There are a couple of folks on the site who have realized that by focusing their efforts on a particular category for a day, they can walk home with some serious loot.
Congratulations to:
1) Irishgit
2) Twansalem
3) CinnLeigh
A close honorable mention goes to edt4.
In this particular contest, it took 42 qualifying book reviews to walk home with a $100 Amazon gift certificate. For some of you folks with 2K, 4K, 10K reviews... it would have been child's play to finish in the money.
Don't get me wrong - We are happy to keep shipping gift certificates and loot to Twansalem and Irishgit - both are very strong writers, and write consistently helpful, amusing, and thoughtful posts. But it surprises me that more of you don't lay off the silly stuff and / or the politics for a day, and put your reviews to work.
Prize delivery will go out today, via email.
Congratulations to those who participated.
Showing posts with label contests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contests. Show all posts
5/14/09
Friday Book Review Contest - IT'S ON
Do you like to read books? Do you read the occasional comic book? Did someone read to you as a small child?
Then you may be well positioned for our Friday Bookworm Smackdown.
You know the drill:
- Any review of a book or author qualifies as long as it's three sentences or more
- Contest runs from Midnight tonight, Thursday, to 11:59PM tomorrow, Friday
- Winners will be determined by number of qualifying reviews within the contest period
send an email to contest@rateitall.com with your RateItAll nickname to participate
Our book section is massively, grotesquely inflated - I bet you will be able to find anything that you might have read.
Prizes:
First: $100 Amazon Gift Certificate
Second: $50 Amazon Gift Certificate
Third: $25 Amazon Gift Certificate
Official contest rules
Then you may be well positioned for our Friday Bookworm Smackdown.
You know the drill:
- Any review of a book or author qualifies as long as it's three sentences or more
- Contest runs from Midnight tonight, Thursday, to 11:59PM tomorrow, Friday
- Winners will be determined by number of qualifying reviews within the contest period
send an email to contest@rateitall.com with your RateItAll nickname to participate
Our book section is massively, grotesquely inflated - I bet you will be able to find anything that you might have read.
Prizes:
First: $100 Amazon Gift Certificate
Second: $50 Amazon Gift Certificate
Third: $25 Amazon Gift Certificate
Official contest rules
- Contest starts at 12:00AM PT on Friday, May 15th and runs through 11:59PM PT on Friday, May 15th.
- Participants must have valid RateItAll member accounts.
- Contest participants must register for the contest by sending an email to contest@rateitall.com with their valid and active RateItAll nickname in order to be considered for the prizes.
- Reviews must be of books or authors to be considered.
- Each quality book review will count as one entry in the contest. Reviews must be at least three sentences.
- Recycled or reposted reviews will not be considered for the contest, and use of such reviews will be grounds for disqualification.
- Prizes are non-transferrable and are subject to change and availability.
- RateItAll reserves the right to discontinue the contest at any time, for any reason. RateItAll reserves the right to disqualify participants if we determine that contest rules have been broken.
- Questions about the contest? Email contest@rateitall.com
- Winners will be notified on or by Monday, May 18th, 2009.
- All decisions made by contest administrators are final.
5/7/09
Book Review Contest - Postponed One Week
For the last seven days, our friend and compatriot Automatt has wired himself to an energy drink IV and has been furiously adding books to RIA's database in preparation for the Great Book Review Contest.
He is now adding books, with full descriptions, at the rate of one every seven seconds. He is typing at approximately 4,321,654 words per minute, and hasn't slept since last Thursday.
Astromike, in assessing whether or not he would like to have a beer with Automatt, says it best:
Sadly, even at this reckless pace, it looks like we're just not going to be ready for tomorrow.
I've asked Automatt to pick it up all a bit - we should be good to go for next Friday.
In the meantime, for you book readers out there, please start compiling a mental list of books to review. For those who don't read, you still have a week to get started.
More details to follow.
He is now adding books, with full descriptions, at the rate of one every seven seconds. He is typing at approximately 4,321,654 words per minute, and hasn't slept since last Thursday.
Astromike, in assessing whether or not he would like to have a beer with Automatt, says it best:
As long as he doesnt bring his lap top to the bar and post list items on RIA all night it could be fun lol. Im sure he's an all right dude. (lol)
Sadly, even at this reckless pace, it looks like we're just not going to be ready for tomorrow.
I've asked Automatt to pick it up all a bit - we should be good to go for next Friday.
In the meantime, for you book readers out there, please start compiling a mental list of books to review. For those who don't read, you still have a week to get started.
More details to follow.
5/4/09
Book Review Contest on Friday
We've done movies.
We've done music.
We've done local businesses.
This Friday will be books... more details to follow.
We've done music.
We've done local businesses.
This Friday will be books... more details to follow.
4/21/09
Congratulations to our Music Review Contest Winners
Our top finishers in the music contest were:
1) Oscargamblesfro
2) IrishGit
3) FranksWildYears
Prizes will go out by the end of the week.
Now that Twansalem has a Netflix account, he can't be bothered to participate in our contests.
As has been the case with our previous two reviews contests, I found to the quality of the reviews to be very, very high.
Here is a taste:
1) Oscargamblesfro
2) IrishGit
3) FranksWildYears
Prizes will go out by the end of the week.
Now that Twansalem has a Netflix account, he can't be bothered to participate in our contests.
As has been the case with our previous two reviews contests, I found to the quality of the reviews to be very, very high.
Here is a taste:
4/17/09
Music Contest - It's ON
There are some amazing music reviews coming in as we speak, and still plenty of time left to do some damage.
Who's in?
Email: contest@rateitall.com
Who's in?
Email: contest@rateitall.com
4/16/09
Music Review Contest Smackdown - Friday, April 17
It's that time of the week again.
We've done local businesses. We've done movies.
And now we're doing music.
The contest will run from 12:00AM PST tonight, to 11:59PM PST tomorrow night.
Here's how to participate:
1) send an email to contest@rateitall.com with your RateItAll nickname
2) start rating Music (musicians and / or albums) tonight at midnight. I recommend our Best Buy channel as it has just about everything.
Winner will be determined by the total number of qualifying reviews in the 24 hour period.
Qualifying Reviews Are:
- at least three sentences long
- of a real band or musician, or a real album
Prizes:
1) $75 Amazon or iTunes gift certificate
2) $25 Amazon or iTunes gift certificate
3) $10 Amazon or iTunes gift certificate
Finishers in the Top Ten will get a RateItAll Demon Star Schwag Package (T-Shirt, stickers, pins).
Official contest rules
We've done local businesses. We've done movies.
And now we're doing music.
The contest will run from 12:00AM PST tonight, to 11:59PM PST tomorrow night.
Here's how to participate:
1) send an email to contest@rateitall.com with your RateItAll nickname
2) start rating Music (musicians and / or albums) tonight at midnight. I recommend our Best Buy channel as it has just about everything.
Winner will be determined by the total number of qualifying reviews in the 24 hour period.
Qualifying Reviews Are:
- at least three sentences long
- of a real band or musician, or a real album
Prizes:
1) $75 Amazon or iTunes gift certificate
2) $25 Amazon or iTunes gift certificate
3) $10 Amazon or iTunes gift certificate
Finishers in the Top Ten will get a RateItAll Demon Star Schwag Package (T-Shirt, stickers, pins).
Official contest rules
- Contest starts at 12:00AM PT on Friday, April 17th and runs through 11:59PM PT on Friday, April 17th.
- Participants must have valid RateItAll member accounts.
- Contest participants must register for the contest by sending an email to contest@rateitall.com with their valid and active RateItAll nickname in order to be considered for the prizes.
- Reviews must be of albums or musicians to be considered.
- Each quality movie review will count as one entry in the contest. Reviews must be at least three sentences.
- Recycled or reposted reviews will not be considered for the contest, and use of such reviews will be grounds for disqualification.
- Prizes are non-transferrable and are subject to change and availability.
- RateItAll reserves the right to discontinue the contest at any time, for any reason. RateItAll reserves the right to disqualify participants if we determine that contest rules have been broken.
- Questions about the contest? Email contest@rateitall.com
- Winners will be notified on or by Monday, April 20th, 2009.
- All decisions made by contest administrators are final.
4/13/09
Movie Smackdown Wrap-Up
The KPMG auditors have finally left the Global RIA HQ after a grueling 48 hours of sifting through and analyzing movie reviews for authenticity, quality, and depth.
The results are now in, the volunteers have gone home, the press have moved on to the next big story, and things are returning to a degree of normalcy here.
I am pleased to announce that Twansalem has won his first RIA review contest, authoring over 100 quality movie reviews in just 24 hours. Here's a sample - a review of the the teen remake of Cruel Intentions:
Irishgit staged a late rally but ran out of hours. For a taste of IG's work, check out the following:
For a few hours in the afternoon, a time rich law student named SperryC made a big push as well. If he had been able to keep up this level of production for a few more hours, he may have finished in the money. Here's a taste of his reviews:
We had a lot of fun at RIA HQ watching the movie reviews roll in, and a number of us jotted down movies that we'd like to see (as well as some that sound just awful).
We're going to try and run a Music Review contest on Friday. Hopefully some of you wall flowers will get out there and dance this time.
Thanks to all that participated, and prizes and t-shirts will go out this week.
The results are now in, the volunteers have gone home, the press have moved on to the next big story, and things are returning to a degree of normalcy here.
I am pleased to announce that Twansalem has won his first RIA review contest, authoring over 100 quality movie reviews in just 24 hours. Here's a sample - a review of the the teen remake of Cruel Intentions:
Irishgit staged a late rally but ran out of hours. For a taste of IG's work, check out the following:
For a few hours in the afternoon, a time rich law student named SperryC made a big push as well. If he had been able to keep up this level of production for a few more hours, he may have finished in the money. Here's a taste of his reviews:
We had a lot of fun at RIA HQ watching the movie reviews roll in, and a number of us jotted down movies that we'd like to see (as well as some that sound just awful).
We're going to try and run a Music Review contest on Friday. Hopefully some of you wall flowers will get out there and dance this time.
Thanks to all that participated, and prizes and t-shirts will go out this week.
3/24/09
Wrapping Up the Local Biz Review Contest
Congratulations to Irishgit for winning both the quantity and quality scores in our recent Local Business Review contest.
He wrote the most qualifying reviews by a long shot, with over 5000 points, and narrowly beat out Twansalem for the single most helpful review. His haul? A Flip Video Camcorder and a $50 gift certificate to the restaurant of his choice.
Newcomer GinaKristie also deserves mention for her reviews of Wichita local businesses, and we had a number of folks win t-shirts.
I was a bit surprised that more folks didn't make a play for the gift certificate - all it took was a single review of a local business to qualify.
But I guess in these booming economic times, a $50 gift certificate is no big deal :)
We will be sending out prizes today or tomorrow, and Irishgit, we'll be waiting for that Flip Camcorder review.
He wrote the most qualifying reviews by a long shot, with over 5000 points, and narrowly beat out Twansalem for the single most helpful review. His haul? A Flip Video Camcorder and a $50 gift certificate to the restaurant of his choice.
Newcomer GinaKristie also deserves mention for her reviews of Wichita local businesses, and we had a number of folks win t-shirts.
I was a bit surprised that more folks didn't make a play for the gift certificate - all it took was a single review of a local business to qualify.
But I guess in these booming economic times, a $50 gift certificate is no big deal :)
We will be sending out prizes today or tomorrow, and Irishgit, we'll be waiting for that Flip Camcorder review.
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