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And The Winner Is… (Week 10)

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

It’s finally here. What are we going to do with ourselves now that the iPhone competitions are over? You can make your own minds up, but I know for a fact that some of us in the office will be weeping in the corner and stuffing our faces with cake (of course some will be overjoyed that they no longer have to think of ideas for competitions).

This final week in particular has yielded some astonishingly good entries, and it’s been a typically mind-numbingly hard decision to select a winner. Even if you didn’t win, we sincerely hope you had a lovely time doing whatever it was that you did to prove to us that you wanted that iPhone the most.

For the final time, then, we’re happy to announce that the iPhone winner is Sarah Cank for the amazing songs and videos that she sent us. There is a condition on her victory, however – Sarah, you must never ever sing on record again:

We were also extremely impressed by several other entries we received, in particular Emma Gorman’s begging box, Nicki ‘Knox’ Parsons’ phone-swap idea, and the hilarious video made by Asher Heigham (literally an incredible effort). Well done guys, we’re sorry you couldn’t all win an iPhone.

The beautiful Begging Cake.

That's right, it's two tin cans tied with string.

Everyone, it’s been emotional.

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Another Excellent iPhone Competition Entry

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

The excellent entries for the final iPhone competition continue to rain down on IWOOT Towers like the tabloids on Tiger Woods, thanks to the delightful efforts of one Emma Gorman. Her self-styled ‘Begging Box’ contained the following treats for us Wooters:

1 x Begging Cake
1 x Begging Letter
1 x Batch of Begging Fortune Cookies

and some rubber bands for Pepe (who is currently in fine fettle, thanks for asking).

What a treat! Here are some pictures of Emma’s package:

In case you can't quite read it, that letter on the right says 'really' an awful lot.

The beautiful Begging Cake.

The Begging Fortune Cookies... wisdom comes from within (them).

Well, it would be rude to leave it there...

Can you see Pepe lurking in the background of that last photo? Atta boy… Keep the entries coming folks, show us what you’d do for the last iPhone!

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An iPhone Alternative

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

We’ve received a particularly lovely competition entry from regular Facebook-er Nicki ‘Knox’ Parsons. For her grasp at the last iPhone, she has suggested we do a swap – which means we get to keep her old phone, this rather spiffing specimen pictured below. As you can see, we’ve had a fun morning trying to make it work, playing with the games app and generally revelling in some of the most advanced technology this side of a Sinclair C5.

Thanks Nicki!

 

 

That's right, it's two tin cans tied with string.

Nice detail.

JimboWoot tests it out...

This is the standard, people! That iPhone won’t win itself!

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And The Winner Is… (Week 9)

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Cripes, this is the penultimate week, isn’t it?! How has it snuck up so quickly? You’ll be telling me it’s almost Christmas next… wait… what?

Anyway, there was another iPhone that needed getting rid of this week, so got you to show us your special talent, unique to you alone. We had a lot of entries that, though freaky in their nature, could be done by several double-jointed individuals we encountered in daily life, so we made doubly sure that we picked something totally unique. In fact, you wouldn’t be wrong in terming this week’s winner as totally bizarre.

Click here and you’ll see Olly Harrison’s winning entry! Congratulations to Olly on finding a middle ground between Thurston Moore and Mark Knopfler, a furrow yet to be totally ploughed. We’re sure you’ll agree that this is a great effort. Aside from that, it poses all manner of questions: where do all those different objects come from? And is the china plate alright after it was unceremoniously hurled aside?! Olly, we need answers.

Several other great efforts were also made, though, and we thought we’d share a couple of the highlights with you.

We're pretty sure IWOOT has never been immortalised on someone's back before.

This one’s ace – amazing effort from facepaint genius Beverley Duffey.

And if you follow the link you’ll be able to see Sarah Cank (complete with perfect comedy soundtrack) making various parts of her body do various icky things. Another hearty well done indeed.

For those among who still have that insatiable desire for an iPhone, have a look at this week’s competition. All we want you to do is show us just how much you need that iPhone – whoever goes furthest, most creatively wins!

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Win An iPhone Week 10 (sob…)

Monday, November 30th, 2009

It’s finally here. Week 10. One more roll of the dice.

We’ve been entertained, affected and not a little bit terrified by the wealth of bizarreness we’ve uncovered on this merry technological odyssey whereby we released 10 iPhones into the wild for your gain, but boy has it been worth it. We’ve started a little community that we hope we can nurture – it’s an area where no one should feel bad for uploading a photo of their cat wearing a bumble bee costume.

But we digress.

 

The final iPhone competition has a very simple premise – we want you to prove to us that YOU want that iPhone the most. How far would you go? We don’t care how you prove it, but as long as you show us that, for whatever reason, you need that sleek little wizard’s-best-friend in your life. Make a video, write us a letter, bombard us with Tweets, bake us some cake (we like this idea a lot) – just make sure you don’t miss your final chance to win that precious iPhone. Facebook, Twitter, the blog or good old Royal Mail – do what you have to do to get your mitts on it.

So, to recap, the title of the comp this week is “How Much Do You Want An iPhone?”, and we want all entries in by 10AM  Monday, December 7th 2009. Anything received after that will not be counted as an entry. Unless it’s cake.

All the social media outlets are fairly self-explanatory, but some people have requested our postal address:

Creative Department
Unit C11 Parkhall Trading Estate
40 Martell Road
London
SE21 8EN

Good luck!

Competition Terms & Conditions:

• Closing Date For this competition is 10AM on Monday 7th December 2009.
• Sadly, you can only enter this competition once. (You can’t fool us, you know!)
• This competition is completely free to enter, no purchase is necessary.
• No cash alternative is available for the prize(s) offered.
• This competition is open to residents of the UK only.
• Employees of I Want One of Those and their immediate families and anyone professionally connected with the promotion are not eligible to enter this competition
• The winner will be chosen by the IWOOT team.
• The winner will be notified of their win via Facebook or Twitter or however they choose to enter, and under the name submitted on their entry. If a response to this notification is not received within 14 days, IWOOT reserves the right to randomly select another winner. In light of this, please ensure you submit an email address that you use regularly!
• No responsibility will be accepted for entries that are not received. Any obscene material submitted will be deleted and not count as an entry.
• From time to time we may include customer comments and feedback on the site, and in our catalogue and other media. By submitting your comment you are granting us permission to publish it and, if necessary, edit it for clarity and typos.

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And The Winner Is… (Week 8)

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Last week’s riddles competition meant some serious head-scratching on both our and your parts, and it was great fun to try and guess as many as we could (between bouts of extremely hard work, you understand. Ahem…). There were cryptic ones, silly ones, serious ones, puzzling ones and some slightly bizarre ones, and we were impressed (again, you remarkably clever bunch of people) by so many of them that it was a real challenge to choose just one.

But choose one we did, and it was this one from Lianne Johnson:

 

My first is in Noise and also in Din,
my second is in Plastic but not in Tin.
My third is in Hour but not in Min, and
my forth is in Goodies but not in Sin.
My fifth is in Needle and also in Pin,
my last is in End but not in Fin
and my whole is something I’d love to Win.

No prizes for guessing the answer (we’ve only got two iPhones left, you know), but the way in which it was delivered was quite charming, we thought. Well done Lianne!

Anyone disappointed not to win should have a look at this week’s competition – we want you to show us the talent that only you can do, no matter what it is (within reason, obviously…).

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Win An iPhone Week 9

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Everyone has something unique about them. Even if you think you haven’t, there’s definitely something you can do that someone else can’t, or something that you know that others don’t. Licking your elbow, reciting Pi to a thousand decimal places, juggling bananas… if you can do something, let us know!

This week, in our penultimate iPhone giveaway, we want you to show and tell us exactly what that one thing you can do is, using whatever medium you like. Make a YouTube video (like the one below), take a photo, post on our Facebook wall, inundate us with Tweets or comment on the blog – no matter which way you do it, just tell us what your individual skill is – the most interesting, funny or creative will win that coveted iPhone.

We’re going to leave this week’s brief at that – go mad and show us what you’ve got.

Competition Terms & Conditions:

• Closing Date For this competition is 10AM on Monday 30th November 2009.
• Sadly, you can only enter this competition once. (You can’t fool us, you know!)
• This competition is completely free to enter, no purchase is necessary.
• No cash alternative is available for the prize(s) offered.
• This competition is open to residents of the UK only.
• Employees of I Want One of Those and their immediate families and anyone professionally connected with the promotion are not eligible to enter this competition
• The winner will be chosen by the IWOOT team.
• The winner will be notified of their win via Facebook or Twitter or however they choose to enter, and under the name submitted on their entry. If a response to this notification is not received within 14 days, IWOOT reserves the right to randomly select another winner. In light of this, please ensure you submit an email address that you use regularly!
• No responsibility will be accepted for entries that are not received. Any obscene material submitted will be deleted and not count as an entry.
• From time to time we may include customer comments and feedback on the site, and in our catalogue and other media. By submitting your comment you are granting us permission to publish it and, if necessary, edit it for clarity and typos.

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Win An iPhone Week 8

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Can it be that there are only three iPhones left at IWOOT Towers? Well, yes. It can. So if you want to bet the one that makes it two, make sure you get involved in Week 8 – definitely the most cryptic week yet.

We want you to come up with the most ingenious riddle you possibly can and post it on our Facebook wall OR via Twitter. It’s very important that you do not answer it yourself – we want everyone to have a crack at guessing them, and no-one likes a spoil-sport so no giving them away! Entries via Twitter should have @iwootblog in the reply. Hopefully we’ll be able to solve as many as possible (no Googling!), and the most interesting, creative or original one will be sent a lovely new iPhone.

As usual we’ve got an example for you to get started:

What is yours but your friend uses more than you do?

 Well?

Have a think, then head to our Facebook wall and add your own. Who knows, maybe we’ll tell you the answer later in the week. Anyway, same rules apply as ever. One entry per person, an make sure they’re in by Monday 23rd November.

Competition Terms & Conditions:

• Closing Date For this competition is 10AM on Monday 23rd November 2009.
• Sadly, you can only enter this competition once. (You can’t fool us, you know!)
• This competition is completely free to enter, no purchase is necessary.
• No cash alternative is available for the prize(s) offered.
• This competition is open to residents of the UK only.
• Employees of I Want One of Those and their immediate families and anyone professionally connected with the promotion are not eligible to enter this competition
• The winner will be chosen by the IWOOT team.
• The winner will be notified of their win via Facebook or Twitter, and under the name submitted on their entry. If a response to this notification is not received within 14 days, IWOOT reserves the right to randomly select another winner. In light of this, please ensure you submit an email address that you use regularly!
• No responsibility will be accepted for entries that are not received.
• From time to time we may include customer comments and feedback on the site, and in our catalogue and other media. By submitting your comment you are granting us permission to publish it and, if necessary, edit it for clarity and typos.

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And The Winner Is… (Week 6)

Monday, November 9th, 2009

We’re a cruel bunch at times, aren’t we? Making you all think of nature’s most base and engaging conundrum, the meaning of life, and then asking you to distil the answer into one single tweet? What were we thinking?!

As it turns out, we needn’t have worried – we were met with a raft of answers ready to challenge any conventional philosophies, and we consequently learnt an awful lot! As per usual, some of the entries erred on the side of ‘interesting’, with some folk naming idle foodstuffs as the meaning of life. There were several shouts for chocolate, a couple for beer and even one for pasta bake. Whatever floats your boat, I suppose.

Anyway, after much thought and scrolling up and down the pages of entries, we’ve decided that this week’s winner is:

 

Richard Harley: “To leave no gadget unplayed with, no paper unturned into a plane, no question ungoogled and no cable unplugged.”

 

Who can argue with that? Other entries we really liked are listed below.

 

paulinepppp: #iwootmeaningoflife to live life like my hair is on fire!

timbo1972: #iwootmeaningoflife To have fun and reproduce. At the same time. Whilst unicycling. Blindfolded.

ufp88: #iwootmeaningoflife -Life is totally modifiable, but if you wish to reset your life’s factory settings, press & hold belly button for 3 secs

drquesh: #iwootmeaningoflife is to not live for money, glory or power but to do something so utterly crazy that its ruins become a tourist attraction.

Descartes - thinker, philosopher, Tweeter. 

Well done to everyone (especially Richard) for making us think so hard. I’ve got a bit of a rash from stroking by beard and scratching my head. There’s a full list of entries if you fancy swotting up on your existential ponderings, just click the link. For anyone who was unlucky last week, this week’s competition is here. Dress your pets!

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Win An iPhone Week 7

Monday, November 9th, 2009

We really do work you hard for your prizes, don’t we? If we’re not demanding that you carve a pumpkin into whatever shape, we’re pummelling your intellectual side for the meaning of life. Week 7 of our iPhone competition is no different – it’s a real interactive challenge.

Now everyone knows that you shouldn’t work with animals or children, but us progressive types here at IWOOT Towers think that’s pure bunkum. Animals in particular are a constant source of smelly, snuggly joy, and we think it’s about time we saluted our furry compadres. We’re not so keen on kids, though. Yuck, always leaving hair everywhere… Anyway, for this week’s competition we want you to dress your pets. That’s right. Dress Your Pets. In any costume you fancy, as long as it’s all your own work and your pet doesn’t mind too much. Perhaps something along the lines of this:

Aw. Get going, pet-lovers! If you haven’t got your own furry (or scaley or feathery) friend to dress up, then simply borrow a friend’s or approach wild animals – not the big ones, mind. We’re thinking pigeons, maybe a squirrel. No polecats or herons, you’ll lose a finger.

Make sure you take a photo, and then submit it to our Facebook wall by Monday November 16th. The most inventive, innovative, funny or plain interesting entry will win, and we’re hoping that this will throw up some of our most bizarre entries yet… it’s down to you, folks.

Competition Terms & Conditions:

• Closing Date For this competition is 10AM on Monday 16th November 2009.
• Sadly, you can only enter this competition once. (You can’t fool us, you know!)
• This competition is completely free to enter, no purchase is necessary.
• No cash alternative is available for the prize(s) offered.
• This competition is open to residents of the UK only.
• Employees of I Want One of Those and their immediate families and anyone professionally connected with the promotion are not eligible to enter this competition
• The winner will be chosen by the IWOOT team.
• The winner will be notified of their win via Facebook, and under the name submitted on their entry. If a response to this notification is not received within 14 days, IWOOT reserves the right to randomly select another winner. In light of this, please ensure you submit an email address that you use regularly!
• No responsibility will be accepted for entries that are not received.
• From time to time we may include customer comments and feedback on the site, and in our catalogue and other media. By submitting your comment you are granting us permission to publish it and, if necessary, edit it for clarity and typos.

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