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Geek Culture / An Orange Letter Day - The Winners!

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 13th Oct 2007 21:39
Thanks to everyone who participated, I am sorry I didnt have more items to give away, but you're all "winners" in my book

Anyway, here's how the random drawing was performed. I took each of your names, wrote it on a small piece of paper. I put each paper inside a small ball of aluminum foil. As I did I marked the outside with a Red or a Blue marking, or Both, based on what prize/s you were trying for. The ones marked with Both would participate in both drawings. Two drawings were performed: All Reds + All Boths, then separately, All Blues + All Boths. Red was HL2, Blue was EP1.

My cats love this aluminum ball toy. There are a few known areas of my house that will inevitably collect these "toys" where the cats cannot retrieve them. I checked and removed any pre-exisiting aluminum ball toys from three predetermined areas, under the couch, under the love-seat, and from under the wall-unit. I then plopped the name-bearing toys on the floor and riled the cats up to play with them. They began scattering toys everywhere. I watched them silently from an impartial area of my living room to make sure there was no cheating or other shenanigans or funny-business. As a toy became lost in one of these areas I removed it, keeping it in order of disappearance from the playing field. I allowed enough time for three toys to be "lost" out of play, and kept them all in order, so we would not only have first place winner, but 2 runners-up in case something goes wrong with the original winner (and so I never have to do this again ) I did this twice, the cats are now asleep.

The Winner Of Half-Life 2:
BatVink

The Winner Of Half-Life 2: Episode 1:
Zaibatsu

Congrats!

In the event of either prize being forfeit for whatever reason, the following are the runners-up for each drawing:
HL2: DB Newbie (2nd), Veron (3rd)
HL2:EP1: CJD(2nd), Veron (3rd)

Please dont post any email addresses or steam id's here - I will be in contact via email with the winners.

Congrats again

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 13th Oct 2007 21:52
The winners have been emailed.

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Posted: 13th Oct 2007 21:54
Congratulations BatVink and Zaibatsu, have fun HL'ing!


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Posted: 13th Oct 2007 21:57 Edited at: 13th Oct 2007 21:58
Veron sorry mate. When I saw 3rd place twice I was like "cringe"
Sorry

but look on the bright side, something untoward may happen to the people ahead of you

j/k



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Veron
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Posted: 13th Oct 2007 22:39
LOL, nah thanks mate, it's all in the spirit of things.


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Posted: 13th Oct 2007 23:07
Thanks CR, it's appreciated.

Although I feel rather uneasy that I may have been retrieved from under the "love-seat" (whatever that is ).


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Posted: 13th Oct 2007 23:09
haha, its a bigger-than-a-chair, smaller-than-a-couch piece of furniture.

iirc you were dragged out from under a wall-unit

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Posted: 13th Oct 2007 23:56
I never thought I'd actually win this type of thing...

cool. Thanks CattleRustler

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Posted: 14th Oct 2007 00:23
I won 1 of 5 runners up (or something like that) in an international Lego sweepstakes once. I got about 10 small to large lego sets. Was pretty awesome. At the time I was obsessed with 'em hehe.

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Posted: 14th Oct 2007 00:30
Well done guys.

If someone else has a spare copy of episode 1 floating about, i think now would be a good time to remind them i did come second

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luke810
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Posted: 14th Oct 2007 06:42
O well, I'll probably be buying episode 1 soon anyway. Congratulations Zaibatsu and BatVink.
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@BatVink: I read on the newsletter you traveled to Canary islands, which island? looking to the little picture of the newsletter it looks like Fuerteventura, isnĀ“t it?

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Yes, well spotted, Callerejo in the North. The Sand Dunes I filmed were the east coast, along Flag Beach. Since we came back, my kids have been kite-flying most weekends!
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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Posted: 14th Oct 2007 14:37
umm CattleRustler u spelt my name wrong. Its not spelt BatVink, its spelt Mr Makealotofsmoke



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CattleRustler
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Posted: 14th Oct 2007 16:31
haha

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David R
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Posted: 14th Oct 2007 21:49
I only just noticed the HL2 tie-in with the thread title, nice one


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