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Winners' Gallery: the Best of Contest 232

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:00:00 -0500

In what may be the most terrifying proposal yet, Representative Toon has submitted a bill requiring Woot.com to become the single provider for health care in the US. Here are some of the likely results:

First $100
taipan - Cost Cutting
I reckon this one is gonna survive another week!

Second $50
fyrefall - Lab Results
Pretty sure that's refurb gauze.

Third $20
majit - F5
Majit doesn't realize that this is how the elevator at woot is actually labeled.

HMs -
aldarisrain - Dow Jones
Now divide the result by Pi, add the GDP for September...

TomW - I <3 woot
who knew that woot had registered blood.woot before this entry was submitted? Bueller? anybody?

Xexus - How will you pay?
What about the public option?

no1 - Pepto-Bismol in a Bucket
That's right, I got it on Bucket 'O Pepto Friday. Turns out to be much, much cheaper if you buy it in bulk.

Turken - healthcare.woot Plastic Surgery Contests
I don't understand why the winners' galleries are way behind the contests?

Monkey -
cicada - Dr. Jason "my hands are big too" Toon, Proctologist
Sadly for Jason, some things are just a myth.

Money winners, please email your Paypal info to jtoon@woot.com. Monkey Prize winner, please email your shipping address to jtoon@woot.com. As a special announcement, we are requesting that all monkey prize 'winners' stand by your mailbox until either your prize arrives- it will be in a tiny envelope, we are told, or, if two weeks pass without a prize arrival, then scream like a banshee and demand some answers! Storm the gates! Blitz the wootland! Stand in the parking lot at the Carrollton and St Louis woot offices! Honorable Mentioneers may use coupon code HONMEN-FS for free shipping on a future order. snerk. We truly wish it would work, we really do. Until next time remember: 7:49 P.M. is the latest time in the day that the time is a number followed by that number squared. Yeah, it ain't funny, but it is kind of weird. what more can we ask?

Winners' Gallery: the Best of Contest 231

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:00:00 -0500

While we weren't paying enough attention to Jason's wandering mind, he proposed the following contest: Show us a former Woot product's Facebook page (or a detail from their home page, or some other page from their account). We immediately asked ourselves: why a former Woot product? Why not a Woot product in the current rotation? How do you know if it's a former Woot product? Does it go by the acronym TPFKAAWP? And then we thought maybe we were overthinking the issue. What do you think?

First Place - $100
TomW - Bacon Salt
Well now what do we do, TomW didn't even make a Facebook page, he made a Spicerack page.

Second Place - $50
toby8915 - Roomba
Oh lawd how I don't miss Roomba High.

Third Place - $20
phedhex - AAAHAAHHAAAAAAHAAAAA
I can't stop laughing. This is better than the real thing. Maybe Bo will post something on the wall!

Honorable Mentions
mrwolfe00 - Bacon Salt
She likes long walks on the beach, sea water, and vegetarians named Steve.

ActorTom - Poor Friendless Sansa
I got nothin'.

fyrefall - VersaWrench
VersaWrench spends a leeetle too much time on Facebook. FreakaLeak and SwingJingle mght have to have an interwrenchion.

md1088 - Bob Bobson
So, Bob, you're married to Vince? How's that political conservatism workin' out there, fella?

boredbabe90 - Centon SD
Oh, here's something! I think someone should tell Sansa up above that Centon is totally crushing on her and photoshopping her into his pics. Can you say "restraining order"?

Monkey Prize
theangrybuddha - Candi
"After this song" huh, Jim...riiiight. You know how much you like Candi.

Money winners, please email your Paypal info to jtoon@woot.com. Monkey Prize winner, please email your shipping address to jtoon@woot.com. Don't worry, someday your prince will come. Soooomeday. Yep yep. Annnny day now. Whew, waiting's fun isn't it? Honorable Mentioneers may use coupon code HONMEN-FS for free shipping on a future order. Until next time remember: Any Woot castoff can get a Facebook page these days. Even Hip Hop Hippies.

Woot Contest 237: Deflating The Conspiracy

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:35:00 -0500

As today's Woot writeup and every single news outlet on the continent has indicated, there's something flying-fishy about that whole balloon boy panic from last week. While we've asked the hard questions, answers aren't really our department. That's where we're hoping you guys come in. And we're also hoping that Woot has something to do with the hoax/swindle/whatever, because we could use the publicity.

Show us the role that a Woot product, past or present, played in the Great Colorado Weather-Balloon Scare of Aught-Nine.

Post your entry here by 11:59 AM (central) on Monday, October 26, 2009. Prizes are $20/$50/$100 for 3rd/2nd/1st. The rules and criteria for winning: our panel of volunteer judges can and will make stuff up as it goes along. Use Photoshop, linoleum blocks, pastels, MSPaint, cave painting, tattoos, tribal scarification, whatever, but it’ll only be judged if it’s visible in our forums as a jpg, gif, or png. As we are fond of saying, try to keep your maximum width to 550px. If you need a place to host your pictures, try www.imageshack.ws or www.photobucket.com. We have no connection to either, but they seem free and easy to use. And if you want us to be sure your entry was indeed your work, post links to your source images. The more sure we are that you did your own work, the more likely we are to consider it for a prize.

Woot Contest 236: David's Banner

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:05:00 -0500

You know you're a big player at a major trade show - or at least you have a lot of money to waste - when the hall itself is bedecked in your gigantic, obnoxious banners. We're nowhere near this rarefied stratum yet, but we can dream. And we hope you can, too, because we don't have any idea what we would do with one of those spaces anyway. Take a look at these examples of on-site advertising for the Consumer Electronics Show (scroll down a little for pics) and...

Show us your idea for a giant Woot convention banner.

Post your entry here by 11:59 AM (central) on Monday, October 19, 2009. Prizes are $20/$50/$100 for 3rd/2nd/1st. The rules and criteria for winning: our panel of volunteer judges can and will make stuff up as it goes along. Use Photoshop, linoleum blocks, pastels, MSPaint, cave painting, tattoos, tribal scarification, whatever, but it’ll only be judged if it’s visible in our forums as a jpg, gif, or png. As we are fond of saying, try to keep your maximum width to 550px. If you need a place to host your pictures, try www.imageshack.ws or www.photobucket.com. We have no connection to either, but they seem free and easy to use. And if you want us to be sure your entry was indeed your work, post links to your source images. The more sure we are that you did your own work, the more likely we are to consider it for a prize.

Thanks, Amy, for the theme suggestion!

Winners' Gallery: the Best of Contest 230

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:30:00 -0500

At some point in the probably not-so-recent past, we asked you to show us how you could use past or current Woots as part of your superhero, sci-fi, or video-game costume. Since we viewed all these entries, does that mean we've seen everything there is to see at one of these conventions? We hope not, because we have the feeling that the people-watching is the best part.

First Place - $100
snackbot - Samus of Woot
We wonder what Baby Samus looks like?

Second Place - $50
stunnard - Wootchy Woman
Bonus points for not going with the obligatory Roomba!

Third Place - $20
Xexus - Who you gonna Call?
Xexus!

Honorable Mentions
FedUpOldHag - Power Squid
She can wrap you up in her tentacles any time she wa-- hey, is that the Lone Ranger?

gwbids - Warning Warning
Robot Model B9 should be able to make Router Girl's frown turn upside down!

toby8915 - Frogatronic
Leakfrogs want to dress up and go places, too. What, did you think they wanted to stay in the basement all the time?

fyrefall - The Broc!
When he gets presidential, he turns into broccoli!

bradcrc - Things That Make You Go Hmmm
Boy that's a large outlet you have there.
Hey, bradcrc, your image is no longer on the server you posted it to. Give us a new, valid image URL and we'll post the picture here.

Monkey Prize
turrets11 - Candi Hat
This is one time when the source image was not necessary. What did you put in the search box, anyway? Nevermind, we don't want to know.

Money winners, please email your Paypal info to jtoon@woot.com. Monkey Prize winner, please email your shipping address to jtoon@woot.com. You also get to pick which one of these outfits Jason should wear for Halloween! It's your lucky day! Honorable Mentioneers may use coupon code HONMEN-FS for free shipping on a future order. Until next time remember: If you're looking for cosplay ideas, you could always go as Evil Bert, bacon, or your Mii.

Woot Contest 235: Wooteurs

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:00:00 -0500

The public clamors for it. The big studios will pay anything for it. The awards are already engraved. But there's one thing keeping the Woot biopic off of your silver screens: choosing a director with the vision and genius worthy of our story. Since we're having trouble getting Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, and John Ford to return our calls - especially the dead ones - we need your help:

Show us a scene from a Woot motion picture in the style of a famous director.

Post your entry here by 11:59 AM (central) on Monday, September 21, 2009. Prizes are $20/$50/$100 for 3rd/2nd/1st. The rules and criteria for winning: our panel of volunteer judges can and will make stuff up as it goes along. Use Photoshop, linoleum blocks, pastels, MSPaint, cave painting, tattoos, tribal scarification, whatever, but it’ll only be judged if it’s visible in our forums as a jpg, gif, or png. As we are fond of saying, try to keep your maximum width to 550px. If you need a place to host your pictures, try www.imageshack.ws or www.photobucket.com. We have no connection to either, but they seem free and easy to use. And if you want us to be sure your entry was indeed your work, post links to your source images. The more sure we are that you did your own work, the more likely we are to consider it for a prize.

Woot Contest 234: Two Shirts Beat As One

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:00:00 -0500

By now, you've probably heard about our Shirt.Woot Classics series, reviving a once-dead Shirt.Woot favorite every week. If you haven't, check out our blog post about Classic shirts as soon as you get over your crushing shame. We use the term Redux to describe the shirts that are issued as they were originally sold, and Remix for those that we've tweaked in some way. But your challenge this week is something we haven't done on Shirt.Woot yet:

Mix two Shirt.Woot shirts together into one new design.

Your source material can be found in our Shirt.Woot forums. And, we hope, in your closet.

Post your entry here by 11:59 AM (central) on Monday, September 7, 2009. Prizes are $20/$50/$100 for 3rd/2nd/1st. The rules and criteria for winning: our panel of volunteer judges can and will make stuff up as it goes along. Use Photoshop, linoleum blocks, pastels, MSPaint, cave painting, tattoos, tribal scarification, whatever, but it’ll only be judged if it’s visible in our forums as a jpg, gif, or png. As we are fond of saying, try to keep your maximum width to 550px. If you need a place to host your pictures, try www.imageshack.ws or www.photobucket.com. We have no connection to either, but they seem free and easy to use. And if you want us to be sure your entry was indeed your work, post links to your source images. The more sure we are that you did your own work, the more likely we are to consider it for a prize.

Woot Contest 233: What Would Don Do?

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:00:00 -0500

The new season of a certain cable-TV drama set in an ad agency in the early '60s is underway. And aside from making us crave Pall Malls and gimlets, it's making us wonder what the likes of Sterling Cooper would've done with some of the junk we sell. The dynamic illustrations, the cool layouts, the verbal wit, the casual sexism - your challenge this week:

Show us an ad for a past or current Woot product, as created by the ad men on Mad Men.

You can create your own entirely new ad or alter an existing one, but you will get points for starting from scratch.

Post your entry here by 11:59 AM (central) on Monday, August 31, 2009. Prizes are $20/$50/$100 for 3rd/2nd/1st. The rules and criteria for winning: our panel of volunteer judges can and will make stuff up as it goes along. Use Photoshop, linoleum blocks, pastels, MSPaint, cave painting, tattoos, tribal scarification, whatever, but it’ll only be judged if it’s visible in our forums as a jpg, gif, or png. As we are fond of saying, try to keep your maximum width to 550px. If you need a place to host your pictures, try www.imageshack.ws or www.photobucket.com. We have no connection to either, but they seem free and easy to use. And if you want us to be sure your entry was indeed your work, post links to your source images. The more sure we are that you did your own work, the more likely we are to consider it for a prize.

Winners' Gallery: the Best of Contest 229

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:30:00 -0500

Almost 2 years ago, when we started judging this photoshop contest, we asked Jason to ask you to show us an action shot of the Woot All-Star Game, featuring great Woots of the past and present competing against each other. He finally managed to get that far down his list of clever themes, and has started on the ones we've submitted! Look out people, it's about to get crazy up in herrre! Anyway, about a year ago you posted your responses to the theme, and here are the winners:

First Place - $100
toby8915 - Woot-i-oh!
This spell card burns every card with a heart in your deck. I play the Hunk a hunk a burnin' love card!

see also:
toby8915 - Dodgeball - The losers get their screamers ripped out.

Second Place - $50
mwiseman - Fan action
"They call it the streak!" (LOL)

Third Place - $20
DarthJay - Intimidation
Can't he just use the force to knock the ball over? Why is Luke jumping?

Honorable Mentions:
stunnard - Sliding Home-r
That's gotta hurt.

turrets11 - And they're off!
Gee, I hope there aren't any bumps on this track - I'd hate for anyone to fall over.

stevliu - Slam Dunk
Does a dunk activate the Leakfrog's screamer?

fyrefall - Pi Eating Contest
"Keep at it until you've got the last digit!" They don't just suck, they suck forever.

pigmann - Ultimate Robot Championships
Exterminate, exterminate!

Monkey Prize
kwkelli - BayWoot
Oh, man, "be gentle", kwkelli says. Baywatch without Hasselhoff. Shadows that point in every direction. Incongruous pine tree branch on the beach. Pam without shaven legs. 2 monkeys? NO! 3 Monkeys! Monkey Prize! Monkey Prize!

Money winners, please email your Paypal info to jtoon@woot.com. Monkey Prize winner, please email your shipping information to jtoon@woot.com. Honorable Mentioneers may use coupon code HONMEN-FS for free shipping on a future order. (snerk) We truly wish it would work, we really do. Until next time remember: In St. Louis at the All-Star Game, the locals actually booed the President of the United States. Not because of his politics, no. Because the man (who lived on the south side of Chicago) is a White Socks fan. Hard core baseball fans, they are, in St. Louis.

Winners' Gallery: the Best of Contest 228

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:10:00 -0500

At some point in the probably not-so-recent past, we asked you to show us a movie poster for a classic (non-superhero) film transformed into a superhero movie. Thank you for not showing us this in your chops. Or this. Or, this.

First Place - $100
wildwolf11 - Dances with Wolverine
Kicking Bird says Knives for Fingers is bad-ass.

Second Place - $50
ositopolar - Wonderful Matrix
What pill do you take to stop seeing the giant bunny?

Third Place - $20
mwiseman - Elephant Man
How do you call this superhero, on your elephone?

Honorable Mentions:
FedUpOldHag - Benjamin Button
Wait a sec, my fly is open--crap I hate button-fly jeans!

bradcrc - The Bucket Men
I really hope nobody kicks the buckets. Or shocks the monkeys.

CabooseGT - The Exorcist
Out, demon of poor colormatching! Away, too sharp pasted-devil!

taipan - Babe Ruth
This will only spur on those conspiracy theorists who believed he was really a robot.

toby8915 - Streetcar
Yeah lover, I'm on the street / Gonna go where Marlon Brando / And the steep city meet / With a red bell / On fire / Desire

Monkey Prize - snackbot
My hands! Where are my hands!? Stupid molten lava!

Money winners, please email your Paypal info to jtoon@woot.com. Monkey Prize winner, please email your shipping address to jtoon@woot.com. Then get out your Woot Monkey that you bought from Woot fair and square, and play super hero with that for a while. He has a cape and a mask. What else do you need? Honorable Mentioneers may use coupon code HONMEN-FS for free shipping on a future order. Until next time remember what the always very wise Jack Handy said, "I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away." Yup, he's always thinking.