Announcement Our first prize competition - ideas and suggestions wanted

[Brogan]

ZakspeedYakspeed has very kindly offered to donate an Exoto 1:18 model to the winner of our very first prize competition.
The winner gets to choose one of these two models:

GPC97006 - 1968 Lotus Type 49B, car #12, put on pole at the 1968 US GP by Mario Andretti

GPC97090 - 1980 Renault RE20, car #15, as driven in the 1980 French GP by Jean-Pierre Jabouille

We haven't yet decided what form the competition will take so this thread is to canvass ideas and opinions as to how the competition should be run. Ideally it will be something that everyone can enter and has a chance of winning.

One suggestion was to award the prize to the author of the "best article", which would be decided on by a public vote.
I quite like that idea as it would not only generate some quality content for the site, but also help to keep it busy over the coming months, once the F1 season has ended.
We could allow a few weeks or months for submissions and then narrow them down to a shortlist before creating a poll.

Another suggestion is a simple lottery and random draw, although I'm not sure what the law is regarding that, if any.
That may also restrict the entrants as not everyone can afford to buy a ticket.

If anyone has any other ideas or suggestions, please say.

There may be other prize competitions in the future (I have a used but very good condition copy of The International Motor Racing Guide by Peter Higham, for example), so any good suggestions may be utilised later.

This is a superbly generous offer and I can't thank ZakspeedYakspeed enough.

 

[gethinceri]

Best article, chosen by panel of experts, maybe the moderators or if we could get a motor racing celeb?

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Fastest lap of the Jenson vs Lewis thread.

 

[Galahad]

What a wonderful gesture!

A public vote sounds like a good idea to me.

 

[Brogan]

I have added a poll to the first post which will run until Wednesday 14, 5 days from now.

So far there are only two options; if anyone has any others they would like adding, let me know and I will add them.
You may want to hold off voting for a day or two until (if) more options are added.

 

[jez101]

Best article, definitely!

Then I can get my wife, kids, Mum, brothers, inlaws etc to vote for me and I can get a replica of the Renault

I had a scalextric version of that very JPJ car growing up...

 

[tooncheese]

Are you of sound mind Zak? Those Exoto models cost about 80 quid each!

 

[Mephistopheles]

Nice cars..

 

[Brogan]

One other thing to be considered is if we go for the best article option, how long should we allow for entries?
A few weeks, a month, two months?

 

[gethinceri]

Run it until mid December and announce the winner for Xmas?

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

Are you of sound mind Zak? Those Exoto models cost about 80 quid each!

say what....

one of the (few / many ) benefits of living in the US is that there is a larger market for Exoto... and you can access them at varying price points... dependant on how motivated the sellers are...

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

Run it until mid December and announce the winner for Xmas?

+1

 

[Greenlantern101]

I do like the best article wins idea. But how about this as a third option, the classic 'I deserve to win the prize because....' easily decided by the post with the most likes.

p.s ZakspeedYakspeed

 

[racecub]

Article competition is a great idea you want very sensible articles or a bit zany ones

 

[Jos the Boss]

How about a quiz? ZakspeedYakspeed makes the questions, everyone PM's their answers to him and the highest score wins?

 

[gethinceri]

Yeah, I'll win that.

 

[racecub]

I'll definitely loose that

 

[Josh]

Everyone would win that because you could just look it up on the internet...

 

[Incubus]

I'll go with the majority on that one. Many advantages to be had from a best article prize.

 

[Jos the Boss]

Josh That is true, or you could just do I'm thinking of a number between 1-100, one entry each!