AND THE WINNER IS!!! (HSPL Pool)

[gspitman]

HSPL Release pool!
Hey folks!

***Entries are CLOSED, Thanks to all participants and the winner will be announced after the release***








Instead of sitting around being upset about the release time, and mindlessly hitting F5, I thought we should start up a pool... here are the rules!

1. $5 donation to the Elite Team, https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...ton_id=9282538
2. Post your guess, along with your donation receipt number
3. Be sure to include your guess for the DATE and TIME (Let's do all guesses in Eastern Daylight Time) for the release of the HSPL.
4. Official time will be determined by the timestamp of the EDIT to the post on the HSPL thread.
5. The closest guess will receive 75% of the donations, the EliteTeam will get 25%
6. No guesses in the past (ie... the timestamp of your post must be earlier than the time of your guess)

Let's keep this fun!! So if you don't like the idea, think it's rigged etc. Don't play!

Have a great day and GOOD LUCK!

MOD NOTE: This is a private pool FOR FUN run by gspitman. If you question his methods or process please do not participate. PPCG is not involved in this contest. Play at your own risk.

EDIT: To ensure things are on the up and up, if I (gspitman) end up with the winning entry, I'm donating the ENTIRE proceeds to the Elite Team!








Entries: (All times EDT)

1. gspitman - 3:45 PM 10/29
2. Young_breedent - 6:00 PM 10/29
3. rwcj63 - 5:45 PM 10/29
4. ajac - 5:30 PM 10/29
5. one80oneday - 12:00 AM 10/31 (WINNER! HSPL was posted at 1:16 AM 10/31)
6. chazybaz13 - 4:30 PM 10/29
7. warlockgs - 7:45 PM 10/29
8. Gorby - 6:15 PM 10/29
9. jj62mtp - 7:05 PM 10/29
10. Yay4Juggs - 8:37 PM 10/29
11. kevmo1965 - 9:17 PM 10/29
12. cwest06 - 6:00 PM 10/29
13. nutzy19 - 8:00 PM 10/29
14. flyswatter - 8:15 PM 10/29
15. football0552 - 10:20 PM 10/29
16. finman76 - 4:00 PM 10/29
17. bignadad - 9:35 PM 10/29
18. 99accordv6 - 10:32 PM 10/29
19. cflynt - 3:58 PM 10/29
20. froader - 4:05 PM 10/29

[gspitman]

Ok, here's my guess I'm saying 3:45PM EDT 10/29/2009

My PayPal Confirmation number is 0NV74918RM902234W

[Spiderman313]

Not a bad idea!

[Young_breedent]

I guess 5pm central time and transaction ID: 54V03903BC971362G

[imkk]

Can we use the time from the actual release site, not PPCgeeks?

[lefty11]

Originally Posted by gspitman

HSPL Release pool!
Hey folks!

Instead of sitting around being upset about the release time, and mindlessly hitting F5, I thought we should start up a pool... here are the rules!

1. $5 donation to the Elite Team, https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...ton_id=9282538
2. Post your guess, along with your donation receipt number
3. Be sure to include your guess for the DATE and TIME (Let's do all guesses in Eastern Daylight Time) for the release of the HSPL.
4. Official time will be determined by the timestamp of the post on the HSPL thread.
5. The closest guess will receive 75% of the donations, the EliteTeam will get 25%

Let's keep this fun!! So if you don't like the idea, think it's rigged etc. Don't play!

Have a great day and GOOD LUCK!

Have thought about this but leaves too much gray area. All it takes is a predetermined release time to match a specific person's guess. You cannot guarantee that everything is fair unfortunately. i am not saying that they would do that, you just cannot guarantee .You would have to have one trusted administrator to keep everyones guess privately , at the very least to be above board . Maybe they should just offer a free SIM unlock for the winner

[Certs]

I'm deleting the post in the other thread to avoid confusion. Have fun, I guess

[gspitman]

Originally Posted by Young_breedent

I guess 5pm central time and transaction ID: 54V03903BC971362G

Clarifying... 6pm EDT 10/29 for this entry.

[imkk]

Is the Elite Team on board with this?

[gspitman]

Originally Posted by imkk

Can we use the time from the actual release site, not PPCgeeks?

As of now I'm using the PPCG release, I'm confirming where it will be relased first with the team right now.