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How Austin Got Bold

A video recap of XM Anomaly covering the exciting race to cracking open the XM vaults around SXSW, and some shocking twists along the way.

In Austin, Texas, earlier this month, two teams of adventurous young fans of the augmented reality game Ingress squared off for control of the city. Using Ingress, a massive mobile real world game in which users battle over physical space, the two teams competed for a rad prize: the right to unlock Doritos vaults hidden around Austin. As you'll see in the video above, it was hardly an easy proposition, with the Enlightened and the Resistance trading portals left and right. The Enlightened took an early lead, opening the first two Doritos vaults. But the Resistance made a late comeback, unlocking a vault of their own—and winning tickets to the killer Doritos Boldstage in the process.