Anyone ever win anything decent in a competition?

allthedoyles · 27-11-2009 08:19PM

Won 3,000 stg in The Sun Dream Team competition in 2001

stepbar · 27-11-2009 08:21PM

I won an IPOD from Guinness once. They even put my name on the back and all!

I also won an optical computer mouse (in The Star newspaper) at a time when optical mouses were not so fashionable.

Other than that nothing much.

EDIT: O, and 2 tickets to the Galway Races a couple of years ago (Paddy Power). Couldn't go

Jako8 · 27-11-2009 08:25PM

I won free tickets to Toys 4 Big Boys on boards about 2/3 weeks ago.

I won a hamper once aswell and another few things in quizzes like selection boxes.

cloneslad · 27-11-2009 09:24PM

I won a lunch box on 2fm in august last year, got stiffed out of winning a grand cos I answered my question right but they said it couldn't be heard....I even said **** sake life on air. ( the answer of the question was justin timberlake and it was very obvious) I got very pissed at the girl on the phone taking my details afterwards.

I also won €4622 on that playtv show in july, Only time I have called it too. the total cost of the phone call was about €11, should have only been €2, felt like complaining about it

MizzLolly · 27-11-2009 09:26PM

I won a VIP yearly pass for me and five friends to a Dublin Nightclub from Spin1038.

Never got it though

Skinfull · 27-11-2009 10:01PM

I won 2 tickets to see Jimmy Eat world in the Temple Bar Music Centre way back in...eh...1999? or 2000?

And I won 2 tickets to the surprise movie of the horrorfest in the IFI last year from newstalk but they never arrived.

Latchy · 27-11-2009 10:07PM

I once won a portable colour tv from a competition in magazine , a monthly bus / rail card .I also won a 24 case of guinness from the UK based Irish Post newspaper .

Mars Bar · 28-11-2009 01:59AM

cloneslad wrote: »

I won a lunch box on 2fm in august last year, got stiffed out of winning a grand cos I answered my question right but they said it couldn't be heard....I even said **** sake life on air. ( the answer of the question was justin timberlake and it was very obvious) I got very pissed at the girl on the phone taking my details afterwards.

I also won €4622 on that playtv show in july, Only time I have called it too. the total cost of the phone call was about €11, should have only been €2, felt like complaining about it

Your name isn't Craig by any chance?

Craig, the name of the guy who bet me to €4,000+ live on that damn show. I was SO close...

Trekker09 · 28-11-2009 02:10AM

I won a speedboat once, but I forgot where I put it

Atavan-Halen · 28-11-2009 02:33AM

I never win anything

All's I won was 4 cans of coke during a school trip to the factory, and foo fighters tickets and other things on the Larry Gogan just a minute quiz.

El Siglo · 28-11-2009 02:45AM

I won €1,000 and a medal from UCD, but it cost me my social life and any chances I could have ever have had with women (I would have messed up anyway)...*

*I regret it everyday, it wasn't fucking worth the effort and sacrifice!

gandhi123 · 28-11-2009 03:09AM

Elba101 wrote: »

I just won a free facial!!

You do know this is AH???:p

Thats just askin' for trouble:pac:

Buceph · 28-11-2009 04:51AM

I won a jumper from Coke and Addidas from the 1998 world cup years back. You had to guess the total number of attendees for the 1994 world cup. I spent ages looking for the number, but the best I could get was the stadium capacities, so I took out a calculator and worked out the numbers from the amount of games played in them. Best ****ing jumper ever, wore it for about seven years until one of the arms fell off.

OutlawPete · 28-11-2009 05:02AM

Entered the Afternoon Show comp a few times and even got my name put into a Wellington Boot along with four others. Three names get picked out and everyone gets a grand.

The Show was coming from Carlow Farm Thing or something and Brian Kennedy was pulling the names from the Wellington. Sheana wishes me the best and 1st name no, 2nd name no, 3rd name ... no

Bastard f**k.

This_Years_Love · 28-11-2009 05:07AM

I won a gameboy from a competition in Tesco when I was 13 and I've won cinema tickets from a certain newspaper whenever I've entered the competitions (my neighbour works for the newspaper and she's in charge of running those competitons and she pick the names of people she knows to win). That's about it.

Flipz4Rollz · 28-11-2009 05:12AM

I won €7500 in a poker tournament online before.

OutlawPete · 28-11-2009 05:34AM

This_Years_Love wrote: »

(my neighbour works for the newspaper and she's in charge of running those competitons and she pick the names of people she knows to win). That's about it.

What?? What kind of madness am I hearing tonight??

I f**king knew those competions were rigged. Nothing is sacred anymore, nothing I tell ya. Why, we may as well all as just go home

/pours last drink .. hic

cloneslad · 28-11-2009 05:35AM

mars bar wrote: »

Your name isn't Craig by any chance?

Craig, the name of the guy who bet me to €4,000+ live on that damn show. I was SO close...

nope, you'll be happy to know it's not. My game was to do with adding up all the numbers in the triangles, the presenter gave the answer away as 622 (more or less) and I was the lucky person put through. Cost me three hours of my life sitting, watching and waiting for him to give the answer and to this day i still don't have a clue where he got 622 from

cloneslad · 28-11-2009 05:37AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

??

Nothing is scared anymore, nothing I tell ya.

I'm pretty scared of animals wearing clothes....it's like they wanna be people.....freaky :P:cool:

seanybiker · 28-11-2009 05:42AM

Over the years me mother won 3 cars. About 5-6 holidays. 3-4 televisions. Playstation 1 and 2. Trolley dash around smyths and one in hmv. A bicycle, plus a load more stuff I couldnt be arsed remembering.
Sister won a house aswell

OutlawPete · 28-11-2009 05:51AM

cloneslad wrote: »

I'm pretty scared of animals wearing clothes....it's like they wanna be people.....freaky :P:cool:

The Spelling Police at nearly 5am. Are you kidding me??

/bed bed bed

cloneslad · 28-11-2009 05:53AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

The Spelling Police at nearly 5am. Are you kidding me??

/bed bed bed

we stay up to patrol every post :P

better get to bed myself,I have to be up in four hours cos i'm heading to the south africa game

kumate_champ07 · 28-11-2009 06:00AM

I won a 100 unit callcard in Carlow post office 11 years ago and I still havent collected it

kumate_champ07 · 28-11-2009 06:06AM

anyone remember talkabout will alan hughes? I think thats the guys name

everyone on the show wins a dictionary. no tshirt or hamper, just a dictionary

I think the eventual winner got a cash prize of a few hundred pound, and a dictionary

robbie_998 · 28-11-2009 01:08PM

atavan-halen wrote: »

I never win anything

All's I won was 4 cans of coke during a school trip to the factory, and foo fighters tickets and other things on the Larry Gogan just a minute quiz.

are you me ? i got the exact same stuff ! i never win anything. even the freebie list is letting me down

can's of coke from the coke factory on the naas road and foo fighter tickets off fm104.ie......didn't get the larry gogan thing though

OutlawPete wrote: »

What?? What kind of madness am I hearing tonight??

I f**king knew those competions were rigged. Nothing is sacred anymore, nothing I tell ya. Why, we may as well all as just go home

/pours last drink .. hic

i agree...

Run_to_da_hills · 28-11-2009 01:14PM

I won two motorbikes in the space of three months. Honda VFR 400 and Suzuki Katana moped in a newspaper text message competition. Flogged both of them and bought a CBR 900.

TPD · 28-11-2009 01:23PM

I won an mp3 player, a digital camera, an ipod to replace the mp3 player, and a crate of vimto.

smodgley · 28-11-2009 03:16PM

won 5000 punts on 98fm quiz about 8 years ago, tickets to an international soccer match at landsdown rd. and a tricycle from cleary's that i never remembered entering, kids loved it thou

Fighting Irish · 28-11-2009 03:56PM

cloneslad wrote: »

I won a lunch box on 2fm in august last year, got stiffed out of winning a grand cos I answered my question right but they said it couldn't be heard....I even said **** sake life on air. ( the answer of the question was justin timberlake and it was very obvious) I got very pissed at the girl on the phone taking my details afterwards.

I also won €4622 on that playtv show in july, Only time I have called it too. the total cost of the phone call was about €11, should have only been €2, felt like complaining about it

That's what they all say

Sleepy · 28-11-2009 04:14PM

Won an i-pod nano on a boards.ie sponsored mental health research thing.
A signed copy of 'Song from Hope Street' on vinyl from the David Kitt website.
Tickets to Linkin Park and some CD's from a 2fm competitions. Gave the lot away!

Anyone ever win anything decent in a competition?

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