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Has anyone here on ATOT(MODs included) ever won anything big?

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I won about $60 in a NCAA tourney pool in HS. In fact, I entered twice and came in first AND third, but I only got the first-place money. :| 😀
 
I have one a $50 best buy gift card, the lotto for $48, at the casino for like $40, intants for $30, $20, $10, ... My dad also won $2500 on the lotto, an IBM laptop like 11 years ago, a bunch of little things like drills and pens and stuff.
 
When I was in 8th grade, I won the J Geils Band "Centerfold" 45 (vinyl) at a school dance. Does that count? I think it's the only thing I've ever actually won..
 


<< My cousin won a ford escort. >>



I don't really like the car, but damn! I would take that if it comes free!!
 
I won £80 (about $115) on the lottery once ,and a teddy bear at a fair that`s about all.


Oh and I`ve just won £10 few hours back today on the lottery 😀 .
 


<< Me and 10 other's where I work won 7.5 million dollars in the lottery pool. >>



:Q
How long ago?
Is it true what they say about wining the lottery? You end up spending it very quickly.
How much was your share?
 


<< Me and 10 other's where I work won 7.5 million dollars in the lottery pool. >>



Oh wait, those are canadian dollars (you're from toronto I see). Still cool, but not as cool as it could be
 
Text athlon xp/mobo too

Ya! Here too 😀 It was worth $290 then...now, it's prolly around $200-220. Cheap 7DX mobo....

Oh, and once, I went to Blockbuster to rent a video I needed to watch for skool. They gave me a scratch card, and upon scratching, I got
a second rental for free 🙂 When I got my 2nd free rental, they gave me another scratch card, and I got a free foreign film rental 🙂
But this time, when I asked for a scratch card, they said no since I didn't pay to rent the film....the second one was pure luck then 🙂
 
I won a barbecue grill once... well actually my parents sorta won it, they used my name though because it was one entry per person. Anyway I was like 10 at the time, and I get this call saying "congratulations you've won a barbecue grill" or something, I didn't know what the hell they were talking about. It was funny.

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I Won a TurboGraffix right when it first came out. They had a contest in the Chicago Tribune, and I was one of 4 people who answered all 5 questions correctly. They had 10 systems to give away 🙂

Other than that, I win free pop almost every time I open a coke.
 
I dont know if you call it winning, but I paid for a trip to maui at the hyatt and the reservations got screwed up and we ended up at the Grand Wailea 5 star hotel instead, totally free for ten days. I guess I would call that winning. All our breakfasts were free too, because that was in our original deal.

Grand Wailea is a sweet place to be...
 
Grr...I've only won a few things; none of them being worth more than $10 probably. 🙁
The most recent thing was a t-shirt at a 4-H awards ceremony.
 
My girlfriend when she took a trip to NY she had the winning piece for the McDonalds game for the $1,000,000.00 dollars. But she was with a bunch of little kids for her modeling pageant and the little kids took no meaning of it and threw it away.

She only realized later that it was the hardest piece to find, the boardwalk piece.
 
my parents won a vacation to whistler and turned it down cause they didnt wanna pay the taxes on it. one of my friends in college won the showcase showdown on the price is right this past summer. including a ford escort, a dodge durango, trip to space camp, and a bunch of other crap. it was pretty cool.
 
Also, where do I enter to win all these constests?

I wouldn't mind winning a $500.00 GC to cooking.com. I would buy all kinda pots and pans LOL.
 
Once I won $10 in the lottery. Another time I won a Michael Jordan commemorative sports card set (which I didn't get because I was too lazy to redeem the Gatorade cap). When I was 6, I won a set of tapes designed to boost my self-esteem. They obviously didn't work too well.
 
I won a year's worth of free rentals at Blockbuster Video when I played in their 2nd anual tournament (SNES) Damn that competition cart! I would have won internationally if it weren't a trick cartridge pulled on everyone!
 
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