After the travellers made their dramatic decision about which of the joint Gap Year winners Roxy and Lewis won the prize money, HQ had a little treat in store. We gathered the famous five (Old Mumpsy Hubbard, aka Andre, was still quarantined in his hotel room) in the penthouse, and showed them all highlights packages from each of their journeys. We knew it was going to be emotional, but we didn’t expect quite so many tears - Lewis was crying the second we pressed ‘play’. You can see Amy and Dave’s showreels – plus their reactions – in today’s video, with the rest of the travellers covered on Saturday and Sunday.

Of course, it wasn’t just the highlights that made our travellers blub – we also provided the travellers with messages from home, recorded by their friends and families. This was a huge shock for the guys, and it was great to see how much it meant to them. HQ would like to thank the friends and families for all their efforts in giving the travellers one final Gap Year surprise.

HQ

Hey Gap Year fans,

As you can see, there’s no new video today – we thought we’d give you all a little break after the excitement of yesterday’s big finale. We’ll be back with some very special highlights packages on Friday, but in the meantime let’s take a little look into how the big prize was won.

The final points to be added to the Popularity Leaderboard were awarded as part of the Yes Man video challenge. HQ told the travellers that we’d be awarding one point for each of the ten mini challenges that they completed, plus five bonus points if they managed all ten. Additionally, there would be three bonus points for whoever got the highest number of people to participate in a group hug.

So here’s how the Leaderboard stood before the Yes Man results were added:

1) Roxy – 37 points
2) Lewis – 34 points
3) Amy – 28 points
4) Andre – 19 points
5=) Cara – 15 points
5=) Dave – 15 points

Roxy was three points clear of Lewis at the top, with a big gap between third-placed Amy and the rest. But how did the travellers fare in the Yes Man challenge?

Amy – 9 challenges
Andre – 9 challenges
Cara – 8 challenges
Dave – 5 challenges
Lewis – 10 challenges (+5 bonus for finishing all ten)
Roxy – 9 challenges (+3 bonus for biggest group hug)

Losing those eyebrows really paid off for Lewis, but Roxy’s spectacular group hug effort kept it as close as possible. The final results:

1=) ROXY – 49 points
1=) LEWIS – 49 points
2) Amy – 37 points
3) Andre – 28 points
4) Cara – 23 points
5) Dave – 20 points

Wow. The eyebrows (and subsequent bonus) pulled Lewis level! This meant that the title of the Most Popular Gap Year Traveller 2008 was TIED between ROXY and LEWIS!

Congratulations to both of you, and an extra congratulations to Lewis for being awarded the prize fund by his fellow travellers. If you’ve not already seen how the travellers made their decision, you can watch the video here: http://www.bebo.com/watch/8169882202

Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for the first of our extra special highlights packages! There’ll be tears …

HQ

Our final prize-winning opportunity - the Acuvue 'Eye Definition' competition - closed yesterday. We'd asked you to take the quiz ( http://www.bebo.com/QuizResult.jsp?R... ) and then take and comment on the poll ( http://www.bebo.com/PollView.jsp?Mem... ). We made a list of all the people who did those things and the person whose number came out of our random generator was...

Marty Gartland ( http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?Memb... )

Well done, Marty! We'll be contacting you to arrange delivery of your money-can't-buy, not-available-in-shops Gap Year goody bag.

Thanks to everyone who entered not just this competition but ALL of the competitions we've run over the last six months. We've given away loads of exciting things - Canon SLR cameras, Samsung video cameras, Pacsafe goodies, PSPs, and an appearance in a video with Cara! Phew!

Make sure you watch today's Gap Year video to see which of our travellers has won a prize of their own...

HQ