Week 4 Prize Winners Drawn & Contacted

August 5, 2010 | Alan H. | Comments (24)

Check your email–winners for the week of July 26 – August 1 have been drawn and
contacted.

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24 thoughts on “Week 4 Prize Winners Drawn & Contacted

  1. congratz to everyone!!!
    i didn’t get to post this week cuz i’ve been hiking! 🙂
    hehhh…i didn’t win again…i’m REALLY hoping to get something before my birthday.

  2. I’ve always wondered about when they say they’ve ‘drawn’ the winners. Do they literally write all the names down on little pieces of paper and put them in a hat and pick them out?
    Still, congrats to whoever won!

  3. Fortunately (for my time, if nothing else) we are a bit more technically advanced than that. 🙂 We’ve got a method (code + a bit of manual work) that extracts all the potential winners into spreadsheets. We then run a random-number generator to pick the winners.
    If I had to write all the names down on a piece of paper every week my hand would have ceased to function by week two or so. 🙂

  4. It depends on a lot on how many people are in the different pools from week to week. The total membership pool obviously has the lowest chance (it’s well over a thousand people at this point). You increase your chance of winning if you comment every week / make a video review.
    As I said last year though, from our point of view the prizes are a bonus on top of the real enjoyment of talking about reading with a like-minded crowd. 🙂

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