RACE TO SEV : RANDOM DRAW 09/04/05-16:00h

[tesco samoa]

RACE TO SEV : RANDOM DRAW
Saturday April 9th 16:00 hours Eastern Standard Time.
Location #SpaceEmpires on irc.freenode.net
Prizes
3 beta slots for SEV
2 Copies of SEV ( When Released to the public )
6 gift certificates
1 Ship set from Atrocities
Rules : This announcement is being mailed to all players in the RacetoSEV tournament. After the draw official emails will be sent to the winners of the prizes. Prize winners will also be posted at the following locations. PBW, ShrapnelGames SE4 forum and PBW Race to SEV Forums. Winners have one week to claim their prize by contacting myself or Captain Kwok. If the winner does not reply within one week the prize will be redrawn. This will continue until all prizes are claimed.
Draw. All players who are not in the final will be placed in the random draw. Each name will be assigned a random number. Then a random number generator will be used to draw the number. Players can only win 1 beta slot or one copy of SEV.
Prize order. Beta slot, Gift Cert, Gift Cert, Copy of SEV, Shipset, Gift Cert, Beta Slot, Gift Cert, Gift Cert, Copy of SEV, Gift Cert, Beta Slot.
Connect to #Spaceempires. Please see the instructions at http://seirc.spaceempires.net/guide.php
Thanks to everyone with their help on the Race to Space Empires V

[tesco samoa]

hi mods can we have this as a sticky just until Sat.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

.....and it is too late to join up now?

[Ragnarok]

Strategia_In_Ultima said:
.....and it is too late to join up now?

This is only open to those who played in the tourney game.

Link to forum.



There was a tourney set up in SEIV on PBW that had players fighting it out for SEV beta slots and so forth. The winners of those game got their bids and now the random draw is to give out the rest of the prizes.
Link to Shrapnel forum for this tourney.

Just to give you an idea as to what it is in more detail, here is the description of this tourney from before it started:

PBW Race to SEV

Tournament of Champions


Space Empires Play by Web and Malfador Machinations proudly present Race for SEV play by web tournament. Entry to the tournament closes on August 1st and is available for all registered PBW players. Cost to enter is 20 U.S. dollars. Proceeds from the tournament will be donated to PBW to pay for monthly server costs. Any questions please contact admin@pbw.com

Prizes.

* 5 Beta test slots for Space Empires Five (donated by Malfador Machinations)
* 4 copies of Space Empires Five (donated by Tescosamoa and Suicide Junkie)
* 1 SEIV personalized entry screen (donated by David E. Gervais)
* 1 SEV personalized entry screen (donated by David E. Gervais)
* 3 SEIV personalized ship sets (donated by Atrocities)
* 1 SEIV personalized entry screen for all tournament players (donated by David E. Gervais)
* 5 20 dollar gift certificates for Red Lobster / Olive Garden (donated by Wardad)
* 1 25 dollar gift certificate for Shrapnel Games. (donated by Shrapnel Games)


Tournament Rules.

* All participants must be a registered PBW player.
* If you have not registered please do so at PBW
* 20 U.S. Dollars must be paid to PBW via Pay Pal ( http://seiv.pbw.cc/donate.html )
* In the payment notes please add Entry FEE for Race to SEV. PWB Nick = ( Your PBW Nick )
* Once this payment has been verified you will be entered into the tournament.
* Your nick will be assigned to a PBW Race to SEV game by a Game Administrator.
* There will be 4 initial games set up. Players will be added evenly to each game until the maximum 20 positions are filled.
* If this occurs then another game will be added and all games will be evened out.
* This process will be repeated until August 1st.
* On August 5th the games will be created on PBW and the Game administrator will add the players to the games.
* Each player will be sent an email detailing the Game rules and a link to the SEIV personalized entry screen.
* All players must have their empires loaded and ship set selected by August 12th.
* If you cannot get your empire in at this time please email you empire file to you Game admin ahead of time.
* If you do not have your empire loaded on August 13th the Game Admin will upload a generated empire for you and send you an email with its password.
* On August 15th the tournament will start.
* The winners from round one games will be advanced to the final round.
* The final round game will begin 1 week after the completion of round one.


Game Rules

* Starting resources: 100000
* Starting planets: 3
* Home planet value: Good
* Score display: Own
* Technology level: Low
* Racial points: 2000
* Quadrant type: spiral
* Quadrant size: Medium ( 5 systems per player up to a max of 100 systems )
* Event frequency: None
* Event severity: Low
* Technology cost: med
* Victory conditions: one winner
* Maximum units: max
* Maximum ships: max
* Computer players: na
* Computer difficulty: na
* Computer player bonus: na
* Neutral empires: No
* Other game settings:No Surrender
* Trading will be turned off.
* 48hour Automated Turn.



Prize Payouts

* 1st place. Beta Test slot for SEV and a personalized entry screen SEV
* 2ndplace. Beta Test slot for SEV and a personalized entry screen for SEIV
* 3rdplace. A copy of SEV and a ship set from Atrocities
* 4th place. A copy of SEV


Random Prizes to be given out at the end of the tournament.

* 3 Beta Test slots for SEV
* 2 copies of SEV
* 6 gift certificates

[Instar]

How will the numbers be drawn? Random.org?

[tesco samoa]

something like that

bump and make it a sticky

[Caduceus]

Woo Random drawing!

Glee!

[Phoenix-D]

Random commentary:

Your chance to win a prize, assuming the four games were completely full and no repeat draws, is 26%.

Also know in gambling terms as pretty good.

EDIT: I assume those who have already been granted beta slots are excluded from winning another?

[Randallw]

I forsee a problem concerning me (I apologise for my ego). There is no point me winning Red Lobster or Olive Garden certificates. We have Red Rooster, not Red Lobster and I don't even know what Olive Garden is (Greek food?).

[Spoo]

Italian.