{"id":849,"date":"2012-02-25T04:38:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T04:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/?p=849"},"modified":"2019-12-15T01:51:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T01:51:17","slug":"the-search-for-australias-top-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"The Search for Australia&#8217;s Top Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you Australia&#8217;s geekest person?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/top-geek-3fl1-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-863 size-medium\" title=\"top-geek-3fl1\" src=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/top-geek-3fl1-1-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/top-geek-3fl1-1-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/top-geek-3fl1-1.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topgeek.iinet.net.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TopGeek 2.0<\/a> invites geeks from all across the nation the\u00a0to prove their skills, obsession and obscure knowledge to claim the title of Australia&#8217;s TopGeek. Contenders will display their talents through a series of challenges set by iinet and the nerdy judges (some whom were last year&#8217;s finalists) \u00a0that are designed to test gaming, fandom, creativity and Internet skills.<\/p>\n<p>Nerdventurer Lawrence Leung will meeting some of the contenders on TopGeek TV, a fortnightly webseries beginning 30 March 2012 and will be hosting the massive Grand Final\/Showdown on 10 May 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/848067-top-geek-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-850 size-medium\" title=\"848067-top-geek\" src=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/848067-top-geek-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/848067-top-geek-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/848067-top-geek-1.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lawrence with some of last year&#8217;s TopGeek Finalists (Photo: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/geek-and-you-shall-find-spotlight\/story-fn7x8me2-1226279866985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herald Sun<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>THINK YOU ARE GEEKIEST IN THE LAND?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.topgeek.iinet.net.au\/competition\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">REGISTER HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winner will bag themselves an all-expenses paid trip to the US to attend one of four \u2018geek\u2019 meccas: Sandiego ComicCon, Consumer Electronic Show (CES), South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) or Penny Arcade Expo (PAX).<\/p>\n<p>If you think you can out-do last year&#8217;s winner Tasmanian comic book artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/technology\/comic-fan-cassandra-james-is-australias-top-geek\/story-fn7celvh-1226036119275If you think you can out geek last year's TopGeek Cassandra James, then join the Fight Club.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cassandra James<\/a>, then enter this geeky Fight Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you Australia&#8217;s geekest person? 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Contenders will display their talents through a series of challenges set by iinet and the nerdy judges (some whom were last year&#8217;s finalists) \u00a0that are designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}