Mobilicity is bringing the infamous sport of Mobile Phone Throwing to Canada by hosting the 1st Annual Canadian Mobile Phone Throwing Championship in Toronto on Saturday, October 13th.
The event, which is inspired by the recent Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships in Finland, will take centre stage at next weekend’s Red & Blue Bowl game between the Varsity Blues and the York Lions, a revered annual Canadian intercollegiate football tradition.
At the game’s halftime, spectators will be able to see the top three qualifiers each throwing a mobile phone down the football field to set a Canadian record and attempt to break the 101.46-metre-world-record-throw set in August by Ere Karjalainen of Finland.
The three finalists will compete for the title of Canadian Mobile Phone Throwing Champion plus the chance to win $5,000 and a Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone with a year of Mobilicity’s unlimited data, talk and text service. The second and third-place finalists will each win a smartphone with Mobilicity’s unlimited service…