bayerische wrote:

... unless I get struck by lightning or an asteroid... 

Hm, can I arrange this? 🤔

/The guy on the reserve list.

9 LEE wrote:

Llewelyn wrote:

A bit gutted I missed out on this (especially since I was one of the first to reply to the original thread regarding this) ....

Llewelyn, I'm very sorry you feel this way - and to be honest I'd be feeling the same.  Please don't let this sour your view of BeoWorld - plenty more people will be disappointed too.

If it was done on a "first reply, first served" basis could you imagine the uproar?! Especially with all the different time zones, this being a worldwide site and all that.

Imagine if you had been on holiday/working/busy/sleeping - only to find you'd missed out as you hadn't been online at the right time, thus missing out.. 

I think this was the fairest way to do it, really. I did give it a lot of consideration - and the totally random drawings from all entrants were the fairest way for all concerned.  I didn't give any priority to levels of membership, posts made or location - it was all totally random, the best i could do. 🙁

Lee

Quote from Lee's first post in June:

"I will take a list of names well in advance and have a random ballot to decide who goes."

/forum/general-discussion-and-questions/2012-beoworld-trip-to-struer

Hi Lee and the Beoworld- team,

What a nice surprise.

You made my day !!!!

I'm really looking forward to this trip.

Many thanks for giving us, Beowolders, the opportunity to visit B&O and for organizing the trip.

Congratulations  to all winners !!!!

Rudy

Daniel wrote:

bayerische wrote:

... unless I get struck by lightning or an asteroid... 

Hm, can I arrange this? 🤔

/The guy on the reserve list.

 

😂😂😂

You got to have some great connections for sure... 😁

Yeah I think Lee is right, many of us left gutted but realistically we knew the odds and it is the fairest system. I hope everyone enjoys their trip and please Lee if you could possibly organise something for next year :-)

9 LEE wrote:

Llewelyn wrote:

A bit gutted I missed out on this (especially since I was one of the first to reply to the original thread regarding this) ....

Llewelyn, I'm very sorry you feel this way - and to be honest I'd be feeling the same.  Please don't let this sour your view of BeoWorld - plenty more people will be disappointed too.

If it was done on a "first reply, first served" basis could you imagine the uproar?! Especially with all the different time zones, this being a worldwide site and all that.

Imagine if you had been on holiday/working/busy/sleeping - only to find you'd missed out as you hadn't been online at the right time, thus missing out.. 

I think this was the fairest way to do it, really. I did give it a lot of consideration - and the totally random drawings from all entrants were the fairest way for all concerned.  I didn't give any priority to levels of membership, posts made or location - it was all totally random, the best i could do. 🙁

Lee

hi lee,

aint sure if stratified random sampling was a better way do to do it. stratification at best could be at the continent level. more specifically region wise. APIMEA and so on.......   

if members are in agreement to the same and if the statification process is not very tedious the same could be applied to the monthly prize draw as well.

imho this would have equal representation from all the continents. needless to mention the probability of selection would be dictated by the number of members (N) in the stratified unit.  

cheers

pattabhi

Pattabhiraman wrote:

aint sure if stratified random sampling was a better way do to do it. stratification at best could be at the continent level. more specifically region wise. APIMEA and so on.......   

if members are in agreement to the same and if the statification process is not very tedious the same could be applied to the monthly prize draw as well.

imho this would have equal representation from all the continents. needless to mention the probability of selection would be dictated by the number of members (N) in the stratified unit.  

Sorry but I disagree 100.0%. Why should anybody have more (or less) chance of winning just because he happens to live in a certain place? Totally unfair to everybody.

@ tournedos, beeing a winnner I should not say to much regarding the discussion going on. But I totally agree to what you have said. Each ticket for the prize draws should have the same weight, there comes no reason to my mind why that should be changed. It is not the country, the region or the city which might win, it is the individual person behind the nicknames @beoworld. 

@ mr_anders_son, I am sorry to hear that, but I honestly believe your time will come! And you know what? We will celebrate your win a lot! ;-)

tournedos wrote:

Pattabhiraman wrote:

aint sure if stratified random sampling was a better way do to do it. stratification at best could be at the continent level. more specifically region wise. APIMEA and so on.......   

if members are in agreement to the same and if the statification process is not very tedious the same could be applied to the monthly prize draw as well.

imho this would have equal representation from all the continents. needless to mention the probability of selection would be dictated by the number of members (N) in the stratified unit.  

Sorry but I disagree 100.0%. Why should anybody have more (or less) chance of winning just because he happens to live in a certain place? Totally unfair to everybody.

Indeed...

What if I was the only one registered on, say Antartica?

Would I win every time?