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Minecraft Wiki is officially joining the Gamepedia wiki family and to celebrate, we're hosting our largest giveaway surrounding a single game yet! Between now and Friday, October 11th, fans and community members have a chance to win some really sweet prize packs, goodie bags, t-shirts and so much more! The fine folks at J!NX.com, who run the official Minecraft store, have supplied us with tons of loot – meaning there is so much to win, so be sure to enter!
We have four tiers of prizes in the goodie bags and a ridiculously large pile of shirts! Check out what could possibly be yours!
Grand Prize (1):
- Creeper Plush Toy with Sound
- Creeper Bracelet
- Minecraft Lanyard
- Diamond Pickaxe Keychain
- Creeper Mug
- Creeper Hat
- Minecraft Sticky Notecube Ultimate Poster Pack – 7 posters!
- Minecraft Four Pack
- Minecraft Computronic Poster
- Minecraft SamCube Poster
- Minecraft Poster
- Minecraft Block Sticker
- Creeper Wallet
First Prize (1):
- Creeper Vinyl Toy
- Creeper Bracelet
- Creeper Hat
- Creeper Wallet
- Minecraft Sticky Notecube Ultimate Poster Pack – 7 posters!
- Minecraft Four Pack
- Minecraft Computronic Poster
- Minecraft SamCube Poster
- Minecraft Poster
- Minecraft Block Sticker
- Diamond Pickaxe Keychain
- Minecraft Lanyard
Second Prize (1):
- Diamond Steve Vinyl Toy
- Creeper Bracelet
- Minecraft Sticky Notecube Ultimate Poster Pack – 7 posters!
- Minecraft Four Pack
- Minecraft Computronic Poster
- Minecraft SamCube Poster
- Minecraft Poster
- Minecraft Block Sticker
- Diamond Pickaxe Keychain
- Minecraft Lanyard
Third Prize (1):
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Ultimate Poster Pack – 7 posters!
- Minecraft Four Pack
- Minecraft Computronic Poster
- Minecraft SamCube Poster
- Minecraft Poster
- Minecraft Block Sticker
- Diamond Pickaxe Keychain
- Creeper Bracelet
- Minecraft Lanyard
- Minecraft Sticky Notecube
Fourth Prize (8):
- T-shirt (examples:)
- Creeper Anatomy
- Retro Creeper
- Pig Riding
- I Porkchop Minecraft (women's t)
- Diamond Pickaxe Keychain
Runners Up (40): T-shirts and goodies!
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T-shirt examples:
- Creeper Anatomy
- Retro Creeper
- Pig Riding
- I Porkchop Minecraft (women's t) Prize examples:
- Creeper Bracelet
- Minecraft Block Sticker
Winning is simple! Log in with your Curse account to enter! Please also be sure to visit the Giveaways page to read about the Minecraft giveaway powered by J!NX and our official contest rules. Due to legal restrictions, this giveaway is limited to residents of U.S and Canada residents.
We are super excited to be able to present this giveaway to our awesome Minecraft community! Special thanks to all of our friends at J!NX for supplying us with some sweet gear to hand out. Click here to enter!
Years and years ago, before the youth of today co-opted the word as their own, swag had a different meaning. Swag meant a group of items gathered from a source, eg: if a person broke into your house and stole your belongings, it would be their "swag", it's from the olden days. When someone says "swag" in the way Sacheverell used it, they're referring to a collection of x themed items. "Minecraft Swag" = Minecraft merchandise.
For the last 20 years or so if someone had said "Minecraft Swag" everyone would have instantly thought "Minecraft Merchandise!", it's only in the last ~3 or 4 years that swag has become the word most teenagers know it as. Sacheverell is an adult (shock horror) so the word has a different meaning to him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swagman
http://www.game-swag.net/
Due to legal restrictions, this giveaway is limited to residents of U.S and Canada residents.
Why? Why does North America get to be so privileged? This is unfair to people living outside of the U.S and Canada.
Still can't believe the restrictions people place on only the General US.
Why do US Get all the fun stuff! UK Is crap :C
At least Europe has Gamescom and possibly some other major conventions I don't know of. Australia hardly gets anything cool.
For part of it see below:
It is also not the entire US and Canada
However Sacheverell is partly wrong. US export laws restrict anyone in the US from shipping anything you would win to you if you live in certain areas. There are also a few other legal items as well. The best (and only way) to improve contests such as these to allow more people from across the world to participate is to petition your local governments (by local I am referring to your country), to work with other countries/governments on these types of issues.
However in today's world and economy, things like this just aren't high priority.
Japan is just awesome!
Send the prize over here and host the competition over here? Same applies elsewhere - it isn't only the Americans and the Canadians who are playing Minecraft..
*reads it thoroughly*
BUT I DON"T LIVE IN THE US/CANADA
damn..
THIS GAME WAS MADE IN SWEDEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok... Last time guys.... Curse is a US based company, We are restricted by non-US laws to where we can legally run contests. It doesn't matter that Minecraft was developed in Sweden, it doesn't matter that a large portion of the player base is outside the US, we can ONLY offer contest participation legally to US and Canadian residents.
If you wish to see this changed, petition your local government representatives (or have your parents do so) to get the laws changed.
We would LOVE to be able to include everyone!
Now... if you have comments regarding the contest that don't include any of the above, we'd also love to hear it.
Actually, I did.
You are right, it is frustrating... for all of us. We (Curse) would love to run contests that everyone can participate in, but we are a US based company. That's not going to change. We have no influence or control over the laws outside of the US, but we are required to follow them. My frustration in hearing it over and over again comes from the fact that it HAS been addressed both by Sachervelle and I in this thread, multiple times. It makes me feel like I'm just wasting my time even trying to address it once, if everyone is going to just keep on about it.
Curse staff are interested in community feedback. We want to read your comments, we try to address your concerns, But once they have been addressed, I don't see the point in beating the subject into the ground.
Continue on.....
I understand how this could be frustrating for people unable to enter the contest, but it's not reasonable to expect a company not to run any promotional events unless everyone can enter. I mean, the same logic could be used to say that Minecon shouldn't exist, because not everyone's able to attend.
Even when limited in scope by geography and politics, programs like this tend to target at least one of a company's biggest markets, and generate goodwill and brand recognition (sorry for the jargon; I'm a business owner myself). Limited results are better than no results.
For the people living outside North America... couldn't you theoretically enter using your account and an American/Canadian friend's contact info? Then have them send the prizes your way if you win, and reimburse them the cost of postage?
Not that I'm trying to increase the number of competitors or anything. In fact, ignore what I just said, I'm crazy.
After the replies with the above comments, I looked into what I could find about this in a websearch and people have contests held all over the world all the time. TV even proves this. You can see things like world wide olympics and other types of world wide competition events. So where I am confused is your stating that you have to follow US Laws.. but its not the US Laws that are restricting you ? I'm not understanding what is clearly a double standard problem here. And apparently and very obviously, no one here gets it either from all the replies I have been reading.
Can you share what laws it is that is binding you to this ? Because for me to bring this up to Rick Scott, the Governor of FL, I need to know what I am to ask him to look into.
I also have Senator Bill Nelson's Ear at this email address as his group and I have spoken through email more then once ( Never met him personally ). The email address is here in case you need to chat with him [email protected]
His website : http://www.billnelson.senate.gov
So bottom line, what laws are all of us supposed to be asking them to change ?
Love what? You have not shown that to anyone.
Why don't you make a World-wide department where other people from other countries can help out?