kny wrote:
mstange22 wrote:
Another reason no one may have been accepted from the post card entries could be a technicality.
They requested 3" x 5" post cards. Apparently, 3" x 5" is too small to be handled by the US Mail, so you have to send in a 4" x 6" or larger post card. I guess you could send in a 3" x 5" index card inside of a letter, but that could be rejected since it's not a post card.
My guess is they just rejected any submittal that wasn't a "3" x 5" post card" which would have most likely been all of them.
That would be devious. I'm going to remain an optimist and guess that they didn't do that because:
- it's wrong and unethical
- WTC doesn't really care who gets the 10 slots. Their ambition is to drive registrations to Boulder by giving the appearance that registering for Boulder exclusively gives you a chance at Kona. They hope the fine print postcard method remains secret so that people register for Boulder rather than send in a postcard, but if word did spread and they got thousands of postcard submissions, discarding those submissions does not change the fact that the primary goal of driving registrations to Boulder failed. So why risk it?
Considering the problems the last lottery ended up costing them I have to believe they are doing this on the up and up. It also makes me think/wonder if they are legally required to divulge or share how many people actually were entered, how many won by postcard etc..
Surely someone on a late Friday afternoon has nothing better to do than garner this info