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December 6, 2010 Link to this post
I'm So Poor Contest - Winners
We received almost 400 entries to our "I'm So Poor" contest for Noble Map Pack codes - I wish we had that many codes to give away! (Only 10, folks - sorry.) So here's what happened: the entries were split into "funny" and "serious", and dupes were removed. Then 5 entries from each group were selected randomly. Gamertags were checked to 1) make sure that Reach had been played, and 2) had NOT been used with the Noble Map Pack yet. (Yes, this might have bitten you if you'd played with your friends. None of our potential winners had that issue.) I decided NOT to share the serious stories - but here are the 5 winning funny entries (unedited):
- Ninja Slothboy: because microsoft increased the cost of xbox live by $10 a year. If they hadn't done that I could have bought the map pack. As it is we only turn on the heat long enough to thaw out the water in the bathtub so we can get clean once a week. Although clean is relative. If you saw the state that water is in after 6 weeks of family bathing you would know what I'm talking about. We're so poor that my daughters have to work in the coal mines for 6 hours a day just so they can afford to buy the tools they need to work in the salt mines.
- nikoli1287: I had to take out a second mortgage just to pay for a new helmet in Halo Reach.
- Garbled: I didn't buy Halo 2 or 3, I just added roman numerals to my Halo: CE disk.
- Lebeau 182: my ten gallon hat is a water jug
- WolfSarge: my eviction notice said, "All your apartment are belong to us"... Then an ominous disembodied voice announced "Territory-LOST".
Congrats, also, to the 5 'serious' winners: Civicmirror, Hextall2727, AVA1L, DanGerst, and Neo5601. Emails have been sent out with codes to all 10 - if you are on this list, and didn't get a code, please check your junk folder! Thanks to everyone for entering, and to Bungie for providing the codes! (Louis Wu 15:40:40 UTC)
