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Post by Cottontail Customs on May 2, 2015 1:19:09 GMT
Thank you again to everyone involved with this giveaway contest. Thank you to the participants, the moderators, Paul Southren, and Feilong Swords for making this a really fun and exciting experience. Congratulations to the winners and although the rest of you didn't win, I hope you had fun and it was nice seeing some of the faces behind the avatars Thanks again! -Josh ps - I'll get the prizes out as soon as all the winners have contacted me with their shipping info
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Post by demonskull on May 2, 2015 2:58:37 GMT
Thanks Josh for this fun event and Adrian for taking the time to post all the entries at all hours of the night.
Congrats to everyone who participated
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Post by aussie-rabbit on May 2, 2015 3:02:17 GMT
congratulations to the winners and thank you Josh!
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Post by William Swiger on May 2, 2015 6:04:03 GMT
Congratulations to all the winners, those who took the time to enter and Adrian for his work on the forum side of things.
Kudos to Josh for facilitating the prizes and getting them out to the winners.
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Post by Adrian Jordan on May 2, 2015 6:14:14 GMT
I think this went awesome. Great turnout, great submissions, we got to see some of the members in action. Fantastic. Thanks again to Josh at Cottontail Customs and Feilong Swords for reaching out and sponsoring this giveaway.
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Post by bearfoot on May 2, 2015 9:57:25 GMT
Congratulations to the winners of the cottontail customs sword give away Doh!!!
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2015 18:00:28 GMT
Yeah I'm pissed I didn't win either. Tho entering was fun in itself. To be clear- being last in the list of numbers makes no difference to a random number generator.
We had all exactly the same chance of being picked, regardless of order of entry.
thanks to Josh, Cottontail Customs, Feilong and this here forum for making the contest possible. Congrats again you lucky peeps
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Post by Shishi on May 2, 2015 18:23:03 GMT
There were quite a few more entries in this contest than the holiday draw even though there were four real awesome prizes including a Kaneie katana, Viking axe, ka-bar tanto, and va Norwich falchion.
My theory is the Cottontail Customs modifications just gave that much more incentive to get everyone's name in there. Very attractive work. I'm highly considering sending the tsuka of my next for upgrading.
Thanks again to Josh, Adrian Jordan, Aussie-rabbit, & other moderators, and of course all participants. Congratulations to the winners, and to everybody else... Better luck next time! (But try not to have better luck than me if you can help it)
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Post by mrwizard on May 3, 2015 2:52:38 GMT
Congratulations you bastids, you lucky bastids, you lucky lucky bastids ;-) Thanks to all involved for making the chance possible. It was a lot of fun making the vid and watching others video submissions.
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Post by chrismoose on May 4, 2015 9:59:33 GMT
Aww shucks it would be my luck to get stuck with the number 13. haha congrats to the winners and to the one taking the grand prize home, you better take good care of that blade!
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Post by mindfulloffire on May 4, 2015 13:14:22 GMT
demonskull as you are eagerly awaiting your spoils we are eagerly awaiting the pics / vids of you with your spoils congrats winners, and thanks to sponsors for running contest.
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Post by atrixnet on May 4, 2015 17:19:48 GMT
Congrats to the winners! I however think it was not worth my time to do what I did to use a random number generator.. Lame. As I was the last number and no chance of that.. I spent two of my nights working on that video to get it in on time and neglected my family.. Broke 4 expensive bulbs I use for video work.. Which will cost me over $70 to replace.. I will not be entering another contest unless judged by humans.. I went very out of my way as others did on there videos to make them count. I' would have just posted a pic and a write up if I knew it was a number generator. Thanks anyways.. Moderators: if this poisons the well, please delete it. This is just an informative short writeup about random number "generators". As a programmer, I can tell you that a rand() function call on a series of integers gives you a pseudo-random float with .01 precision which most wrapper functions just round up or down. The chance of getting the top spot or the bottom spot to come out of the rand call is theoretically "fair", but in practice does not happen that often. The better chances of winning lie in the middle. One reason is because there are so many more middle slots than end slots. Some will argue that there are an equal number of not-me slots around any given me slot, but in floor() and ceil() and rand(), it doesn't always work out so cleanly. I'm not going to delve deeply into probability theory or pseudo-random calls on a computer. A computer can never truly generate random numbers. This is a fact. It has to have a truly-random seed source, and computers don't have those. Systems that require such things have to go beyond the means of what computers understand: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. I'm not arguing about the contest and I'm not going to be "a poor sport". However I can say that the winners themselves should have been randomly shuffled at least twice before they were associated with a number. Thereafter the winner should have been selected at random from another random selection. The "powerball" approach is probably the best way to go, but leaves a margin for cheating in the eyes of some because any physical object can be tampered with. The reason for this post was simply to shed some light on the way computers calculate random numbers and to explain that the top and bottom slots aren't usually the winners. Any differences of opinion can feel free to chime in, but I really hope this isn't going to kick off some kind of holy war. Just let it be. Congrats to the winners, and my condolences to those who went all out on their entries and didn't get what they had hoped for.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2015 19:16:22 GMT
um, hm. learn something every day, apparently. thorough explanation. Can we still say that even the end numbers are within so close of a probability margin as to be called equal to the generator? just sayin, if it amounts to something like a 0.001% difference to the end numbers, then probably didn't effect the outcome... right? a moot point now I guess. tho thx for explaining... the search for perfect randomness must be a little like the search for the perfect sword
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Post by KaOsBlaKbLaDe on May 4, 2015 21:55:23 GMT
read next time ninjastyle, the random # generator was no secret. poor form dude.
CONGRATS WINNERS!!!
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Post by Lukas MG (chenessfan) on May 4, 2015 22:30:25 GMT
Ah, look at that! I won some sword oil! That's always good to have ;) Cool...
Many thanks to Cottontail customs for the contest and thanks to all participants for submitting their entry!
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Post by mindfulloffire on May 4, 2015 23:14:35 GMT
i really enjoyed watching the entry videos. a lot of people put some real time effort into them and it didn't go unnoticed!
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Post by atrixnet on May 5, 2015 19:42:22 GMT
i really enjoyed watching the entry videos. a lot of people put some real time effort into them and it didn't go unnoticed! Totally agree! There were some fantastic entries. I watched each one and enjoyed myself a lot.
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