---
title: "PDC hype and real actions"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/23/pdc-hype-and-real-actions.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/23/pdc-hype-and-real-actions.html"
published: "2003-09-23T18:49:00"
updated: "2003-09-23T18:49:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "With all the PDC hype going about, instead of just cheerleading, why havn't we seen some contest or giveaway of free tickets to the PDC? wouldn't that be cool, Scoble ?"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# PDC hype and real actions

By Roy Osherove September 23, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 23, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

With all the PDC hype going about, instead of just cheerleading, why havn't we seen some contest or giveaway of free tickets to the PDC? wouldn't that be cool, [Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/)?

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