The following is an excerpt from the April 29 issue of The Wichita Eagle about the winning student team at Wichita State's Shocker New Venture Competition. (Subscription may be required to view full story.) 

Brian Foster hadn't planned to sing during his team's presentation at the Shocker New Venture Competition, but he joked afterward that his ditty may have been what pushed Quickdraw Studios over the top.

Quickdraw — a video game and application company geared toward restaurants and bars — won the $10,000 first-place prize Friday at the finals of the competition, which is put on by the Wichita State University Center for Entrepreneurship.

The company is the brainchild of entrepreneurs Foster, Nicolas Gallo and Cody Harryman. The idea was spawned when Gallo, a Textron Aviation engineer and WSU graduate student, thought the logo for the Hopping Gnome Brewing Co. in Wichita was so memorable, it needed to star in its own video game.

During the trio’s pitch to a panel of judges Friday at WSU’s Devlin Hall, one of the judges jokingly asked whether someone from the group would sing their response to an inquiry during a question-and-answer session.

Proving he was a good sport, Foster did sing his answer, leading to applause from onlookers during a lighthearted moment.

“I think it might have put us over,” Foster later joked.

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