Contest Details
The prize will be a video game of your choice through steam, gifted to your steam account.
I will be doing a combination of ideas that have been thrown around as well as my own.
Here is how it will work:
The contest will start on Friday 1/30/14 @ 12pm Mountain Time Zone (about 8.5 hours from now) and run for 72 hours.
-Each person who finds a block will receive an entry in a random drawing (limit of 10 entries per person)
-Whoever finds the most blocks will receive an additional 5 entries (15 total entries)
-User IDs 2 through 50 will start off with 3 entries and can still earn the 10 for finding blocks (total of 13 possible entries) This is thanks for getting it started when hashrate was under 25 and blocks were seldom.
At the end of the contest I will post screenshots from the database of how many blocks each user id found. Then I will enter those user IDs into a randomizer however many times depending on the number of entries you earned.
Whichever user ID is drawn will receive the Steam game.
I think this contest design rewards both the high hashers, the early members, and at the same time gives people that found even just 1 block a chance of winning.
Good luck!
I like it. It shows that you put much thought into it.
Maybe you could also give 1 entry to users that set a Donation field, that way you would encourage other people to do it and you could then use Donation money to have more Giveaways.
I like that idea, I will use it next time. I dont want to change the terms after it has already started.
The Contest started 45 minutes ago. I will be counting found blocks from that point.
Sorry to the couple people that were experiencing disconnect problems. I haven't been disconnected but I have seen the website and database slow down at times so I am planning to do a performance upgrade on the server if everyone is willing to deal with about 30 minutes of down time.
You can vote here to let me know what you think about that.
http://poolers.org/Poll.html