[edit] oops! draw is happening live at 10.37 pm … I thought it was at 8 for some reason.
the numbers on the toolbar on the right will update as soon as the internet has the results…

Ok, here are the randomly selected numbers from 1 to 48 for all the entrants of the FiddyP contest… first bunch get 2 numbers each, second bunch gets 1 number. Whoever matches their number with the bonus ball drawn tonight on the Wednesday UK National Lottery draw wins the prize!!

4,7 Contest Beat
24,5 The Link Bait
2,48 My Blog Contest
11,31 Lalla-Mira
10,46 Makanon
16,25 Local Girl
28,45 Contester
14,33 Blogcat
9,37 J-news
19,21 Angela
30,34 The King Speaks
12,47 Nate
22,42 Myblogcontests
15,41 adsensetrack
18,43 Johnathan Long
38,44 Mark
8,32 Anastasia
1,35 Footie Blog
17,26 Blogodise
20,39 TheDragonProject

these are entrants that didn’t match the minimum amount of words but I let in anyway because the post they made covered everything else..

3 ContestLR2
6 LauraWilliamsMusings
13 http://blog-contests.net
23 Thien Lee
27 Theprizeblog
36 MrPrizes
29 Nkhan
40 Internet Duct Tape

Good luck everyone!

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I had an excellent response to my contest with lots of people entering.
Everyone who entered made a nice post about the contest and mentioned my wordpress plugins which was excellent. I’ll post stats and geekery once Google analytics has updated it’s records to show up until Wednesdays visitors.

I did specify that the post they made needed to be at least 100 words, this was to cover the case of someone just slipping in a link within a massive post of other contests (which only happened once).

I did ask for an email from the entrant to say they entered but I think my spam monitor killed some of them (grr), but I kept a list of entrants from all the trackbacks, pingbacks, comments and emails over the past 3 weeks. If you entered but you are not listed here, sorry about that, please don’t take offense! and please let me know before the closing date!

Entrants:

Contest Beat: http://www.contestbeat.com/
The Link Bait: http://www.thelinkbait.com/
My Blog Contest: http://myblogcontest.com/
Lalla-Mira: http://www.lalla-mira.com/
http://makanon.com
Local Girl: http://islandreview.blogspot.com
Contester: http://contester.wordpress.com/
http://contestblogcat.com
http://j-ne.ws
Angela: http://www.mommybytes.com
http://www.thekingspeaks.com
Nate: http://www.avgjoeblogger.com
http://myblogcontests.com
http://adsensetrack.blogspot.com/
Johnathan Long: http://cmanscognitivecontent.blogspot.com/
Mark: http://youcube.us
Anastasia: http://mediamafia.org
http://footieblog.co.uk/
http://blogodise.blogspot.com
http://thedragonproject.blogspot.com

these are entrants that didn’t match the minimum amount of words but I let in anyway because the post they made covered everything else..

http://contest.lr2.com
LauraWilliamsMusings: LauraWilliamsMusings.blogspot.com
http://blog-contests.net
Thien Lee: http://www.Thienlee.com
http://theprizeblog.com
http://www.mrprizes.com
http://nkhan.jwmediabox.com/blog/
http://internetducttape.com

Now, to choose the winner…. I think the fairest way will be to use the UK lottery Wednesday draw to select the winner, all the entrants that qualified will get 2 numbers and the others will get 1 number from a list of 48 (2 x 20 qualified and 1 x 8 others = 48). Whoever matches the bonus ball with their number wins the prize! (you can see the lottery results at my VWD site or see them on the right toolbar on this blog)

There are only 49 numbers on the UK lottery so if the bonus happens to be number 49, we’ll use the first drawn number to determine the winner.

If anyone else enters before midnight Tuesday 9th October or I missed someone off the list then I’ll have to go with the old faithful of picking a name out of a virtual hat but, having the winner chosen by something I don’t control is fairer I think (and more exciting!)

There’s still a few hours left before the contest closes so feel free to make your entry today (and don’t worry about putting me to the trouble of making a randomizer script to choose the winner!)

I would like to extend my thanks to everyone that entered, there were some great posts made about the contest and my plugins, and it certainly upped my Technorati ranking, traffic, incoming links and plugin downloads. I smell some more contests coming but maybe with a little bit more interaction.. watch this space!

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I’ve decided to run a blog contest for a wonderful pair of Vmoda Vibe headphones.

(I must say thanks to Jonathan at J-news for his post about viral blog contests, it helped me put the format together for this post.)
These are some of the best headphones that I’ve ever tried, they cancel almost all of external noise I was used to with other types!

Here’s what my friend Diego had to say about them…

thanks for these headphones Andy! they are brill, I had to turn the volume down on my mp3 player for the first time ever!

High praise indeed seeing as Diego listens to thousands of tunes on his mp3 player, all of them at max volume and hasn’t had an ear problem yet! You can read an extensive review of the headphones at Anythingbutipod including frequency response and all sorts of technical information as well as some more photos. Here’s an excerpt:

The Vibes are a definite recommendation. I don’t know of any other IEM in the $100 category that comes close in sound clarity, crispness, instrument separation and fun, not to mention the build quality.

The rules:

• Post about this contest on your own blog and link to it with this url: http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/fiddyp-blog-contest/
  with anchor text of FiddyP Contest or FiddyP Blog or just plain old FiddyP
  
• The post on your blog should be no less than 100 words, please mention something about the wordpress plugins I have made, you can see some of them here, here and here
• Once you have posted about it, send an email to
  andy at teamplaylotto dot com with the subject line of “gimme some free headphones” so I can keep track of who has entered
• The contest runs for 3 weeks from today (Wednesday 10th October closing date)
• Open internationally, I will send the brand new unopened pack to anywhere in the world (I’m not responsible for any import tax!)
• The winner will need to make a post about the prize on their blog so I can link to it from here after the competition has ended (so everyone knows the winner received the prize)
• You can make a unique post about it for a maximum of once a week for 3 weeks for a maximum of 3 entries

The winner will be chosen by lottery, on Wednesday 10th October there will be a UK lottery draw, I will assign numbers to each person entered and the bonus ball drawn on the day will determine the winner. Say 20 people enter, each person gets two numbers, first person to enter gets numbers 1 and 2 and so on, if more than 49 people enter then I’ll work something else out.

This way, everyone can see the winner was chosen at random as long as I post what numbers are allocated to each entrant before the draw happens. Good luck!

Here’s another sexy picture of them:

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