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Discussion in 'General' started by Zinfandel, 24 Aug 2012.

  1. Zinfandel

    Zinfandel Modder

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    So I was just telling a colleague about winning Dirt from TGS yesterday, I told him it was the second best thing I'd ever won, the first being an iPod Nano my old work place EON a few years back.

    Some people seem to have won the world in a basket, my list isn't so impressive (Although I'm still very grateful!)

    So what about you, what have you won?
     
  2. BentAnat

    BentAnat Software Dev

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    I have won in my life (based on luck, not skill)

    1 book on Namibia and the Germans in Namibia... I was 12 at the time... gogo boredom
    1 el cheapo Nikon digital pocket camera a few years ago, courtesy of Energizer
    2 Mouse Mats, 1 8GB Corsair Voyager micro memory stick 1 Keyboard cleaning Putty courtesy of Bit-Tech.
    1 Dirt Showdown courtesy of Satan.

    In other words: Bit-Tech is the luckiest place for me to be... :p
     
  3. Yorkie

    Yorkie Minimodder

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    I "won" my 6870 graphics card thorugh work and thats about it.

    I say won, I had the most sales to win it, entered alot of things otherwise and haven't won.
     
  4. Blademrk

    Blademrk Why so serious?

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    Disney "Kanga & Roo" teddy bears from Asda when I was about 14-15 (I didn't even remember entering any competition);
    A GOG game code from the Bit-tech pod cast (got Beyond Good and Evil);
    a 50" Panasonic Plasma from a twitter competition about 2 years ago (from Geeks.co.uk after re-tweeting an article - again, I didn't even release there was a competition running);
    and last but not least Sonic Generations from TGS :D
     
  5. CrapBag

    CrapBag Multimodder

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    £500 on the premium bonds when I was 16.
    Several dvd's through magazine competitions.
    Numerous small wins on the lottery (£10 or less) and one win of around £80
    Sonic generations from satan (twice) one of which was passed on.
     
  6. Cei

    Cei pew pew pew

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    1) Radio 1 competition when I was 7, got a HUGE Thunderbird 2 model
    2) Massive Lego castle when I was about 6
    3) TomTom SatNav from work
    4) £100 Amazon vouchers from Peninsula Medical School for applying!
     
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    Guest-23315 Guest

    The Corasair K60 and M60 I'm using at this very moment.

    <3 Bit-tech.
     
  8. PabloFunky

    PabloFunky What's a Dremel?

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    I havent won anything, apart from the odd £10 on lottery and scratch cards, the usual stuff.

    I did get a phone call once saying id won a car.

    As i hadnt entered any competition, i told him great deliver it Thursday please.

    Then got a whole load of "well you havent really won" just need to buy time shares and stuff.

    Ha Ha, i love winding these people up.
     
  9. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    Xbox 360 [Computer Shopper compo]
    PS3 [IGN]
    Kinect [x360a]
    Several games from numerous sources
    £15 iTunes Gift Card [local bus company]
    £150 worth of booze [pub quiz whilst at uni]

    also won a RHCP signed guitar from [as it was at the time] Virgin Radio... only the postman ****ed off with it and it was never seen again... did get £400 by way of an apology from Royal Fail though
     
  10. [ZiiP] NaloaC

    [ZiiP] NaloaC Multimodder

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    1) A large frying pan when I was 8 in the local village raffle (yeah, I was a hit with the ladies after that).
    2) Caesar III here on Bit-Tech (oldie, but goldie).
    3) Modern Warfare 2 on ZiiP in a photo competition.
    4) A copy of Darksiders 1 via Gamestop (they were giving away 10,000 copies).
    That's all.
     
  11. andrew8200m

    andrew8200m Multimodder

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    Ive won a number of AMD CPUs such as Athlon X2 250s etc from novatech along with RAM kits, boards, External HDD drives and other such things of similar purpose.

    Ive won short trips away all over the place, graphics cards, motherboards and cpus (again from here).

    The odd few £££s on the lottery or scratch cards.

    An £400 mountain bike.

    Footballs and team kits.


    Recently however very very little which isnt a bad thing as I have had more than my fair share :D
     
  12. badders

    badders Neuken in de Keuken

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    A copy of Sonic Generations, a BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 1KW power supply and a Gigabyte P45 DS3P - both from Bit-Tech a few years ago, and both still in use in my current machine. Going Strong!
     
  13. SMIFFYDUDE

    SMIFFYDUDE Supermodders on my D

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    I won a drawing competition at primary school the prize was a professional portrate photo of me and my sister and having my drawing framed. I hated this prize so much, I hate having my picture taken.

    When I was in year 7 at school I had a poem published in a book of poetry written by local school kids. Surprised me because I wrote it 5 minutes before leaving for school on the day it needed to be handed in. I only did it because it was homework.

    My Premium Bonds have won 3 times. I think it's £200 in total I've won.

    Won Shogun 2 in one of TheGreatSatan's competions.
     
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  14. [ZiiP] NaloaC

    [ZiiP] NaloaC Multimodder

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    For actual competitive stuff, I won a drawing contest here as a kid in a summer camp which then sent me to these huge national summer camp things where there were the "national championships". Terrible thing altogether. Crap venue, no money, on my own and the people I had to share with stole a bunch of my crap :D

    Came 2nd in the Eastern Regional Military Shooting Competitions in Finland in 2006 in the RK5 competition (3x5). We progressed to the nationals and came 12th overall :)
     
  15. Zinfandel

    Zinfandel Modder

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    I'm not talking about winning stuff with talent, I don't have any of that :/
     
  16. TheBlackSwordsMan

    TheBlackSwordsMan Over the Hills and Far Away

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    An inter-school literature contest, back when I was in highschool. I had to write a short news using the theme 'A bottle in the sea', they gave me 150$ ! A was pissed because they changed the word 'Filin' for 'Filet' making the sentence a nonsense @f&c.. X.x
     
  17. hoochy

    hoochy Need moar cooling

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    1) £30 HMV vouchers from work last December (which I am still trying to spend! - maybe this weekend on a Nexus 7 :E)
     
  18. [ZiiP] NaloaC

    [ZiiP] NaloaC Multimodder

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    Was just following on from Smiffydude :)
     
  19. Tangster

    Tangster Butt-kicking for goodness!

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    Couple of games in the steam x-mas sale last year. Nothing else otherwise. :(
     
  20. woof82

    woof82 What's a Dremel?

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    Won around £300 when our team came in first at the 8-task challenge

    Won our first round at Reading town regatta intermediate mens 4+ race "by a bee's dick" then came second in the final. Nothing special, but it was a great race. We would have got tankards if we came first.

    Won a lawn mower by mowing the name of our local radio station into the lawn. True story.

    I also won an argument on the internet once.
     

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