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The IB Geek Girls (IBGG) will be running periodic Geek Girl competitions in affiliation with The Pirates. IB Geek Girl competitions are nothing whatsoever anything to do with IconBuffet, IB, Firewheel Design, the Chefs, any of their assistants or their pet office plants.

No icons were harmed in the making of this competition.

There's also a brief version of the rules. For full rules see below.

Rules of the competition

The competition will run from Monday, 23rd July 2007 and will end at 12pm midnight on Tuesday, 30th October 2007, UK BST. Entries received after this time will be disqualified.

The leader of the particular competition shall be known for the duration as the Webmaster, and will be ably assisted six (6) fellow Geek Girl Bakers (see below for further information on IBGG Bakers).

The competition is open to all members of IB of whatever clan or affiliation, however extra bonus points are on offer to members of the IB Geek Girls and the Pirates. The rules for earning extra bonus points are laid out under the section "Bonus Points".

No purchase necessary. See bottom of pack for details.

There are a total of 50 questions in the competition and a “spot the icons” picture question. Questions will be released at intervals throughout the duration of the competition as determined by the Webmaster.

Bonus points

10 bonus points will be awarded to entrants belonging to the Pirates or to the IB Geek Girls.

Bonus points from accepting token sets

Bonus points can be earned by accepting icon sets from me during the period 23rd July 2007 to 29th October 2007 inclusive. Bonus points will be awarded as follows:
- accepting a bronze set earns 3 bonus points
- accepting a silver set earns 5 bonus points
- accepting a gold set earns 10 bonus points
- accepting a diamond set earns 15 bonus points

NB: When requesting sets you must let me know that you will be entering the competition so that I can enter you on the competition spreadsheet and enter your bonus points.

A maximum of 20 bonus points may be gained in this way.

Accepting an icon set from any IB Geek Girl will also earn you 3 bonus points. When accepting an icon set from an IBGG, please notify the sender that you will be entering the competition, so that I can adjust your bonus score on the competition spreadsheet. It's important that you do this at the time of your request as bonus points cannot be added retrospectively.

A maximum of 12 bonus points may be gained in this way.

Accepting an icon set from any Pirate will also earn you 2 bonus points. When accepting an icon set from a Pirate, please notify the sender that you will be entering the IBGG competition, so that they can notify me so that I can adjust your bonus score on the competition spreadsheet. It's important that you do this at the time of your request as bonus points cannot be added retrospectively.

A maximum of 10 bonus points may be gained in this way.

IBGG Bakers and ESP month passes

Stuck on any of the questions or missing some of the icons in the “spot the icons” section of the competition?

IB has the chefs who make us lovely icons. The IB Geek Girls have Bakers, who bake code cookies (they're yummy!) As VIP membership of IB earns you extra tokens, an ESP (Extremely Special Person) month pass with the IB Geek Girls costs 5 of your shiny IB tokens should you wish to gain the maximum benefit for using the IBGG Baker scheme.

How's it work?
In return for accepting an icon set from one of the Geek Girl Bakers, you will receive the answer to one question. You may gain the answers to up to five questions in this way. The points score attached to each question is shown in brackets after the question. When accepting an icon set from an IBGG Baker, please notify the Baker that you will be entering the competition, and which question you require the answer to so that the Baker can pass along to me the details of what you need (IBGG Bakers do not know the answers to the competition questions so that they can play along too). You'll also be issued with a free Geek Girl cookie, freshly baked by the Bakers.

In the event that either the Webmaster or any of the IBGG Bakers run out of stamps to fulfil delivery requests, we reserve the right to either postpone the delivery of icon sets for up to 10 days, or to nominate another IB Geek Girl to fulfil the request.

The IBGG Bakers for this competition are:
- KatieK
- Anti
- justG
- lparziale
- Firesong
- Debbye

Anyone receiving a request for a set from someone who says something like "Please send me X – I'm entering the IBGG competition", should let me know so that I can add the receiver's bonus score on.

How to submit your entry

Entries for the competition should be made via the web form located here, and must be received by 12pm midnight on Tuesday, 30th October 2007, UK BST.

Tie-break number

In addition to your competition entries you should also submit 6 two digit numbers between 01 and 49. In the event of a tie, the tie-break numbers will be used to determine the winner of the competition.

In the UK's weekly Lotto draw, six numbers from 1 to 49 are drawn. If more than one entrant has scored the same number of points from questions, the results of the Lotto draw held on Saturday, 27th October 2007 will be used to determine the winner. For example, if the Lotto numbers drawn were 03 07 22 34 41 47, and two competition entrants, Entrant 1 and Entrant 2 entered the tie-break numbers 03 07 22 28 33 42 and 02 03 08 22 34 47 respectively, Entrant 2 would win the tie-break for correctly matching 4 numbers, as opposed to Entrant 1's 3 matches. If no tie-breaking entrants match any numbers, the sum of the Lotto numbers and the sum of the entrants' selected numbers will be used to determine the winner – i.e. if the draw numbers were 03 07 22 34 41 47 (sum=154), and Entrant 1 selected 04 11 12 19 23 26 (sum=95) and Entrant 2 selected 01 05 38 39 42 46 (sum=171), Entrant 2 would win as the sum of their selections is closer to that of the numbers drawn in the Lotto draw.

The competition ends at 12pm midnight on Tuesday, 30th October 2007, UK BST. Entries received after this time will be disqualified.

Total points available = 317 (if full advantage is taken of the bonus points scoring opportunities)

THE PRIZES
The prize for the winner(s) of the competition is points galore!

1st prize
From the first prize winner the Webmaster shall accept not one, not two, but three Gold deliveries (or a combination of bronze and silver deliveries to the same value) from the competition winner in the month of November 2007, and one Gold delivery (or the equivalent in bronze and silver deliveries) for each month after that up and including March 2008. Thereafter the Webmaster shall accept one Silver delivery each month for the next six months. Deliveries may be held over for up to 3 months in the event that the winning entrant does not currently have icon sets not already owned by the Webmaster.

2nd prize
From the 2nd place winner the Webmaster shall accept two Silver deliveries (or a combination of Bronze and Silver deliveries to the same value) from the 2nd place winner in the month of November 2007, and one Silver delivery (or the equivalent in Bronze deliveries) for each month after that up and including March 2008. Thereafter the Webmaster shall accept one Bronze delivery each month for the next six months. Deliveries may be held over for up to 3 months in the event that the winning entrant does not currently have icon sets not already owned by the Webmaster.

3rd prize
From the 3rd place winner the Webmaster shall accept one bronze delivery per month for 12 months from November 2007.

That means that the chance of at least 530 IB points are up for grabs for the winner of the competition. (not including any points thresholds or badge related bonus points that may be gained as a result of these points acquisitions)

For the 2nd place winner the chance of at least 240 IB points are up for grabs for the 2nd place winner of the competition. (not including any points thresholds or badge related bonus points that may be gained as a result of these points acquisitions)

For the 3rd place the chance of at least 120 IB points are up for grabs for the 3rd place winner of the competition. (not including any points thresholds or badge related bonus points that may be gained as a result of these points acquisitions)

....AND FINALLY

You'll find the questions thread here.

Good luck!

Posted by FallenAngel on Jul 23, 2007 in Blab | 29 comments