Free TV_Vote Contest: Predict when Firefly will go over 150,000 and win a prize!

POSTED BY: leadb
UPDATED: Thursday, February 15, 2007 15:36
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LEADB

Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:10 PM

Free TV_Vote Contest: Predict when Firefly will go over 150,000 and win a prize!

Over the past months, you may have seen one or more of these threads like:
Vote for Firefly! http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=26579
and the actual vote tabluation for TV_Vote is done here:
http://www.richlabonte.net/tvvote/index.html

This time around, the contest sponsor(s) are: FlyVote and possible parties yet to be identified.

This is a "fan power" survey, where you can vote once an hour as many times as you wish for your favorite shows. Firefly has been doing very well here. In an effort to keep interest up, we have decided to run this -fun- little contest.

Winner may select a prize from any of the retailers listed here, maximum value (including shipping and handling!) of $20.
** http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=25916

If winner does not specify a prize, they will receive a copy of the Done the Impossible DVD from here:
http://www.donetheimpossible.com/

Rules: one entry per human being, posted here. If you have multiple FFF accounts, please only make one prediction. Once you predict, no changes. In the event of a tie, winner will be selected by die roll, said die roll to be audited by my lovely wife. No fee to enter. Entry must be made by midnight EST Jan 28, 2007; no entries accepted after that.
No obligation to buy anything. If you lose, you can't sue me. All decisions final.
Winner will have to provide me a shipping address or address to send check to **.
No trick, no gimmick, I have nothing to gain from this. Exactly one prize will be given away; no more.

How to play: Pick the date that you think firefly will go over 150,000 votes; then estimate what the "total votes" we will have that day, without going over ("total votes" will be the first tie breaker). In the event of a tie, the person who guesses the closest, without going over, to the number of "total votes" recorded for the day will win; if that's a tie, winner will be selected at random.

Suggestions: There's been a number of threads discussing the TV_vote; latest being. Check out some of the stats before picking a date.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=26017

Eg: If you go to this URL, you will see that there's a date at the top: http://richlabonte.net/tvvote/index.html
The winning date will the date at the top of the page where the page shows 150,000 -or more- votes for firefly. Say this date is January 30, 2007 (hey, I can dream!), and the vote total for that date is 150,444. Four people guess this date with the following "total vote that day" guesses:
a) 150,445
b) 150,400
c) 150,400
d) 150,111
Person a) will be out of contention; as they "went over". person d) is out of contention because there's two people who were closer in their guess than he/she. Persons b) and c) will enter a random selection process, and one will be chosen as the winner of the prize.
One exception for the tie breaker; only people with the correct date will be considered; whoever guesses "lowest" also gets the 150,000 to their vote. In the above example, if the total on the winning day were 150,012, then person d) would have won.

If no one picks the correct date; again, we will go with "closest without going over". Thus if the correct date is Jan 31, some folks guess Jan 30, other guess Feb 01; it will be the folks on Jan 30 (closest without going over); then ties broken by total vote guess, etc.

** I've never done business with any of these retailers and I reserve the right to send a check for the prize amount to the winner if I have a hard time either meeting payment method requirements (ie: I don't have paypal) or have trouble getting them to ship to an alternative address.

Sponsorship: This time around, FlyVote has offered to kick in $10 towards the prize. If someone else is willing to chip in to the prize money this time around, please contact me via "send a message to leadb" on this forum: http://www.fireflyfans.net/showprofile.asp?u=23120
The maximum prize will be $20; t

FLYVOTE

Sunday, January 21, 2007 6:47 PM

I'll say 150,150 votes on Februar... what? I'm ineligible?

Good luck to all of the Firefly fans on this new contest. I'm proud to be a sponsor.

(I still say 150,150 on Feb 15, even if it doesn't count. I'd be tickled if we hit 150k before then!)

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FlyVote (version 1.3):
http://www.usbmicro.com/misc
For Windows/Linux/MacOS9/MacOSX

JORUNE

Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:15 PM

My choice is Feb 14th cause that's where my heart is.

FLYVOTE

Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by jorune:
My choice is Feb 14th cause that's where my heart is.

Guess a number, too, jorune. See the rules above, or take a look a the 125k vote thread for examples.

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FlyVote (version 1.3):
http://www.usbmicro.com/misc
For Windows/Linux/MacOS9/MacOSX

DAVESHAYNE

Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:54 PM

February 17th 150,097

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

ECGORDON

Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:43 PM

February 12, with 150,225.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

SCARECROW866

Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:56 PM

February 20, with 150,100 votes.

Also, congrats to Fireflygal!

Annie
Gee, I've never been in trouble with the law before.

YINYANG

Monday, January 22, 2007 12:38 AM

February 18; 150,101

Rules: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=22892
Voting: http://www.wunschliste.de/index.pl?vote&r=09

TRAEVYNN

Monday, January 22, 2007 4:40 AM

I'm gonna stick with my previous date - February 19th with 150,219 votes.
Got my fingers crossed this time!

"...I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me."

DERANGEDMILK

Monday, January 22, 2007 4:47 AM

Feb 13. 150,678

LET'S GET VOTING BROWNCOATS!!!!!
-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

Vote for Firefly at http://richlabonte.net/tvvote/index.html

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