The University Board sponsored ” Outcast” game Wednesday night allowed 12 students to compete for a chance to win a five-day cruise for two to the Bahamas.

The contestants faced off against each other in eight different event’s ranging from a scavenger hunt, to becoming a contestant on a mock dating game.

Jason Cunningham, a junior Biology major, won the contest and the vacation by an audience vote.

“I kind of expected to be picked to be a contestant, because there were only twenty-two people at the show,” Cunningham said.

During the final round Cunningham had to dance in front of the audience and hope that they would pick him as the winner.

” I was a little nervous at first, but their wasn’t a lot of people there, just me acting stupid in front of a room full of people,” he said. “And I am used to that.”

Cunningham’s competition in the final round was Latonya Holmes, a senior finance major. She wasn’t pleased exactly pleased with the final vote.

“I thought it was rigged,” Holmes said. “I don’t think it was fair, people would get voted off, and then they were voting for their friends.”

At the end of the show Cunningham said think he would be eliminated early, but also didn’t think I would win either.

” I plan on taking my Caribbean cruise over summer break, and will be taking my girlfriend,” he said.

Cunningham’s girlfriend Shana Tabb, a junior psychology major, who watch’s Wednesday’s contest from the audience said she was very excited , and very surprised that her boyfriend won.

Many of the “Outcast” contestants said that they had fun participating in the show. Matt Pollett, a sophomore speech communications major, said that it was his second year attending the game show. Abby Lehmann, a sophomore psychology major, who ate cat food as part of the contest, said she still enjoyed the evening.

“I liked it,” she said. “it was fun to watch, I ate cat food.”

Stephanie Skrzypek, chair of the UB, said that she thought more students would attend.

“This was a disappointing turn out. There were only about fifteen students here,” she said. “Last years student’s really enjoyed the show, I was optimistic that students would show up,”

Skrzypek said that around 100 people attended last year’s show, and it will be up to the board to evaluate whether or not “Outcast” will be held again next year.

The show’s host Alex Reid said that he has only been putting on “Outcast” since January of 2001.

“We have put on 175 shows in one year,” he said.

Before the show starts Reid tries to convince students not to compete.

“The thing’s we’re going to make you do to let you win the cruise are not worth it,” Reid said. “Anything I want, you will do; that’s what the show’s about.”