After four intense rounds of voting among more than 28,000 registered participants, we’d like to congratulate the winner of our first-ever online casting contest for The Tester: Mickey Paradis (aka 8bitmickey) from Denton, Texas.
After receiving a majority of the 350,000+ community votes, he will join the rest of the cast this Fall for the launch of the newest season of The Tester.
If you’ve been following our ten-week long Summer casting contest, you’re probably familiar with 8bitmickey’s hilarious and well-admired video submissions. Well, he’s got one more for all of his loyal supporters to say “thanks.”
Check back with us on the PlayStation.Blog, follow us on Facebook and, as always on TheTester.com for more updates on the show. And, look for the complete cast announcement coming next month.
Thank you to the over 28,000 participants who made this possible, and congrats again to Mickey Paradis for his Epic Win.
Congrats Mickey
Awesome, new cast member!!! That girl was interesting…
tear.
Congratulations i wish i could apply for the tester.
Remember you are not here to make friends.
Grats Mickey.
Just don’t get eliminated in the first episode like that goober last year lol.
That was funny as hell. Congratulations
haha, that was a good laugh. it was great how he didn’t even smile during the entire thing.
that was pretty funny, did a good straight man doing that gag without laughing
@ 5 AGREED!!!
Anyone who leaves needs to have several battle scars, Because those who dont have any didnt give it there all… Think of it like this… You havent ate anything and are about to starve… and you just got word that theres only one cookie at the top of the mountain
All I could focus on during the video was the skull in the background. It’s good to know that even axe murderers are welcome at Sony.
that was funny, good job and congrats.
Looking forward to The tester season 2
Lose the dork, get rid of that horrid music, and let the girl on the show and you have a winner..oh and ratings. i.e. viewers..
MAYBE THIS TIME THEY CAN PLAY SOME GAMES?
Maybe? It’s just an idea.
Because.. you know.. this is all about video games.
Not.. “who can LARP better”.
Congrats 8bitMickey, as a former contestant known as Fame Girl I want to say Good Luck and have fun.
@Ar4chNova89
Oh goodness no. Doing that would actually make the show watchable
Funny I play video games to get away form reality TV shows becouse I hate it:)
Nice. I don’t life far from Denton! I hope you win!
Why do you pause so long between sentences Mickey? Stop doing that.
Hehehe
Nice Jerry Curl. I bet he owns a van with no windows.
He blew it on the face lick. I’m not impressed at all.
@shatteredraven77
Yup i do
@Fame girl
OMG :D
@mickey, well done.
Please, use a host that is less annoying and I hope the contestants are as outgoing as 8bitmickey. No more of the social skill-challenged. “Ack! A person coming towards me. What do I do?!”
Seriously.
We want them TEST videogames please!
Great job Mickey. Nuke the competition!
O_o she licked him….
I’m from Denton,Tx. Glad that there is someone here from where I’m at. Congrats Mickey.
Love the Final Fantasy VII victory music in the background.
nice tie
Can’t wait for season 2!
ROFL
I hope the Tester has a bigger budget this season. God was it a low budget or seemed that way.
funny vid, gk mick
No!
Gone by week 2 ala Barmy.
Congrats Mickey and take it to’em!!!
It would be nice if i could select this series to auto dl when a new episode arrives so i dont miss it. I love the show its on the right path but we need better delievery to viewers.
Why is there a Season 2? There shouldn’t have even been a Season 1! If you’re going to make a show for PSN then don’t go turning it into a generic MTV show. You already have enough of that type of failure with those Marcus PSP ads. Those alone make me wanna skip the PSP2 if it ever happens just because of the userbase that it would attract which is exactly why I avoid the 360.
Also, this guy is a [DELETED] and should be the first one to get eliminated.
Congrats Mickey! Loved all the game references in that video :P Especially the FF7 victory song.
@ Fan Girl: Good to see you again :)
Loved the tester and looking forward to the next season. For those that hate the series… here’s a little hint for you…
DON’T DOWNLOAD IT ;)
couldn’t stop staring at that girl’s stomach. woof.
Heh, I liked the video. Very nice, very internet. I can see him getting into the video production marketing side of things.
I remember this guy. He had some funny vids. BTW killer tie!
Well DUH. Of course he was going to win.
Also, DAYUMN!
Horrible pick dude is a tool and the chick was horrible.
What the guy doesn’t show you is all of his Xbox 360 games!
what a wast sony ill bet my whole video game colection wana be 8 bit will lose the 1st round. if not the 2nd depends how hard you put the first task.
Watched it the first time around and as much as I hate “Reality” TV shows it was almost enjoyable to watch dorky adults cry over loosing that $9.00 per hour dream job.
Not wasting the bandwidth this time around though.