As everyone can see from the stats on the Mini Stats box XLF is nearing 1,000,000 posts.

To celebrate this milestone I am announcing the following contest open to XLF Team Members.

The winner of this contest will receive a prize worth at least $300.00 which is yet to be determined.

All you need to do to win is pick the date that XLF hits 1,000,000 based on GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

Rule 1. Contest is only open to XLF Team Members and you must be an XLF Team Member on the date that XLF hits 1,000,000 posts.

Rule 2. If no one picks the exact date the person(s) with the date closest (without going over) will be the winner(s). For example, if the date XLF hits 1,000,000 posts is on 15 May 2008 and no one picked that date then the person(s) whoever picked 14 May or earlier would win. If someone picked 16 May 2008 or later then they would not win.

Rule 3. If multiple people pick the same winning date I will have a raffle to choose the winner..

Rule 4. You must email your contest submission by xlforumadmin@gmail.com by 15 June. Hint: I do not think we will hit the 1,000,000 post mark by this date.

Rule 5. Only one email submission per XLF Team Member will be accepted.

Rule 6. You must put your XLF user name in the email.

Rule 7. Subject of the submitted email must indicate "XLF 1,000,000 Post Contest"

Any questions???

Why not add a time also? That way if multiple people pick the same day, the person with the closest time wins.

I think it would be too difficult to determine what time the post count goes over 1,000,000.

From the title of the thread I thought you were gonna have a contest for the first person to have over a million posts!

I think it would be too difficult to determine what time the post count goes over 1,000,000.

Dang Bert.....And this whole time, I thought you were the all knowing, all powerful!!! :smoke


From the title of the thread I thought you were gonna have a contest for the first person to have over a million posts!

We all know Kev M would win that one!!!:p

I changed Rule 3. If there are multiple people who submit the same winning date I will pull one winner like earlier contests.

Starting to receive some submissions. Keep 'em coming.

man I was way off can I have another turn

Yeah me too! I picked June 27th I think :doh oops

I will be posting who has sent emails and which dates they chose. I am considering to let everyone choose a new date.

now that the weathers nice there's not as many posts
atleast thats my excuse

Its going to take me a while, lol. I dont even have enough yet to post pics! :D

Its going to take me a while, lol. I dont even have enough yet to post pics! :D

Yes you do - You can now post pics after 5 posts!

The whole problem with this contest, is that the post counts keep going backwards. Last week on 6/30/08 the count was at 961,790 now today on 7/7/08 it is 958,773. So posts are getting deleted each week. The only reason I noticed this is 2 Fridays ago, 6/27/08 the count was something like 972,000 and than I noticed it was at the 961 number on Monday so I wrote it down, because I thought I was seeing things. We probably hit the million post amount a long time ago, but we never knew because posts were getting deleted. Maybe Bert can check this.

Best Regards,
Norm

Just checked and it's now 958,790

five minutes later its 958,810 so its going in the right direction now, so can we send in our guess even though the original date for submission has gone?

It will go forward for the week, but if what I have been seeing the last 2 weeks is the same, check next Monday and see what the count is. It seems that each week a certain amount of posts are deleted. I don't know if this is the server that does this or something else.

Best Regards,
Norm

i wonder if hanging chads have anything to do with this

yep its the chads

i wonder if hanging chads have anything to do with this

yep its the chads


What the !!!!!!??????????????????:wonderlan

It will go forward for the week, but if what I have been seeing the last 2 weeks is the same, check next Monday and see what the count is. It seems that each week a certain amount of posts are deleted. I don't know if this is the server that does this or something else.

Best Regards,
Norm


It looks like it dropped again. Makes it hard to predict ~ oh well, I never win these things anyway.

Howabout something cool for the person who post the 1,000,000th post, Or isthere any way to determine that.

It looks like it dropped again. Makes it hard to predict ~ oh well, I never win these things anyway.

Yup, on 7/14/08 at 10:49AM it was at 970,411 and now it is at 968,778 on 7/17/08 at 9:21AM.

Best Regards,
Norm

Any updates on this, or has it just died on the vine????

Yup the contest is still on.

999,009! Who's still in the running? My day came and went! (8/1/08)

I was a month too late:doh

999,050 Posts 1941 hours Saturday August 9, 2008

So, about 2 weeks away? That sound about right?

Back to 995,728. I may still be in the running.

Best Regards,
Norm

From the title of the thread I thought you were gonna have a contest for the first person to have over a million posts!


I did too, I was going to go ahead and congradulate Kev M.

999,113 ~ think it will turn over tonight?

:banapart:banapart
http://xlforum.net/photopost/data/963/1000000.jpg

And 1.38% of these are Kev M's!

Damn! I was off by about two month! lol!

Soooo, who won???

Soooo, who won???

Well, I had 8/1/08. Did anyone have something between then and now?

Is there a way to tell which post was #1,000,000?

The winner is:






























jharback!!! He was the first to send an email guess also. He guessed 18 Aug 2008

Damn and I was gonna guess my birthday on Aug 17, but i couldnt ever find out if the contest was over or not lol!

Oops!!!! I made a mistake.

Rule 2 says, " If no one picks the exact date the person(s) with the date closest (without going over) will be the winner(s). For example, if the date XLF hits 1,000,000 posts is on 15 May 2008 and no one picked that date then the person(s) whoever picked 14 May or earlier would win. If someone picked 16 May 2008 or later then they would not win."

The actual winner is Brad Weir (883xl) who chose the date of 1 Aug 2008. Sorry for the mix up!

Cool! The supporting vendors here are all great. I've had a lot of success with them and their products, but I've never tried anything from Speedway Instruments.

I've wanted a microTach+ for some time now. Guess it's time to add another supporting vendor to my list!

Thanks for running this contest Bert, and thanks to the supporting vendors!~

I pick August 14, 2008....what, too late? Damn. I was right on with the date though.

Just out of curiosity, can you tell which post was number 1,000,000? Odds are KevM:D

Yeah, Bert, please -as a tribute -post the 1.000.000 th post with a special cool tag or something :D

No not really. In the database the posts are numbered and I could find post 1,00,000 but it would not be the one that put us at that number since I am constantly pruning the OFF-TOPIC areas.