuals here .

Here’s to many more bragster weddings. Good luck to the happy couple!

For those of you in the UK blessed with such entertaining and original shows as “X Factor”, you may have noticed the bragster blue gorilla gracing the stage, and sending Simon Cowell into a fit of rage that caused him to storm off on Saturday night. Well, inside that blue gorilla was our very own Bbod – and his appearance, was of course, as the result of a dare.

Check the original dare out, as the crew at bragster HQ signed the big boss up, and surprised him on the day before his audition, promising to give £1000 to a charity of his choice if he got a hug from Dannii.

And, bless his heart – he did it! You can see him online at the x factor website, with video proof of his 5 minutes of fame coming up shortly!

In the meantime, check him out in the UK tabloids

Our clever techs have recently launched our ‘facebook connect’ feature, which allows you to publish all your latest and greatest brags and videos direct to your facebook feed to show all your mates how incredibly awesome you are…

Just click the “connect with facebook” button, login, and watch as your friends and family members are literally shocked by your exploits and escapades.

Tell us what YOU think about this new feature in our feedback group

Attention Magic players of bragster!

It's a little under 2 weeks to go until GB Nationals and Grand Prix Brighton, August 5-9, when you can come and battle with hundreds of other Magic players, for fame, glory, and over $30,000 in prizes at the seaside! Plus, you might even see a player or two in a gorilla suit...

It'll be an extra-long weekend of Magic fun, starting on the afternoon of Wednesday (August 5th), with the first public events, and last-chance qualifiers for Great British Nationals, which will be taking place on Thursday (6th) and Friday (7th), along with a whole host of public events for those not qualified, before the Grand prix itself on the Saturday (8th) and Sunday (9th).

As well as all the big events to compete in, you'll be able to meet Magic artists Mark Tedin and Jim Murray and get your cards signed, challenge the pros at the Champions Challenge, and try the new "Duels of the Planeswalkers" game for Xbox live. This promises to be a weekend to remember, with something for everyone to enjoy!

PLUS: As a special treat for our fans on bragster, we're offering free public event drafts to the first 15 bragsters to arrive, starting at 2pm on Wednesday - Just bring a print-out of this page and enjoy some free Magic fun on us!

We hope to see lots of you down in Brighton soon - for full details of all the events taking place at Grand Prix Brighton click here, and at GB Nationals click here

This week has seen the return of two bragster legends, and in true bragster style they are facing off – depriving themselves of sleep all in the name of bragster glory.

Sweden’s Dr Pepper and the USA’s Calicab both set off over 2 days ago, armed with energy drinks, caffeine, and their bragster fans to keep them going. Dr Pepper’s target of 60 hours is just minutes away from being attained, check out his profile for some hilarious VLOGs of his fatigue induced antics. Calicab has also been posting videos every 12 hours, with some strange and entertaining updates.

On behalf of the bragster team, we wanna congratulate both of these legends for their efforts. THIS is what bragster.com is all about – and these boys have indeed proved that victory is sweet.

If you think you can compete with the big boys, then enter the bragster competition here!

Now go enjoy some sleep fellas!

As i am sure you bragsters will have noticed, we've recently teamed up with Wizards of the Coast to give you all some awesome new dares, based around the worlds premier trading card game, Magic: the Gathering. What's more, we have some fantastic prizes to give away for the best entries to these, from Magic product and merch, up to an artist-customised iPod, netbook computer, Xbox 360, and a trip for you and a friend to the Magic World Championships in Rome this November!

As a part of this, we're giving away some starter packs, to help you learn to play the game, or, if you play already, to teach a friend - and also included are some stickers/stencils to get involved in this dare.

The demand for these has been phenomenal thus far (thank you!) - and as such, we need a little time to catch up on sending these packs out. Plus, from today (3rd July), we are afraid we will only be able to send packs out to EU residents. However, if you are from outside the EU and have already requested a pack, don't worry, we will honour these.

So, when you're ready, head on over to the Magic group and join the fun in some of the dares, or take on the game at a 2010 core set pre-release event near you, July 11-12!

it has been hot this week. Very hot. London is sunny, boiling, and so is the office. In response to the heatwave, General Secretary Bernard Barber has urged British bosses to “think seriously this week about how they can make their workplaces cooler and their staff less overheated”.

So what did our bosses, Wim and Bertrand decide to do? Declare “Office Undies Day” of course. The beer was cold, and the clothes were off! We can’t think of a more comfortable way to work…Check the pics below, and the video evidence. Think you can follow suit? Check the dare here

working as hard as ever

Ella sending some very important emails

Pretending to be busy when the bosses walk past

Me phoning my Mum long distance to Australia on the work phone – hell yeah!

I have no caption for this. too ridiculous