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Old 10-06-2004, 12:52 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Okay guys, I screwed up big time

in a couple of ways.

1) I set a closing time for the 20,000th Post contest that turned out to be way after the time of the post.

2) I started the contest a couple of days after the post had been made.
When I started typing this posting the total number of posts, according to the upper right corner of the "home" screen, was 20,065, but there had actually been 20,311 postings made.

I don't know the technical reasons for the disconnect, but there it is.

Anyhow, our own Mr. Procrastination, of all people, made the true 20,000th posting at 6:25 A.M. PDT on October 2.

At 5:54 A.M. PDT today, Geod made the posting which I calculated as #20,000 - guessing that it would be made late this evening!

Jody526 guessed 8:56 A.M., but forgot that the rules called for a Pacific Daylight Time guess, not his own Eastern Time Zone. Regardless of whether his guess is considered off by 2 minutes, or by 3 hours and 2 minutes, it was closest to Geod's posting, and since it was the earliest predicted time it was also closest to Art's.

Finally, RBM86 had the closest guess posted before Geod's posting.

To make a long story short, Art, Geod, Jody526 and RBM86 are all hereby declared winners of the most messed up contest in the history of coin forums. PM your addresses guys, and see what you get.
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Old 10-06-2004, 12:55 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I had simular problems with the 10,000th post. Go figure
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Old 10-06-2004, 01:53 AM   #3 (permalink)
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[QUOTE=satootoko]in a couple of ways.

1) I set a closing time for the 20,000th Post contest that turned out to be way after the time of the post.

2) I started the contest a couple of days after the post had been made.
When I started typing this posting the total number of posts, according to the upper right corner of the "home" screen, was 20,065, but there had actually been 20,311 postings made.

I don't know the technical reasons for the disconnect, but there it is.

Sat: For your punishment you are not allowed to look at Nippon coins until Oct 1, 2004.
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Old 10-06-2004, 09:25 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Wow! I won! (I think).

Congrats to the winners and to all of those who understand what happened here -- an extra congratulations.
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Old 10-06-2004, 09:30 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Hi Satootoko,

Thanks for running this contest. I'm not too sure I understand the expainations in your post about how there are 4 winners, but so what!

It feels good to finally win something.

I have sent a PM with my address.

Thanks again

Geod

PS. As far as I am concerned, you can run contests (and screw them up) ALL the time.
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