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#324 – Update – “Michael Craig is Giving it Away!” Contest – Free Entry to FTOPS VII Event #1
On January 14, in entry #318, I announced the rules of a contest in which I offered to back one player in Event #1 of FTOPS VII, scheduled for February 6, 2008.
There are very few rules for the contest but they are contained in that post. In #320, on January 21, I clarified by stating that multiple entries were allowed. I also decided to award TWO buy-ins for Event #1, so two players will win.
So e-mail your entries to mrchaotic@aol.com. For the subject line, put “Michael Craig is Giving it Away.” I noticed one entry in my spam folder, maybe because the word “contest” appears in the subject line. But I’ll check my folder before the contest closes.
I encourage you to enter before the February 3 deadline. I’ve gotten some great entries (and some awful entries). There are still heights of humor, wisdom, artistry, and pathos unexplored by the current entries, as well as depths of bribery and voyeurism left to be offered.
I don’t want to tell you about who’s winning, who’s got an outside shot, and who really ought to try again, except that I’ll share one entry that definitely WON’T win. Here it is in its entirety:
“If there’s .01% chance I’d be one of the lucky two, the odds are much worse that I’ll ever reinstall the program.”
Apparently, this fella – we’ll call him Kent – had just emptied out his account, with the intent of never reloading, playing for play-money, or trying to freeroll his way back into the game. That’s cool; everybody decides what’s right for themselves. I was impressed that this guy wanted to take a parting shot at the contest on the way out, or use it as his final opportunity to vent on his Full Tilt experience.
The really weird thing is that he had three days earlier sent me a note congratulating me on winning the Sunday HORSE. “Upon hearing the good news,” he wrote, “my entire family erupted. It was the single most pure coming together of hoorahs and bravos ever heard. We’d never been closer. Sadly, not unlike dreams of my own victory (the one that plays while I pretend to listen to my girlfriend), the revelry was short lived.” He then describes the replay of the field goal that ended the Packers’ season – a huge number of the blog’s fans are from Wisconsin, by the way – ending with his grandmother losing her glass eye and a goldfish ending up on the floor.
I should emphasize that Kent is disqualified because he must be eligible to play in the event (one of my few requirements, if you look at #318) and he can’t if he refuses to download the client.
The field is wide open, so go ahead and take your shot!
P.S. – I’ve been asked by a few entrants – surprisingly few – what the terms of the “backing” arrangement are. I have decided that, though all forms of bribery are allowed and maybe encouraged, the winners of the contest are under no obligation to remit any winnings to me or Full Tilt.
