Mega comp: PS4, Xbox 360, Tablet PC, headphones

just out of curiosity, does anybody know what mechanism or process James uses for the selection process ? www.random.org ? does he just plug in 1-25 and then whatever number comes back is the winning position ?
 
KofDelight said:
Wow this thread has really disappointed me on the number of posts,I expected over 400 by now,guess people lost interest after the PS4 comp.
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The last time there were a huge number of noobs spamming the competition thread. It's a lot better this time. We'll see how it looks during the last week, though.
 
Hiro said:
just out of curiosity, does anybody know what mechanism or process James uses for the selection process ? www.random.org ? does he just plug in 1-25 and then whatever number comes back is the winning position ?
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I think that's pretty much what happens as I understand it.
 
It will get very busy again a couple of days before the draw. It does look though that many newbies aren't prepared to work a month on winning a PS4.
 
Thing is, for the newbies who didn't already contribute this week, it's going to be mighty difficult to catch up. And I hope James swings the banhammer for tools who just go mad in last week alone :-P
 
Hiro said:
Thing is, for the newbies who didn't already contribute this week, it's going to be mighty difficult to catch up. And I hope James swings the banhammer for tools who just go mad in last week alone :-P
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I'm sure it will be insane but I don't envy the people trying to catch up on people with 3 weeks head start
 
So hard for me to post during the week with work being so hectic lately.
I'll try but I doubt I can make or stay in the top 25.
 
Ya you really have to stay on top of things to keep yourself in the top 25... during the week especially... but its all good fun so im not complaining :p
 
Tom said:
Ya you really have to stay on top of things to keep yourself in the top 25... during the week especially... but its all good fun so im not complaining :p
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It's hard work man. But I must say, since deciding to put in the effort I've kinda come out of my shell on the forum. Usually I just lurk.
 
It looks like the guys at My Gaming had a goal to create more activity on the forum in 2014, and what better way to do it than giving away consoles to gamers! :-D
 
Tom said:
It looks like the guys at My Gaming had a goal to create more activity on the forum in 2014, and what better way to do it than giving away consoles to gamers! :-D
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They definitely know how to please their target market! :D
 
To be honest, MyGaming has always had some great comps but I think they've latched onto a good format with the whole top 25 thing. It certainly is working better than the one year they were giving away a PS3 and the comp required people to post a thread with helpful or entertaining info - then the community would vote for their favourite thread. Let's just say certain entrants went and got people to setup once-off accounts just to get votes as well as setting up some extras of their own.
 
DarthMol said:
To be honest, MyGaming has always had some great comps but I think they've latched onto a good format with the whole top 25 thing. It certainly is working better than the one year they were giving away a PS3 and the comp required people to post a thread with helpful or entertaining info - then the community would vote for their favourite thread. Let's just say certain entrants went and got people to setup once-off accounts just to get votes as well as setting up some extras of their own.
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Mybroadband just did that. It was a complete shambles.
 
Gouko_Tenrou said:
In all honesty, I wouldn't partake in a comp for an entire year if the prize wasn't worth all that time.

But that's just me, I'm sure that there are guys who wouldn't mind.
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It wasnt literally for a year, that would be madness, just "the one year" it happened. But those kinds of contests end up being popularity contests.

MyBB wanted people to post in their new "Questions and answers" sub forum, and the winner from votes almost ended up being "Where to find craft beer in Cape Town". (I'm all for beer, but that for the winner, nah man.
They ended up canning the whole vote system. Winner was "Linux 101" thread, worthy imo.
 
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