So here they are then, the lucky names out of the hat on day #9 of our great StarCraft II beta key giveaway. Did you manage to score one? Let us know your triumphant joy or outraged unluckiness in the comments field below.
Just two days to go now until the competition element closes with PC Zone giving away another 100 today and PC Gamer giving another 100 away tomorrow.
But that leaves a 100+ in the bag for the weekend... what are we going to do with them? Well, let's just say we've got something rather special planned, so keep 'em peeled..
If you want to know more about how the competition works, then why not check out this handy FAQ which should explain everything.
Thanks also for all the begging, comments and occasional abuse flooding our inboxes, but the only way to win a key is through entering the competition.
Just so you know, we also don't ever actually ever see the keys ourselves, we make the draw, hand the names over to Blizzard and it's in their hands from there on in.
Anyway congrats to the luck winners and good luck to everyone else in today's competition.
Are the people running this contest totally crazy? CVG? Do you even look at these lists? You gave the same guy 5 keys... I think it's a bit silly. Especially seeing that it seems to happen every single day.
You should also check on PC Zone's staff. They might bee dead. Their site hasn't been updated since the 19th and they still haven't announced their old winners.
Also, dammit some idiots made hundreds of accounts in here and won multiple times? Wtf?
This competition is turning into a bit of a farce.
Blizz are denying it exists/taking ages to hand out keys. PCZone doesn't seem to give a monkeys about the contest, holding onto their results for days at a time. Multiple keys are being given to the same people. The majority of established users/participants on CVG/PCG/PCZ don't seem to have got a look in with the vast majority of keys going to people who signed up just for this contest.
Hey I have not won one yet (but I am still in 7 and the final competition) but I got a key from the gamestop deal, so if you could remove me to give fair chance to everyone else, that would be great.
WTF are you idiots talking about? what other contest pages am i in? i have only participated in day 8 and 9 and i have also checked other days for my name and its not there so what tell hell are you talking about?
If you put all the user names in one big text file, one on each line, I wrote some python code for you to pick winners fairly!
import random names = open('entries.txt', 'r').readlines() valid_names = [x[0:-1] for x in names if names.count(x)==1] print sorted(random.sample(valid_names,100))
The code will open the text file called 'entries.txt', and delete out the nasty cheater's who have made multiple entries.
Then it will randomly pick 100 winner, and sort them alphabetically, so you can do a quick scan to see if there are any obvious multiple accounts with similar names!
pm me if you want it to spit out a text file of winners instead if printing to screen.
Just to clarify! I didn't do that to win several keys, the Admin weeds out my clones anyway. I only did it to raise my chances of getting picked in the midst. I'm more than happy to just win one!
Also, find where it says my method isn't allowed- because I don't!
Hi, I'm a Day #5 winner, and I'm just curious if any other day5 or later winners have received their email yet; my fingers are starting to hurt from mashing f5
To help some people out that havent found the winners pages
day #5 winners: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=242908&site=pcz day #6 winners: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=243130&site=pcg day #7 winners: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=243930&site=pcz day #8 winners: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=243616&site=pcg
edit: removed day #9 link, cus you're alrdy on the day #9 page
I was lucky enough to be on the Day #5 win list. I have not received a key yet. I did ensure I created a Battlenet account with the same email I entered the contest with. So far I waited 7 days.. Is it safe to say it may take 7 to 21 days before Blizzard contacts us?
Just to clarify! I didn't do that to win several keys, the Admin weeds out my clones anyway. I only did it to raise my chances of getting picked in the midst. I'm more than happy to just win one!
Also, find where it says my method isn't allowed- because I don't!
You don't get to raise your chances like that, you asshat.
And they said previously, if they suspect foul play, you won't get any keys at all. I certainly hope you don't.
You sure have a lot of nerve saying this after doing that. This is real proof that karma is nothing but a concept.
Anyone have an issue with day 10's contest in that when you input the answer and click enter competition it doesnt say your entry is recorded and instead just reloads the page. Basically it wont let me enter day 10 as it reloads asking me to do the question again.
may be i will not be so original but i ll say what i think - there should be 1 global list of winners of all the days where should be only "fair" names after serious moderating results of contests, and this list is waiting blizzard for! i really can't understand why this portal doesnt communicate with blizzards promo managers about specefic way of receiving keys - why blizzards cant say all in simple words, but i really think that all would get keys only after there will be full list of winners
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