Contests, Lotteries, Winning Things: How Have You Fared?

[PITTM]

In the coming 9 days I will find out if:
a) I will be going to the european cup final(soccer)
b) I will be going to the final four.

for a, my friend and I both entered the drawing and I estimate our chances being about 1 in 3 to win. for b, my friend was the 8th caller into the KNBR afternoon sports show on tuesday. They took a person for every day this week and today they will announce which of those 5 people wins the lottery and goes to the final four. I would be my friends guest.

This made me think back on things I have won in a contest. When I was 8, I won 3 blind melon cd's for winning some sam goody contest that I forgot I had entered. We used the CD's as frisbees. In high school, I entered a raffle for charity and won a small television. Probably my favorite story was when I lived in Santa Barbara and a bunch of my friends went on The Price is Right and one of them won a car, everyone in my dorm went nuts for a few weeks. Since our forum is obviously full of giant luckboxes and I love stories of triumph, I thought I would start a thread about things people have won in contests and how. commence the story telling.

[Slow Play Ray]

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When I was 8, I won 3 blind melon cd's for winning some sam goody contest that I forgot I had entered. We used the CD's as frisbees.

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I hate you for this. I hope you have since realized the error in your ways. If not, you must like hip-hop or whatever you kids call it nowadays.

BTW, I never win anything good.

[Evan]

I won a pretty cool remote control car when I was 10 in a raffle at a school fair or something. I think it sold for $200, pretty big $$$$ for a 10 year old.

I think I've been on a cold streak since then.

[Claunchy]

I was sitting at a Party Poker table where the BBJ hit (KKKK > 8888). Unfortunately I wasn't in the hand, but I still won ~10k.

I've also won free tickets to shows by calling into the radio a couple times, but that's relatively easy to do as long as the act isn't super-huge.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

The only things I've ever won like this in my life:

The local radio station came up and handed me a Styx (WTF?) cd when I was on the beach about 15 years ago. I think my response was something along the lines of "man, I'm twelve years old and what the [censored] is Styx?"

I won a drawing for a hockey stick at a tournament I was playing in. It was actually a decent stick and I used it for a while until I broke it.

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Fast-forward about 12 years without winning a damned thing...
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A $10 giftcard to Target or some [censored] for answering a trivia question at a company Christmas party.

Oh, and when I was a kid, my mom won us a trip to Disneyland through a local radio scavenger hunt.

My luck is such that I win much more than my fair share of raffle tickets at the company casino night party (NL hold'em, obv) and still never win anything in the drawing. Meanwhile, other people get drawn twice and/or they win and then their spouse wins too.

RIGGED

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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The only things I've ever won like this in my life:

The local radio station came up and handed me a Styx (WTF?) cd when I was on the beach about 15 years ago. I think my response was something along the lines of "man, I'm twelve years old and what the [censored] is Styx?"

I won a drawing for a hockey stick at a tournament I was playing in. It was actually a decent stick and I used it for a while until I broke it.

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Fast-forward about 12 years without winning a damned thing...
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A $10 giftcard to Target or some [censored] for answering a trivia question at a company Christmas party.

Oh, and when I was a kid, my mom won us a trip to Disneyland through a local radio scavenger hunt.

My luck is such that I win much more than my fair share of raffle tickets at the company casino night party (NL hold'em, obv) and still never win anything in the drawing. Meanwhile, other people get drawn twice and/or they win and then their spouse wins too.

RIGGED

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Oh and here's another BEAT. My dad took me to the mall to hunt for easter eggs when I was a little kid. You're guaranteed to win something there, so it doesn't really count as a win. In the end, I actually count it as a loss, as one of the eggs I picked up was good for a 10-speed bike, but my dad made me put that one back and turn in the one that was good for a [censored] He-Man coloring book instead. Thanks, Dad - I'm still bitter.

[PITTM]

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I hate you for this. I hope you have since realized the error in your ways. If not, you must like hip-hop or whatever you kids call it nowadays.

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last 3 cd's i listened to:
-steve winwood-back in the high life
-the guess who-best of
-crosby, still and nash-s/t

[Dids]

When I was in 3rd grade I entered the science fair. I, and my family had no idea this was a competition, we just thought it was like "do a project, display it". My dad and I did a ton of work on this train thingy (made from cardboard, with a mountain and everything). I ended up taking one of the three blue ribbons at the fair. Winning something, when you didn't realize it was even a competition, is awesome.

Beyond that, nothing. I don't enter radio drawings and what not.

(the next year I entered a project on acid rain, my two best friends thought I was insane, because they didn't realize it was real, since they'd only heard about it through transformers).

[Borodog]

A neon green T shirt with "BUD: The King of Beers" written on the front in hot pink lettering, for having Surf 107 play my "Perfect Album Side" on air in high school. Said perfect album side included:

- Fantasy Girl, 38 Special
- Whadda You Want From Me, Billy Squier
- Fool in the Rain, Led Zeppelin
- The Party's Over (Hopelessly in Love), Journey
- Talk to You Later, The Tubes

A true apex.

[XXXNoahXXX]

In terms of no skill winnings:

Won a free backpack stuffed full of pens, markers, etc. every year of elementary school. The donut place down the street used to give away like 10 backpacks full of stuff right before school started. My brother and I always stuffed the ballot box with like 1000 entries. It was always comical when we got called first to win and then they proceeded to keep pulling us again and again and just looking at and then discarding the sheet.


My luck elsewhere has been awful. I have never won on a scratch ticket in my life. Sure I've won the typical get your money back or maybe double, biggest win ever was $25 on a $5 ticket. Between occasional purchases and the hundreds that I have gotten on holidays and birthdays I estimate I have received upwards of $5000 in scratch tickets, and have not even won a measly $100.

This will all chance tonight at 11pm when I win MegaMillions. If I randomly stop posting on 2+2 and never return, you can assume that I have won.