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Our latest double-packed giveaway is now over, and time to announce the first winners has finally arrived. Special thanks to everyone who participated in either contest, in total 288 TS members took part in the giveaway.As usual we've drawn our official winners, gathered some interesting statistics, and got ready to announce upcoming prizes for our next and last giveaway before the year is over. Enter here for the results.
First, let's take a look at statistics for our picture gallery drawing, good for winning a BenQ LED Mini Projector and Aten USB KVM:
Picture gallery contest facts...
- 255 total screens were used to show the TechSpot homepage
- 213 were computer screens between monitors and laptops
- 33 smartphones were used and another 9 shots came from various devices like PSPs, Nintendo DS, TVs and projectors
- 47 members participated -- in other words, your chances weren't too bad
- 5.42 was the average number of screens used by contestants
- The max. number of screens were shown by Basher with 24 total, closely followed by Kibaruk (20), Drasho (19) and Puiu (16)
And the winner is... ken777!
Congratulations. Your entry with 6 PC screens was randomly selected as the winner of the BenQ LED Projector and Aten USB KVM. Please respond to our announcement email, so we can get the prize sent your way asap.
Our second giveaway consisted in commenting our daily news coverage. Remember this is a random drawing for the first of three winners. The first winner will get the chance to choose from one of these prizes: (1) ATI Radeon HD 5850 + Aten USB KVM, (2) Barebones OCZ DIY netbook, (3) OCZ Sabre programmable keyboard + Aten USB KVM.
Upon receiving a response from the first random winner, we will select a second who will choose from the remaining prizes, and so on.
News comments contest facts...
- 3700+ news comments were made during the contest period (from both participants and non-participants)
- 247 members signed up for the challenge
- 9.94 was the average number of posts made by contestants
- About 15% of participants posted over 20 comments
- Almost 40% of users posted > 5 comments -- meaning we had a lot more participation this time than in our last giveaway
We really hope you enjoyed participating in the comments, joining your fellow TS readers weighing in on the latest tech happenings.
And the winner is... ET3D!
Congratulations. With a total of 63 comments posted during the contest (of which only 40 counted towards the drawing, as ruled), you were randomly selected as our first winner in this part of the giveaway.
Prize selected: ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics card
Second winner announcement: Congratulations buttus!
Prize selected: OCZ Barebones DIY netbook
Third winner announcement: Congratulations Chazz!
Prize: OCZ Sabre programmable keyboard + Aten USB KVM
Please respond to our announcement email, so we can get the prize you want sent your way asap.
To all the members who participated... Thank you again for making TechSpot's news coverage more interesting than ever. And specially thank you for keeping the discussion down to earth. We are grateful of having you around forming part of the TechSpot community.
Our next giveaway...
We have one more giveaway planned before the 2009 is over. Here are the prizes we have lined up so far:User Comments: 84
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DarKSeeD said:
Congrats to lucky ones. Leave the 5850 for me! Thank you
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Congratulations ken777, I hope you enjoy you new LED (wow
) Projector and Aten USB KVMlucky smuck. We better not see you here with any hardware issues
And to member ET3D too, congratulations
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Congrats!
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treeski said:
Congrats to the both of you!
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yangly18 said:
grats to the lucky winners!
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Congratulations to both winners! I'm already looking forward to the next contest! Laptops are very nice prices.
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Well done you 2! I wonder who the other 2 winners will be. I'm looking forward to trying out for the next one. Any of those would be extremely nice to have! TechSpot you guys are great giving us all the chance to win some of the latest Tech!
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congratz to the winner
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Congratulations for you both! I hope I still make into the next couple =)
I guess my picture didn't make it =/ had 20 lab computers on screens, took me 25 mins to power them all up and start the browsers with techspot homepage on them =(
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Congratulations to both winners! I'm looking foreward to the next contest as well.
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Puiu said:
Congrats all! I'm pleased to hear that 2 of the most active users were the winners.
But not all of the winner were announced yet. I'm patiently awaiting the results. ^_^
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StaffCongratulations for you both! I hope I still make into the next couple =)
I guess my picture didn't make it =/ had 20 lab computers on screens, took me 25 mins to power them all up and start the browsers with techspot homepage on them =(
Kiburuk, that's my bad. You and your 20 screens WERE counted for the drawing. While putting together the announcement post somehow I skipped your name (added to the max. screens stat now). This kind of mistakes are bound to happen as you will understand it was just me and excel entering contestants manually with their number of screens and then picking a random winner.
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Congrats everyone!
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Gratz to da winners!
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Congrats, you guys were both pretty active members so you deserve it!
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Gratz to the winners and gratz to techspot for planing this giveaway! Keep up the good work!
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I think the participation was so high because there was a 5850 up for grabs, I know thats what I was gunning for and I'm sure a lot of other members had their eye on it as well.
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Drats!, there goes my quick rich scheme.
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Congrats.
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wow thats a drag xD congrats to the winners
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tengeta said:
Congrats to the winners, I got myself a new server this year and I'm happy with that.
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Congratulations to the winners of another great Techspot contest.
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Congrats
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Wow, nice prizes you guys had! Congratulations to the winners and TS for holding another awesome giveaway!
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Puiu said:Julio said:
Kiburuk, that's my bad. You and your 20 screens WERE counted for the drawing. While putting together the announcement post somehow I skipped your name (added to the max. screens stat now). This kind of mistakes are bound to happen as you will understand it was just me and excel entering contestants manually with their number of screens and then picking a random winner.
I'm just happy my name made it in the article, even if it was by mistake.
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