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By now, everyone knows that I love YouTube. Its endless types of content, from funny videos as we’ve seen with the Sneezing Panda - to more touching videos like this one I’d like to share with you today.
Hope you enjoy the theme behind the video. It’s for a great cause.
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Hiya everyone!
This is Olga, I’m one of the more techy members of the BingoMania family. I just wanted to drop you guys a note, in case you’ve been trying to access Bingomania.com in the past hour and can’t see it coming up. We are all here behind the scenes, working very hard to make our Bingo games available as soon as humanly possible. Thank you so much for your patience, you’re just about the best bunch of peeps ever!
Cheerios,
Olga
UPDATE: Bingomania.com is up and at em! Have a great day everybody and thank you for your patience and understanding. We have extended the 150% deposit bonus all through Sunday.
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Tallying up the votes took slightly longer than anticipated. But nevertheless, we have our winners.
As some of you know, there was a problem with the closing time of the polling station. Originally the poll was set to close at 5pm EST. Unfortunately our blog server time is set on UK time zone so 5pm EST means 9pm EST. As a result, a couple extra votes sneaked their way and slightly skewed 3rd & 4th standings as well as 5th place.
We’re not perfect. However, when we do make a mistake, we make it right. So to ensure the little time difference didn’t spoil a fun-filled promo, we’re awarding two 3rd place finishes and three 5th place finishes.
Without further ado, I present you the winners from BingoMania’s 1st Ever Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest:
Grand Prize Winner
Princess angel ($250 Amazon Gift Certificate)
2nd Place Winners
Hanutapig ($100 Amazon gift Certificate)
3rd Place (Tie)
Sunny155 - ($50 Amazon Gift Certificate)
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wicked wench - ($50 Amazon Gift Certificate)
4th & 5th (3-way Tie)
Pigaboo - $25 BB
bingo4mummy - $25 BB
HappyHOGaween - $25 BB
Congratulations!
And to show our appreciation for a job well done to our contenders who didn’t make the top 5, we will credit their accounts with a little ty bonus.
- McQueary
- BOOhooWant2Win2
- AYummyMummy
- 3TGBOO!
- LostMyBroom (unfortunately her photo never found it’s way to us : (
- Britney scares (was submitted a day too late, but you can view her pumpkin here
All bonuses will be credited before 6pm tonight and tomorrow, Kelly will be in touch with our Amazon Gift Certificate winners.
There you have it - Mania’s Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest Winners!
[update] A big thank you to “LostMyBroom” for taking the time to resend her carved pumpkin photo to us. As some of you heard, “LostMyBroom’s”photos never found their way to us, so we never got a chance to officially enter her in the contest : ( … we feel horrible and for next year’s contest, we will do our best to make sure there’s a plan B for submitting photo.
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Many thanks to everyone who sent in a photo of their carved pumpkin for BingoMania’s “Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest”. We’ve received eleven great entries and all the Pumpkins look fantastic.
Now comes the hard part, voting!
Before you vote for the best carved pumpkin, please take note of the following rules:
- You can only vote once. So take your time and vote for the one that you think deserves the vote
- To ensure your vote counts – please type the following in the comment box below “alias voted”. For example, let’s say your alias is Skippy. Simply leave a comment as Skippy Voted.
That’s it … you have until Wednesday, October 31st at 5pm to vote.
Good Luck to all of our pumpkin carving contest hopefuls.
Here are the 11 Contenders in Alphabetical Order:
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[update] Ty for all the votes! The poll is now closed. Will need until tomorrow to officially tally the votes (to ensure there was no multiple votes). The winners will be posted on this blog tomorrow morning and announced on our Friday Newsletter as well.
Once again, thanks and great job to all of our contenders
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Since Halloween is less than a week away, I thought you’d like to get the latest update on all the Halloween events here at BingoMania.com.
The Halloween Name Contest
GM Bill aka GM HeadlessLeader, has posted a full list of all the names on his personal website. You can view them here.
Pumpkin Carving Contest
Only a few days left to contest entry deadline. If you haven’t sent us a picture of your carved pumpkin, do so before Monday, October 29th or you’ll miss out on winning 1 of 5 prizes. You can send your photos to marketing@bingomania.com.
For more details on the prizes click here and for carving tips, visit here.
Halloween Tourney Details!
- 2hrs of $500 fixed games (approximately 10 games)
- Fair & Square Tournament Room
- Entry fee - $30 Package Buy-in (but sorry no bbs)
- Date: Wednesday, Oct 31st
- Time: 8pm to 10pm
- Cards: 10 cards per member, per game
- Deadline to enter 7:30PM EST Oct 31, 2007
To reserve your seat for the Fair N’ Square Tournament:
- login to BingoMania.com (forgot your login?)
- Click on the Halloween Banner on the Home Page
- Click “pre-purchase”
If you have any questions on any of the above specials, leave me a comment below.
Have a great weekend!
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I apologize for all of the down time recently. I know how much of an inconvenience this must be to many of you. However, rest assured that will be on entirely new servers within 2 weeks.
The past few days have been very stressful for everyone here at the BingoMania HQ and equally to you, our valued members. Our hard working Tech team managed to get little rusty together and we came back up Saturday.
We plan to schedule free games for everyone - will organize the details and send out an invite to all of our members. We’re thinking four (4) hours of free games. But we want to make sure we plan this free roll right so little rusty doesn’t go down again. Will work out the plan tomorrow and provide you further details…so please stay tuned.
In the meantime, to make it up to you, we’re crediting all of our members account with $10 free. So any member that has funded at least once in the last 3 months, will see a $10 free in their account.
THE FREE CREDIT SHOULD BE IN YOUR ACCOUNTS BETWEEN 5:00PM-6:00PM - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21ST –
Please note – the credit will be awarded upon login. So around 5pm, logout and log back in to your bingomania.com account.
Once again, my apology for not communicating earlier…
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Hello,
Our apology if you’ve tried to access BingoMania.com today - we’re currently experiencing some downtime and are working hard to make the site available to you in the shortest time possible.
To explain to you what’s happening, we figured we introduce you to Little Rusty:
I’m Mania’s server, Little Rusty. We’ve met before but I don’t think we’ve been formally introduced. Lately, I haven’t been so nice and have annoyed you on many occasions.
I might only be a software but I am embarrassed and I do feel I’ve let everyone down – you, the team and even Toji.
There are no words to explain how deeply sorry I am for my behaviour. Please do accept my apology and know that Olga, Shawn and Billy and the entire tech team at Mania are trying their best to fix me. I’m going to do my best to keep strong and get myself back up so you can enjoy all the goodies I hear that are stored for you this weekend at BingoMania.com.
In the meantime, I hope you can find it in your hearts to forgive me : (
Very sorry again,
Mania Server
Little Rusty
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We did a little research online and found some great tips to help you with carving your pumpkin.
We figured, one place should have all the answers. So we headed over to the domestic queen’s website “Martha Stewart” and found full of great tips for you.
Here are the essentials:
Hope you’ll find the above helpful. For more tips visit this page from Martha Stewart.
Good luck and enjoy!
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With Halloween around the corner, we would like to try something different here on the ManiaStu Blog – Maniac Pumpkin Carving Contest!
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Interested?
- You send us a picture of your carved pumpkin final entry date Mon Oct 29th
- We will post the photo of your carved pumpkin on the maniastu blog
- Then from Monday, October 29th to Wednesday, October 31st the community votes on the best carved Pumpkins.
There will be 5 prizes up for grabs:
- Grand Prize – $250 Amazon Gift Certificate
- 2nd place - $100 Amazon Gift Certificate
- 3rd place - $50 Amazon Gift Certificate
- 4th & 5th - $25 BBs each
If you’re interested, please leave a message on this post and will get things organized on this end, such as tips and ideas to help you out.
[UPDATE] you can send in your photos to Kelly in the marketing department.
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A few days ago, a good friend of mine, sent me a video and after watching it, I was in awe. A great story! One that might just leave you in awe too. It has to be one of the greatest stories I’ve come across — inspiring, moving and breathtaking.
I think you’ll enjoy it as well.
For more info on this story, you can visit Team Hoyt’s official website.
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