5th Sub-Contest results 10/21/02

1st Place - RAYWIND - 2 off the correct total
2nd Place - CHITBALLER - 3 off
2nd Place - SLEEPY - 3 off
3rd Place - ERNIEIII - 16 off

snIIper realizes there is another tie. snIIper smacks himself in the head. Alright Chitballer and Sleepy - just go ahead and e-mail me with......how many points I recieved out of 22 on the latest Physics quiz. (HINT - I didn't do well...at all)

DOOR PRIZE to 3rd place and 4th place - 50 IP and 2 random foils!

So Raywind and ErnieIII - send me your addresses and I'll be figuring out who wins the second sub sub contest between Chitballer and Sleepy.


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Like free stuff? Need more Insiider Points? This is the place to get them.

Each week we will debut some sort of contest that all registered members can enter. We will then choose a winner, or winners, dependign on the contest. That lucky person will then get the stated prize for the contest.

The easier the contest, the smaller the prize. The harder contest the larger the prize.

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PREVIOUS CONTESTS:

5th Sub-Contest, 10/07/02 - ENDED

The guesses have been made, and you know, card throwing from ten feet away into a horribly small little baseball cap has to be on the hardest things I have ever done.

I got TWENTY (20) cards in!

Hey, it's really not that bad, I'm sure proud with myself. So the winners are.....wait a sec, FOUR people? Darnit, looks like we got some tiebrakers to settle. The people that tied are:

ErnieIII - 22
Raywind - 22
chitballer@hotmail.com - 18
yinyang32@hotmail.com - 18

So all of you contestees that tied, it's time to e-mail me once again, except every single one of you have a special question to answer for yourself, and the two closest to their question's answer win!

ErnieIII - After throwing all the cards, how many landed upside down on the floor?
Raywind - After throwing all the cards, how many were NOT found?
chitballer - In the hat, how many of the 20 cards were UNCOMMON?
yingyang32 - In the hat, how many of the 20 cards were COMMON?

Get me your answers by next Monday and we'll announce the winners then!

The Pictures:

What card to use...	Before the mayhem
First card in! YES!	50 cards thrown
Still 50 cards	20 cards in the hat

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5th Contest, 9/30/02

Alright so the contests entrees have been taken, but YOU MAY STILL SEND THEM IN! I may as well be choosing more and more as we go on....but onto the first submission I took in:

Magi-Nation Card Throwing!

Nipsatheel:
Out of one hundred cards how many can Jim wong get into a hat from five feet away?

Alrighty! But since I love card throwing that much (it's fun, you can hit people from far away, and it looks cool), it won't just be FIVE feet..nono, it's going to be ten feet away from a small baseball cap!

It's simple for me, set it up, take a couple of pictures, and start chucking away. What YOU have to do, is e-mail me and give me a number between 1-100 (any e-mailers that give me a number outside of 200 will get a nasty virus sent to em ;). Closest to the number that I manage to get in recieve.... :

1st place:
100 Insiider Points
1x Tony at a Con
1x Monma Dan (smiling version)
1x Promo Rayje's Belt
1x Foil Warrior's Boots OR 1x Foil Thunderquake

2nd place:
50 Insiider points
1x Tony at a Con
1x Monma Dan
1x Foil Warrior's BOots OR 1x Foil Thunderquake

No third place since the guessing range will be so small, and there will most likely be a lot of tiebrakers.

Guess away and good luck!


4th Contest, 9/22/02: CONTEST FINISHED

For this week, I have an interesting proposition to you all. I've got a LOT of stuff to give away, and that includes really nifty stuff like:

Japanese Magi-Nation Boosters!
Japanese Promos!
Tony at a Con, Furlosk, Warrior's Boots, Rayje's Belts

and MORE!

So what I need are contest ideas! The premise of the contest is pretty simple, just e-mail me and tell me your great contest ideas. Of course you can't submit a contest where you know the answer, so it has to be something original, inventive - and something you can't cheat to win.

The top FIVE contest ideas entrees will be awarded with 50 IP a piece, and a random promo to each! Afterwards, I'll immediately start the competitions - and remember, nothing too complicated!

The contest for contests starts now! Enter as many ideas as you want! And as always, don't forget to e-mail me with them!



3rd Contest, 8/20/02 - CONTEST FINISHED

Well Jim Wong is now back from China, and there's one special thing he couldn't do while he was in China - check Insiider e-mail.

So little Jimmy comes back afer 2 months, and pops open Outlook Express....the e-mail fetching begins. So the question is - how many e-mails did Jim Wong recieve in his absence from America?

Did people heed the "Do Not E-mail Me" Warning? Or did they forget and went ahead instead?

I want two numbers as answers. The first number will be the total amount of e-mails I recieved (in both sniiper@insiider.com and spii@insiider.com), and I ALSO want the number of e-mails that contained VIRUSES out of all of the e-mails I got (in both accounts).

Closest person to the total of e-mails will recieve:

50 IP
2x random foils

Closest person to the total of e-mails with viruses will recieve:

50 IP
2x random foils

There are TWO winners to this competition! But first, how many e-mails DID I get with viruses and non-virus? Well....I'd be happy to have it be more, but I had 86 e-mails, and a whopping 67 of them were viruses! Goes to show how much the internet loves me. The winners are:

So all the winners please contact me again with your addresses and I'll ship out your stuff asap.

E-mail snIIper@insiider.com with your contact info!!

2nd Contest Sub-Contest, 6/15/02 - CONTEST FINISHED

The winners have been figured out (it was incredibly close) and to answer your questions, the total amount of the counters was exactly 2189! So the winners are....*drumroll*

1st place - Mikey18USC@yahoo.com (MIKEY) - guessed 2219 being 30 away
2nd place- Toran13@hotmail.com (TORAN DAVALON) - guessed 2381 being 192 away
3rd place - OmegaWolfg@yahoo.com (SILVERWOLF) - guessed 1684 being 505 away

And amazingly enough, the spectator guess was even more close then the rest of them!:

Spectator Prize - Raichi232@yahoo.com (RogueHyren) - 2173 being 16 away!!
And in close close second was Raspbeary_21@yahoo.com - 2208 only being 19 away!

Great job everyone, all the winners please contact me with shipping info and I'll get your prizes out as soon as possible!

PRIZES:
1st prize: UNCUT SHEET OF MAGI-NATION, 500 IP, 3x Foil Warrior's Boots, 3x Foil Thunderquake + 3 random foils
2nd prize: 250 IP, 2x Foil Warrior's Boots, 2x Foil Thunderquake + 2 random foils
3rd prize: 100 IP, 1x Foil Warrior's Boots, 1x Foil Thunderquake + 1 random foil
Spectator Prize: 100 IP, 4 random foils

2nd Contest Sub-Contest, 6/08/02: CONTEST FINISHED

The contest has had an absolutely amazing amount of entries, and surprisingly enough, the top 3 people have all guessed within the same amount of the answer. That means they've ALL tied for 1st place! So what was the answer? 942 counters were hidden inside that magical Ultra Pro box....

The current standings are as follows:

1st place with 950 guessed - Toran13@hotmail.com (TORAN DAVALON)
1st place with 950 guessed - omegawolfg@yahoo.com (SILVERWOLF)
1st place with 934 guessed - Mikey18USC@aol.com (MIKEY)

All of them are 8 away from the correct answer! Now I unfortunately can't reward every single one of them the first place prize, so the subcontest must begin!

Fairly simple in idea, the 3 winners must submit to me their guess of what the total amount of the counters in the box is. The answer is ranged from 1500 - 2500, so start guessing you three!

Everyone else who's spectating can take a guess at the answer as well if they wish, and the top winner out of the non-top 3 placers will recieve a special prize as well!

So start guessing and finalists submit your answers to me! Non-finalists submit your answer to me here!

PRIZES:
1st prize: UNCUT SHEET OF MAGI-NATION, 500 IP, 3x Foil Warrior's Boots, 3x Foil Thunderquake + 3 random foils
2nd prize: 250 IP, 2x Foil Warrior's Boots, 2x Foil Thunderquake + 2 random foils
3rd prize: 100 IP, 1x Foil Warrior's Boots, 1x Foil Thunderquake + 1 random foil
Spectator Prize: 100 IP, 4 random foils


2nd Contest, 5/18/02 - CONTEST ENDED, SUB CONTEST NOW TO BEGIN

Count the counters! Pictured below are all 6 sides of an Ultra-Pro 100 card plastic box. Inside are the MND counters that come with every starter deck in 1, 2, and 5 denominations. Your job is to guess how many there are and e-mail me with the answer! (Note: You don't guess the total "counter points" there are).

If there were 3 counters in there, two of them are 5s, and one is a 1. If this were the contest, the answer would be 3 counters, and not 11. Get the point?

I'll let the contest run for a few weeks at most, and once I recieve enough entries, I'll announce any tiebreakers necessary and then winners!

1st Contest, 4/21/02: CONTEST FINISHED

I, snIIper, am thinking of a card. Not just any normal card however, I'm thinking of a card with a certain typo on it. For 150 IP, the first person to tell me the exact card I'm thinking of wins! However, you must include in the message what the error on the card actually is...otherwise you don't win at all!

Here's an example, the 1st ed. Vortex of Knowledge is actually spelled Vortex of Knowedge....but that's not the answer. All you have to do is e-mail sniiper@insiider.com with the subject topic as: The Card is ____!

Don't forget to tell me what the typo is!

Who would've guessed that someone who didn't know about the contest won! Whyrl submitted the correct answer of the mispelling of Holmberg's name on the card Crushing Winds. Check it out!

Some other nifty cards with typos - Woot (Illus. by listed twice), Yog's Maul (Illus. by the mysterious Name), and of course, we can't forget the card that doesn't have a typo but was guessed the most - Moob!