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Found out today that I won a seat to the £40,000 UKOPS ME for December 27th 2015
Was there no text or email sent out for this?
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I have no idea if an SMS or e-mail was sent to the winners, but your name was shown as a winner on the Winter Giveaway Promo Page, (which has now been taken down), & I also named all the winners, including yourself, every day, on this Community, HERE
Check the site each day!
The link to the promotion is gone but the pages are still there.
https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/poker-promotions/winter-giveaway
Extract:
How Do I Take Part In The Winter Challenge?
Simply check back every day to see what challenge has appeared behind the numbered poker chip throughout December and away you go! Any daily Challenges that require players to earn points will be updated on this page the following day.
Winners page was updated each day and you were on it (Sunday 20th)
https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/poker-promotions/winter-giveaway-winners
Tikays summary on the forum was in addition to those official announcements.
It is not my place to say how sky run promotions - just pointing out that the terms say points race based promotions would be notified in the winter giveaway section of the site.
If you were aware of the Winter Giveaway but didn't follow it I have no real sympathy for you.
Promotions are there to boost traffic, reward loyal players and entice new/returning players.
I guess if you had won a hoodie or an iphone or ipad then you would have been contacted to confirm your address.
If you had won cash your account would have been credited with it.
You were just "unfortunate" enough to have won a Main Event Seat worth £110.
I thought the Winter Giveaway was a fantastic promotion. Had me checking daily to see what the requirement was and whether it was achievable for me. Overall it had something in it for every type of player regardless of bankroll or preferred game type.
Least you got 100 poker points for doing nowt.
Almost all of the targets during the WG promo were points based i.e. not something that some people would have to go out of their way to participate in.
So saying 'well you knew you had to check the leaderboards' doesnt really work on the guy who didn't know the promo existed and didn't know that there were any leaderboards to check.
Absolutely not. There is only one set of winners.
They were all announced daily on the Promo Page, & as an extra service, I updated them every single day on the Forum, but it was definitely not "Forum only", I was just trying to help raise awareness.
I have sent a note Upstairs overnight, too see if all winners were notified by e-Mail, & I'd not be surprised if they said "no", but let's wait & see what they say first.
It was really quite hard to be unaware, imo. If you never received texts or e-Mails, that can only be as you ticked the "no comms" box, as everyone else (who had not opted out of comms) got them. There were pop-ups & "pushes" on the Tables every day, too, so much so that players complained about the frequency of them.
Ha, now you & I are of like mind. Always great to see "glass half full" types in life.
Texts & e-Mails promoting the Winter Giveaway (I'm NOT talking of notifying winners, just promoting the promo), were regularly sent to all players who had not opted out of receiving comms. There were texts every single day iirc, & a weekly e-mail.
You say you were unaware of the Promo, so presumably you never got these regular texts & e-Mails.
Are you opted out of receiving promotional texts & e-Mails? Do you ever get them about any promos?
If you were getting the regular "pushes" by Text & e-Mail, you'd have been aware of the Promo in advance. If you were not getting them, there has to be a reason.
I'm reminded of Lewis Carroll.
"“Curiouser and curiouser” cried Alice"
I have heard back from the Office, & they have confirmed that they did NOT send e-Mails to the Winter Giveaway winners. It's just not time-efficient & adds an additional layer of complexity, so that was why they set up the Winners Page, which was updated daily, & which I then copied onto the Community.
There has not been one other complaint of this nature. I really can't recall how many prizes were given, but it must have run to hundreds of uniques, maybe as many as 500 different prizes over the WG period?
You actually thanked me for providing you with some WG info on the very first day it began, 1st December, & you even put a link up to it yourself, to assist someone else, on this thread, HERE
You also commented on a separate Winter Giveaway thread.....
":((( Just opened my advent calendar and there's nothing in it!"
...on this thread, HERE
Anyway, lets get back to that glass half full mindset, so try & qualify for the UKPC, then you & me can hook up, & I'll buy you a pot of tea. If I remember.
That's a little unfair imo - he did know the Promo existed.
Only a small % use the Community, but everyone uses the site.
"a very good chance one of the prizes is going to be won by one of the 90-95% of people that were oblivous of the promo."
Why would 95% be oblivious of the Promo if they don't use the Forum? SMS messages were sent every day, & an e-Mail every week, in addition to Messages on the tables. The amount of people who have opted out of receiving comms is VERY small, single digit %. As you acknowledge in your final sentence, if players opt out of receiving Comms, then that's their responsibility, not Sky Poker's. Where does 95% come from?
I don't think we are going to agree on this. To me, if people want to take part in a Promo, it's hardly a great inconvenience to check the results, & blaming the site is a little unfair.
Anyway, let's move on, we see it differently.
I'm genuinely sorry YuranASSet missed the ME ticket, but I don't think Sky Poker hold any responsibility for that.
Next case.