with 13,397 Followers, you have to assume that the geeks who signed up before hand have followed the story from the crack and entered. So that leaves a person to conclude that 99% or so of that 13,397 are all your competition for the 500 prize winners

blue_arrow

1971 Posts

August 25 2009 06:34 GMT

#106

hmm for some strange reason I remember reading somewhere (the terms and conditions on blizzard's site perhaps? iunno) that they would be picking the top daily entries, tossing all of these entries into a pool and then drawing the 500 from that...

if so, the people who signed up the earliest have way better chances as apparently the number of entries didn't pick up until a couple days ago

blade55555

United States17423 Posts

August 25 2009 06:47 GMT

#107

On August 25 2009 15:26 KingFool wrote:
with 13,397 Followers, you have to assume that the geeks who signed up before hand have followed the story from the crack and entered. So that leaves a person to conclude that 99% or so of that 13,397 are all your competition for the 500 prize winners

Don't forget that you have to be in the USA/Canada (excluding quebec) I doubt all 13,397 are all usa/canadian.

Savio

United States1850 Posts

August 25 2009 06:47 GMT

#108

Ugh, for the last several days I have been typing in some stupid response about being a fan but never included #sc2fan until this last time.

I hate twitter

dOofuS

United States342 Posts

August 25 2009 07:07 GMT

#109

Wow, I missed the deadline by 8 minutes. FML.

shindigs

United States4795 Posts

August 25 2009 08:21 GMT

#110

On August 25 2009 15:06 Raydog wrote:
so its over right now... anyone receive a key?

They said they'd have results within a week.

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

August 26 2009 01:57 GMT

#111

They had 9000 followers when they said "if the contest ended today everyone who entered would get a key" and since then it went up to 13000. So I'd put the number of entrants at around 5 or 6000

onmach

United States1241 Posts

August 26 2009 02:11 GMT

#112

I also thought most of the followers would enter, but I did a spot check of followers of starcraft... I counted by randomly picking a follower page and then randomly clicking on an entry with my eyes closed. My science teacher would be proud.

Out of 21 I chose before I got bored, only 7 actually entered. It seems like a lot of people following are foreigners who don't speak english, wow people who subscribed to all of blizzard's usernames but didn't enter, people who seem to have not entered or mentioned starcraft at all for some unknown reason, either they didn't know or they didn't care or there is some other force causing people to autosubscribe, like possibly new users are subscribed sometimes? There were also a lot of people who didn't do it right by putting @StarCraft in their messages, but who knows blizzard may take pity on them.

I thought the submission rate would be much higher at the end, but damn it was only 3 or 4 per hour on the last day in the middle of the day. So if that info I got holds up, you have a 500 in 4000 chance, or about 12% chance.

Given that they didn't even give out keys at blizzcon of all places, there may not be another chance to win as good as that one, although presumably you would imagine the blizzard beta opt in would have similar submission rate, so there's always that to look forward to.

Good luck.

Ideas

United States8167 Posts

August 26 2009 02:13 GMT

#113

how did I just NOW find out this contest took place? FUCKING NO GOOD BLIZZCON GOODY BAG NOT GIVING ME A BETA

Fastinyoh

United States29 Posts

August 26 2009 02:25 GMT

#114

According to http://www.hashtweeps.com/search/index , running a search for #sc2fan gives 3716 results. Assuming those are all correctly formatted, that's still a 500/3716ish chance of winning.

About 13.5% chance of a SC2 beta key is... well, amazing! Good luck all.

blue_arrow

1971 Posts

August 26 2009 02:25 GMT

#115

On August 26 2009 11:11 onmach wrote:
I also thought most of the followers would enter, but I did a spot check of followers of starcraft... I counted by randomly picking a follower page and then randomly clicking on an entry with my eyes closed. My science teacher would be proud.

Out of 21 I chose before I got bored, only 7 actually entered. It seems like a lot of people following are foreigners who don't speak english, wow people who subscribed to all of blizzard's usernames but didn't enter, people who seem to have not entered or mentioned starcraft at all for some unknown reason, either they didn't know or they didn't care or there is some other force causing people to autosubscribe, like possibly new users are subscribed sometimes? There were also a lot of people who didn't do it right by putting @StarCraft in their messages, but who knows blizzard may take pity on them.

I thought the submission rate would be much higher at the end, but damn it was only 3 or 4 per hour on the last day in the middle of the day. So if that info I got holds up, you have a 500 in 4000 chance, or about 12% chance.

Given that they didn't even give out keys at blizzcon of all places, there may not be another chance to win as good as that one, although presumably you would imagine the blizzard beta opt in would have similar submission rate, so there's always that to look forward to.

Good luck.

wait what do you mean putting @StarCraft in your message was wrong... i c that like 98 - 90% of the ppl have @starcraft in their messages... don't freak me out dude

onmach

United States1241 Posts

August 26 2009 02:28 GMT

#116

I should use more commas I guess. people (who didn't) (do it right by putting @starcraft in their messages). In other words, putting @starcraft was right, but some people didn't do that, maybe 5%?

Imbu

United States903 Posts

August 26 2009 02:38 GMT

#117

And in the end, we find out that the Beta Contest will be delayed until 2010.

Tsagacity

United States2124 Posts

August 26 2009 02:55 GMT

#118

On August 26 2009 11:25 Fastinyoh wrote:
According to http://www.hashtweeps.com/search/index , running a search for #sc2fan gives 3716 results. Assuming those are all correctly formatted, that's still a 500/3716ish chance of winning.

About 13.5% chance of a SC2 beta key is... well, amazing! Good luck all.

Apparently people are still using the tag too or something. 4 more came up while I was doing my search

Some bots in there too

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from:Clarahotnight #sc2fan

ShivaN

United States933 Posts

August 26 2009 03:42 GMT

#119

hmmm.. I only put the #sc2fan in my post and not the @Starcraft, does that mean I'm screwed? lol not that it really matters for me, I've already got a beta key, but another would have been nice to give to a friend etc..

drivec

United States354 Posts

August 26 2009 04:30 GMT

#120

On August 26 2009 11:55 Tsagacity wrote:

Show nested quote +

Apparently people are still using the tag too or something. 4 more came up while I was doing my search

Some bots in there too

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from:Clarahotnight #sc2fan

does it count each submission or each different person who has submitted. because i know i wasnt the only one who submitted like 5 times just to make sure my thing went through.

edit:never mind i went so it was 3700 something ppl.. thats good chance anyday 13.5% is alot better then the 3% i was predicting