Chip Shop Christmas — What’s happening?

“Why the hell are you writing this on a personal blog?” I hear you ask (and my bosses here at The Drum shouting). Shouldn’t something about an award be within a specific system architecture, like The Matrix or for those who are my age, the VSI; that’s a Lawnmower Man reference by the way. As Community Manager for The Chip Shop Awards, it’s up to me to be on the firing line, the front line, the….line line when it comes to what The Drum and it’s various subsidiaries do. I want you guys to talk to me, tell me your ideas etc, something I’ll go into in a different blog post. So, The Chip Shop Awards.

Chip In

The Chip Shop Christmas Soiree (to give it it’s full name) is an invite only event; why? Well, we want to throw an exclusive event for the best creatives in the industry but we don’t want to give these tickets away like Bounty’s at the bottom of a Celebrations tin.

We want these tickets to mean something; to show that ‘you sir or madame or a true visionary in your field’ or your sense of humour is exactly like ours.

There are two ways to get in to this shindig:

Use our form; you register up your name and we’ll do the rest. If you’re a creative son of a gun, we’ll call you up on your telephone. Like Hotline Bling.

• The more fun way. The Chip Shop Category competition.

For the first time ever

We are giving you the chance to name a Chip Shop category and become part of the Chip Shop Award legacy. As well as having a new category named after your stupdendous idea, you will also receive an entry to the awards and booze. Sweet sweet alcohol.

How do you enter? It’s pretty simple recently.

• Include “Hey @chipshopawards” at the start.
• Tweet your category idea with the hashtag #ChipShopCat
• Get all your friends behind you; be them work mates, junior creatives and get it RT’d.
• That’s it.

I for one look forward to every single entry that you submit for this as The Chip Shop Awards are the one night every year, where anything goes.

The event itself

It will be a grand piss up but also a celebration of everything that has happened throughout the year; let’s call it a a better version of the Big Fat Quiz of the Year. There will even be a chance to play beer pong, which no one can turn down.

As for networking, let’s put that term in the bin for 2015; we just want to get together and have a chat about Christmas. Got all your presents yet? Course you haven’t

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