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BostonPocketPC Days of the Dragon Contest Winners

Well, we have a winner of the HP HDX Dragon Entertainment Notebook in the 31 Days of the HP Dragon Giveaway. It is Finalist #9 - Duane Laflotte who garnished the most votes in a very tight race between all 9 finalists.

Duane will be receiving the fully loaded HP HDX Dragon sent to him along with some pretty cool Software: Microsoft Office Professional 2007, Corel PaintShop Pro X2, Corel Painter Essentials, Corel Ulead Video Studio Plus 11.5, Symantec Norton Internet Security 2008; some cool Games for Windows: Viva Piñata, Microsoft Flight Sim, Microsoft Flight Sim Expansion Pack, and Gears of War; and BluRay movies -Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End.

From the hundreds that voted, these are the winners that were picked by Randomizer.org:

Pam Trader wins the Oakley Vertical Computer bag

Timothy Hays wins a copy of Gears of War for the Xbox 360.

Thomas Berney wins the Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini 2.5" 160GB portable hard drive

Mark “Sumocat” Sumimoto has won an Honorary mention award, that kept us laughing through the night as we looked over all the entries to the contest. Here is his entry, which would have made it to the finalists if had a picture of his gear:

My current gadget bag is the Monster 3000 backpack for extreme hiking. It’s loaded with an Alienware ALX Crossfire desktop (fully loaded with 3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme processor, two 500GB 7200rpm SATA hard drives, 4 GB of ram, ATI Radeon graphics card, and HD-DVD drive), 42” Phillips LCD HDTV (1080p of course) with 5.1 surround sound speakers, Microsoft 8000 Bluetooth entertainment keyboard and mouse, and a stack of ten Electrovaya 130 Powerpads for mobile computing, plus all the requisite cords and cables. It’s been working out great, but I really need to upgrade now that Blu-Ray won the high-def war, hence I am interested in the Blu-Ray equipped Dragon. I believe it will provide a similar portable computing experience, and hopefully I will adjust to carrying the lighter load.

Actually, my previous gadget bag was quite light. It’s an Incase sling pack (first generation). Designed for Macbooks, but it fit my Toshiba R25 Tablet PC in the dedicated padded pocket quite nicely. Along with my tablet, I packed a spare stylus (Wacom eraser pen), Targus podium coolpad, my old battery as a spare, and of course, the AC adapter. In the interior zipper pocket, I kept a D-Link USB Bluetooth adapter, spare 1GB SD card, SDHC USB adapter (a 4GB Sandisk SDHC Extreme II card sits in my tablet’s memory card slot), USB adapter for a presentation remote control that fits and sits in the PC card slot, and my Cellink Bluetooth stereo headset and 3.5 audio adapter. It also holds a crappy little mobile phone in the zipper pocket at the bottom of the strap. I used to carry my Casio EX-S500 digital camera in my bag until it broke (Hence, I am unfortunately without a quality camera at the moment and unable to provide a photo of my “previous” gadget bag). Hope one or both bags make it into the running!

Mark for his hard work and his grand effort in making us laugh will be getting a Pantone Huey to help calibrate his displays. :)

All Winners will need to send an email to dragoncontest@bostonpocketpc.com with your current shipping address and phone number for you to receive your prizes! Duane since you live in the United States a 1099 form will also be sent to you and all taxes will be reimbursed by Buzz Corps and HP, who we would like to thank again for helping us put on this contest.

To all our winners, Congratulations!

5/14/2008 3:32:51 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Comments [10] | Trackback

5/14/2008 3:49:03 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Great! You just awarded it to a person who could probably afford the PC! I guess the disadvantage of being in a country where PC penetration is low, therefore reflecting in a lower email vote count is of no importance! Anyways, good to see that the contest is kinda biased towards you guys from the states! Whats the use for us "outsiders" now? I have given up all hope and will no more enter any other contests! Thanks "fyiguy"!

Reeve

5/14/2008 4:05:55 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

I agree with you about the fact that the prize was given to the person who probably needs it less than any other, but this is due to this meaningless contest.
However, the country where you are from doesn't count, since the poll is worldwide, and they don't give this pc only in the States, in fact a guy from France just won the jkOnTheRun contest.

st1v |sx_man0AT NOSPAMyahoo dot it

5/14/2008 4:12:57 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

will you be releasing the total vote count of each contestant?

Evan Brammer |ebrammerAT NOSPAMgmail dot com

5/14/2008 4:15:41 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Apart from the fact that it has probably been awarded to someone who needs it the least, but the fact that it has probably awarded to someone who may not care about the machine pains me more.......

Reeve

5/14/2008 4:26:06 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Why does there seem to be so much whining about not winning. Am I bummed that I didn't win, even though I was a finalist (#7)? Totally, that notebook would be awesome. Am I gonna whine about it? No way. The person that won, did so fair and square. Everyone had a shot at it, but only one could win.

I think we should congratulate the winner. Thank the host. And then head on over to www.31daysofthedragon.com for another shot at winning a great computer. I mean really, there are thousands of entries for these beasts. Don't the contest organizers have every right to run the contest as they want?

These aren't charity contests, they are advertising ploys to get you and I to consider shelling out the dough to buy one ourselves. Why would HP want someone that cannot afford to buy a simple, $200 laptop off ebay or craigslist to win when there is no way they are going to be the heavy word of mouth advertising as a gadget freak might?

Evan Brammer |ebrammerAT NOSPAMgmail dot com

5/14/2008 7:15:52 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

The winner is definitely thankful for it and will definitely be using it. Rest assured it is in welcome hands. :)

José |maggotchowAT NOSPAMhotmail dot com

5/14/2008 7:26:38 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Wow talk about a sore loser!!

Todd |Todd2913AT NOSPAMaol dot com

5/15/2008 3:34:03 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

I'm a finalist and I want to congratulate the winner and send my thanks to BostonPocketPC for suggesting such a creative competition - I certainly had fun composing my entry and viewing the other finalists.

I have to secretly admit that if Sumocat had been entered as a finalist, I think he would have creamed the rest of the finalists from the creativity of his entry - it would have been well deserved too, that photo is awesome!

David

5/15/2008 4:36:00 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Reeve:

I am sorry you didn't win, but please don't stop trying to win. I really take it personally from your statement stating that the contest wasn't fair based on the country they are from or that a person could or not afford it. We didn't ask people for their income levels or geographic location as part of entrance to the the contest, because that is just plain unfair and rude. Heck, I can't even afford a Dragon even if I really wanted it, so you can only imagine my dismay of giving it away with no chance of entering any of the contests. You made it as a finalist, that was pretty good. Your fate was determined by your entry, those whom the finalists know and readers of this site. We stated the rules and that you could ask friends, family, etc. to vote for you. Heck if it was me - I would've emailed everyone in my contact list, if they didn't have an email account I would have signed them up for one, I would have created a blog/website called "Help me Win a Dragon", to solicate votes,etc. This would have been up to your creativity and will to win. No one did this or maybe they did, but no one here or in the rules stated you couldn't. It was a contest and some work was involved to win a pretty sweet prize. We had so many entrants that we upped the amount of finalist from 5 to 9 and we had a hard time doing that for fear of creating too large of a voting pool and spreading out the votes. We have given away extra prizes to that other sites haven't. I think we did a pretty good job and tried to give you the entrants as much control of your own destiny as possible. I am sorry you didn't win, but there could only be 1 winner. There are still more chances to win at other websites and I encourage you enter them all.

Evan:

We won't be releasing the total vote count, but I can give the order and difference between the winner's total on how close it really was. The voting was literally down to the last hour.

1. Finalist #9
2. Finalist #8 -14
3. Finalist #3 -15
4. Finalist #7 -17
5. Finalist #1 -19
6. Finalist #4 -37
7. Finalist #2 -38
8. Finalist #6 -39
9. FInalist #5 -41

Our intent was to have a fun contest open to all. I hope everyone had fun entering, voting, and viewing the contest. Again Congratulations to the winners and if you didn't win don't give up there are still other opportunities to win! :)

Steven Hughes |fyiguyAT NOSPAMbostonpocketpc dot com

5/15/2008 11:50:38 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

First of I would like to thank Boston Pocket PC for the opportunity to participate in this contents. These computers are truly amazing and this has made my year. I’m super excited to be able to use this. I travel way too much and always enjoy games on the road. I usually tend to use computers for a LONG time before replacing them so this will get a good workout I assure you. Thanks again this is awesome!!!
-Duane

Duane Laflotte |DuaneAT NOSPAMNoSpam dot Com