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Contest: Write a Haiku & Win Nine Games (Update: Winners announced!)

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Lifer
Winners announced!

Played - Episode 50!

It?s our 50th Podcast and it?s time to announce the winners of our Haiku contest! Plus we talk Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II, Killzone 2, more Fable 2, King?s Bounty: The Legend, and Mircosofts claim that games are healthy!

Link: http://www.playedpodcast.com/2...3-11/played-episode-50
Direct download: http://www.playedpodcast.com/w.../Played-Episode-50.mp3



Ok guys, we're rebooting this contest due to an internal debate--we just couldnt agree on a song type for our theme. 🙁

What we are doing is we're giving away an amazing bundle of games to 3 gamers who make us a fun Haiku. We will select our favorites of the bunch and then Chris will immortalize them in a song to announce the winners. Here are the official rules:

Rules and Guidelines
- Official announce is located here: Episode 48 - listen to this for more details.
- Winner announcement: Episode 50
- Haiku must be about our Podcast.
- Submissions must posted on our forums or emailed to hotforplayed@gmail.com
- Disclaimer: Rules and prizes are open to change.


Grand Prize Winner
- Rock Band 1 Special Edition + RB2 disk
- Left 4 Dead
- Crysis Warhead
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
- Infinite Undiscovery
- Tomb Raider: Underground
- Pure
- Duke Nuke'em 3D (XBL)
- The World Ends With You.

Runner-ups (2nd & 3rdsPlace)
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
- Left 4 Dead
- Duke Nuke'em 3D (XBL)
- Infinite Undiscovery
- Tomb Raider: Underground
- Pure
- The World Ends With You

This is a super-easy way to win a bunch of fun games. Seriously.

Ok guys, we're rebooting this contest due to an internal debate--we just couldnt agree on a song type for our theme. 🙁

What we are doing is we're giving away an amazing bundle of games to 3 gamers who make us a fun Haiku. We will select our favorites of the bunch and then Chris will immortalize them in a song to announce the winners. Here are the official rules:

Rules and Guidelines
- Official announce is located here: Episode 48 - listen to this for more details.
- Winner announcement: Episode 50
- Haiku must be about our Podcast.
- Submissions must posted on our forums or emailed to hotforplayed@gmail.com
- Disclaimer: Rules and prizes are open to change.


Grand Prize Winner
- Rock Band 1 Special Edition + RB2 disk
- Left 4 Dead
- Crysis Warhead
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
- Infinite Undiscovery
- Tomb Raider: Underground
- Pure
- Duke Nuke'em 3D (XBL)
- The World Ends With You.

Runner-ups (2nd & 3rdsPlace)
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
- Left 4 Dead
- Duke Nuke'em 3D (XBL)
- Infinite Undiscovery
- Tomb Raider: Underground
- Pure
- The World Ends With You

This is a super-easy way to win a bunch of fun games. Seriously.
 
We've updated the rules to now include international submissions. Also, I'm surprised no one here has entered. There are 9 (some really great) games being given away here and all you have to do it write an Haiku.

I cannot beleive how hard it is to give away games to the internets. 🙁
 
Probably because you're giving away Rock Band 1 instead of 2 😛. They're like, "all that work for the crappy drums!"
 
Honestly, I don't want to watch a podcast that doesn't interest me in order to write a haiku about it just to have a chance to win some games that I will never play...


This is just my opinion, of course, but if other people feel the same way it could explain why you don't have many entries.
 
My entry:

The games play nicely
Violent sounds taking off
My friends heads get shot

That's my first haiku ever!
 
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Probably because you're giving away Rock Band 1 instead of 2 😛. They're like, "all that work for the crappy drums!"
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Well, it's actually the RB1 collectors edition WITH the RB2 disk--but I hear ya. What can I say, we dont have a lot of juice. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Fardringle
Honestly, I don't want to watch a podcast that doesn't interest me in order to write a haiku about it just to have a chance to win some games that I will never play...


This is just my opinion, of course, but if other people feel the same way it could explain why you don't have many entries.
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Thanks for your input.
 
Originally posted by: Fardringle
Honestly, I don't want to watch a podcast that doesn't interest me in order to write a haiku about it just to have a chance to win some games that I will never play...


This is just my opinion, of course, but if other people feel the same way it could explain why you don't have many entries.
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Once we opened it up internationally the floodgates opened. :beer:

 
Originally posted by: warcrow
Originally posted by: Fardringle
Honestly, I don't want to watch a podcast that doesn't interest me in order to write a haiku about it just to have a chance to win some games that I will never play...


This is just my opinion, of course, but if other people feel the same way it could explain why you don't have many entries.
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Once we opened it up internationally the floodgates opened. :beer:
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I'm glad to hear it! I've been on the organizing side of some contests in the past and it's frustrating when you don't get a good response.
 
Originally posted by: Rage187
the entry I sent in

gaming budget tight
could win this haiku contest
anyone seen my wife
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I dont get the last line? There has to be a story there. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: warcrow
Originally posted by: Rage187
the entry I sent in

gaming budget tight
could win this haiku contest
anyone seen my wife
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I dont get the last line? There has to be a story there. 🙂
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if I win all those games my wife will leave me; I think it is a fair trade 😉
 
Originally posted by: Rage187
Originally posted by: warcrow
Originally posted by: Rage187
the entry I sent in

gaming budget tight
could win this haiku contest
anyone seen my wife
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I dont get the last line? There has to be a story there. 🙂
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if I win all those games my wife will leave me; I think it is a fair trade 😉
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Doh! Heh...
 
Originally posted by: SunnyD
I'd enter, but I don't think I could write a Haiku to save my ass. I just don't get it.
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Haiku poetry is very simple. It consists of three lines with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third. It doesn't need to rhyme but frequently says something significant (like the "Confucius Say" sayings).

For an example, this is one of my favorite haiku poems:


Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that

 
I threw my hat in the mix too.

we try to pretend
we know what we are doing
but you know better

I wrote a haiku
submitted for your review
please give me some swag

get ready kiddies
we are about to begin
the best podcast ever
 
Originally posted by: Boobs McGee
I threw my hat in the mix too.

we try to pretend
we know what we are doing
but you know better

I wrote a haiku
submitted for your review
please give me some swag

get ready kiddies
we are about to begin
the best podcast ever
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FAILBOAT

😛
 
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: Boobs McGee
I threw my hat in the mix too.

we try to pretend
we know what we are doing
but you know better

I wrote a haiku
submitted for your review
please give me some swag

get ready kiddies
we are about to begin
the best podcast ever
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FAILBOAT

😛
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Hey man, we're certainly dont mind a little :lips: (_|_) no matter how far fetched it is!

 
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