Sunday's Journal Gazette included an interview with two Fort Wayne teens who were semifinalists in a national Dairy Queen Blizzard contest.
Both [Jared and Sean Dugan] love to design and execute computer graphics, so making a video easily appealed to them. But what really caught their eye about the contest was the dollar sign of the prize.
It had five figures after it, and one of them was a comma. Oh, and the first one was a “5.”
And that doesn’t count the free trips to Hawaii, Los Angeles, the chance to appear in a DQ commercial, meet to “advise” management and free Blizzards for a year.
The boys got busy, and both made the cut to be part of the group of 25 semifinalists in Dairy Queen’s Blizzard Apprentice contest.
From the interview:
Do you think you’ll win?
Jared: “I have no idea. I think mine was good quality, and I think I did a really good job and so did Sean.”
Sean: “I know I worked really hard. Ever since we found out we were semifinalists . . . I worked (on mine) all the time – just every minute you were working, every minute you weren’t eating or sleeping.”
The problem? By the time this ran, the Dugans had already been eliminated.
Which meant the interview was conducted before November 4th, the date they found out they didn't make the finals.
The story was published November 13th.
Why were they holding it for nine days? To get confirmation from a Dairy Queen source?
RELATED: Watch the Dugans' videos on the Journal Gazette website
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