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old.Xpander
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On November 9th 2001 you may have noticed that the computer game retail outlet 'Game' held a competition on both it's own Web site and on Barrysworld itself that ran in conjunction with the release of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. The competition consisted of the following:
1. To fill in the blank: "If I was a Dark Lord of the Sith, I would call myself Darth _____" and send it to cjravey@game.uk.com
2. Eight entries would then be decided and on the 23rd November (yesterday) those eight people would arrive at the Game store in Harrow, Middlesex and basically play the new Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds game for a couple of hours and win the prizes as mentioned in the URL above. Even the runners up would win prizes to the value of around £90.
Seems fair enough no? Except it then becomes totally absurd. I arrive in from work yesterday at about 17:30 and quickly have a glance over what e-mails I have received during the day. And to my surprise, I have managed to get myself through to the last eight people to go to Harrow and play the game and win some goodies! But then lets see what time the notify e-mail was sent... Ah, midday. I've now got 30 minutes to travel down the M40 at the speed of light. It ain't going to happen.
How on earth could anybody hold a competition like this and only give people under six hours notice at the very least? Don't they understand that the majority of people do in fact work a normal 9-5 job? Even so, six hours notice would hardly suffice for somebody who lives miles away from Middlesex! 24 hours notification at the very least should have been given.
Which suspiciously leads me to believe that in actual fact it seems awfully convenient for any staff who want the prizes that would probably have to replace 90% of the 'winners' as I can't see that anyone is going to turn up on such short notice unless they actually live in Harrow.
I'm very intrigued over whether anybody who was sent an e-mail yesterday actually attended this shambles of a competition.
Yes, I am a tiny bit bitter. But I have every reason to be. Don't I?!?
1. To fill in the blank: "If I was a Dark Lord of the Sith, I would call myself Darth _____" and send it to cjravey@game.uk.com
2. Eight entries would then be decided and on the 23rd November (yesterday) those eight people would arrive at the Game store in Harrow, Middlesex and basically play the new Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds game for a couple of hours and win the prizes as mentioned in the URL above. Even the runners up would win prizes to the value of around £90.
Seems fair enough no? Except it then becomes totally absurd. I arrive in from work yesterday at about 17:30 and quickly have a glance over what e-mails I have received during the day. And to my surprise, I have managed to get myself through to the last eight people to go to Harrow and play the game and win some goodies! But then lets see what time the notify e-mail was sent... Ah, midday. I've now got 30 minutes to travel down the M40 at the speed of light. It ain't going to happen.
How on earth could anybody hold a competition like this and only give people under six hours notice at the very least? Don't they understand that the majority of people do in fact work a normal 9-5 job? Even so, six hours notice would hardly suffice for somebody who lives miles away from Middlesex! 24 hours notification at the very least should have been given.
Which suspiciously leads me to believe that in actual fact it seems awfully convenient for any staff who want the prizes that would probably have to replace 90% of the 'winners' as I can't see that anyone is going to turn up on such short notice unless they actually live in Harrow.
I'm very intrigued over whether anybody who was sent an e-mail yesterday actually attended this shambles of a competition.
Yes, I am a tiny bit bitter. But I have every reason to be. Don't I?!?
