"Suntukan sa Ace Hardware" puzzles netizens, who's going?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">MANILA, Philippines – For the past couple of days, the Philippine Facebook community scrambled and bewildered by a sudden event entitled: “Suntukan sa Ace Hardware” which is scheduled to happen on April 15, 2016 at Ace Hardware SM Lucena City created and organized by a certain “Mr. Balagbag: Tuberong kulay green” (His displayed name on Facebook is NSFW).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLq2nAR8KKTqVtTtsMfqRf_7XrBLO1lEDSEtoyUXfEANQuDi_WALvYQzyjYwlDstL_X-mf9LNWwqpRQ3S2BusoZc-dTid_FOhXQXrxC70aM-GFsGyppAb003Sqq0o_sDUnTpsP_4vxKVOC/s1600/suntukan-ace-hardware.JPG" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt=""Suntukan sa Ace Hardware" Facebook" border="0" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLq2nAR8KKTqVtTtsMfqRf_7XrBLO1lEDSEtoyUXfEANQuDi_WALvYQzyjYwlDstL_X-mf9LNWwqpRQ3S2BusoZc-dTid_FOhXQXrxC70aM-GFsGyppAb003Sqq0o_sDUnTpsP_4vxKVOC/s640/suntukan-ace-hardware.JPG" title=""Suntukan sa Ace Hardware" Facebook" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thousands of netizens are really looking forward to the fight of the year.</td></tr></tbody></table>Almost all Filipino yuppies saw the event and got curious. Various assumptions arose. Some guessed that it is one of the gimmicks of the well-known hardware to gain social media engagement. But many say that it is a total non-sense.<br /><br />We approached “Tokis,” a youth influencer from down South of the Metro who’s a caretaker in a computer shop and tuned in Facebook for almost 24 hours a day for a living to ask what he knows about the hyped event. <i>“Wala yun kuya, trip trip lang yun”</i>, said Tokis combined with a boisterous laugh.<br /><br />We checked the event page and to our surprise, the event garnered over 35,000 confirmed attendees! Must be a real blockbuster event!<br /><br />Mr. Balagbag, which is obviously a fictitious name, also manages a fan page full of humorous and viral posts. Interestingly, one of Balagbag’s most engaging page-participants is a parody account of actor Baron Geisler who eventually will be the acting referee of the boxing match that got the netizens pumped-up and excited.<br /><br />As we were browsing the event page and back-read the comments to look for relevant details such as: the combatants involved and the reason for the brawl, we were almost convinced by what Tokis had said that the event is a total non-sense and a waste of time. But there are tons of funny posts that even few personalities joined the “bandwagon” like Moonstar88 Band:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLazlUtsnsSVFkJmTXlMaRzGK1hPUfmPPJGh81yAeeSYUd5KO2bTmQURceJ_4SvxEviVuj7tBBum4G6ZTX2sFJ8YU6A85QDWO9Vp9OOlR32WpoGi7qZSdR4BGiTPhA9_czbYvV3_R1pMO/s1600/moonstar88-suntukan-sa-ace-hardware.png" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Moonstar88 Band Suntukan sa Ace hardware" border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLazlUtsnsSVFkJmTXlMaRzGK1hPUfmPPJGh81yAeeSYUd5KO2bTmQURceJ_4SvxEviVuj7tBBum4G6ZTX2sFJ8YU6A85QDWO9Vp9OOlR32WpoGi7qZSdR4BGiTPhA9_czbYvV3_R1pMO/s640/moonstar88-suntukan-sa-ace-hardware.png" title="Moonstar88 Band Suntukan sa Ace hardware" width="560" /></a></div><br />The popular OPM band didn’t directly mentioned the event but evidently pertaining to Mr.Balagbag’s event that delighted its followers on Twitter.<br /><br />Finally, someone had the guts to ask Ace Hardware on Facebook. And to clear everything out, the widely-known hardware released their statement via a post denying the event for the benefit of confused and wondered netizens.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTHQIRGSyFUuoTAS1_0TUesMt_UdYnvL9opz0R2CRae2q2GNXPa-7PjFPmR41VoYra00qb3FyLEd_tnMmjMTb9XE966DV6skgMJesdE4DkHII0LNoFyp_Y1Qm0vZwinkeRRf2UFd5nz3cU/s1600/ace-hardware-statement-suntukan.png" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ace Hardware on Facebook statement" border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTHQIRGSyFUuoTAS1_0TUesMt_UdYnvL9opz0R2CRae2q2GNXPa-7PjFPmR41VoYra00qb3FyLEd_tnMmjMTb9XE966DV6skgMJesdE4DkHII0LNoFyp_Y1Qm0vZwinkeRRf2UFd5nz3cU/s640/ace-hardware-statement-suntukan.png" title="Ace Hardware on Facebook statement" width="560" /></a></div><br />Aside from the clarification and as of press time, Ace Hardware has no intentions to investigate, track-down and file some legal actions to the real persons behind the false event.<br /><br />Our hunch is, the people behind this fake event might be youngsters who just ended the school year for summer vacation.<br /><br />To sum this up, and to reiterate Ace Hardware’s words, there’s no such event as “Suntukan sa Ace Hardware”. It is purely fictional.<br /><br />Case closed. - <b>Joey Boy Capos, The Summit Express</b></div>

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