July 15, 2010
Hello!
To the anxious and excited contestants who have been patiently waiting for the results of this contest, we have good news for all of you!
Today we are more than happy to announce that after half-a-month of scrutinizing the top 200 designs in our gallery, 15 of the shirts have been selected to compete for the three major prizes.
We will personally contact the designers of each shirt that made it to the last 15. We will post the 15 selected shirts on the gallery and on our Facebook fan Page once the designers of the 15 designs are notified.
The designers of the 15 qualified shirt designs will be given a chance to improve their designs.The revised designs will be revealed on the awarding event of the contest.
As for the “Most Voted Shirt Design”, we are still making adjustments to those that have been found of illegal tactics. Please wait for any of our announcements regarding to the details and mechanics leading up to the event of awarding the winners of the t-shirt contest.
Congratulations all designers of the 15 qualified designs!
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Previous Message
June 30, 2010
Hello T-shirt Contest Participants!
Today is the last day of voting for our t-shirt design contest. We thank you in making the contest a successful one through your creativity and perseverance. The votes will be displayed today for the last time in the duration of the contest voting.
It is also worth announcing that although we have made changes in our rules of voting, still there are those who resort to underhanded tactics to manipulate the number of votes to their benefit. We promise to everyone that we will hand those contestants with apt penalty.
The final 15 designs that will be chosen by the company will be announced on July 15, 2010 at exactly 12 PM on www.wheatgrasscan.com.
Please wait for any of our announcements regarding to the details and mechanics leading up to the event of awarding the winners of the t-shirt contest.
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To all of the contestants,
Thank you for being part of the Easy Pha-max t-shirt design contest.
Since the start of the voting phase of the contest, it has come to our knowledge that some contestants have resorted to the use of underhanded tricks to their advantage. This is unacceptable to the other contestants who have been tirelessly promoting their shirt entries to get more votes. We have also had several complaints about the use of IP addresses to track votes as many have shared IP addresses or can easily change IP addresses to gain more votes.
Because of this, we are forced to take immediate action. We will be employing a new voting system that is less susceptible to abuse. We will continue to monitor the voting process and impose sanctions or disqualifications to abusive contestants during the voting period.
It is a difficult decision for us, but to ensure a fairer playing field, we will be resetting the votes back to zero. The new, more rigid voting process, might make it more difficult for contestants to gain votes, therefore putting those who've enjoyed the past voting system, at an unfair advantage. Current voting will be suspended and the new voting system will open on June 1, 2010. The rules for contest voting are still applicable.
1. Contestants are allowed to vote for their own designs.
2. Gallery visitors can only vote 5 times during the entire voting period.
3. The judges' selection of finalists and winners is not affected by the voting process.
4. The voting will start on June 1, 2010.
5. Anyone who wants to vote for a chosen entry/entries should first sign in to be registered.
After the submission of entries closes, all entries will be pre-screened and reviewed according to the judging criteria. Only the top 200 design entries will be posted on the design gallery to collect votes. Contestants we have discovered using proxy servers to boost the number of their votes from May 21 to date will be disqualified and will not be included in the final design gallery.
Thank You,
Easy Pha-max Philippines
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