It was a Twitter Frenzy Thursday night as hundreds of students gathered at the Price Center to enter in Ellen DeGeneres’s Twitter Challenge contest. Five UC San Diego students won trips to Los Angeles and tickets to one of Ellen DeGeneres’s 12 Days of Giveaway tapings.
DeGeneres, who has more than 3.5 million followers on Twitter, started hinting to UC San Diego students Wednesday night that her show would come to campus.
Excitement started building in the Price Center about 4 p.m. Thursday when DeGeneres announced that the contest would soon begin. The crowd erupted at 5:45 p.m. when DeGeneres announced the challenge: “Students of UCSD: The first people to bring Aaron any kind of corn at the Price Center are in the running for an incredible prize.”
Winners were taken to the second floor of Price Center where the production crew was filming. DeGeneres gave the group of students the next challenge: have a picture taken of themselves wearing nothing but a red towel with someone in any kind of uniform in less than 15 minutes.
Austyn Gabig started calling her friends on campus to see if anyone could bring her towel and luckily a friend at Sixth College was doing laundry and rushed a sopping wet towel to Gabig. “I was full of adrenaline,” she said. “I found a community service officer when I walked into Price Center. My phone doesn’t have internet access, but a girl in the market took our picture and e-mailed it to The Ellen Show.”
Although she was supposed to give one prize away to the student with the best picture, Ellen decided to award all five for their efforts. Gabig is a long-time Ellen fan who went to an Ellen Show taping when she was in high school. “I really enjoy watching her show, I just think she is hilarious,” she said.
The competition airs Monday on KNSD at 3 p.m.
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