Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve all been waiting for is finally here. Well, maybe not the moment — that doesn’t come until September 21 — but a moment nonetheless. Jennie and I are proud to present the winners of The iPod Giveaway.
Grand Prize iPod Winner :
Joseph (coupjoe)
Runners-up :
garbagethrower
Joseph (jj_mcdonough)
Kristen
lindsay
smart little cookie
Congratulations! You all prevailed over some very stiff competition. Each of you will be receiving an e-mail from us shortly with instructions on how to proceed. Please let one of us know if you don’t receive anything by the end of Wednesday, September 6.
An extra note to the five runner-ups: you all may recall us promising an Office episode from the iTunes Music Store to each of you. We’re afraid that we won’t be able to deliver on that promise; instead, we’ll be awarding each of you a copy of The Office Season Two on DVD. That’s right, come September 12 (or September 13 depending on how shipping works out), the five of you will be receiving a copy of the boxed set delivered directly to your doorstep. We were so impressed with your work that we couldn’t let you all off with a just a single episode; you guys are getting all 22 plus more supplemental features than you can shake a stick at. Course, you’ll want to cancel your existing pre-order if you already have one.
On a final note, we’d like to thank Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, David Denman, Brian Baumgartner and Kathie from Give Me My Remote for providing us with five brilliant questions. Thanks to you all, we only had to worry about coming up with three clever questions rather than eight.
And that, folks, concludes The First Annual OfficeTally/Northern Attack Summer Giveaway. We don’t know if there will be a Second Annual Giveaway, but given how much we enjoyed running this one, we’d sure like for there to be a follow-up next year. Plus, so many of you deserved recognition for your entries this time around that we’d like for everyone to have a second shot at winning next summer. No guarantees that we’ll be able to secure another iPod, but we’ll see what we can come up with.
Again, congratulations to the winners, and thank you, all of you, for participating.
Congratulations to everyone and thanks James and Jennie for a great, exciting contest!
I'll continue my thanks over here... Wow! Thanks so much, James & tanster. I'm thrilled to have been selected and you are too generous in providing S2 DVDs to the runner-ups! You guys are the best. The whole idea of a contest during hiatus was great, having topic questions posed by cast members made it even cooler, and then the responses were amazing. It was so much fun.
A personal word to those not selected: some of my favorite entrants were not on that short list, and I just want to say I've loved reading your entries and I think you are frickin' amazing writers.
Congrats Joseph!! Now, is this the same Joseph who made the excel spreadsheet of entrants? If so, you have proven that your dedication to this contest goes beyond just your entries. :)
And thanks again, James & Jennie, for doing this contest and for the sweet prize upgrade! After nearly giving myself a heart attack everytime I hit the Post Comment button each week (for fear that I had missed a typo or written 201 words), I am glad that it paid off somehow. Congrats to all the runners-up!
Also... well said, garbagethrower. I remember every week after I submitted my entry, I'd read yours (and others) and be like "Oh man.....I'm screwed!" because I thought they were SO good.
Congratulations, winners!
lindsay -- I'm glad I'm not the only who had that reaction after so many of those entries.
thanks james. you guys put together quite an entertaining little diversion for everyone. i dont know what kind of participation you were expecting when you started but i was impressed by the number of people that jumped in and that stuck with it to the end.
and in the end great selections.
Thanks, everyone. I enjoyed every minute of it except for the part where we had to whittle our list of favorites to six. It involved re-reading entries over and over again (often in a different order than the last time I read them) while attempting to maintain objectivity; given the overall quality of the work, it was not an easy task.
And yes, lindsay, that is indeed the same Joseph. :)
That contest was fun to be part of. Congrats goes out to all the winners. :)
I ditto everyone else: Congrats to the winners! You guys are so talented and it was fun to read your entries! You deserved it!
Plus, i look forward to another competition b/c i had so much fun participating in this one! :-)
Wow. I'm so, well...wow! It was just fun to combine an obsession with the show and a bit of creativity each week. I'm flattered and humbled. So I have a big head and I have modesty.
Thanks, Jennie and James--you guys totally rock!
Big ups to Jennie and James. I had a blast and congrats to my fellow winners as well as everyone who participated. I can't wait for my DVD, I might have to frame the cover!
I have a homemade ovenmitten Joseph, wanna trade?
Kidding.
Congratulations to the winners, I went back and looked through a lot of the winning entries and they are hiliarious, good job guys. It was fun writing my own, and reading everyone else's