The Official bragster blog

Santa Claus is on his way and we’re wearing our stretchy pants for ultimate comfort during the day of turkey and booze. That’s right Bragsters – Christmas is here, and we want to share the love and goodness!

2009 has been a fantastic year for all of us. We’re seeing more and more newbies everyday, and all you old school bragsters have continued to impress us with your crazy and skillfull antics.

Have a safe and happy Christmas holiday, keep up the bragging, and have a rocking new year! Drive safe, kiss your mum, and eat as much food as humanly possible.

Rock on,

The Bragster Team

After being included in 2008’s list of 100 technology finalists, the team at bragster are excited to announce that we have been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s Global 100 award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from around the world.

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of 1,200. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony at the event, so stay tuned for an update!

For more information on the awards and Red Herring, head to www.redherring.com

              

Well, it's that time of year again, and last night saw the bragster office transformed into party central. Here's a few choice pics from the night. Thanks to everyone who came, the drinks were certainly flowing, and the sumo suits got a bit of an airing...

A view from the top... The pizza's going down well...
... Adam seems to think so, anyway.
Jack 'The Ripper' Corthine VS Bertrand 'The Business' Bodson...
... Bodson goes down for the count!
Corthine emerges victorious!


So, as we draw ever closer to the end of the year, and indeed the decade, we'd like to take this opportunity to say merry Christmas, and a happy 2010. It's been a hell of a year for us at bragster, and we'd also like to say a big thanks to all those who have contributed to the site in the past year. From our community of users to the guys and gal that work their socks off to make bragster such a fun place to be, it wouldn't be the same without you.

So with that, crack open the sherry and have a mince pie on us. Bring on the World Cup...

The bragster team.

Well we did it last year, and due to popular demand, we did it again this year!

Many of you will remember 2008, which saw Bertrand project his credit card details on London landmarks, allowing Christmas shoppers to spend some of his hard earned cash. £10K to be exact! Well this time around, we thought we would do things a little differently…and so it began. On Tuesday December 8th on Carnaby st, a group of lucky punters clammered and fought to grab the thousands of pounds being thrown out from a second storey building onto the crowd below. But it wasn’t that simple! To make things interesting, we mixed in fake bragster notes with the real ones and watched with delight as the lucky money-grabbers tried to weed out the proper stuff! Check the video below, as well as some of the media coverage the stunt received.

Oh and word on the street has it that Channel 7 downunder in Australia are going to interview Bertrand this week…so keep an eye out Aussie bragsters!

So many ways to win – its actually insane.

Ash here, and I’m going to take you through some of the campaigns that we’ve recently launched in Bragster-land (the happiest place on earth).

NISSAN SPORTS
This campaign is called “We Are Traitors”, celebrating the launch of the new GTR and 370Z cars – two very cool sportscars. Nissan are doing some very cool things, showing the world that these cars are more than a little bit badass. You can get involved in the dares at the we are traitors premium group. Join up, get involved in the dares, and you could win your very own ultimate sports experience – yes, a chance to get behind the wheel and go for a spin!

PKR
You don’t have to play poker to get involved in this campaign – but its a good place to start! We’ve teamed up with the crew from PKR to bring some very cool poker-themed dares. Get on it at the PKR premium group people!

UP YOUR VIVA
Head to the premium group, learn how to UP YOUR VIVA, and then show us your best try! The winners will be broadcast on VIVA tv all over the Uk – pretty cool huh?

So get off your arses and get bragging!

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!