User Appreciation Contest Update

Post by **Rollie** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 11:48 am

Due to the overwhelming amount of submissions recieved for the contest, I will be ending the contest early. As of right now, the contest will be ending at 12:00 CST on the night of Tuestday, September 20. This will give plenty of time for all submissions be processed by the following weekend. At which point the tickets will be assigned and I will plan to do the drawing on the 24th outside Orgrimmar on US - Bloodscalp.

After the contest finishes, I will be performing some additional database tweaks and optimizations. At that time, processing will be halted for a day or so while I make some changes that will hopefully help to increase the rate at which submissions are processed.

This is necessary because I do hope to continue doing these types of contests in the future. I think the contest has been a huge success in helping to cover many of the undercovered realm/factions out there and having more data is a great thing!

Zimeron · Post by **Zimeron** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:39 pm

Heres hoping to the fact that i want to wiN!

shaded · Post by **shaded** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:45 pm

hey what time will u be doing the random roll?
and i hope i win too. i'm not which to ick tho... psp or ipod
such a hard decision...

Post by **Rollie** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:23 pm

My plan is to do it at 12 noon on Saturday outside the gates of Orgrimmar on US - Bloodscalp. I might be able to do it on Friday evening though as it appears I will have all the data processed sooner than expected. I will keep you posted! Submissions will only be counted toward the contest until midnight tonight so be sure to get those last minute submissions in!

Zimeron · Post by **Zimeron** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:28 pm

Ugh, 12 noon? where do you live lol? Also if you do it friday, i'll be working like a slave

, so be sure to post it on the site

. To bad i have to work tonight, otherwise i'd try and do one of those 20,000 update ones lol.

Post by **Rollie** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:54 pm

I am US-CST btw (UTC-6). It will be interesting to see just how many folks show up for the roll =)

Xianna · Post by **Xianna** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:30 pm

so um can we get that in a DATE format? hehe
and noon CST?

Zimeron · Post by **Zimeron** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:36 pm

Thats my time sweet.

Post by **Rollie** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:54 pm

All submissions for the contest will actually have been processed by sometime tomorrow morning. I will get tickets assigned over the next couple of days. I will do the drawing (/random) outside of the gates of Orgrimmar on the US-Bloodscalp server at 8PM CST on Friday, September 23, 2005.

Zimeron · Post by **Zimeron** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:45 pm

Dang, will be at work, and to think i just made a char and got him to Org now. Well thats another update at least lol!

gendril · Post by **gendril** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:23 pm

Will you lock the processing so that no processing is done for anything submitted after the contest close time? So that we can see exactly how many updates we have run for the contest.

Post by **Rollie** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:08 am

That's not necessary, it's easy to query to find what data was submitted between the exact times.

I'll get a final tally done tomorrow as well as get tickets assigned asap. You'll be able to see what tickets you have on your Character listing page.

Meduim · Post by **Meduim** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:48 am

hi,

will there be an all over listing of who had submitted what ammount on chars for this contest and earned how much tickets?

greets from germany

Post by **Rollie** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:49 am

Look here:

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=904

Meduim · Post by **Meduim** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:58 pm

yeah ! i?m in the top 50!