Question re Prizes

[AKalel]

I put this in the Terminator contest thread but I am going to post it here. I have a few questions about awarding of prizes. For this sake I will cite the Terminator as a example.

In this contest you ask people to state their favourite terminator and explain why. Now the winners are randomly selected.

Now is the winners based on just the people that did that iregardless if they did what they were suppose to or is it just based on those who did?

How do you determine what order to award the prizes? Do you do something like how you pick the name and award them by putting them all together and the order the prizes are picked will be how they are awarded or is it based on possible value or something else?

Then there is who wins and what is it something like the prizes that all qualifying enteries are stuck together and so lets say in terms of prizes first prize selected goes to first person selected or something else?

Finally does all the entries or prizes get put into a hat and drawn that way, do you use a computer program or again something else? Sorry to be nosey just curious on how you do this.

[BuddyDebbie]

There are a whole bunch of prizes for the Sarah Connor Chronicles contest, and the way I'm going to do it is assign everyone who replied a number. I use a random integer generator to give me random numbers. I'll put everyone in the random integer generator for the first set of prizes. Then, whoever wins the first prize will be removed from the pool (just to distribute the prizes among the most people). Then I will repeat this process for all the prizes until I'm done.

[meimei42]

Thats cool! I was wondering how you guys did it.

[kaycee]

thanks for clarifying, debbie!

so... do winners have an option of picking which item they want? because i'd loooove the hat or t-shirt, but have no interest in an autographed poster. and i'm sure other people feel strongly for some items over others. Since there is no "ordering" of winners - first place, second place, etc. - all prizes are pretty much equal, correct? can the winners request their preference of prizes?

[BuddyDebbie]

I'm going to pick the winners they way I explained in my earlier post, and you will not have a choice about which prize you get. This is only to simplify the prize-assignment process--I'm really not trying to be mean or dictatorial. I swear! HOWEVER, as soon as I announce who wins which prize, feel free to trade amongst yourselves. Just make sure I know if any of you do decide to swap prizes so that I can send the correct prize to the correct person.

[DeansGirl666]

thats cool... I was actually wondering the same question... I think thats fair. I can't wait to see who the winners are!

[meimei42]

I know me either, I'm dying here LOL! I really want Heath to win. He worked so hard on the contest and was so sad he couldn't win anything.

[AKalel]

Is the random thing used everytime you pick winners at random?

[Debaser]

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(posted by BuddyDebbie in "Contest Rules and Regulations" thread)

[BuddyDebbie]

Originally Posted by AKalel

Is the random thing used everytime you pick winners at random?

Everytime it's a random selection, I always use a random integer generator.