- Grand Prize (1 winner) - All expenses-paid trip for 2 to Minecon 2011 in Las Vegas (including airfare from the nearest major airport, a room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, a food stipend, and tickets to the convention).
- First Place (4 winners) - Intel Solid State Hard Drive
- Second Place (8 winners) - Logitech Gaming Headset
- Third Place (10 winners) - C418's Minecraft album, Volume Alpha
- Fourth Place (20 winners) - Curse T-shirt
Entering the contest is really easy - just sign up for a Curse Premium membership! Premium users can submit a sweepstakes entry here - benefits of Premium membership include:
- Ad-free MinecraftForum experience - No annoying or intrusive ads
- Premium only beta key giveaways - Periodically, Curse gives away exclusive beta keys to only our Premium members
- Premium sweepstakes - Like the Minecon 2011 sweepstakes, Curse is constantly running Premium sweepstakes and giving away amazing loot to our premium members
- Support MinecraftForum and MinecraftWiki - support your community and help us develop new features for the websites you love
Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity - take a look!
We would like to show our appreciation to Intel for their generosity in providing the solid-state drives, and Logitech for their copious contribution of headsets. Thanks, guys!
not the definition of sweepstakes
If you go to their site, you'll clearly see an electronic option! It supports bith paypal and credit card! Quit yer bitchin'.
Believe me, the money for the premium accounts goes to Curse, not Notch.
I have to buy something to win? Bogus. And possibly illegal.
Adblock FTW.
Man I've been waiting to see what the "contest" details are and you throw "LOL YOU GOTTA BUY PREMIUM AND YOU'LL BE ENTERED IN A DRAWING" at me.
Here is a Cluex4 for everyone. There is no one world government. Which means there is no one world law to run a contest under. The best you can do is either US, Canada, EU, etc. Sometimes you can do US + Canada due to similar laws.
Unless you would like the US to run the whole world. We would be happy to serve. :smile.gif:
Technically a sweetstakes by definition requires payment to enter. The law is a funny thing. :smile.gif:
Erm, the money goes to paying for the servers that allow everyone to read your whines 24x7. Have some respect for the people that help make this community possible.
This is just one of the competitions we do! Last month we did a similar prize but for Blizzcon instead of Minecon, probably one of the most popular conventions around! Also we have regular beta key give aways, in the past we've done age of empires online and rift among others. It's definitely worth it if you like beta keys, give aways and ad-free :biggrin.gif: Plus (and in my opinion the best part :wink.gif:) is you support us and help curse expand the Minecraft operations!
oh and we love everyone who subscribes :-)
Anyone can redeem a beta key as it isn't a competition, they're available to all curse premium members, however all the giveaways we do (trips, physical items) are limited to America only. If you signed up today you would be able to redeem a beta key for Pandora Saga an (in beta) PVP MMORPG no matter where you are located :-)
Also, noone is making you enter this contest. I live in the US and the 2 ways to enter the contest are frankly a hassle and I probably won't be taking part in this contest unless I feel like I really need to go.
If you really wanted to go to Minecon, you'd just buy your own ticket to it, pay for airfare and get a visa if you're from outside the US. It's not like your chances of winning the contest are even decent. Stop complaining about a contest which is virtually free and giving away things they really don't OWE you.