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Re:Name EVGA’s Next Generation Board and Win!
2010/05/03 19:17:38
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Nereus
Grats to the winner. Kind of thought the guidelines of what to include were actual guidelines :
EVGA_JacobF
Simply name below what you would like to see this next generation motherboard called, and EVGA will select one winner.
A couple of points to keep in mind:
This is a “Classified” line of product.
This product uses the Intel 5520 chipset.
This has Dual Sockets supporting Dual CPU’s.
(emphasis mine)
Had EVGA not made those guidelines, a lot of entries would have no doubt been different. Since the name chosen was not one that anyone came up with, there should not have been a winner, or else the final name should have been one that an entrant came up with since that was the stated point of the 'competition'... Seriously, out of hundreds of good suggestions, EVGA thought "super records 2" was the best? That's not even funny. ..and no offense meant to the winner, but yet again the 'winner' was someone who has contributed next to nothing to the community? If EVGA could not find a name they thought appropriate, then awarding to perhaps someone like Shamino who has given so much to the community would have been far more appropriate, and almost certainly would have been more acceptable to most members. Kind of disappointing.
Oh, and this is not about being a sore loser - my view is much like what FredBSD said a few posts up; "I would have simply given the board to someone here who folds or has a need for such a high end gadget. I just enjoyed the opportunity to take part in the contest."
+1 I, along with many others, agree with Nereus. The name chosen wasn't even a suggested name, nor was it within the guidelines that EVGA suggested. I love EVGA and their products, but I think everyone got short changed in this contest. Also, they picked the "super record" name before it even made a super record, so I don't know what the deal was there. It is like they asked us to be the first poster to answer "What is 2+2?" and they took the first post because it said 3.5 instead of the next post, which had the real answer. EVGA, next time, stick within the guidelines you give out. Don't twist someone's answer, and give him credit when it wasn't his idea, but yours.
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