PRIZE GIVEAWAY CONTEST WINNERS
Voter Prize Giveaway winners will be announced on February 15th, 2021 along with the randomly generated list of winners denoting the order in which they each can select one of the prizes among those that have been generously donated by members of the community & sponsors of the 'Deck of the Year' Awards. You can view all current prize donations and learn more about the prize giveaway contest
here in the post above.
RANDOMIZED LIST OF WINNERS & the prize they have claimed
If any of the above winners of the DOTY Voter Prize Giveaway would like to opt out & forfeit their chance to select a prize from the giveaway, please publically announce so as soon as possible. In the event of such a decision, the participant will be removed from the list, and all other winners will be moved up one space. The last remaining slot on the list will be filled by the participant that had been randomly drawn next in the initial drawing. There will be no "re-dos" and any gifting of the prize you select to any other member of the community will need to be arranged outside of this event. If there are any other questions, comments or concerns, please let us know either privately, or post them in the
Discussion thread. Thank you.
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Participation in voting for the DOTY Awards automatically enters members into the Voter Prize Giveaway for a chance to win one of the various prize bundles donated by our very generous sponsors of the 'Deck of the Year' Awards.
PRIZE GIVEAWAY DETAILS
WHEN: DOTY prize
giveaway winners will also be announced on February 15th, 2020 (approximately one week after DOTY Award winners have been announced to ensure that the voter prize giveaway aspect of our event does not overshadow the honor and recognition of the DOTY Award winners)[/list]
WHERE: DOTY Prize Giveaway winners will be announced on the official DOTY Awards thread here[/list]
HOW: To prevent any questions or confusion there may be regarding exactly how the prize giveaway drawing will be done, I'll explain precisely how I'll been keeping track of participants and how the winners will be chosen to provide as much transparency as possible to eliminate any doubt of bias. As all of you know, we have a new voting system built for this event and that is keeping track of votes much more efficiently and effectively; only Alex and myself have access to the results of the DOTY Awards and all of whom have participated and how they voted but, since those votes can be changed by particpants at any time, we won't have the final results until voting closes on January 31st and we officially finalize tabulation. We will deliberately keep these results undisclosed until annoucement and presentation of the DOTY Awards to winners on Febuary 8th as to ensure this entire process will not be swayed or influenced in any way.
1.) AUTOMATIC GIVEAWAY ENTRY & CONFIRMATION
- Unless a voter participant explicitly states to opt out of the prize giveaway, everyone that voted for the DOTYs automatically gets exactly ONLY ONE entry into the prize giveaway and has the same chance as everyone else that participated.
- Everyone that submits votes for the DOTY awards will receive an *official* confirmation email back in response at the end of the event to assure that your votes have been accounted for. If you, for whatever reason did in fact submit votes but did not receive a confirmation email back, please reach out and we'll make sure that your votes have in fact been tabulated and you have been entered into the Voter Prize Giveaway.
- In the confirmation email, it will also state that you have been automatically entered into the Voter Prize Giveaway UNLESS you explicitly write back that you choose to opt out of being entered. For those that would like to opt out, please also let us know in the Feedback Section (if you hadn't done so when you submitted your votes already) so we can withdraw your entry. We are trying to avoid announcing the giveaway prize winners as selected through the random drawing and then only after having those winners announced, those wishing to opt out stating they don't want to participate as then we'd have to re-draw to select new winners and it would make it all the more complicated considering that prizes are given away based on the order in which they are selected by winners. So, pleasepleaseplease let us know if you would like to opt out - otherwise, as stated, you are automatically entered and there's the chance your name will be drawn whether you like it or not.
- The administrators of the DOTY Awards event reserve all rights to revoke anyone's right to participation in voting should there be any suspicion of dishonest activities. (this also includes their entry into the Voter Prize Giveaway)
2.) RANDOM GIVEAWAY DRAWING (via random number generator)
- When voting officially closes, the total number voters to assign a random number to each participant (only with the exception of excluding those participants that have expressly opted out of the Voter Prize Giveaway). Since Alex and myself will only know the voters and the random numbers assigned to them but I, myself, am also entered into the giveaway as well as a participant, I will NOT be conducting the drawing as it'd be a clear conflict of interest; instead, I will be passing on ONLY the total number to another event administrator unaffilated with the results (even though they may also be entered into the drawing for their own participation, they will not know their own assigned random number) who will then enter the total into a random number generator that will be used to create a list.
- Giveaway prizes from our sponsors will be chosen by assigned winners in the order by which final placement of recipients were listed as randomly generated by a number randomizer used by the Administrators.
- The first number generated by the random number generator, will be the first on the list and each number drawn thereafter will continue to be added to the list to denote the order in which prizes will be selected. So for example, if your randomly assigned number is the 3rd to be drawn, your name will be 3rd on the list of giveaway winners and you can only select among the available prizes after the 1st and 2nd place winner have selected. I hope this makes sense but if you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the Discussions thread and I'll try my best to further clarify.
Although this seems like a more complicated process rather than just drawing for each prize and just assigning winners those prizes, this selection process seemed to work pretty well last year and allows winners the most choice in what prize they'd like to receive. Think of it like playing tag among the winners, going from one to the next until all prizes are claimed for
If there are any other questions or concerns regarding the giveaway, please let me know but I hope this all helps to clarify everything.
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ADDITIONAL TERMS & CONDITIONS OF AGREEMENT IN ENTERING GIVEAWAY
In choosing to participate by voting in the 'Deck of the Year' Award event, participants are also agreeing to the following terms & conditions of the prize giveaway:
1.) AVAILABLE TO CLAIM GIVEAWAY PRIZE
- After givewaway prize winners have been announced on February 15th, 2020 on the official DOTY page, additionally, a message will be sent to all of those that have been randomly drawn to inform them of their win and request that they respond to claim their prize. From that moment on, those lucky giveaway winners will have until February 16th, 2020 (approximately 24hrs) to respond either publicly in a post or privately through a message that they will be present and reachable to participate in selecting and claiming a prize from the giveaway among those available.
- In the event that a drawn prize giveaway recipient does not respond to attempts made in contacting them through email and private messages, they will automatically forfeit their ability to participate in selecting an available prize from the giveaway. If this occurs, the participent will simply be removed from our list of winning giveaway recipents and all those listed below will be moved up one slot allowing for one more additional winner to be drawn to fill the last available spot in accordance to the number of prizes available for selection.
2.) TRANSFER OF GIVEAWAY PRIZE
- Unless a voter participant explicitly states to opt out of the prize giveaway, everyone that voted for the DOTYs automatically gets exactly ONLY ONE entry into the prize giveaway and has the same chance as everyone else that participated.
- Requests for one participant's entry to go towards another participant as a way to opt out while giving another better odds in the drawing will NOT be accepted nor allowed. If you do happen to be randomly drawn and win selection of a prize in the giveaway and still would like to give that prize to someone else, please arrange that privately with that person and make selection of your prize on their behalf as they wish but all coordination should be done outside of this event as it will not be officially recognized otherwise.
3.) SHIPPING ARRANGEMENTS & RECIEVEMENT OF PRIZE
- Every donation of the prize giveaway contest is a gift of great generosity from those participating sponsors/donors to support the UC DOTY event, contributed completely on their own free will and accord. With that said (and as stated in the official DOTY rules of participation), the sponsors/donors of the offered prizes, as selected by winning recipents, completely determine the terms and conditions in regards to shipping arrangements. Some donors take on any and all associated costs of shipping regardless of where in the world the prize is being recieved, which is waaaay above and beyond, but an offer that should/can not be expected in every/any circumstance from every donor as each and every prize donation is different and may have varying degrees of challenges/constraints regarding shipment of prizes and/or means of the donor by which to do so.
- In order for recipents to recieve their selected prize giveaway, they are required to personally reach out to donors through a message either here at UC or elsewhere and confirm to be in contact to discuss the best option by which shipping arrangements can be mutually agreed upon by both parties. Whether or not details of shipping arrangements were stated prior to prize selection, as a winner, it is generally most courteous to offer what you can to help offset shipping costs whenever/wherever possible, especially in cases when shipping is exceptionally high as with international folks. Keep in mind, the prize(s) itself are being provided completely free of charge from the wholehearted kindness of the donors and offering to financially contribute and chip in towards the costs to ease the burden of shipping expenses is a gesture of goodwill and appreciated consideration from winners to receive their gifted prize(s).
- Now, it's understandable if the prize winner/recipient also cannot contribute (or only contribute very little) to meet the costs of shipping expenses and/or the donor and prize winner cannot come to a mutually agreed upon solution by which to send/recieve the donated prize, as was the case expressed by others last year who then chose a different available prize from another donor. However, in the case that there is no other available prize optiosn from which the winner may select from and shipping arrangements cannot be agreed upon by both parties of those that are available, I regret to inform that this particular recipent will unfortunately have no other choice but to decline the giveaway prize as offered and forfeit their participation in the giveaway.
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