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In New York, these included ice cream shops Momofuku Milk Bar, Ample Hills Creamery, The Original Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream, Blue Marble, Sundaes and Cones, Brooklyn Ice Cream Company and Victory Garden.īut because this is the Game of Cones (When you play, you win or you melt) there had to be a victor, and it was Big Gay with 2,316 check-ins.
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During that time, businesses drummed up support by encouraging patrons to check-in at the stores on Foursquare in return for the chance to align with the victorious house. And yesterday afternoon, perched on a replica of the seat of swords from King’s Landing, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley crowned the kings of ice cream Big Gay Ice Cream Shop, aka “ House Big Gay,” with a Game of Cones certificate.Īlso held separately between stores in San Francisco, the contest ran from June 7-21. This is the finale for Game of Cones, a contest from Foursquare in conjunction with HBO’s “ Game of Thrones” that pit local ice cream shops from New York City against one another in a fight for social media supremacy. The sun blazed, creating an oppressive heat at New York City’s South Street Seaport Thursday, but a chill passed among the checked-in subjects when a pair of new kings ascended the Iron Throne and ushered in a cold era … of ice cream.