Fierce Competition at the TechFlash Summer BBQ & Ping-Pong Tournament
There was some serious action going on last night at TechFlash’s second annual Summer BBQ and Ping-Pong Tournament. With over 400 in attendance, techies from far and wide traded in their smartphones for paddles, and battled it out for the championship.
For the less athletically inclined, there was also the first ever foosball competition, and an award for the team with the most spirit (i.e. the zaniest costumes…I mean uniforms), which went to social media agency Banyan Branch, whose mascot could only be described as ‘shaggy.’ (See pictures here).
There was some serious action going on last night at TechFlash’s second annual Summer BBQ and Ping-Pong Tournament. With over 400 in attendance, techies from far and wide traded in their smartphones for paddles, and battled it out for the championship.
For the less athletically inclined, there was also the first ever foosball competition, and an award for the team with the most spirit (i.e. the zaniest costumes…I mean uniforms), which went to social media agency Banyan Branch, whose mascot could only be described as ‘shaggy.’ (See pictures here).
Foosball game at the Tech Flash Summer BBQ & Ping-Pong Tournament
In the final match up in the expert ping-pong division, defending champion Valeri Kim, from Bellevue, WA-based tech consulting company Akvelon, took on Minh Le from the Silicon Valley Bank. In the end Kim, who came equipped with his own Akvelon jersey, took home the title.
Before joining Xconomy, Thea spent a year working as the editor of another startup, the hyperlocal Seattle neighborhood news site QueenAnneView.com. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California, where she double-majored in print journalism and creative writing. While in college, Thea spent a semester studying in London and writing for the London bureau of the Los Angeles Times. Indulging in her passion for feature writing, she has covered a variety of topics ranging from the arts, to media, clean technology and breaking news. Before moving back to Seattle, Thea worked in new media development on two business radio shows, "Marketplace" and "Marketplace Money" by American Public Media. Her clips have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Santa Monica Daily Press, Seattle magazine and her college paper, the Daily Trojan. Thea is a native Seattleite who grew up in Magnolia, and now lives in Queen Anne.
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