Contests

[Renneme]

The old YGOI forums had contests; are we gonna do that again?

[gsv]

We might do them at a later time for now probably not. We would have to come with a prize first.

[RokBreak]

a contest sounds good, maybe a gfx contest, duel contest, and if we get the arcade we can do a contest with thatg

[KaibaBoy]

How would prizes work? Would they be shipped or something?

[Dark-Magician]

how about a yugioh knownledge contest

[KaibaBoy]

I'm in! A "knowledge" test it is!

[Dark-Magician]

but with what prize? @_@

a knowledge about anime+tcg

[KaibaBoy]

Hmmmmm.....the winner can be some sort of Poll and Quiz creator for the site!

[Dark-Magician]

thats not a big prize
we need somethin good

[KaibaBoy]

Well excuuuuuuuuuse me! What can be cooler than helping out Yu-Gi-Oh Insanity?

[Dark-Magician]

i am already helping :P

uploading eps :P

[KaibaBoy]

Then...uhhhh....Episode pack? The winner gets 10 episodes of any episode he wants from before 162. But the problem is that most of us don't have those episodes.

[Dark-Magician]

i got em but i dont have much time :P

[LegendGenesis]

We need a good, yet noot super good prize, so the contests will not get boring. Last time we got ep 219 DVD quality and a gmail invite. I won, but i never got the ep...

[Dark-Magician]

where was that?

[LegendGenesis]

The version one forums. Like, in the summer-ish.

[Dark-Magician]

oh....so what will we have now?

[LegendGenesis]

Not sure, I'll have to think about it.

EDIT: now this is where the mod forum would come in handy.

[Dark-Magician]

yeah,

am thinking of a card for a prize

[LegendGenesis]

Maybe, but pretty iffy.

[KaibaBoy]

Then there should be a requirement like a $1 donation towards the site or something.

[gsv]

I dont see what they are paying "for"?

[KaibaBoy]

Well, if the card was a prize, who'd pay for it? It was just a suggestion, anyways.

[LegendGenesis]

He was talking about an entry fee, I think

[KaibaBoy]

Yeah, something like that. But my ideas usually stink, so ignore it if you want.

[gsv]

Oh dont worry it doesnt stink. I understand what you mean. But if there is an entry fee possibly I can install a raffle system and it randomly picks a name or few names. The only problem is who will supply the card and what card?

[LegendGenesis]

There in lies the problem.

[RokBreak]

i think i can supply some cards but my question is, how would i send the card. sometimes mail isnt safe

[Dark-Magician]

i'd say mail is pretty save
until now i didnt had a problem

[KaibaBoy]

I trust the mail, and I do have several rares I wouldn't mind giving away. Like one of the two free Dark Mirror Forces I got accidentally from Pokeorder.com. Perhaps a few of my other interesting rares. Problem is, since I'm in college right now I doubt I have access to any type of mail delivery...

[Dark-Magician]

how about normal mail?

[KaibaBoy]

Normal mail?! What year is this, 1896?! Nobody uses regular mail anymore!
Although...hmmm....I must ponder these turn of events.....

[Dark-Magician]

i use normal mail to trade cards...

[Elec_Man_X]

Well, you could give away packs. Like if you've ever been on YugiohRealms or any of the Realmworx sites, they get donations to the site and receive special things that are free from the site that wouldn't cost the Admin anything. By donations of course, I mean cash.

You can use the cash to get packs and have contests, like a Member of the Month contest. The member the Admins/Mods think is the best will receive prizes. Maybe even runner up prizes.

You see, you would have to pretty much have to be paid to run the site, and do these contests. Its just that when somebody donates to Yugioh Insanity, you would have to give them something a little special in return that wouldn't cost you money.

Just thought I would throw that out there, although it was kind of obvious already.

[RokBreak]

we could do sumtin like this site i know.
donators donate
end of the month we do a raffle of the donators
the winner gets a prize
more winners if more donators

really kool idea

[LegendGenesis]

Nice, Zero

[gsv]

I may consider that. Everyone who donates automatically gets entered into the raffle.

[KaibaBoy]

I've seen a lot of sites do that, so it's only natural that we also do the same. But, how can most of the other people donate without a credit card?

[LegendGenesis]

PayPal

[KaibaBoy]

Oh, I didn't know Paypal worked without a card.

[LegendGenesis]

Niether do I. I'm guessing.

[KaibaBoy]

I think you can use Paypal by mail. In which case everyone could use the contest, but it would take a while for all donations to go through.

[Elec_Man_X]

I'm pretty sure you can only use PayPal if you have a card. I've never herd of using PayPal by mail. PayPal is just there to transfer money quick. So I wouldn't think that PayPal could be used with mail.

[RokBreak]

i think u can use paypal with ur bank account or something

[LegendGenesis]

That's what I thought.

[KaibaBoy]

I shall look into it, await my return!

[RokBreak]

ok

[KaibaBoy]

All it says that it's a way to send and receive cash through e-mail, but I did sign up at one point, and it asked for a bunch of questions on my bank account.