Contest Sep 24, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012 - Roto Grip Shatter

[Davec13]

Just participate in the conversation instead of \"trying to win\" a drawing. The more you participate, the better your chances.


REALLY,,,, lol..... I enjoy your this blog very much, but if the more you participate, the better your chance, Bill would win every week! lol
Great site, but please,,, all of the winners are new bee's! many with a few posts! ((((( and thats ok, but please tell it like it is)))) If you have
won a ball,,, that's it!

I was here for months before I ever won, so It's not just the newbies who win There have also been people who win twice so that throws the newbie only win analogy out the window. In the end though everyone here has a chance to win a ball, and who doesn't want a free ball?

[striker12]

just thought of this i would not mind winning this ball to give it to my brother soo i can get my too reckless back he took it and my 900 global the nuts from me but i got the nuts back.

[panbanger]

I havent had my marble picked yet! And I lost my marbles a long time ago, so I may have to wait a while for mine to get picked.

[Davec13]

I havent had my marble picked yet! And I lost my marbles a long time ago, so I may have to wait a while for mine to get picked.

Well you know what they say "everything is bigger in Texas" even the wait time to win.

[bowl1820]

I was here for months before I ever won, so It's not just the newbies who win There have also been people who win twice so that throws the newbie only win analogy out the window. In the end though everyone here has a chance to win a ball, and who doesn't want a free ball?

You were at 5 month's (that's a newbie)

The majority of winners had been on here less than 3 months

Only 1 person has won more than once I believe (kev3nip) and he won his first ball when the site was owned by someone else and the rules were different. So technically he didn't win twice in this contest.
example:
Like the 30 post rule
No other posts anywhere on this site will count. Only in this thread.

I still like the guy who won the Pyramid Path Orange/Black back in may tybo003.
He joined on 04-26-2012 and won the May 07, 2012 to May 13, 2012 contest so he had been here about 2 weeks

His first post was on 4-26 and his 2nd post on 5-10. They are the only posts he's ever made, the post that won was 2 words "anyone? thanks ".

[wdc1987]

Just got done looking at this ball last night!

[75lockwood]

Just saying, i'm a newbie with a fair number of post so far and i didn't win :P but then again I'm about as lucky as a black cat on Friday the 13th

[Mike White]

That was my point Mike, a black one has to get picked more often. not just the other ones.

I don't think their picking from the posts, just the names of who posted.

Using the above marbles analogy, instead of drawing from the 50 marbles. They are just drawing from 6 (1 black and the 5 different colored ones)

or they are just picking from who starts the threads and not the replies. That would explain why the newbies win more, they start more threads than the long time members.

Long time members reply to more post than start threads.

The way I read it is the selection is random. That doesn't mean it's an unbiased random. i.e. not all marbles have the same chance of being selected.

[billf]

Just participate in the conversation instead of \"trying to win\" a drawing. The more you participate, the better your chances.


REALLY,,,, lol..... I enjoy your this blog very much, but if the more you participate, the better your chance, Bill would win every week! lol
Great site, but please,,, all of the winners are new bee's! many with a few posts! ((((( and thats ok, but please tell it like it is)))) If you have
won a ball,,, that's it!

Michael, I agree with you and Bowl. It's obvious that the 'random drawing' is skewed. I don't need another ball nor want this particular ball. A free ball is not why I average 11.69 posts per day. To offer help, encouragement and just have some plain, old, fun. The BB administrators have posted on the giveaway thread before saying it is totally random. I'm ok with the fact that a person will only win once but why don't they at least admit it! I enjoy this forum and use bowling ball.com with satisfaction. The only area I feel bowlingball.com falls short is how they handle this forum. It's almost like it's an afterthought for them.

[MisterSinister]

Cool ball, would be a nice add to my bag for sure.