- 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!
(ii) Mail-in Entries. If you are a non-Premium member of the Site, to enter for free by U.S. mail, send your full name, address, daytime phone number, date of birth, and Curse.com account name to: Curse, Inc., Win A Trip To MineCon 2011, 351 California Street, Suite 1450, San Francisco, CA 94104. The entry must be postmarked no later than the last day of the Sweepstakes Period, and received by Sponsor within five (5) business days following the end of the Sweepstakes Period. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for lost, late, damaged, misdirected, illegible, incomplete or postage-due mail or entries. No photocopied, digitally created, or mechanically reproduced additional entries allowed. b. Limit: One entry per person. Any attempt to exceed this limit (either online or by mail) may result in disqualification. All entries become the sole property of Sponsor, and receipt of entries will not be acknowledge or returned.
There are some large legal hoops to jump through to host sweepstakes world-wide due to all the various laws. (Notice they couldn't even let people in the state of Massachusetts enter either.) It's much more possible for a smaller company to only host it in the country they're based in.
Yeah it sucks, but I doubt Curse twirled their sinister mustaches and did it intentionally to screw over people. If you rage over something small like this, you're going to have lots of issues when actual bad things happen in your life.
And as others have stated, like pretty much every sweepstakes you can send in a mail entry if you don't want to make a purchase. Yeah you have to pay a small amount of postage for a little card, but it's still not the company making a profit.
There now quit bitching. Looks really fun might just do it.
I'd totally pay a membership if it was worldwide :angry.gif:
Regardless, this is just an obvious cash-grab by curse to try to increase the number of (useless) paid memberships. For those outside the US that are bitching about not being able to enter, trust me, you aren't missing anything.
Yeah no thanks.
Snail Mail is not free. I pay my bills in person, so I do not need envelopes or stamps.
There are ads on MCForum?