GAMEHOTEL DEATHMATCH

This series is a tribute to the ongoing, fruitful association of video games, food, and fun that started when the pizza-shaped, pill-eating Pac Man character first popped up on our screens. GAMEHOTEL DEATHMACH stages exhilarating competitions between world-renowned game designers and courageous audience volunteers. Their mission: to decorate delicious cakes with famous video game characters.

If this brings to mind images of pie-throwing slapstick farce, relax, that's not what it is all about. To keep things under control and moving in the right direction, GAMEHOTEL DEATHMACH collaborates with some of Europe's most creative patissier chefs who provide expert advice and professional tools to the contestants.

The GAMEHOTEL JAPAN UNLIMITED event saw a memorable cake modding competition between the Japanese All-Star team, featuring celebrated Japanese creators Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Keita Takahashi, and an Audience All-Star team. The teams had five minutes to creatively decorate two huge cakes, made from premium pure Ivory Coast cocoa, with images of game character Carl "CJ" Johnson from Rockstar's GTA San Andreas.

Much to the despair of the chef patissier, the Japanese All-Star team immediately started cutting the cake in pieces. The flat marzipan CJ character was quickly rolled up by a big chocolate katamari. Despite strenuous efforts, and with vocal support from the public, the Audience All Stars could not keep up with such bold originality. Based on criteria such as precision, speed, originality, and, more surprisingly, hygiene and cleanliness of the work place, the chef patissier declared the Japanese team the winner - and the public was invited to join the contestants on stage for a final partaking of the creatively modded cakes.