Ended Official BYC Contest - 1 Million Threads Contest - Guess Day/Time & Win Free Automatic Coop Doo

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WINNERS ANNOUNCED HERE

This contest is sponsored by
Ladies First Chicken Door


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After more than 8 wonderful years, with nearly 370,000 members posting and asking questions and answering questions, making new friends, and unbelievable 15,417,736 posts (and counting) it's hard to imagine just how many threads there are….


NEARLY 1,000,000!!!!
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In an effort to celebrate with everyone we are starting a new contest to guess when we will reach 1,000,000 threads!

If you are the closest to guess the DATE & HOUR (Eastern Standard Time) when we'll hit 1,000 000 threads and win some amazing prizes!!!



FIRST PLACE (For closest guess) will win an automatic coop door, proudly sponsored by Ladies First "All In One" Chicken Door! (retail value $249)

(If a winning member is outside the Continental US, we’re offering a A $100 Gift certificate to the BYC STORE in place of the coop door)


SECOND PLACE will win a $50 Gift Certificate to the BYC STORE


THIRD PLACE will win a 1-year Golden Feather Membership for themselves or a friend.



How To Enter:

To enter the contest, you need (to do) three things:


1) Reply to this thread with a link to your introduction thread here on BYC. For older members, if you haven't started an introduction thread way back then, please start a thread now, in the New Member Introductions section, introduce yourself to the community and tell us a bit about your flock and yourself.

2) Have a post count of at least 10 posts
3) In the same reply, enter the date/time you think we'll hit the magic number in the format 1/12/2015 6:00 pm


WE WILL BE ACCEPTING GUESSES UNTIL 11/22/2015 (NOVEMBER 22, 2015)


Your reply MUST be in this format: Month/Day/Year Hour... kinda like this:


1/12/2015 18:00:00

or

1/12/2015 6:00 pm

Rules:


  1. To enter the contest, in addition to your guess, you need to post a link to your introduction thread here on BYC. For older members, if you haven't started an introduction thread way back then, please start a thread now in the New Member Introductions section. Introduce yourself to the community and tell us a bit about your flock and yourself. Members also need to have a post count of at least 10 posts, to become eligible.
  2. The closest guess to the actual date/hour (either before or after) wins.
  3. You can only enter the contest with ONE GUESS ENTRY!
  4. If you want to lock in a specific day/hour, post it before anybody else.
  5. You can change your guess to a different day/hour IF IT IS NOT TAKEN but if you choose another day you allow someone else to take your previous guess.
  6. You can change your guess as many times as you want until the end of the contest time above!
  7. To change your guess: Edit your guess post before the end of the contest
  8. All guesses must be on the HOUR (i.e., NO MINUTES). If you entered minutes into your guess your guess will be rounded up or down to the closest hour.
  9. We will be accepting guesses until and including 11/22/2015 (22 November 2015)
  10. Most important: HAVE LOTS OF FUN!


You can find the current number of threads on the BYC homepage (look in the right side of the homepage).

 
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The calendar is completely updated with all the time changes people made. Thank you everyone who messaged me to let me know they changed there guess
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. Only thing I didn't do was check for post count or introduction thread (that's for the mods hehe) But everyone before the deadline is on the calendar. It should make this contest easier for the mods. Calendar can be found here: https://calendar.google.com/calenda...roup.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
 
I would think it would be rounded to 9, following regular rounding rules if it is 5 or higher ( half way mark for 10) you round up. Since 30 is half of an hour it makes sense ( to me anyway), that you would round up at 30 and down at 29.

Yeah that makes sense. Ok I rounded all the 30min up on the calendar. (9:30pm became 10:00pm)

Our Conflicts are:
finnfur (page 12) and wornoutmomento3 (pg3) for 12am 1-1-16
frindizzle (page 13) and akaruby (page 5) for 4pm 12-14-15
Now that I have rounded all the times up from the 30min mark (9:30 to 10:00) we got another conflict:
CogburnIsMyRoo (page 13) and Jujubara (page 1) for 8pm 12-2-15

Sorry if I spelled any names wrong. This should completely update the calendar which can be found here: https://calendar.google.com/calenda...roup.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York

NOTE: This is not an official Calendar for the contest and I was not asked by anyone to make it. This is a complete volunteer project I took upon myself to help out. The accuracy may not be 100% but it is pretty close. I have triple checked the post (dates and times) to account for errors for the Calendar.

Also I converted all post who put time in CST in the proper EST format (6pm CST became 7pmEST) on the calendar.
 
Couldn't have gone to a sweeter person! Well, 'cept me! Teehee!!! So happy for you, Debby! Waiting to see who got second and third - congrats to them as well! This was so much fun I can't wait to skip the next one!
 
Thank you everyone! Keep your eyes open for the contests, any of them...I'm proof that it pays to play and just have fun with them!

It's a real treat to have opportunities like this open to all of us
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Thank you BYC & Sponsors!
 
@Blooie I just read your intro thread and got to experience Kendra meeting the new chicks. I've heard the story before but reading it as it unfolded was wonderful as was getting to 'meet' Katie and Evan again for the first time. You have some fine grandkids!

I don't know about the extra credit thing for the millionth post but I'm pretty sure we get extra credit for having you around!
Awww, what a nice thing to say. Thank you!
 

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