Anyone ever win anything decent in a competition?

jenny2hat

robbie_998 wrote: »

drink it... DUUHH

Oh sorry, my mistake. I seemed to have missed out on this in my childhood

jenny2hat

Midnight_EG wrote: »

A fire extuingisher when I was.....10? Set that baby off in the schoolyard, everything disappeared from view and I nearly shit myself :pac:

You seriously won a fair extuinguisher lol awesome prize

robbie_998

jenny2hat wrote: »

Oh sorry, my mistake. I seemed to have missed out on this in my childhood

we all know what secretly happens in the play centers when the adults are away

jenny2hat

robbie_998 wrote: »

we all know what secretly happens in the play centers when the adults are away

Maybe you do?

I_Am_The_Walrus

Won a Nintendo DS about a year ago. Most games for it are sh*te though.

cloneslad

Fighting Irish wrote: »

That's what they all say

I say it cos it's true, I rang it that night at 2:50, didn't get through so rang it again at 2:55, got through and won.

I haven't rang it since because I can't be bothered watching it and I figure I have no chance of getting through again, I have since bought a new phone so I don't even know if it will let me ring the number either.

paconnors

i won a years pass to the cinema and an ipod and tent from riverrock kast year

lisajane

The most i ever won was a 500euro bus eireann voucher and 100euro phone credit. It was great. It was back in the day when i was a poor student.

Beasty

Won a fully inclusive holiday for 2 to Club Med in the Bahamas a few years ago in a newspaper competition.

I also won a 42 inch TV for 15 quid in a reverse auction (at the time it was worth well over €2k)

Other wins include tickets for Man U home matches and quite a few lower value prizes over the years

acia

I won a flight on Concorde with a weekend in Paris and a mobile phone, also won €1,000 on that competition in the Evening Herald where they put a photograph of your house in the paper.

ChasingDreams

I've won a laptop and a printer. I actually had to enter the competition for homework.

skyhighflyer

I won an ipod a few years ago in a Tayto competition (where you pick up a flyer in store and post it in a box, hoping that the shop staff won't remove all the entries except theirs)

The best story I have on this topic comes from a couple fo years ago when I was on a J1 in Washington DC. Was in an Irish bar one night and Miller were running some kind of competition - didn't pay too much notice to it, but bought a Miller and gave my name to the promo girls thinking if I won I'd get a case of Miller or something like that.

At the end of the night they drew names out of a hat and mine was drawn. Wandered up to the stage half-cut and found out that I was going to be one of ten people entered into a Grand Final at the end of the summer. The prize was a 'garage makeover', which included a Jeep, a Harley and a Jetski. All the contestants were to meet at the end of the Summer at Miller HQ, you could bring ten mates for the party and at the end of the night we were each to be given a key and line up - whichever player had the key that started the Jeep would win everything.

Anyway, long story short I ended up getting screwed over a few days later with the small print saying the competition was open to US residents only. I aked the PR people who did they think they would find in an Irish bar, so they gracefully gave me a few free cases of Miller and a bunch of Miller merchandise, so at least I got something out of it!

Redisle

Got a cheque for 75 euro from prizebonds last week. That's about it really. Not even sure if that was me "winning" something.

A fella I used to go to school with used to win things the whole time. He used to constantly ring radio stations when they were running competitions and he nearly always got through. I remember one morning telling him I was trying to ring a competition and didn't get through.. he gets through on first ring and wins the competition. Was pretty strange..

4zn76tysfajdxp

I won a Stereophonics CD and a scholarship to the "Gaeltacht" at a national table quiz when I was fourteen. So, no.

dimejinky99

Won a trip on 2fm to see and meet The Who in Madrid. All expenses and accomodation yadda yadda. Surprised cos I was told 2fms phone people just get their mates to call in for the competitions. Nice trip. The Who were lovely.

Liber8or

When I was twelve I won a 'Friends' competition on TodayFM's the Breakfast Show with Ian Dempsey for myself and five friends to go to New York. It was funny because when I was on air, Ian Dempsey couldn't believe a kid won the competition - my voice hadn't broken by that stage... After that, it clearly stated you must be 18 or over to enter any competition on TodayFM :P

kincsem

A car (and 5 numbers in the Lotto on the same day).

louisa200

I won blue peter mastermind competition of the year..... won a bbc archimedes (ya for all you computer buffs)
went down to bbc hung out wif ed the duck
had lunch wi john leslie
slept in john cleeses bed

lost at the last post on the mastermind chair to some english beatch called 'astirid'

all the time my junkie dad scammin money off them cuase hed 'lost' the free drink vochers.....

havent won a thing since.. beat that mofos

pajodublin

won an ipod on paddypower
won a phone with 3 at oxegen a few years ago
won 180 on q102 for guessing the score of an Ireland match
i won cd's on today fm and tickets to gary numan

Alicat

jenny2hat wrote: »

What's a 5 yr old gonna do with a bottle of wine?

It was one of those Christmas School raffles, my parents obviously bought a ticket, and they were going around the classrooms announcing the winners.

My friend got a cute poster of a kitten. I was so friggin' jealous All I got was some stinkin' wine

Pygmalion

Pogs when I was in Primary school (No idea what class but I'd say 7-8).
A google t-shirt last year (which of course I think I lost, and would never wear without a jumper anyway). Ok, on second thought I didn't really win this, everyone who entered the competition got it and I didn't come close to winning.
A gold medal in like January this year.

More importantly, 25% extra marks in my programming exam for some class competition :P.

Monkey61

Never anything good...numerous chocolate related things in school raffles.

I won a load of stuff in work over the years by entering competitions in my girlfriends name - dvds, a signed Scissor Sisters cd, tickets to the Meteor Awards. I returned most of them for cash, except the stupid signed CD because that would have been too obvious.

I also won 6 books in the Readathon when I was in primary school. I got to go to a reception in the Westbury hotel and get handed them by Marita Conlon McKenna and seethe with envy while other kids won holidays and bikes. Instead I got such magical titles as Bike Hunt, Castle in the Attic and other such ridiculousness from the O' Brien press.

frobisher

I won a high end piece of digital to to analogue audio equipment :-)

DancingQueen:)

If you do irish dancing for long enough you start to win I won tickets to Las Vegas to see Elton John on the radio but my mam and dad went instead cause i'm 21. Won a few hampers and things in christmas raffles aswel.

confusedgirl

I won a french connection body set in a magazine competition a few yrs ago! I've also won a good few gift vouchers for beauty treatments/shops in work incentive competitions! Such a good motivator-i worked super hard to win!

seanybiker

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I won two motorbikes in the space of three months. Honda VFR 400 and Suzuki Katana moped in a newspaper text message competition. Flogged both of them and bought a CBR 900.

Ha ha good thinking.

BrokenArrows

i won a phone in a competition that i dont remember entering.
the person said i entered and i won. I didnt complain!!