Celebrate Madden 17 and Win A Custom NFL Themed Xbox One S

In celebration of the launch of EA Sport's Madden 17 Microsoft has teamed with EA and the NFL to give 32 lucky gamers a chance to win a custom NFL themed Xbox One S featuring their favorite team's colors and logo!

The team at Microsoft put together 32 unique custom Xbox One S (1TB) consoles – one for each NFL team – and are giving fans a chance to show off their team pride like never before and win one. So whether you’re a Cheesehead, a 12, a member of Steeler Nation or have your NFL allegiances sworn elsewhere, you’ll have three ways to enter the sweepstakes and claim a custom NFL Xbox One S as a trophy all of your own:

• Head to www.xboxpromotions.com/MaddenNFL17 and vote for your favorite console
• Click to enter through your Xbox 360 or Xbox One dashboard
• Follow @Xbox and RT the Madden NFL 17 #XboxSweepstakes Tweets

Each of the 32 NFL custom Xbox One S (1TB) consoles will come with a copy of Madden NFL 17 for Xbox One, letting you jump into a football frenzy right away. In addition to the 32 grand prize winners of a custom NFL team Xbox One S console, Microsoft will be giving away ten (10) runner-up prizes consisting of an Xbox One S Madden NFL 17 Bundle (1TB). The Xbox One S Madden NFL 17 Custom Console Sweepstakes runs from today, August 23^rd, and will close on September 6^th. The full contest rules can be seen here.

You can read more and see high resolution images of just what you can win on the Xbox Wire.

Win A Trip to Microsoft's Rare Studios to Be The First to Play Sea of Thieves

The Microsoft gaming development team at Rare, yes that is the actual name, has announced a new competition built just for fans (or would be fans since the game isn't out yet) of their latest game Sea of Thieves. With six lucky and the winners being offer the chance at an all-expenses paid trip to the UK studio to play the game before launch. The announcement video is below, while more details follow further down.

For a chance at winning this all-expenses-paid adventure, Microsoft and Rare are asking fans to create something that conveys their excitement for Sea of Thieves, and then share it with the world on social media via an image or video. The more creative and entertaining the entries, the better chance fans will have at winning the contest. This will be based on the judge's very selective and subjective opinions. In fact they have stated their selections will be based on the following three criteria:

• 33.00% - Creativity - you must show something new and different
• 33.00% - Entertainment value - you'll probably need to make them laugh
• 33.00% - Level of excitement for Sea of Thieves - don't be ho-hum about the game!

Once finished, fans must share a link to their image or video with us on Twitter @SeaOfThieves, or on Facebook via Facebook.com/SeaOfThievesGame, including the hashtag #SeaOfThievesContest.
 For a full run-down of the rules, be sure to check out our official rules page here.

There will be 6 prizes total. The prize(s) will be as follows: Each winner will receive a trip (for winner only) to Twycross, UK, for the opportunity to tour Rare Ltd and meet Rare game software developers. Includes:

• Round trip coach airfare from major airport closest to winner's home
• Transportation between airport, hotel, and studio
• Three (3) nights standard hotel accommodations
• Daily meals
• A tour of the Rare Studio

According to GameSpot, Sea of Thieves has been described by Microsoft as "the best game Rare has ever made," and given their rather extensive list of games that may or may not say a lot! The game that was first teased during E3 2015, with the promises to be a first person pirate adventure game with opportunities for exploring jungles, roaming the high seas and enjoy multiplayer naval combat. 

As of yet a release date has not been revealed and Rare has acknowledged on their official site that they have had very specific reasoning for limiting details about the game until now, but hopes this contest will generate buzz and excitement before the release.

Acer Facebook Contest Win An S7 Ultrabook Each Day Until The End of 2012

Hoping to spread the word and boost sales of their new S7 Ultrabook, Acer is running a Facebook contest giving lucky Facebook fans a chance to win a new S7 each day until December 31st.

"We've conducted four unique Facebook sweepstakes in the last year that have culminated in more than one million engaged fans interacting with Acer on a daily basis, and we're doing it yet again with the Acer S7 Select program," said Hugues Gontier, senior director of marketing, Acer America. "The Acer Aspire S7 has been widely praised as one of the most innovative and gorgeous touch-enabled Ultrabooks in the industry and we're thrilled to give our Facebook fans the opportunity to enter for a chance to win an Aspire S7 Ultrabook every day through this holiday season."

To enter, you have to visit a special page on Acer's Facebook Timeline, install the app, and start selecting friends that share attributes with the Aspire S7, such as "stylish," "brilliant," and "smooth," to name a few of the adjectives.

The Acer S7 Ultrabook features a 13.3-inch Full HD 1080p (1920x1080) touchscreen display, Windows 8 is half an inch thin, and weighs just 2.87 pounds. Powering them is either a 1.7GHz Intel Core i5-3317U Processor or the more powerful Intel Core i7-3517U CPU. The official rules suggest a retail price of $1650 so while the exact model Acer is giving away isn't clear it would appear to be the Acer S7 model S7-391-9839 or the S7-391-9886

Microsoft Launches "Cool Is in Session" Facebook Sweepstakes

Earlier today today, Microsoft launched the "Cool Is In Session" giveaway, where one lucky person will walk away with a bunch of Microsoft related hardware and software including a brand new Dell Ultrabook, a Xbox 360 and a new Nokia Windows Phone.

To enter you must "like" the official Microsoft Facebook page, be at least 13y/o and a resident of the United States. Entries for the giveaway will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on August 24th and the lucky winnder will be revealed by September 5th.

One person will be picked and he or she will win the following products:

• A Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook
• A copy of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010
• A Nokia Lumia 900 phone (AT&T service plan not included)
• A Xbox 360 250 GB game console with Kinect add-on
• A laptop bag
• A Nokia Purity HD Stereo Headset by Monster
• A wireless router
• A Microsoft LifeCam Studio webcam
• A 12 Month Xbox Live Gold subscription
• Three Xbox 360 games (Star Wars Kinect, Dance Central 2 and Forza Motorsport 4)
• A Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse.

The total value of the price package is $2,767

Win A MSI R5870 Lightning, MSI N460GTX Hawk or MSI R5770 Hawk GPU

MSI, along with popular hardware review site TechPowerUp, are teaming up to hold a hardware giveaway contest on GPU-Z from September 1st, 2010. Anyone who downloads the new GPU-Z v0.4.6 application and answers all 5 questions will have a chance to win a new MSI R5870 Lightning graphics card for free! There will be three lucky winners each month, and the contest will not expire until October 30th, 2010.

Contest page：
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/contest3.php

The details of GPU-Z hardware giveaway contest:

1. The giveaway starts September 01, 2010 and ends October 31, 2010 (2 months).
2. Prizes will be given away in the week of October 1st and the week of November 1st.
3. This contest is open to participants from all countries.
4. All platforms are welcome to submit their entry, including notebook and IGP.
5. All submissions have equal odds to win.
6. All cards are welcome and eligible to win, not only MSI.
7. Anyone, any age can enter where legal.
8. Winners will be chosen at random from all contest submissions since the beginning of the giveaway. You only have to submit once for the entire duration. 
9. Entry into to giveaway is only possible using GPU-Z on the tab "MSI Giveaway".
10. Only one entry per system per IP.
11. If a winner cannot be contacted after 5 days another winner will be chosen at random.
12. Information submitted in the contest questionnaire will be made available to MSI.
13. You will not receive any communication to your submitted E-Mail address other than a winning notification in case you win.
14. Winner will not be responsible for shipping fees.
15. TechPowerUp or MSI shall not accept any responsibility for any damage, loss, injury or disappointment suffered by you or any other participant entering the Competition or as a result of accepting any prize. TechPowerUp or MSI are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telecommunications network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software failure of any email or entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, telephone lines or at any web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to your or any other person's computer or mobile telephone related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the competition. TechPowerUp and MSI also reserve the right to change or amend the rules if necessary.

Prizes：

1. MSI R5870 Lightning x 2 (one every month)
2. N460GTX Hawk x 2 (one every month)
3. MSI R5770 Hawk x 2 (one every month)

Win $10k For Living in the Museum of Science and Industry

Living in a Museum would be a dream for some, living in Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and being paid $10,000 to do so, now that's the dream of any geek anywhere!

The Museum is looking for one lucky geek to spend one full month living inside the museum from October 20 to November 18, 2010. In addition to sleeping and eating at the the museum, the selected applicant would have to spend his or her time blogging, speaking with the media and perhaps even performing live science demos around the building.

The lucky winner will receive a cash prize of $10,000, a package of tech gadgets, an honorary lifetime membership to MSI, and of course the chance to live a geek filled month of excitement like none other!

To enter you must be over the age of 18 with an adventurous, outgoing personality with a strong interest in learning about science and the world around you. You must also be willing to o live and breathe science 24/7 for 30 days. The deadline to apply is August 11 and you can find more details via the museum’s website.

Requirements of the Month at the Museum

The winning candidate must:

• Pass a drug test, behavioral assessment, and background checks.
• Sign an Agreement covering the terms of the engagement.
• Sign a confidentiality/non-disclosure agreement.  (We have a secret recipe for fun, and it can't get out.)
• Agree to very limited contact with the outside, and limited and/or prohibited personal use of cell phone, texting, e-mail, Facebook, etc., during the residence period.
• Reside exclusively in the Museum during the residence period. Occasionally, the candidate will leave the Museum to see science where it happens or appear at events on the Museum's behalf.
• Following the residence, make a few event appearances, if the Museum opts to arrange them.

Physical and other specific requirements of the position may include:

• Sleeping in confined or “untraditional” spaces.
• Significant walking around the Museum, including climbing stairs frequently.
• Lifting up to 40 lbs. (Of what, we don’t know yet. We’ll think of something.)
• Ability to stand for significant periods of time. (This might include working the Museum floor, performing live science demos, blowing up chemicals in our "Bangs, Flashes and Fire" show, and other really fun stuff.)
• Meeting, interacting and socializing with crowds of Museum guests every day … with a smile.
• Working on a computer daily to write about your amazing experiences.
• Speaking English for demonstrations and other appearances.

Rules and Regulations

• You may enter only once. Submitting multiple entries will disqualify you from the competition.  The Museum will not automatically confirm receipt of your application but you may request confirmation by e-mailing matm(at)msichicago.org no sooner than 10 days after submission of your application.
• You must not be previously or currently employed by the Museum (whether as an employee, volunteer or contractor), or related to or a member of the same household as an MSI employee, volunteer or contractor.
• You must be 18 or over at the date of application.
• You must be legally allowed to receive compensation for services in the United States. 
• You must be available to live in the Museum for 30 days with no outside personal or work responsibilities.  Semi-finalists may be required to submit evidence of their physical and mental fitness to fulfill the position specifications.

Entry Materials

Complete entries must include the following:

• VIDEO: A 60-second video (on DVD, playable on DVD player) telling us about you and why you should be the person chosen for this assignment. Use the video to showcase the creativity and qualities that make you the right person. 
• ESSAY: A 500-word essay that explains why you want to be the person chosen to live in the Museum for a month.
• APPLICATION FORM: Complete and sign the application form and short-answer sheet.
• PHOTO:  Submit a 5” x 7” head shot
• RELEASE AND WAIVER: Execute the Release and Waiver accompanying the application form.

Enter The Intel vPro Technology Innovation Contest

Got a brilliant new use for Intel vPro technology? Then put your good idea to use and you could win yourself some cold hard cash!

Intel is always searching for innovative uses of Intel vPro Technology. If you have one enter the Intel vPro Technology Innovation Contest by submitting a video for a chance to win $4,000 toward a trip to the 2010 Intel Developer Forum, Sep. 13-15, in San Francisco.

The contest runs from July 21st 2010 12:00AM PDT to 11:59PM PDT August 20th 2010 and is open to all legal residents of the United States age 18 and older. Employees, officers and representatives (and members of their immediate families and those living in the same household of each) of Intel Corporation, its parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies and any company involved in the design, execution, production or judging of this promotion (“contest entities”) are ineligible.

Judging will be based on an ongoing review of entries during the contest period and final judging will be completed on or about August 30th, 2010 by a panel comprised of Intel vPro Engineers appointed by Intel Corporation. Judges will evaluate all eligible submissions on the following criteria: Degree to which Intel vPro capabilities are employed, uniqueness of the innovation, and breadth of applicability. Judges' decisions are final. You may withdraw your submission at any time by notifying Intel. If a submission is withdrawn your right to win a prize is terminated.

Click here for full contest details

Enter The Palit GeForce GTX 480 Giveaway

Officially kicking off yesterday (July 6th) and running until Aug 16th, the gang over at Palit have launched a contest right up any geeks alley. Up for grabs are a GeForce GTX 480, 470, or 465 graphics card (first, second and third prizes). Entering is easy, all you need to do is hit the company's three social media web pages and show a little love.

Step 1: Facebook

• (a) Head here and click on "LIKE."
• (b) Make sure you comment on the contest entry and insert the code phrase "I got game."

Step 2: Twitter

• (a) Head here and then click "Follow."
• (b) Retweet the Palit name once with the code phrase "I got game."

Step 3: MySpace

• (a) Head here and then click "Add to Friends."
• (b) Make sure you comment on MySpace with the code phrase "I got game."

To learn more about the contest--including the terms and conditions--head here.

PowerColor Announces the ''DirectX 11 Experience'' Contest

Video card manufacturer PowerColor today announced the "How was your first time? DX11 Experience!" contest asking users for artistic picture of themselves and their "First time DX11 experience." The final winner who beats other original pictures from other 3 communities will get a fantastic PowerColor PCS+ HD5870. The other 3 winners join the final and represent each community will also get a brand new PowerColor PCS+ HD5770!

The rules of this competition are simple, just submit a picture of your first DX11 experience moment, you're reaction, or you're cat reaction to your reaction, anything that might relate to your first DX11 Experience! You just have to hope that others will vote for you as the most original.

This competition has five communities as partners where you can submit your picture, later the community you submitted your picture will vote for the most original one to represent their community. The winner of each community will get brand new PowerColor PCS+ 5770.

When each community has found its winner will then go on direct competition with the other communities winners in a voting that will be held here to find the craziest picture of all. The global winner will receive a brand new PowerColor PCS+ 5870.

Participating communities include, TechPowerUp, HardwareHeaven, HardwareLuxx and MeriStation.

Schedule:
The submissions for this competition are open from January 18^th to January 31^st, 2010. Communities will cast their voting to select their winner from February 1^st to February 3^rd, 2010. Winners of each community will be posted on the competition main page on 4^th February for worldwide voting that ends on 11st of February, 2010. The worldwide winner will be announced on 12^nd of February, 2010.

Rules
1. You must be 16 years or older to participate.
2. You must own the submitted picture / have the rights to use it.
3. Participants are required to upload their pictures both in the main competition page and the community they choose to participate.
4. No plagiarism of any kind. If you copy you will be disqualified and publicly humiliated
5. It's a open to creativity competition, you can post pictures of anything that might relate to your first DX11 Experience, your reaction, your room's door scratched from your dog that wanted to go for a walk and you were too entertained to remember, well anything original just be creative!
6. Pictures can include artwork and be modified.
7. No pornography, nudity, profanity, nor any kind of material that might be offensive.
8. In case of tie, each community administrator will ultimately choose the winner
9. Only one participation per user/person allowed.
10. PowerColor will do everything in their power to ensure a speedy delivery of all of the prizes.
11. PowerColor and its partners reserves the right to refuse entry into the competition, and any entrant found cheating, plagiarizing, or generally following un-sportsmanlike behavior will be instantly disqualified.
12. No responsibility will be taken for lost entries.
13. These rules may change at any time and you must accept these changes.
14. By submitting your first entry, you have confirmed your acceptance of these terms and conditions.

Earners Forum, Webmaster-Talk Forums Merger Contest

I ran across this contest over at ShoeMoney and thought I'd pass the info along. Its a points based contest which looks rather involved but it might be worth it to someone that has the time to devote.

In order to celebrate the merger of EarnersForum.com in to Webmaster-Talk.com we have rallied the support from 10 AMAZING sponsors that all wanted to put on the contest of the year

There has never been a contest with so many valuable prizes and so much cash in the world of webmaster communities. We want to give a special shout out of thanks to each of our sponsors for making this possible.

How The Contest Works Click Here!

Prizes

1. A beautiful new Macbook Air laptop from ClickBooth valued at $1,800.00!

2. A Professional version Shopping Cart solution from Interspire valued at $995.00!

3. $500 cash in a Max Bounty affiliate network account awaits you!

4. Another $500 in the form of a Text Link Ads gift certificate should help with your marketing efforts!

5. How about another Apple product, the iPod Touch from Rocket Profit….wow!

6. Another $250 cash in a Pepperjam Network account will make you smile!

7. Sure would be nice to have some custom T-shirts printed for your headline website, right? Well, Ndesigns is going to do that for you! This is 24 Custom Printed Shirts (color T’s, 3-4 color printing, one-sided).

8. The hottest new camera for blogging, The Flip, is provided by AdValiant!

9. Speaking of blogs, the MOST AMAZING paid theme ever is now yours from Revolution Theme and it isn’t just one, but the complete multi-pack!

10. To help you relax that hard working brain of yours, we close the package out with a Nintendo DS Lite from RevResponse!

More than $25,000 in Prizes!!

THE CONTEST ENDS MAY 13th AT MIDNIGHT (CST), SO…Start Today to Win!

For more information you can read the official rules here and more updates can be found in the official contest thread.

Winning The Web's Craziest Internet Marketing Contest

While visiting John Chow's blog yesterday I cam upon this post "Win 5,348 In Cash and Prizes from Winning The Web" and had to go take a look.


Gyutae Park owner/author of Winning The Web has came up with a great contest with over over $7,119 in cash and free prizes. All of which will help to take your Internet business to the next level.

The contest dubbed "the Craziest Internet Marketing Contest You’ve Ever Seen!" awards prizes from several great marketing sites. Including advertisers, SEO developers, blog optimizers and developers.

Prizes Recap - $7,119 Total

• $650 Cash from Azoogle Ads
• $500 Cash from PepperJam Network
• $250 Cash from NeverblueAds
• $200 Cash from BidVertiser
• 1 Full Conference Pass to Affiliate Summit East ($949 value)
• 3 Month Membership to Aaron Wall’s SEO Training Program ($300 value)
• 6 Month Membership to SEOmoz Pro ($249 value)
• 12 Month Subscription to RankSense Professional ($630 value)
• 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan from Purple Internet Marketing ($800 value)
• The Secret Classroom from Joel Comm & Next Internet Millionaire ($497 value)
• Autographed Copy of Kris’ Jones Upcoming Book on SEO ($20 value)
• Copy of the SEO Handbook 2008 from HuoMah ($10 value)
• 8 PSD Custom Banner Designs from Banners Mall ($275 value)
• 2 Exclusive Blog Themes from Unique Blog Designs (2 winners - $100 value each)
• 2 Revolution Wordpress Blog Themes from Brian Gardner (2 winners -$80 value each)
• Wordpress Coding from CSS Rockstars ($209 value)
• 1 Year Swamp Plan Web Hosting from Host Gator ($150 value)
• 1 Hour Blog Optimization Consulting from Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips ($175 value)
• 3 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on AndyBeard.eu ($100 value)
• 1 Month Text Link Ad on Ades Blog ($90 value)
• 1 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on John Cow ($125 value)
• 6 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on JonLee.ca ($300 value)
• 3 Fast Passes, 3 Featured Statuses, and 5000 Credits from Entrecard
• 1 Paid Review on Winning the Web - sponsored by 1 Cool File ($100 value)
• 20 Winning the Web T-shirts (20 winners - $9 value each)

The winners of all of the individual prizes will be selected by a random draw on March 31. In order to participate in the contest, you'll need to perform certain actions that gain you more entries. The more entries you have, the higher your chances of winning a prize.

For more information visit Winning the Web

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