Heineken Wastes Our Time With Stupid Cannon Game

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When we’re presented the chance to launch ourselves out of a cannon to any destination in the world, we tend to get a bit excited. After all, that Outpost.com gerbil thing was pretty cool. Well after no less that 15 clicks and a seemingly endless collection of forms, buttons, drop down menus and a final challenge to enter personal information, our desire to hop inside the cannon quickly waned. For fuck’s sake, marketers, if you’re gonna offer up some silly time-waster, the least you could do is make it simple.

If you care, this whole cannon thing has something to do with Heineken, the UEFA Champions League Final and various prize packages. We know we’re shirking our journalistic duties here but if you really want to see what happens when the cannon goes off, you’ll have to slog through the site on your own,

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