A well earned prize for effor not just luck

Proud and Happy :D

I have not added nothing new to my blog in months, depression, lazyness, or a lack of something to write about my life could be one of the many reasons, yet march was a good month for me, if not health-wise it was a rewarding month as good things happened.

But i will focus just in one, My Dead Xbox contest, this contest was held by a popular guy on youtube known as Miltownkid, you can check one of his many channels by going here: http://www.youtube.com/user/miltownkid

Well he organized a Twitter contest, and the winner would be the owner of an Xbox360 and some Games (neat!) and im proud to say i am the winner of that contest, my twitter name is Karmaquarius if anyone want follow me overthere.

After a long week, on march 22 he boradcasted live in BlogTV (a site people can broadcast live) you can check the recorded show when he announce i am the winner and why http://www.blogtv.com/People/miltownkid only the first part of why i was picked was explained (users can record only 10 minutes of video) but i think that explains a lot how much effor i did put to win this prize (and hell yeah im exited to get the system and play with friends)


Random Xbox Winner Stuff - Broadcast your self LIVE

Now back to youtube, Here you can see the video announcing the winner, you can also subscribe to the channel by going here: http://www.youtube.com/user/MyDeadXbox



The Effor Done

I think i watched the video of the contest a lot of times, waiting to see how the contest was going to work, waited the email next day (monday) badly and around 4-5pm (my timezone) the email arrived, reading Miltownkid blog and the how to i think that monday stayed up to 12 am hooked to the pc since that email arrived contacing people over MSN to sign up and help me with this contest, reactions and responces was different and i got people doing it without hesitation, others (which was time consuming) had doubts but finally joined as i explained the details, others replied with negatives from plain NO to more nasty words (geez thanks guys... <.<) Casey (Miltownkid) told us he was making some custom pages for us, but i could not wait and that night i downloaded his template and did my own until he did our custom pages, i did 2, one in spanish and one in english. Later i distributed the link of the custom page he did, you can take a look at the page he did here: http://mydeadxbox.com/contest/Karmacuarius.html ( i believe he commented he monitored the traffic for the contest pages as he also used that to decide the winner) "hopefully awesome things will happen" he said in the video for the contest page, indeed i think something awesome happened casey :D

My main issue was explain the people asking to join this was not an "win an i-pod!" crap like some sites out there, explaining people to convince them to join was time consuming but i think was worth it.

tuesday night i was really discouraged to be honest, as well after 2 days of hardwork talking to people i barely had 30 followers that did the required steps for the contest, watching SexyBuzz with over 150 and etienne951 with lots LOTS more i went to bed with the thought of giving up as i didnt had a chance.

Next morning i come to the pc and check the update casey did on his blog about me as one of the people he had in mind as possible winners, that really recharged my batteries to keep working hard to win the xbox, that day i decided i was going to keep on with the competition no matter if i did win or not, as i wanted to feel proud of myself by giving the best in the end of the week.

Of course i could not have done this without the support of friends (some more than others) can name some of them Like Borf adding the link to my contest page in his IRC channels after i asked, jenny translating the "how to" to italian and giving it out to her friends to join, Camile and Iran to brazilian, sedi did the same by translating the content of the page to polish and making some posts in polish forums, had other friends doing the same like my brothers from MaFaKa (mexican guild that started in ragnarok and now we play other MMO's) i am grateful for all the support i got from people.

The only i feel a bit annoyed, is how sedi acted like if i did win only for what he did, which i value a lot but he didnt more than others that helped me but they are aware i spend at least 4-6 hours daily sending personal messages on twitter, asking and explaining people on msn and IRC (and some forums) what kind of contest it was, spreading the link, waiting for lot of people to come online to ask for help as soon as they was on the pc, i hope nobody misunderstand me, im not saying i did this alone and i didnt needed anyone, i value all the support i got from everyone, but who did put this in motion was me and i dont want anyone to minimize all the work and effor i did to win this, probably this isnt important.. yet i wanted to take it out of my system.


The Background
This will be my very first Xbox360, not many know about this but this besides a couple MSN friends like Tiffany Joe and maybe alec, back to december i really wanted to get one xbox360, asked some store credits and i got one but the xmas package was sold out (pro, kung fu panda/lego etc) so had to wait until the store had a new batch, they did but they raised the price and i could not pay the amount (would have ended paying nearly 700us + interest in the end of the year) so i decided that was not a choice anymore as we have got some financial issues lately, asked my uncle to help me to get one with his credit card, here we have some "12 month no interest" plans for credit card owners (certain banks only, not all) but he decided to be e jerk and said no xD

Yeah happy face (well, i better laugh than cry dont you think?) so my only choice was to save (slowly) until i could buy the system in one payment which was going to take me a lot of time, so when i watched that contest video was like one of those one time chances only, and i decided i wasnt letting it go off my hands, these events from past months was the main reason for me to stay in the pc for so many hours that week even if i had a headache for the amount of time i spend in front of the pc everyday, but then again i say.. WORTH IT!

Well i guess i could go on and post more about this but hehe i think this entry is long enough already and clearly shows how i feel about this, i hope to get the package from casey soon, i dont have a camera but i may try to get one to take pics of the xbox and games, i will make a new post on the blog when i do, thanks for reading :D

OH SHIZ I HAS AN XBOX360!