2023 ticket competitions

[Leyrulion]

Couldn't see another thread.

 

Radio 1s Jan slam is back with tickets to be won on Monday 16th.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1PFh2fz97YvSMt1dbYGDd0v/jan-slam-is-back-for-2023-incredible-prizes-up-for-grabs-on-radio-1

[Crazyfool01]

and don't forget the cheese 🙂 

[Leyrulion]

23 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

and don't forget the cheese 🙂 

Just finished a pack, getting another one later!

[leath02]

This is so long! But guess someone has got to win them...

I have every faith in it being someone in here having that level of grit and determination 

[gfa]

2 minutes ago, leath02 said:

This is so long! But guess someone has got to win them...

I have every faith in it being someone in here having that level of grit and determination 

Imagine the scenes if two efesters get picked to go head to head. Would surely have to pick eachother as the +1!

[mike46]

39 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:

Just finished a pack, getting another one later!

My local Co-Op rarely has any in when I visit, I reckon there’s a fellow Glasto-goer in the area with the same idea as me! 

[Leyrulion]

32 minutes ago, gfa said:

Imagine the scenes if two efesters get picked to go head to head. Would surely have to pick eachother as the +1!

You'd hope karma might mean they'd then give you both another +1. Or some promoter might see it and use it to give you a spare.

[Leyrulion]

8 minutes ago, mike46 said:

My local Co-Op rarely has any in when I visit, I reckon there’s a fellow Glasto-goer in the area with the same idea as me! 

5 more draws to go, just noticed five pairs of tickets available in the last draw that ends 2nd May. 

[Crazyfool01]

Quite niche but I’ve just seen this for any poets out there 

 

[mike46]

49 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:

5 more draws to go, just noticed five pairs of tickets available in the last draw that ends 2nd May. 

Out of upvotes but great spot! 

[ladybird33]

6 hours ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Quite niche but I’ve just seen this for any poets out there 

 

I'm not much of a poet

And this rhyme will show it

I just want a ticket to glasto 

Resales can't come round fasto [enough]

 

Will that be OK?!  

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

9 hours ago, leath02 said:

This is so long! But guess someone has got to win them...

I have every faith in it being someone in here having that level of grit and determination 

I wonder how the scoring system for answering the question 'How much do you want to win this prize' works?  It can only be an arbitrary system, surely? If so, hardly fair. 

[incident]

10 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I wonder how the scoring system for answering the question 'How much do you want to win this prize' works?  It can only be an arbitrary system, surely? If so, hardly fair. 

It sounds exactly like it's an arbitrary system. Or to be more exact, subjective based on how excited (and therefore, making for good radio) a producer thinks they'll sound.

[mike46]

1 minute ago, incident said:

It sounds exactly like it's an arbitrary system. Or to be more exact, subjective based on how excited (and therefore, making for good radio) a producer thinks they'll sound.

Yeah the BBC 6 one last year had a similar caveat. I think they even used the phrase “how excited you sound” in the T&Cs 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

12 minutes ago, incident said:

It sounds exactly like it's an arbitrary system. Or to be more exact, subjective based on how excited (and therefore, making for good radio) a producer thinks they'll sound.

 

11 minutes ago, mike46 said:

Yeah the BBC 6 one last year had a similar caveat. I think they even used the phrase “how excited you sound” in the T&Cs 

Thank you both for confirming what I had feared would be the case. I don't think that it's right for the BBC to run an inequitable competition - or anyone else to run one either, for that matter.*

* One of my younger brothers old mates went to a European country to teach a certain sport, within which he was a pro / am. It so happened that the very rich owner of a company became one of his customers / clients. To cut a long story short, the company owner told him to fill out an entry form for his companies competition to win a car. He did just that, and handed the entry directly to the company owner at their next meeting. And guess what? Low and behold, my brothers old mate won the car!  

[mike46]

This was the six one;

 

”20 (twenty) entrants will be selected at random and called by the production team who will check eligibility and ask questions to asses who is the most lively and enthusiastic entrant. If an entrant is not available after reasonable attempts by the production team, another entrant will be randomly selected.”

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1zDNZxMp4n93GNdmYRw5qmn/bbc-6-music-glastonbury-festival-ticket-competition

[Leyrulion]

10 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

 

Thank you both for confirming what I had feared would be the case. I don't think that it's right for the BBC to run an inequitable competition - or anyone else to run one either, for that matter.*

* One of my younger brothers old mates went to a European country to teach a certain sport, within which he was a pro / am. It so happened that the very rich owner of a company became one of his customers / clients. To cut a long story short, the company owner told him to fill out an entry form for his companies competition to win a car. He did just that, and handed the entry directly to the company owner at their next meeting. And guess what? Low and behold, my brothers old mate won the car!  

I think it's fine. It's an entertainment programme so they want to make it interesting to listen to. They're being clear about it as well. 

In previous years there hasn't been a competition and it was painful to listen to people who couldn't have been less enthusiastic about winning the prize. 

[mufcok]

23 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

5 more draws to go, just noticed five pairs of tickets available in the last draw that ends 2nd May. 

Where's this said, out of interest?

[Leyrulion]

24 minutes ago, mufcok said:

Where's this said, out of interest?

I'm the ts&C's when you scan a pack. 

 

https://www.promoentries.com/wyke-farms-terms/

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

5 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

I think it's fine. It's an entertainment programme so they want to make it interesting to listen to. They're being clear about it as well. 

In previous years there hasn't been a competition and it was painful to listen to people who couldn't have been less enthusiastic about winning the prize. 

Every element of what you say are fair points. I just consider it a bit galling in a competition of this nature. That said (and it might surprise some) I am not completely detached from reality that I don't understand that a radio station kind of survives on its ability to emit sounds - of all natures. 

[incident]

I'd rather that they just did a more equitable version - but in all honesty I was far more offended by the EE atrocity last year where you had to do some debasing shit via TikTok and then convince people to like it. Though it did finally answer the question "What would you do for Glastonbury tickets?" - not fucking that.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

4 hours ago, incident said:

I'd rather that they just did a more equitable version - but in all honesty I was far more offended by the EE atrocity last year where you had to do some debasing shit via TikTok and then convince people to like it. Though it did finally answer the question "What would you do for Glastonbury tickets?" - not fucking that.

I had no idea about the Tik Tok debasing thing. From what I have seen of it, debasing oneself seems to be the norm on there.*

* - get me with my fascistic interpretation of the 'norm'!

[zahidf]

7 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

I'm the ts&C's when you scan a pack. 

 

https://www.promoentries.com/wyke-farms-terms/

Where's the code? It's not on the sticker and 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

On 1/3/2023 at 3:32 PM, Crazyfool01 said:

Quite niche but I’ve just seen this for any poets out there 

 

Hello crazy,

As my wife sometimes writes poetry, i showed her this. And she's very keen to put in an application. The problem is that if she was chosen, they only give you one ticket, and not two - and she would never go without me (and me her -  as happened one year  when vintagelaureate got me a ticket once. A ticket which I gave freely to someone else). So, maybe this year I will be scrambling for a ticket somehow. 

[Leyrulion]

10 hours ago, zahidf said:

Where's the code? It's not on the sticker and 

It's a peel off sticker, it's inside (not underneath).