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Omegathon II was an even more elaborate affair than its predecessor. New events included Beat The Pros and industry panels on online gaming, the video game marketing process, and controversy in the industry. Blue, a screening of the 1989 film The Wizard, and Penny Arcade Q&A made encore appearances. Events from PAX 2004 such as Pitch Your Game Idea, Red vs.

Musical guests included the rock groups Minibosses and The NESkimos, self-professed 'professional hardcore gangster rapper' mc chris, pianists Martin Leung and Connie Lin, nerdcore hiphopper MC Frontalot, and rap/funk group Optimus Rhyme, who performed live in two separate concerts in a massive theater. Sponsors included Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Ubisoft and NCsoft, among others.

PAX 2005, unlike its predecessor, occupied the entire center, effectively doubling the usable floor space. PAX 2005 took place from August 26вЂ“28 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington, where the first PAX was held. Penny Arcade claimed that precisely 1337 (or ' leet') people pre-registered, to which Holkins mused, 'though I ordinarily shun leet-speak that number clearly implies the blessing of gaming deities.' Roughly 3,300 people attended the event. Sean Celaya defeated Kevin Potter in the final round to take home the grand prize becoming the PAX 2004 Omegathon champion. The contestants competed in a tabletop dice game called Diceland, Halo, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Dance Dance Revolution, Doom and the original home version of Pong.

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Included amongst the events of the first PAX were live musical performances by bands including The Minibosses, panels featuring Penny Arcade creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins as well as others in the video game industry, and the Omegathon, a contest where twenty contestants played a series of games for a chance at winning an excessively large video game collection worth an excess of $25,000. brought all of its E3 assets for The Matrix Online to the show as well as several hands-on stations for the game. Microsoft allowed attendees to experience a multiplayer level of Halo 2 months before it hit stores in addition to a number of other Xbox games, while Ubisoft showed Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Ghost Recon 2. Several exhibitors, including Warner Bros., Microsoft, Rooster Teeth and Ubisoft, showcased videos and playable demos of their upcoming games at PAX 2004. PAX 2004 was a two-day event held at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington from August 28вЂ“29, which they hoped would turn into an annual event.

On April 12, 2004, the authors of Penny Arcade announced PAX, the Penny Arcade Expo.