Monday 07/18/2011 by pzerbo

SBIX ESSAY CONTEST RESULTS

Many thanks to all who submitted essays for the SBIX "contest." It was indeed a contest in the sense we wanted to generate participation and provide a little extra motivation for folks to share. Bags-o-phish.net schwag will be passed out to those that generated the most votes, and as promised, essays that the site team found best captured the essence of the event will be featured on the blog for the next week.

The point of this endeavor had little to do with a contest, voting, or prizes, however. We simply wanted to capture the raw emotions and stories of fans who enjoyed the event and bottle the immediate reactions of the experience for posterity. There are no winners or (especially) losers with this project. We'll be archiving the essay thread in an upcoming FAQ page on SB icks.

That said, we do have the results of the top vote-getters.

There was actually a multi-way tie for 10th place, plus one judges "save" that resulted in 14 finalists. We will be featuring several of these essays on our blog over the coming week. The people's choices were:

@757phan

@HARRYHOOD213

@fatness1

@CaptainPookie

@ivy_light

@Autoo

@FlockingInside

@terrapin9614

@tripsforjoeg

@douvy

@jdisk

@forbins0218

@JohnManBand

@BostonParadise89

Thanks to everyone wrote wrote, read, and voted. And thanks to Phish for throwing the Best Party of the Summer for 20+ years!

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Comments

, comment by CaptainPookie
CaptainPookie Neato! Didn't really expect this, seeing as I didn't include shiny pictures and whatnot. But awesome!

::chants::

I'm number 4! I'm number 4!....
, comment by FlockingInside
FlockingInside Yay! =)
, comment by BrotherEarth
BrotherEarth I really enjoyed all of the entries. Congrats to the winners and Thanks to all who submitted an entry. They all gave me a better feel for the event.
, comment by 757phan
757phan Big thanks to everyone who participated and to the admin team for encouraging everyone to enter and vote. Great job everyone! I truly loved reading each and every entry.
, comment by Kurtzboy
Kurtzboy Thank you very much for this contest. There was nothing cooler then waking up each morning and reading a well-written essay.
, comment by ocelotvswilson
ocelotvswilson Right on guys! Lots of awesome posts. So, now we just need to for Superball 10 to happen. If there's a 9, then hmmmm, why not a 10? I'd go back to Watkin's Glen.
, comment by BostonParadise89
BostonParadise89 Thanks everybody and a BIG hug to the judges for the "save"! It was a lot of fun putting this video together and corresponding with the "commenters" ... I have a storage unit ready for all my stuff!
, comment by HotPale
HotPale definitely some good reads out there...would love to hear less about couch tour though for sure!
, comment by jackl
jackl To our 14 finalist winners, @757phan, @HARRYHOOD213, @fatness1 @CaptainPookie, @Just_Ivy, @Autoo, @FlockingInside, @smoothatonalsnd, @tripsforjoeg, @douvy, @jdisk, @forbins0218, @JohnManBand, and @BostonParadise89,

CONGRATULATIONS!

I'll be sending you an email soon with the details of how to claim your prizes, which will consist of (1) one of our commemorative laminates from the recent SBIX .net Meetup (as seen in Greg @757phan's top voted essay):

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(2) Your choice of [i]one[i] of the following pieces of new swag from the Phish.net store, http://www.phishnet.portmerch.com/stores/home.php :

Laser engraved Bic lighter cover:

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Jesusphish car badge:

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Coozy set (3 blue can coozys or 2 bottle coozys):

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[img]http://phishnet.portmerch.com/stores/images/T/bottlekooziesmall.jpg[img]

And a random piece of geem from my personal collection of extra official festival map brochures from Lemonwheel, Camp Oswego, Great Went, Big Cypress or IT...random, very limited supplies, no requests, pls.)

Now for the small print:

As you know, we're all volunteers here so we don't have an office and run our website and fan charitable foundation "virtually" by email. So yours truly has to coordinate getting your prizes together and mailing them to each of you. So I ask that you follow the instructions carefully to minimize confusion and make it easy to handle the prizes.

By next Tuesday, July 26th,

Please send one (1) email to jack@phish.net with the subject line "Claim My Essay Prize" and the following information in this order:

a. Your real name and mailing address in this format:
Real Name @net_user_name)
1234 Cavern Rd
King of Prussia, PA 19406

b. Which prize you want (Bic lighter cover, jesusphish badge, license plate frame, can coozys or bottle coozys).

I'll send a confirmation message around July 27th to everyone whose registered acknowledging your selections.

To help keep my sanity, please use the email and subject line exactly so my mailreader will catch them and do not submit multiple requests or PM me, etc. All prize packages will come from me, not from the Phish.net store, so we can't send complimentary prize items through the store. Also, it will take a couple of weeks for this process to work for me to get everyone's "order", get the stuff from the store and send the prizes to you, so your patience is appreciated and will be rewarded.

(And if you're not a winner, you can still get any of the above fine items from the Phish.net store! Hint hint. Make fine surprise gifts for your tour friends...they will be appreciated, I can vouch for that, having gifted some swag at SBIX!)
, comment by jackl
jackl Trying again with the swag photos...links below if they don't work:

Lighter cover:

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Car badge:

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License plate frame:

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Bottle coozy:

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, comment by jackl
jackl Apologize for the funky posts, but you can't edit blog comments like you can forum comments.

If there are any questions about the prize items in the Phish.net store, the best place to check out larger photos and descriptions is in the store itself. From the phish.net homepage top menu navigation bar, click on "Store".
, comment by jackl
jackl Just sent an email to all winners...but it's the same information as above...just wanted to make sure winners saw how to claim prizes...but in case you didn't get it or your address has changed, or it went into your spam filter, etc., no need to wait. Just send an email to jack@phish.net with the information requested above.
, comment by 757phan
757phan @jackl: Thanks for the double posting the info, as I am sure at least one prize winner will loose it in their inbox.

I'm sure I've posted this a ton of times, but really great job done by everyone! Thanks for making memories people.
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