One Week Left for Our Gaming PC Contest!

Guess what today is? If you guessed, “Why, it’s the one-week before contest end day”, then you couldn’t have been more correct. We launched our gaming PC last week with the help of Intel to help celebrate the launch of the company’s Lynnfield-based processors, and since then, we’ve received many, many, many entries (I am already tired of sorting through ’em!).

But! There’s still a week to go, so if you haven’t mustered up the energy to go seek out our contest words, there’s still some time. Also, if there was any original confusion with our rules, or you couldn’t find all of the instances and gave up, please re-check our rules as we made some slight modifications to get the point across a little bit better. It’s a unique contest, but a little difficult to explain as well!

I’ve also had many people message me to ask if their sentence was approved or if they are able to send in a second just in case, and all I can say is don’t worry. As mentioned on the contest page, I’m certainly not going to obsess over minor details. As long as we receive a sentence with the contest words that simply makes sense, we have no problem accepting it. As proof that there are many ways to say the final contest sentence, only two (yes, 2) people who’ve entered managed to get it right, word for word.

As a reminder, the contest ends next Thursday, at 4:00PM CST (2:00PM PST, 5:00PM EST), which is just about when Intel’s Developer Forum 2009 will also end. It will take me a few days afterwards to sort through the results, pinpoint the cheaters (there have been a few) and then prepare for the random drawing.

As mentioned before, we’re on track to have more contests in the near-future, and I expect that the next will be posted around the first week of October. I still haven’t received what I’ve been waiting for, but I should well before then (it is two weeks away, after all). Either way, stay tuned, because some good stuff is en route!