We present to you CrunchGear’s 10 Days of CrunchGear final challenge. Instead of randomly choosing a commentor we are now going to make you work for your prizes. Why? Because the prizes KICK ass.
Update – I’ve added a chatroom so you can ask questions.
First, the line-up:
We present to you the Palm Treo Pro, Palm’s latest Windows Mobile 6.1 cellphone. You will receive your prize when the phones are officially available later this year but rest assured you will be the first on your block to get one.
Next we offer the 1080p 42-inch Teledock LCD from JVC. It’s a 42-inch TV with an iPod dock for all your multimedia needs.
Imagine an LCD that will playback video content from your iPod®. JVC’s new TeleDock TVs, will not only play and upconvert iPod® video content to 1080p — they’ll even charge your iPod® too . The TeleDock line-up of panels was engineered to excite the most extreme audio visual enthusiasts and influence the creative minds of discriminating home decorators.
Finally, we have the Lenovo Y510 Ideabook. This is a Core 2 Duo machine with enough power to fulfill all of your wildest fantasies.
Now… how do you win one of these excellent prizes?
Each prize has a code associated with it. The code is made up of four, capitalized English words of four letter each. Acronyms do not count (i.e. OLED, HDMI, COAX, etc.) and not a proper company name (i.e. DISH from DISH Networks) For example, say I told you the Palm Treo’s code began with the word ACME. A potential complete code could look like:
ACME-BALL-CAPE-DOWN
Note, this is not the actual code. The actual code will run in alphabetical order, as shown above, but with different words. Where do you find these words? In posts, in Twitter and on our Facebook Group.
Your mission: to figure out each code and email all three – or just one completed code – for the item or items you want to win. Email contest@crunchgear.com with the subject line “TREO,” “JVC,” or “LENOVO” with the complete code in each email. The codes begin with the following words:
Palm Treo Pro ACME-
JVC 42-inch LCD TV EVIL-
Lenovo Y510 ITCH-
We’ll KICK this contest off right now and end it tomorrow at noon Eastern Time. We will pick the winners at random from those with complete codes.
Good luck.
Good lord, you weren’t kidding about the prizes being sick. Happy birthday indeed!
Best prizes ever, I just need to figure out how to win.
Clarification: Will the words be featured in future posts, or are they potentially in past posts?
Happy Birthday! And so the code hunt begins.
Clarification Please: Everyone who gets the code is entered into the drawing as long as they submit by noon tomorrow correct? In other words, the first one to submit an entry and the last one to submit have an equal chance at winning right?
The game is afoot.
wow, amazing set of prizes. that’s awesome.
to address everyone so far. i asked both the future post question and the “is this random” question. The answer is YES to both. Yes, this post and future posts (no past posts) and YES everyone who gets the codes in by tomorrow at noon has a shot. The winner will be picked at random amongst those who get the codes right.
Now thats what i call nice birthday party schwag!!!!
Why read when you can parser? I can’t get the facebook group page to work, but here’s the rest:
V1=`wget -q -O – http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/8921852.rss`;export V2=`wget -q -O – http://feeds.feedburner.com/crunchgear`; echo $V1 $V2 | grep -o ‘\s\([A-Z]\{4\}\)\s’ | tr -s ” ” | sed ’s/^[ ]//g’ | sort | uniq -i
enjoy :)
– Lon
p.s. Do I win something special for being this geeky?
yes, dre. it’s random.
Thanks for answering my question!
so FIFA is not a code, right? no acronyms?
Any of the codes be hidden within videos/pictures? Most pics/vids are blocked by websense in a lot of offices. =(
how many entries do we get? one or you are up to explode your mailboxes..?
Forget the prizes, how do I win that cake the TV is sitting on? That thing must be huge!
A good metric to measure is the increase of page views/click through rate during the days of competition.
Great prizes indeed! Anyone else having trouble getting on to the facebook site? Also, what if i don’t have a twitter account?
Anyone else having trouble getting on to the facebook site? Also, what if i don’t have a twitter account?
for some reason, my comments don’t seem to be showing up
for some reasonmy comments aren’t showing
Anyone else having trouble getting on the facebook site? Also, what if i don’t have a twitter account?
Is CG able to recieve email from Yahoo ymail?
johnny,
Log in before you click the link…if you’re not logged into Facebook the link hates life
Wow. Can’t decide which one I want the most.
yo. gimme gimme gimme :)
can’t wait to see who wins tomorrow!
I would agree this is a lot of fun…great idea Crunch guys!
Anyone have a hint for “F”?
F gets hot.
Fun times, CG! I liked this! And it feels like I have more of a chance of winning than with the automatronic random quote generators of days 5 and 7! Even though I probably don’t really . . .
But hey, fun times!
Great contest, 2 more hours :)
My hint for “F” is that it’s a 4 letter word: F___
;-)
/holds breath
come on, I really wanna win that cake…
40 more mins!
with prices like these, there can only be one greeting = may you have many more bdays to come!
Are the winners posted some where?