Ice Out Contest

John Mercier · 02-12-2022, 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by upthesaukee

My guess is that our esteemed Webmaster is busy enough with monitoring all that goes on with this site, with his own job, and I believe he hosts other sites as well.

It could be he just doesn't have the time to set it up.

JMHO

Dave

Everyone that wanted to could just place their guess in a single thread.

upthesaukee · 02-12-2022, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Mercier

Everyone that wanted to could just place their guess in a single thread.

John, it's not that easy. The Webmaster has what I guess is a spreadsheet of some sort.

Those wishing to enter clicked on a link, entered your "name" or a nickname, and then entered the date (month and day) and the time (a.m. or p.m.). He was able to track entrants so they wouldn't enter more than 1 time.

Prizes were awarded for the 3 closest. Guesses had to be entered by the end of the last day of February.

You may have known all this, but I see you became a "poster" last May after ice-in.

Dave

John Mercier · 02-13-2022, 06:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by upthesaukee

John, it's not that easy. The Webmaster has what I guess is a spreadsheet of some sort.

Those wishing to enter clicked on a link, entered your "name" or a nickname, and then entered the date (month and day) and the time (a.m. or p.m.). He was able to track entrants so they wouldn't enter more than 1 time.

Prizes were awarded for the 3 closest. Guesses had to be entered by the end of the last day of February.

You may have known all this, but I see you became a "poster" last May after ice-in.

Dave

Actually, it is that easy. Prizes do not need to be awarded. And since everyone could follow the thread... multiple guess would be noticed unless the poster removed the earlier guesses.

webmaster · 02-13-2022, 02:29 PM

Because of the interest shown in this thread I've activated the contest for 2022. I'll reduce the timeframe for guessing this year to 3 weeks and extend it for a week into March to make up for the later start.

Sorry it wasn't posted earlier but I've seen interest decline in recent years and was considering discontinuing it this year.

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02-13-2022, 02:29 PM	#4
webmaster Moderator Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 2,455 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 459 Thanked 3,830 Times in 840 Posts	Because of the interest shown in this thread I've activated the contest for 2022. I'll reduce the timeframe for guessing this year to 3 weeks and extend it for a week into March to make up for the later start. Sorry it wasn't posted earlier but I've seen interest decline in recent years and was considering discontinuing it this year.

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