"A Different Stroke" Blog Competition - June July 2007

Here's your chance to win a copy of "The Official 2007 Cricket World Cup Review (DVD)" absolutely free! All you have to do is take part in "ADS Blog & Win!" competition for June & July.

Next three months, all international cricket teams are in full action after a short break since the world cup, so we got plenty of action from all over the world to talk here!

Let's get straight to the business. This is no joke or no scam. You will never (ever) have to pay anything, or have to buy anything from anyone to redeem the gift. Once you win it, it's all yours!

How to enter the competition?

Register on this site as a contributor, and just keep on blogging. Then you will automatically qualify for the competition, based on the rules mentioned below. (To register as a contrubutor, send an e-mail to cricketbloggers@gmail.com requesting the membership of this site)


Rules for the competition

What Posts are eligible for the competition?

1) Posts made by Administrative Contributors (Site Admins) are not considered for the competition. All the other contributors can take part.

2) Minimum of 10 posts (per contributor) are required, to be qualify for stand in the competition.

3) Posts should be labeled (tagged) as "ADS Competition June/July". (You can add this label, when you post it to the blogger. There's a space for you to tag your posts)

4) Posts should be original work by the author. You are allowed to copy & paste content from other blogs you own. But, you are not allowed to copy & paste content from 3rd party sources (Cricinfo, 3rd party blogs etc). Content will be validated through http://www.copyscape.com/ before announcing the final winner. If found, the winners content are copied from other sources, the next in the line with highest points will be announced as the winner.

How the points are awarded?

5) Two Points will be awarded for each of your posts. More you post, more points you earn.

6) Two Points each will be awarded, for every unique reader (Unique Google/Blogger ID), commenting on your eligible posts, during the period of competition. More the number of people commenting on your posts, more points you earn.

7) One Point each for every comment made on your eligible posts. So encourage your readers to engage in an ongoing conversation. More the number of comments on your posts, more you earn points.

Example: If John Doe make 20 comments on your post, you'll get 2 points for the unique reader John Doe, and 20 points for the comments he made, making it 22 points in total.

8) Ten Points each for referring new contributors to "A Different Stroke". These points will be awarded, only after the person you referred, complete his registration process, and enter at least 2 posts to the site. (You have to recommend new contributors, writing to cricketbloggers@gmail.com (from your registered e-mail with ADS), and copying the same mail to the person whom you are referring)

9) Following conditions are applicable for the points awarded on comments, and unique readers.

a) Only the comments made by a valid Google/Blogger account would be counted as points. Every one got a Google ID these days!

b) No points will be awarded for Anonymous comments. A strict rule

c) Comments made by the author of the original article, and the site Admins are not counted as points.

d) Site admins may dishonor certain comments, if they were found to be "spam" or not related to the topic. Comments similar to "nice post", "good work" etc (not limiting to these 2) will be taken as spam comments and be dishonored by the admins.

Other Terms & Conditions

10) The gift for this competition is ordered through cricshop.com and be delivered to you. Cricshop.com is no way in any kind of sponsorship or affiliation for this competition. The site admins will bare the entire cost of the gifts, and delivery costs.

11) In case, the cricshop.com doesn't have the announced product (gift for the winner) in their stock, (at the time of announcing the winner), the site admins will ask the winner to select an alternative product as the gift from cricshop.com, worth not more than £16.99 (Great Britain Pounds)

12) The competition is valid for posts made from 1st June to 31st July. At the end of July, site administrator(s) will count the points, based on the above competition rules and will decide the winner. Time to time, the latest standings of points table will be announced on the site.

13) There should be at least 15 contributors taking part in the competition, and they should have contributed at least 100 posts in total, at the end of competition period. If this condition is not satisfied, the competition will be extended to another month, (for the same gifts) until this condition is satisfied.

The winner will be announced before 15th of August. Site administrator(s) will contact the winners by e-mails, to arrange the delivery of the gift(s).

Few Tips to Take some advantage in the competition


1) Refer as much as new members. More they register with ADS, more points you earn. But please invite those people you personally know very well. No spamming please :-)

2) Invite as many as your friends, to comment on your posts.

3) Comment on the posts of other contributors, and encourage them to do the same on your posts. Though you will not earn any points for the comments you make on your own posts, you will earn points for the comments made by other contributors, on your posts.

4) Make shorter posts (about 500 to 1000 words), with topics encouraging for discussion among others.

Hope this is clear enough. Write to cricketbloggers@gmail.com at any time, to clarify anything unclear.

Depending on the success in responses from you all, the prices will be increased next time, and winners will be selected every month! So, give your 100% to get this going. Who knows, the next price would be a free ticket to watch a live cricket match, at any venue you wish!