AnimeShinbun November 2012 Contests
Yes, it's that time of the month again. Not long to go until Christmas now, is it? We'll be slightly mixing things up this month in the lead-up to the holiday season. ;) As for October's prize winners, those will go up in the next couple of days, along with ticket notifications just in case people aren't checking the blog.
LOYAL READER LOTTERY:
When you visit AnimeShinbun at least once during every 24 hour period during November, you'll gain an entry into our Loyal Reader Lottery! If you want to keep track you can follow along with your Daily Visit score*, so if you want to make sure you've logged in during a 24 hour period check this score on your profile!
* (The Daily Visit score displayed on your profile can occasionally be a little inaccurate. When we actually pick the lotto winners, we pull the data from a more accurate list. So for those of you visiting every day diligently but not triggering the Daily Visit score reward, don't stress out!)
Prize: 1 winner - a $50 Amazon Gift Card!
COMMENTATOR LOTTERY:
Pretty much self-explanatory this one. Each and every comment you make on AnimeShinbun (regardless of if that's in a news story or blog) during the month of November will net you an entry in this competition. And to make things interesting...we'll give you entries for every tip you contribute as well! So no excuses for not contributing those extra stories now when you hit your news submission limit. ;)
Prize: 1 winner - a $50 Amazon Gift Card!
CONTRIBUTOR CONTEST:
How many stories can you submit? Every news story you submit on AnimeShinbun during the month of November will get you 1 entry, and we'll be picking 2 winners at random from those entries.
Prize: 2 winners - a $50 Amazon Gift Card each!
CHRISTMAS CONTEST BRAINSTORMING: This replaces the usual Best User Blog contest for this month. What we're looking for are suggestions from all of you for the kinds of contests you'd like to see us run this year. Last year featured a 12 Days of Christmas trivia contest, where I asked questions ranging from the fairly simple to Google, to the outright obscure. As with the normal blog contest, there's no limit to how many entries you can have here, each separate suggestion you make will count as an entry. You can post suggestions as comments to this blog, or write your own blogs if you've got a lot you'd like to say (and we'll accept comments and further suggestions on those blogs as entries too). The winner will be chosen by myself and Lavalamp, and we'll be looking for contest ideas which will get as many people in the AnimeShinbun community involved as possible.
Prize: 1 winner - a $50 Amazon Gift Card each!
With all of our contests, you'll be disqualified if you pick up a restriction of any kind during the contest period. Comments with negative labels (Trolling, Off Topic, etc.), unresolved reported stories, etc, will not count to any competition.
In the interests of fairness, each entrant will only be eligible to win one prize per month. If your name comes up for multiple prizes, then we'll be awarding you the highest value one and redrawing the others.
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Terms and Conditions
1. Competition is open to all AnimeShinbun users, except for employees of HAVAmedia and immediate relatives. Contests are not limited to the US/North America.
2. Closing date is 11:59 PM (American Eastern Standard Time), November 30th 2012.
3. In the event of unforeseen circumstances AnimeShinbun/HAVAmedia reserves the right to substitute prizes for alternatives of equal or greater value.
4. Prizes are not transferrable.
5. The winners of the competition will be notified by AnimeShinbun ticket on or before December 7, 2012.
6. Failure to reply to ticket notification within seven (7) days will result in forfeiture of prize.
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October 2012 Contest Winners
Loyal Reader Lottery: dekeliko
Commentator Lottery: ExCest
Best User Blog: koga88
Contributor Contest: Instigator, tromwarrior
Look forward to the winers of OCtober
*jumps off bridge*
LOL WHAT!?!!
I wasn't around last december so I'd like to try the 12 Days of Christmas trivia. It sounds like fun.
It would be nice to see some mini-contests that you could judge tossed in. For example: have one day dedicated to judging users' anime-themed haikus.
Perhaps it could be used solely as some sort of bonus point that runs alongside the trivia, in order to keep users in the running for a longer period of time.
In general, it would be interesting to see a few skill-based 'days' beyond trivia added into the mix: haikus, art, etc. (limited to one submission per poster on that day).
That's an interesting idea there coolbeans. Including a trivia component and a "skill-based" component each day, to give people multiple ways to rack up points, might be a good way to keep people interested over the course of the entire competition. Particularly if we then just award prizes at the very end based on point totals. That would also remove the issue of multiple prizes.