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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 919584, member: 19065&quot;]<span style="color: Navy"><b>A CT Yearling, Generally Speaking… </b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="2">After a very involved, educationally fulfilling and&nbsp; fast-paced year as a member of this diverse forum, and as the winner of&nbsp; several fine CT contests myself, I am taking the opportunity to show my&nbsp; thanks to the community by holding my first contest following my first year on CT. I spent a fair&nbsp; amount of time in preparing the contest. I aimed to require a dedicated effort&nbsp; on behalf of the willing contestants. I hope you will all enjoy the contest.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>***<span style="color: DarkRed"><b>OFFICIAL RULES &amp; REGISTRATION THREAD</b></span>***</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>What&nbsp; will the contest be about? </b></p><p><font size="2">The contest will focus on a&nbsp; particular era of U.S. history and feature a historical personage&nbsp; through a common theme related to this person and their time period. </font></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>What kind of contest is this?</b></p><p><font size="2">The contest will be&nbsp; presented in the form of 10 questions requiring primarily online search,&nbsp; reading and short written answers.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>How does the contest work?</b></p><p><font size="2">The&nbsp; eligible contestant with ALL 10 questions correctly answered in the&nbsp; allotted time will be the winner. In the event of a tie amongst eligible&nbsp; contestants, an 11th multi-part question will be posed as a&nbsp; tie-breaker. Subsequent ties may be broken by drawing remaining names&nbsp; from a hat, if required.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>What will be required of contestants? </b></p><p><font size="2">Broadly speaking,&nbsp; eligible contestants should have an interest in reading about U.S.&nbsp; history and be willing to test your abilities to re(search) answers,&nbsp; which will be entirely possible to find online.</font></p><p><font size="2"><br /></font> </p><p><span style="color: Black"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span><span style="color: DarkRed"><b><span style="color: Black">Who is eligible:</span> </b></span><span style="color: DarkRed"><b>VERY IMPORTANT!!!</b></span></p><p><font size="2">• Any CT member with at least 50 posts&nbsp; and who <u>registers in this thread by 11:59 pm (ET) on Wednesday,&nbsp; 6/16/2010.</u> (If you don&#039;t have 50 posts, go read and reply to some&nbsp; threads.)</font></p><p><font size="2">• <b><span style="color: Red">Registration is required. </span></b>To register you <u>must reply in&nbsp; this thread</u> with the phrase, &quot;</font><font size="2"><span style="color: Red"><b>Giddy Up!</b></span></font><font size="2">&quot; by the above date/time. </font></p><p><font size="2">• After the registration period ends, I will collect and post a list of&nbsp; the eligible contestants who entered and who will be able to participate in the contest. The list&nbsp; of eligible contestants will appear in this thread on Thursday,&nbsp; 6/17/2010. </font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: Black"><b>When does the contest start?</b></span></p><p><font size="2"><u>Keep an eye on the CONTEST&nbsp; section of CT!</u> Be prepared for the contest to start at a <i>random</i> time on&nbsp; Thursday, 6/17/2010.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>When does the contest end? </b></p><p><font size="2">The&nbsp; contest will run until Sunday, 6/20/2010 at 11:59 pm (ET). All answers&nbsp; must be received by this time. Answers received afterward will not be&nbsp; accepted. After the time expires I will determine if we have a winner or&nbsp; announce if we have a tie and any proceeding steps.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>How should participants submit answers?</b></p><p><font size="2"><b><span style="color: Red">Answers* must be&nbsp; sent by Private Message.</span></b> Any answers posted publicly will end the&nbsp; contest and no prizes will be awarded. </font><font size="2"><span style="color: DarkRed">IMPORTANT:</span></font> You may change any of&nbsp; your answers up to the cut off time. Each revision submitted will stand&nbsp; as your final answer(s) for any question(s) you may have changed, even&nbsp; if you previously submitted the correct answer but changed your mind and&nbsp; got it wrong by editing.<font size="2"></font></p><p><font size="2"><br /></font></p><p><font size="2">*Answers to the contest questions will be provided after the contest&nbsp; ends and the winner(s) are announced. The winner(s) or any tie will be&nbsp; announced on Monday, 6/21/2010.</font> <font size="2"></font></p><p><font size="2"><br /></font> </p><p><br /></p><p><b>What will the prize(s) be? </b></p><p><font size="2">There&nbsp; shall be a SILVER prize awarded to the contest winner. </font></p><p><font size="2">There may also be a BRONZE &#039;second place&#039; prize awarded if there are multiple&nbsp; participants with the same amount of correct answers. This will be&nbsp; determined by drawing a name from a hat if a tie occurs.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="2"><b>If&nbsp; there are any questions about the workings of the contest, please post&nbsp; them to this thread and I will try to address them for everyone&#039;s&nbsp; benefit prior to the start of the contest.</b></font></p><p><font size="2"><br /></font></p><p><font size="2"><br /></font></p><p><font size="2">***Please note that I am traveling during this &#039;registration&#039; period and am not going to be online constantly for instant replies. I will be checking in periodically to see how things are going, answer questions, bump the thread, etc.</font>&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span><b><i><span style="color: Navy">Let the registration begin...</span> <span style="color: Red">Giddy Up!</span></i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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