TechPowerUp's WCG February Challenge (2/15 thru 2/22/2014)- UPDATE-- TPU wins the Challenge!!!

manofthem · Feb 23, 2014

Norton said:
Almost there- watch this post

Winners to be announced shortly

Remember last challenge when Bow worked his voodoo and won a rig? We should all try that this time :laugh:

And sorry I missed your pm Norton :oops:

stinger608 · Feb 23, 2014

manofthem said:
And sorry I missed your pm Norton

Yea, you need to be paying attention here buddy............. :roll:

manofthem · Feb 23, 2014

stinger608 said:
Yea, you need to be paying attention here buddy.............

Yeah you're right. :banghead:

It's weird because I had my phone out waiting for the alert emails, but I never got any. I was helping my dad with an issue: iPhone 4s and pc config, space issues and cleanup, then update iOS for his work app compatibility.

Only took about 3 hours.

15th Warlock · Feb 23, 2014

Great job everyone! It was an honor to be a part of our team effort! TPU rocks! :rockout:

stinger608 · Feb 23, 2014

manofthem said:
Yeah you're right.

It's weird because I had my phone out waiting for the alert emails, but I never got any. I was helping my dad with an issue: iPhone 4s and pc config, space issues and cleanup, then update iOS for his work app compatibility.

Only took about 3 hours.

Yea, yea, ya know, excuses are like assholes, everyone's got one............ :roll:

Ya know I'm just giving ya crap brother.......LOL.

manofthem · Feb 23, 2014

15th Warlock said:
Great job everyone! It was an honor to be part of our team effort! TPU rocks! :rock out:

Amen to that, glad to have you as a part of it! :respect:

stinger608 said:
Yea, yea, ya know, excuses are like assholes, everyone's got one............

Ya know I'm just giving ya crap brother.......LOL.

Yeah I can take the poop, no matter how squishy

Norton · Feb 23, 2014

Here we go!!!

FordGT90Concept- $20 PayPal gift - provided by Bow
yotano211- $20 PayPal gift - provided by theonedub
t77snapshot- $25 PayPal gift - provided by Norton
Jstn7477- $25 PayPal gift - provided by Norton
MStenholm- $10 PayPal gift - provided by dank1983man420
mauriek- $10 PayPal gift - provided by ChristTheGreat

Congrats! :toast:

Up next hardware winners

stinger608 · Feb 23, 2014

Congrats to the PayPal winners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And congrats to everyone that made this awesome challenge a very great success!!!!!!!!!!!!

Norton · Feb 23, 2014

Hardware Winners!!!

fullinfusion- Naos 7000 mouse - provided by sneekypete*
Mindweaver- Topre Type Heaven keyboard - provided by sneekypete*
dhoshaw- Sapphire VaporX cpu cooler - provided by sneekypete*
TRWOV- ASRock FM2A55M-DGS R2.0 motherboard - provided by HammerON*
TheGrapist- Roku 2 2013 Edition - provided by theonedub

Congrats!!! :toast:

Up Next- Grand Prize Winners!

manofthem · Feb 23, 2014

Prizes are looking pretty fantastic! Congrats all you winners! :rockout:

Norton · Feb 23, 2014

Grand Prize Winners!!!

stinger608 Grand Prize: Win a Crunching Rig* (donated by the TPU WCG crunching Team)
BarbaricSoul Grand Prize (2): Win a socket 2011 motherboard and cpu (donated by mjkmike)

Congrats!!! :toast:

Thanks to everyone who participated you're ALL Winners here!!!

TRWOV · Feb 23, 2014

I don't have any use for an FM2 board ATM so I think I'll skip over it. I was in mainly for the Roku :toast:

Please select another winner.

Peter1986C · Feb 23, 2014

Congrats winners!

stinger608 · Feb 23, 2014

OMG!!!!!!! I won the frigging rig????????

How awesome is that!!!!!!!!!!

Now I have another rig to crunch with!!!!!!

manofthem · Feb 23, 2014

Congrats to all the winners!!! :toast:

And obvioiusly a HUGE THANKS to all those that kicked in the prizes!
:respect:

stinger608 said:
OMG!!!!!!! I won the frigging rig????????

How awesome is that!!!!!!!!!!

Now I have another rig to crunch with!!!!!!

Giveth and taketh. You recently had to sell one, and now it's coming right back at you! Congrats Dano, you deserve it!

15th Warlock · Feb 23, 2014

Congratulations to all the winners! You guys deserve it :toast:

fullinfusion · Feb 23, 2014

Thank you for the prize I desperately needed as my mouse is on its last limb and thanks to chad (sneakypete) for the donation. Im heading down southin the morning and will try to find a hot spot to provide an american addy. To whoever needs it

Irony · Feb 23, 2014

That's awesome, congrats to all the winners!

34 million from our team in a week is pretty impressive.

manofthem · Feb 23, 2014

fullinfusion said:
Thank you for the prize I desperately needed as my mouse is on its last limb and thanks to chad (sneakypete) for the donation. Im heading down southin the morning and will try to find a hot spot to provide an american addy. To whomever needs it

Fixed that for you :slap:

stinger608 · Feb 23, 2014

Irony said:
34 million from our team in a week is pretty impressive.

Yes, yes it is!!!!!!! Awesome job team!!!

I am soooooooooo proud to be a part of this amazing WCG team!

Norton · Feb 23, 2014

TRWOV said:
I don't have any use for an FM2 board ATM so I think I'll skip over it. I was in mainly for the Roku

Please select another winner.

OK- Thanks for letting us know. We will do a redraw for anything that comes back for whatever reason in a few days.

PM's sent to the winners of my PayPal gifts

TheGrapist · Feb 23, 2014

I won a roku 2! Thank you everyone who donated stuff,theonedub especially! This challenge was very fun and i'm glad i was able to participate :lovetpu:

manofthem · Feb 23, 2014

Thanks Norton for all your hard work in organizing this Challenge, taking care of the all these prizes, doing the drawings and posting, throwing in a bunch of hardware/PPs/Thief from the game giveaway, etc. It's a lot of time and effort, but the team appreciates it all. :respect:

stinger608 · Feb 23, 2014

manofthem said:
Thanks Norton for all your hard work in organizing this Challenge, taking care of the all these prizes, doing the drawings and posting, throwing in a bunch of hardware/PPs/Thief from the game giveaway, etc. It's a lot of time and effort, but the team appreciates it all.

Your right MoT! We must give a huge thanks to Norton for all of the extremely hard work he has put into this contest as well as everything he does for this awesome team!!!!!!

Thank you Cap'n!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He doesn't receive enough thanks for all he does!

mjkmike · Feb 23, 2014

BarbaricSoul congrats and I will PM you for shipping info.

Congrats to all the winners. Great fun and I'm glad to be part of this team

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