TICKET COMPETITIONS THREAD - IT BEGINS

[rivalschools.price]

9 hours ago, Blisterpack said:

No clues now....

How is that a clue? He isn’t wearing shorts!

[elbongo]

Is there supposed to be confirmation email following entry? 

 

[Phoenix Girl]

8 hours ago, Superscally said:

? Got on my speedy horse. Made it before I turned into a pumpkin.

If there’s one person who doesn’t need a speedy horse it’s you, surely? Wouldn’t you outrun it? 

Welcome to the wonders of Gold, it’s a great club to be in! Good luck in the comp!!

[eFestivals]

7 minutes ago, elbongo said:

Is there supposed to be confirmation email following entry? 

 

nope.

[elbongo]

2 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

nope.

That be why then

ta Neil 

[Jne___]

I really wonder how our chances fair compared to actual ticket day, part of me thinks they might be better. - the commitment of some comps (guardian), fact you have to be over 18, a UK resident, not working be associated with any of the companies, and just people entering vs.not entered makes me think there’s not too wide of a margin. Although I guess 12 pairs vs 250000 sets it apart a little haha

[Superscally]

16 minutes ago, Phoenix Girl said:

If there’s one person who doesn’t need a speedy horse it’s you, surely? Wouldn’t you outrun it? 

Welcome to the wonders of Gold, it’s a great club to be in! Good luck in the comp!!

Maybe after a very long time and if the horse got bored ?

I am Gold (gold). Always believe in your soul.

[cb4747]

22 minutes ago, Superscally said:

Maybe after a very long time and if the horse got bored ?

I am Gold (gold). Always believe in your soul.

Well now that's going to be in my head all day!

[Superscally]

5 minutes ago, cb4747 said:

Well now that's going to be in my head all day!

Always believe it.

[Havors]

So what are you taking in bribes to weight the random draw Neil? ??

 

[al_coholic]

42 minutes ago, Jne___ said:

I really wonder how our chances fair compared to actual ticket day, part of me thinks they might be better. - the commitment of some comps (guardian), fact you have to be over 18, a UK resident, not working be associated with any of the companies, and just people entering vs.not entered makes me think there’s not too wide of a margin. Although I guess 12 pairs vs 250000 sets it apart a little haha

So the Guardian daily readership in January was 141,000 and the Observer 165,000 but I doubt many of their normal readers would want to go to Glasto. So it will mostly be just the people who are buying the paper to enter the competition. From reading the forums here, I would guess there is probably around 50 people buying the paper regularly but what kind of subset is that of the festival going demographic?

1 efests member buying 16 papers will have 16 entries in the draw, lets says there are at least 100,000 entries overall and there are 12 pairs of tickets available. By my crude maths that makes you have a 1 in 520 chance of winning.

 

 

[eFestivals]

5 minutes ago, Havors said:

So what are you taking in bribes to weight the random draw Neil? ??

 

you got £15k to clear the efests debts...?

[Havors]

3 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

you got £15k to clear the efests debts...?

haha if we had that type of money we would be buying the bloody ridiculously priced hospitality tickets and clearing the debt ha! 

Lottery win anyone? 

[cb4747]

20 minutes ago, Havors said:

haha if we had that type of money we would be buying the bloody ridiculously priced hospitality tickets and clearing the debt ha! 

Lottery win anyone? 

Could do with one ?

[Padgey]

24 minutes ago, Havors said:

haha if we had that type of money we would be buying the bloody ridiculously priced hospitality tickets and clearing the debt ha! 

Lottery win anyone? 

Just put in on this morning in the hope I win big then I can do the whole £8,500 Yurt job!  

[Jne___]

1 hour ago, al_coholic said:

So the Guardian daily readership in January was 141,000 and the Observer 165,000 but I doubt many of their normal readers would want to go to Glasto. So it will mostly be just the people who are buying the paper to enter the competition. From reading the forums here, I would guess there is probably around 50 people buying the paper regularly but what kind of subset is that of the festival going demographic?

1 efests member buying 16 papers will have 16 entries in the draw, lets says there are at least 100,000 entries overall and there are 12 pairs of tickets available. By my crude maths that makes you have a 1 in 520 chance of winning.

 

 

Yeah and let’s not forget those able to find mallets , and those in a couple buying for each other... so a couple buying the guardian would have 32 entries ... 

[Jne___]

Just now, Jne___ said:

Yeah and let’s not forget those able to find mallets , and those in a couple buying for each other... so a couple buying the guardian would have 32 entries ... 

 

Just now, Jne___ said:

Yeah and let’s not forget those able to find mallets , and those in a couple buying for each other... so a couple buying the guardian would have 32 entries ... 

Although mustn’t forget lurkers and thosw doing the comp not on efest!

[uscore]

I think the competition should only be open to anyone who has at least, say, 163 upvotes.

[cammie81]

Just now, uscore said:

I think the competition should only be open to anyone who has at least, say, 163 upvotes.

That's begging for people to downvote you.

[uscore]

Just now, cammie81 said:

That's begging for people to downvote you.

People here are too lovely to do that.

[uscore]

(that should save me)

[uscore]

ha, it didn't. 

[dentalplan]

23 minutes ago, uscore said:

I think the competition should only be open to anyone who has at least, say, 163 upvotes.

Why not 6000?

[uscore]

3 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Why not 6000?

Because with my ability to self-own I will never get there.

Next year's competition threshold might need to be -50

Edited May 14, 2019 by uscore

[cerv]

11 minutes ago, al_coholic said:

So the Guardian daily readership in January was 141,000 and the Observer 165,000 but I doubt many of their normal readers would want to go to Glasto. So it will mostly be just the people who are buying the paper to enter the competition. From reading the forums here, I would guess there is probably around 50 people buying the paper regularly but what kind of subset is that of the festival going demographic?

1 efests member buying 16 papers will have 16 entries in the draw, lets says there are at least 100,000 entries overall and there are 12 pairs of tickets available. By my crude maths that makes you have a 1 in 520 chance of winning.

 

 

Fun one to work out eh? Would love to know the final numbers. I'm reliably informed by someone who used to work there that for previous comps, where it was a simple URL entry form job, they would get around 15,000 entries (after filtering out duplicate entries). This comp is so awkward to enter, I'm just hoping the number is freakishly low. But even if it is you're still looking probably looking at a 1 in 100 shot