Announcement: **** And the Winners Are... ****

[iceman]

I went into Bintel this afternoon to draw the winners of the IceInSpace 1st Birthday Competition..

And the winners are...


1st prize winner - Mick
Winner of a $200 gift voucher courtesy of Bintel (http://www.bintelshop.com.au) and choice of signed, framed print from Eddie Trimarchi (http://www.astroshed.com).

2nd prize winner - RapidEye
Winner of a Telrad courtesy of Bintel (http://www.bintelshop.com.au) and a 1 year subscription to Australian Sky & Telescope (http://www.austskyandtel.com.au)

3rd prize winner - Astroman
Winner of "The Year Round Messier Marathon Field Guide" by Pennington from Bintel (http://www.bintelshop.com.au)

Congratulations to Mick, RapidEye and Astroman for being the winners of the IceInSpace 1st Birthday Competition! I'll be in touch with you to arrange postage of your prizes.

Many thanks to Bintel (http://www.bintelshop.com.au), Eddie Trimarchi (http://www.astroshed.com) and Australian Sky & Telescope (http://www.austskyandtel.com.au) for their support and sponsorship of the competition.

And many thanks to the members of IceInSpace for their continuing valued support and for taking part in the competition.

[[1ponders]]

Yaaaaaaa!!!!!!! :cool: :cool: :cool: Three cheers for the winners :drink: :drink: :drink: Congratulations Mick, Rapid Eye and Astroman. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[netwolf]

Congrats to the winners, and thanks to Mike and all the sponsors for a great competition. Lets have more so i can win ;)

[h0ughy]

:cool: :cool: :bowdown: :bowdown: congratulations Guys :clap: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:I wished it was meeeeeee :( :( :(

maybe next time eh :thumbsup:

[[1ponders]]

And a big THANK YOU to the sponsors! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :2thumbs:

[gaa_ian]

Well done guys :cool:

[mick pinner]

congratulations guys, great comp and great prizes.

[asimov]

:thumbsup: Congrats to the winners!

[davidpretorius]

thanks mike (nice shirt by the way!), the sponsors and everyone that made it a fun and educational!!

[Jonny S]

Congratulations to all of the winners, and thanks Iceman for a great competition!:cool:

As a promotional campaign, you got me to join!

[janoskiss]

Congrats! I hope you enjoy your prizes. Spend that $200 wisely now Mick! :D

Thanks for all your efforts Mike! :thumbsup:

[cometcatcher]

Congratulations Mick, RapidEye and Astroman!

[janoskiss]

RapidEye, being a US resident, you will have no use for an Australian Sky & Telescope subscription. Can I have it? Please? :prey:
:D

[Chrissyo]

Yay, congrats everyone! :D Enjoy those prizes!

[jackenau]

:cool: Congratulations to the winners and congratulations to Mike for putting on the competition :cheers:
Appreciation to the sponsors :bowdown: and I am sure those that entered the comp, had as much fun (or frustration) in seeking out the answers as I did.

Learnt a lot :thumbsup: and look forward to seeing more such challenges.

:poke:

Ken M

[Mick]

Well what a suprise, thanks to the sponsers, Mike and everyone in our IceInSpace community. :)

[Starkler]

Congratulations fellas :thumbsup:

For those that entered and didnt get a prize, you still won by learning something :)

[beren]

Congrats to the winners {well done Mick hope thats a good sign for the Cowboys with a Queenslander winning through :D } and hats off to Mike the Bintel team and Eddie {talking of hats Mike did you manage to sneak away with that Televue cap :whistle: }

[Dave47tuc]

Well done,
Mick :thumbsup:
RapidEye :thumbsup:
Astroman :thumbsup:
Congrats.

[RapidEye]

LOL :D
When I knew I'd gotten all 30 right, I went back and looked over the prize list again. I thought to myself.... The ONE thing I DON'T need is a copy of AS&T - figures that is what I'd win :scared2:

Don't get me wrong, I've already got a subscription to S&T - the US version, its a GREAT mag!

I'll drop Iceman a PM and see if he has any ideas...

Thanks fellas! :love:

[iceman]

Thanks for all the feedback guys, I think the competition was a lot of fun and stimulated some great interest and discussion.

I'll be sure to come up with something else in the next few months.

I haven't PM'd anyone yet - been sleeping :) Will get in touch with the winners today.

[iceman]

Oh also, Mojo has been busy updating the flash animation.. :D

<----------- See left :)

[RapidEye]

My mother always told me she'd see my name in lights some day :love:
But I'm pretty sure she expected it to be on a CNN crawl :scared2:
"High speed chase: North Carolina State Highway Patrol reports...";)

[xrekcor]

Mick, Jim, Astroman :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Hey Jim! now you'll get to see what it's like having to read foriegn imports :D



Yeah! it was a nutter on a quad bike, police determined that it wasn't normal
American behavior due to the quad being spotless. So they called in a nancy boy 5150 :rofl: :whistle:

Big thanks to the sponsers, Mike and the team.

regards,CS aaaaaarrrgh! summer again :D

[Striker]

Well done Mick....Go the Queenslanders

also congrats to the other winners and all who entered.

Thanks to the sponsors.....without them we had nothing.

[cristian abarca]

Congratulations to the winners and everyone involved. let's do it again

Regards cristian

[ving]

congrats to all the winners :D

congrats to Mike and the sponsors too for a well run event! :thumbsup:

Mike, apparently i missed you by meare seconds! :P so you escaped this time.
To the guys that were still at bintel, nice to meet yas!

[RB]

David it was great to finally meet you too.

:)

[ving]

turning up tonight andrew?

and I feel a need to do a post about astorbelle :P

[RB]

Yeah David I'll be there.
:thumbsup:

Astrobelle was very well behaved in Bintel.
Very well behaved.

:D

[Snibs]

Mick, Rapideye and Astroman, I think a beer is in order.
Congratulations from Mick (snibs)

[33South]

Good to meet you Ving, as well as RocketBoy and Mike.

Congrats to the winners, I missed the actual draw so I cant validate the results.

Also I somehow left the shop without spending any hard earned,
although Mikes report on the 14mm Meade s5000 UWA may help.

[TidaLpHasE]

:cool: Congrats to all the winners, and to Mike for a great comp, and the sponsors.:thumbsup:

[Astroman]

Sorry guys for the late reply to this, been up in the Flinders Ranges, WOW!!!!!! what a sky!!!!!!!!!!!

and WOW I got 3rd excellent. Thanks to Mike, and his team of dedicated question hunters, also Bintel for putting up the prize, and also to everyone who didn't get 30 questions right to make it easier for me to get some place. LOL only joking!!

Thanks everyone....

[Astroman]

My book "The year - round Messier Marathon field guide" came today, loved the inscription from Mike Smith at Bintel. It said:

ICEinSPACE 1st Birthday
Well done!

Andrew
the
Astroman

Mike Smith
BINTEL

Although the book is aminly aimed at the northern Hemisphere, I am sure most of it I should get some use out of :) The star hopping they do looks pretty interesting. Should be a good read.

Thanks again, Mike and Mike for the chance to go in the competition