Contests & Giveaways News - Page 29
Win a trip to Computex Taipei 2012 winner announcement!
Firstly of all I would like to thank all of you for entering our Win a trip to Computex Taipei 2012 contest on behalf of the whole TweakTown team. Again we need to thank Corsair, LSI and Sapphire for helping to make this possible!
We had a rather good response and will consider running the contest again next year. However, enough of the dribble... you are here to see if you are the winner of our contest.
Drum roll please! The lucky winner of our Computex trip is Roshan from India. We have already been planning the trip with Roshan and things are proceeding well. He is very excited about the opportunity we have given him to come to Computex and Taiwan for his first time. You can look forward to some guest blogger coverage from Roshan during Computex.
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WinX Blu-ray Decrypter is available right now, for free!
An e-mail made its way to my inbox just a few moments ago, with a pretty amazing giveaway. Digiarty Software, from their voting result giveaway gift of its "Hello Summer!" special offer, are giving away WinX Blu-ray Decrypter, for free! The software had a majority of popular votes, and is now being given away until May 25.
Here are the main functions of WinX Blu-ray Decrypter:
You can grab WinX Blu-ray Decrypter here.
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Announcing the end date for the Win a trip to Computex contest!
UPDATE - winner announcement!
UPDATE - entries are now closed!
Our "Win a trip to Computex Taipei 2012" contest is off to a good start, but what we forgot to do when first announcing the contest was to confirm an end date.
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Announcing the G.SKILL CUP, an extreme overclocking contest at HWBOT in May
Following up the release of G.SKILL's new extreme TridentX DDR3, they have announced a new overclocking competition that will be running on HWBOT during the month of May. We would like to give our readers the announcement and rules so that they can enter and win the awesome prizes that are being offered. They are giving away 13 8GB RAM kits and 1 32GB RAM kit.
The competition will start May 1 and runs until May 30. The even consists of three different stages which all start May 1. You must use G.SKILL RAM to participate in all stages. Full rules and details are below along with the link to the event page. If you enter, let me be the first to wish you good luck. I wish I had G.SKILL RAM so that I could participate.
The three stages are:
Win a trip to Computex Taipei 2012 as a Guest TweakTown Blogger!
UPDATE - winner announcement!
UPDATE - entries are now closed!
Join the TweakTown media crew as a special Guest Blogger at Computex Taipei 2012 (June 3 - June 10, 2012)! No more entries will be accepted after May 15th.
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Noctua gets you ready for Spring with April TweakTown BF3 Contest
TweakTown and Noctua are teaming up for the April Battlefield 3 contest. Noctua, market of premium grade CPU heatsinks, fans and thermal paste will give away three prize packages to the top three point scores spread across the two TweakTown Battlefield 3 game servers.
This contest is a little different than last month's contest that only took place on the Air Maps Server. TweakTown now has the Infantry Server up and running. The combined scores of both servers will be combined to determine the top three players by server score.
This is an amazing prize package donated by Noctua!
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TweakTown and OCZ Technology Load your BF3 Faster Contest Winners
TweakTown and OCZ Technology would like to thank the more than 8,000 Battlefield 3 players that participated in our first ever game server contest. You guy and gals played your hearts out for hours trying to win one of the three prizes generously offered by OCZ Technology.
And the winners are...
Third Place: PattonsMember with a score of 3129 points over a 66.88 hour period.
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ASRock announces the 2012 Global OC Competition with Futuremark
ASRock have just announced today the 2012 Global OC Competition with Furturemark. This new worldwide competition requires those who wish to participate to submit their highest 3DMark 11 Physics Test score by overclocking their CPU.
Of course, there are restrictions. All entries require the use of an ASRock Sandy Bridge, or Sandy Bridge-E motherboard and Intel 2nd Generation Core processors, or Intel Core i7 Extreme processors. Participates also need to upload their 3DMark 11 Physics Test score to 3DMark.com and then get the chance to win the top prize which is a very cool $3,000. Total prize pool is $13,0000, which makes it one of the largest OC tournaments in recently years.
There are two separate events: Sandy Bridge and Sandy Bridge-E platforms. The scores will be reviewed on a weekly basis, and will be awarded with the prize of US$650 and US$1,000, respectively. There will be four weeks to submit the results, with the participant who submits the highest score in those four weeks deemed the final champion for each group respectively. The final champion in the Sandy Bridge-E platform will be awarded with the prize worth US$3,000, whilst the Sandy Bridge platform contest will win a final prize worth US$2,000.
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Acer giving away an Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook everyday until New Years Eve
[US residents only] Acer are using Facebook to launch a campaign where users can enter to get a free Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook. In order to enter the competition, users need to 'like' the sweepstake page and enter their relevant contact information.
International Facebook users need not apply, as this is a US-only competition. Acer will give away one Ultrabook per day all the way through to December 31st. That is a total of 60 Ultrabooks during the campaign. Pretty kick ass if you ask me! Acer are giving away the cheapest $899 model, which sports a 13.3-inch screen with a resolution of 1366x768, an Intel Core i5-2647M, 4GB of DDR3 RAM.
Also included in the Ultrabook to fill it out is a 20GB SSD with a 320GB 5400RPM HDD, two USB 2.0 ports, HDMI and weighs in at just 2.98lb. You can enter the competition, here.
Ukrainian champions hold a cool $1M following fierce DOTA 2 battle at Gamescom
After five days of intense competition in the International DOTA 2 Championships at Gamescom, six Ukrainian kings have emerged victorious, known as team Na'vi (yes, Avatar fans). And along with the immense pride in securing their #1 result, they also get to walk away with a cool $1M in prize money.
Chinese team EHOME came in a close second, securing their runner up prize of $250,000. The remaining top six teams (out of 16 teams in total for the event) that were awarded include :-
1. Scythe.SG - $150,000