If what you say is true about you and Sachys not being in good relationship, then that is a pretty good evidence that I'm wrong that only people he likes get the games.
But the fact that I was discriminated for no good reason still remains. If Sachys don't know me and don't notice my post that doesn't mean I'm not part of this community and that I should be treated like some dirty scammer or lurker. The only time I can think of that we interacted was this little discussion.

I wasn't after diminishing Sachys' and foxwork's efforts on this giveaway, because even if my first claim was right (and if lugum is telling the truth then I'm wrong) it sure is a bitch to organize this and I respect that. I just can't keep quiet if someone is giving me a treatment I didn't deserve and Sachys did just that.

@Sachys
Except for the above mentioned treatment I really don't have anything against you.
If you can confirm what lugum said is true and admit that you were wrong about disqualifying me I offer you my 50% of virtual handshake and we can bury this discussion and move on without grudge.

To be honest, no I wouldn't.

But I don't see any discrimination here. You were measured against the same rules as everyone else.

I usually write very little because when I think I don't have anything worthwhile, interesting, or at least funny to add to a discussion I'd rather not write anything at all. But I still never had any problems with the participation rule for this giveaway. So it's hard for me to imagine that someone who is active almost daily can't participate.

I admit that I know the forum search sucks quite a lot so I didn't use it to look for your messages. But if you really participate that much how come you could not show any message older than 10 days? By clicking on "Show more" in "Topics I've participated in" again and again you can get a very long list of your old posts. It would have been very easy for you to show messages that go back long enough to qualify you. Yet, you only showed messages that don't qualify you. We can only guess what that means...

How come you are the only one who thinks you have been treated wrongly? If you could show Sachys or Foxworks proper forum participation per PM I'm sure they would say: "Sorry, I couldn't find that with the search. You can be in next time.". Instead of doing so you keep whining.

Keep living in your own dreamworld if you wish. I refuse to be part of it.

More transparency can never hurt. But most people here (including me!) trust them enough to not manipulate drawings.

And lack of transparency did not lead to you accusing them of foul play. Your lack of decency did. If you think a procedure lacks transparency you ask for it instead of outright claiming fraudulent behaviour.

And if you can't understand that than any further word is wasted on you anyway.

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Thanks to lugum et all who have tried to make it clear there is no foul play afoot.
I'll be PMing Judas and asking him to lock this thread due to the fact it has been led down the same path Ninja thread gradually went.

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Donations via PM are still open for the next 29 hours or so from this post.

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I was just watching from the sidelines until now. You do seem hellbent on diminishing our credibility in the way we're running this giveaway. Like this tid-bit for instance:

It's a simple fact: you did not "qualify" under the rules stated in the OP. It's as simple as that. We do our best to do a "thorough" search history on every entrant. Sachys goes a step further to run through several search engines. Yes, the forum search has its shortcomings, but if someone is active enough, it becomes quite evident. I do periodic review from week to week to see if anyone who was passed over previously gets into the following week. BTW, thanks for sharing your recent post history. Just keep contributing in the general forum and I'm sure your entry will be accepted.

Nobody discrimated you.... if memory serves right, i don't recall anyone complaining about the results of random draws for those GAs.

best course of action :'(