NEWS: Fall 2025 Movie Credits Drawing - official rules & info

[Transepoch]

thank you for doing this…

(My name missing) hadn’t realized I had not posted anything in 2 months…

Looks like it had only been one month. Josh might've figured some of us have been around so long we must be admins.

 

[josh]

the mechanism is supposed to look back 60 days. if you have a definite case where that wasn't working, let me know.

However, i think it's working because when i set it to 30 days i get 114 members and when i put it back to 60 days i get 173 members.

and when i set it to just 1 day, i get 11 people (and yes, all 3 settings are now properly including @MAttHEATLifer )

 

[Bigmoviefan]

Thank you for doing this . Hope I get lucky .

 

[MAttHEATLifer]

yeah, where you been bud?
you should now be in the drawing.

Been a little under the weather last couple of months but doing better now…

 

[Brian21]

This is great Thank you!

 

[kman]

DATE / BASIC INFO:

On Saturday, November 7, we will be doing a drawing and the randomly selected winners will receive credits in the Kaleidescape Movie Store for purchasing movies.​

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Thanks to Jim @cinelife for putting up this generous gift to support the forum!​

PRIZES: There will be 7 winners drawn:

• the first 5 names drawn will each receive a $100 credit in the movie store
• then 1 Second Place winner will be drawn, receiving $200 credit
• then 1 Grand Prize winner will be drawn, receiving $300 credit

ELIGIBILITY:

All registered, active members of the forum will automatically have their names entered for the contest. You don't need to request entry, it will all be automatic if you qualify as per below. There is no cost to enter and no purchase required, as there is no cost to be a basic member of this forum.​

• "Registered" means that the user has a registered name and account on the forum as of the Qualification Deadline (see below).
• "Active" is defined as having posted at least one message somewhere on the forum in the 60 days prior the Qualification Deadline. This rewards those participating here and prevents dormant accounts from winning a prize here when it may prove difficult to reach them.

EXCLUSIONS: ​

• Employees of Kaleidescape, Inc. are not eligible
• Admins of this forum are not eligible.
• Anyone who has created multiple accounts on the forum in an attempt to enter more than once will be ineligible, be banned from the forum, and have all accounts, posts, and messages permanently removed. (a.k.a. "don't be a jerk" rule, a.k.a. "don't abuse Jim's generosity" rule).

BONUS ENTRIES:

This forum exists and persists due to the generosity of the Premium members and Patrons who voluntarily contribute funds to offset the cost of running the service.​

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As a reward for their generosity, Premium members and Patrons (submitted and paid as of the Qualification Deadline) will receive "bonus entries":​

• PREMIUM members will get 1 bonus entry, i.e. their names will appear 2 times in the final list of names for each drawing.
• PATRON members will get 2 bonus entries, i.e. their names will appear 3 times in the final list of names for each drawing.

More information about becoming a Premium member or Patron is located here.​

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QUALIFICATION DEADLINE:

The final list of names eligible for the drawing, and the determination of any "bonus entries" for a member will be locked and finalized Saturday Nov. 7th. at 12:00a.m. Pacific time. Accounts must be fully registered and approved by that deadline as defined above.​

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PRIZE LIMIT: one per household:

After each draw, the winner's name(s) are REMOVED from the remaining spins of the wheel, so no one can win more than one prize.​

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MECHANISM FOR CHOOSING AND NOTIFYING WINNERS:

As of the Qualification Deadline (shown above), the forum software will generate the list of member names who qualify for the drawing, as described above. Premium and Patrons will have their names repeated as per the Bonus Entires description above and the full list of names will be finalized.​

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We will use the free public online service "WheelOfNames.com" which the forum team here believes to be fair, random, and unbiased. It has been used by many sites and organizations for many years. You can try it and see how it works by clicking the link here: KOF Fall 2025 TEST drawing (the names on that test wheel are just temporary, and NOT the actual finalized list of names that will be used.)​

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We will attempt to capture a video showing the wheel being spun and the winner being chosen for each prize, and that video will be posted here in this thread. It's possible that the video capture may not work, and in that case we will post a screenshot of the winner's name showing on the wheel website as the chosen winner. After each win, the winners name(s) will be removed from the master list, and the next spin will be started.​

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Winners will be notified on the forum by a post here in this thread, by Private Message here, and if necessary, by email.​

Thanks guys, and especially Jim.

 

[Sammie2980]

Thanks for the drawing again!

 

[lujan]

... and here's the way it would look, if we did the drawing today, on the wheel. Go ahead and click it to see how it picks a winner.

Wheel of Names

Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels.

wheelofnames.com

It's not working right because it didn't pick me.

 

[cd23murray]

Nice, thanks

 

[TeddyG]

Yes, thanks for doing this!