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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 1911023" data-attributes="member: 2">Yup. He offered a choice between a bunch of stuff on pdf and a hard copy book; this was actually the first prize we awarded.For folks who are curious, here's how we're assigning prizes:- For a very few people, we've offered them their first choice of prizes. This is limited to (I believe) the top three donors. That's where Monte's book went.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />- Everything else is random. I have a spreadsheet set up with everyone's name, and a random number generator set up. I give a prize to whoever the number indicates, and if they already have something then it goes to the next closest person who hasn't. Once everyone has something, I start awarding multiple prizes in the same way.One of the things that has slowed me down a bit is that one of the publishers was kind enough to assign their prizes themselves, picking randomly. I don't know who those went to, though, so I'm holding to make sure that everything is kosher.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 1911023, member: 2"] Yup. He offered a choice between a bunch of stuff on pdf and a hard copy book; this was actually the first prize we awarded. For folks who are curious, here's how we're assigning prizes: - For a very few people, we've offered them their first choice of prizes. This is limited to (I believe) the top three donors. That's where Monte's book went. :) - Everything else is random. I have a spreadsheet set up with everyone's name, and a random number generator set up. I give a prize to whoever the number indicates, and if they already have something then it goes to the next closest person who hasn't. Once everyone has something, I start awarding multiple prizes in the same way. One of the things that has slowed me down a bit is that one of the publishers was kind enough to assign their prizes themselves, picking randomly. I don't know who those went to, though, so I'm holding to make sure that everything is kosher. [/QUOTE]

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