60,000 YouTube Views Propels “The Giant” to Most Awkward Date of All Time Status

Montreal, Quebec -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/02/2011 -- After three months of video submissions and votes the winner of the Mate1.com Check Please Contest has finally been crowned. For his part in what will now be known as the most awkward date of all time, Steve Kardynal of Michigan was not only chosen by Pauly Shore as the winner, but rewarded with a $5,000 Grand Prize.

Pauly Shore, star of Encino Man, Bio Dome and Son in Law and the Check Please! Judge, chose Steve because of his hilariously awkward date and because of the huge following the video had.

"Congratulations, Bro. $5,000 is a lot of money. You could probably get a mail order bride for that," Shore said in a congratulatory video to Steve.

As of February 21,2011 the video had received 58,000 views, 107 comments and 336 likes on YouTube alone. That doesn't even take into account the 10,000 views on the contest website and thousands of votes from that same site and via Facebook and Twitter.

To view Steve's video submission, "The Giant", please visit http://contest.mate1.com/.

"We're happy we could empower singles everywhere to laugh, rather than cringe, at their awkward dating experiences," says Elizabeth Wasserman, CEO of Mate1.com.

Top Three Most Awkward Dates of All Time as decided by Social Networks and Pauly Shore
Grand Prize: "The Giant" from Steve Kardynal of Michigan
Video Submission: http://www.youtube.com/mate1#p/u/4/n7J14SyfhIw

2nd Place: "Who Sharted" from Eden Crump of Indiana
Video Submission: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ZNFQxDsK0&feature=relmfu

3rd Place: Lauren Wise Bultz from Montreal, Quebec
Video Submission: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PdtzifgMt8

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