Can you give us an update on what's going on with the prizes and sponsorships? I've been dealing with an ongoing illness in my family and have been out of touch with everything for a while. I'm back now - and with a vengeance! We have about a month until the contest submission ends right? Let's make a final push.
For everyone else, is there a final word on judges? Who was responsible for getting those lined up?
Can I get a show of hands to see who is available for posting to the various forums in the next several weeks? I'm going to get the final list compiled this week and we'll start posting soon. The way we've done it in the past is I'll post an announcement for the editors and then the rest of us pop them into the forums. So far, I've just been posting to APC, Plantedtank.net, plantgeek, and the AGA forums. Any others we interested in posting to? I'm open to suggestions from foreign site and other frequented forums with a plant related area.
Bailin
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From: biotypical@hotmail.com
To: aga-contest@thekrib.com
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:39:05 -0400
Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] Prizes
Here's what I've been telling folks:
1) Category sponsorship is $100.00 (1st place prize) and will get them their banner on the category's index page. If they want to sponsor Best of Show that's $175.00.
2) 2nd place is $50, 3rd is $25.00.
3) We'll happily accept any amount from a business and put their banner on our Thank You page.
Scott, do you want to be the one to send out invoices or do you need/want me to do that?
We've got our first donator! Don with freshwateraquariumplants.com is going to give us whatever he can afford to give.
Regards,
Phil
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:05:38 -0700
From: shieber@yahoo.com
To: aga-contest@thekrib.com
Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] Prizes
There is no assignable relationship between sponsor funds and awards. We're not asking anyone to sponsor an award but a contest category or the contest as a whole. WE take in what we take in, we pay what we promise. In a good year, the ink is black or only slightly pink.
We give out the awards regardless of contest income. Of course, if we lost lots of money on the contest, we might rethink how we did things in the following year (well, probably not). And if it helps a prospective donor to believe that her or his donation will in fact be the award money for acertain placement in a particular category, so be it, but the award amount will be no less than what we've stated.
sh
From: Bailin Shaw <bailin_shaw@hotmail.com>
To: AGA Contest <aga-contest@thekrib.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2009 10:35:59 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] Prizes
I think that's what we have done in the past, but we did ask the vendors/clubs which category they would like to sponsor.
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From: biotypical@hotmail.com
To: aga-contest@thekrib.com
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:01:06 -0400
Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] Prizes
Did we just ask for whatever sort of contribution we could get and then split it up among the possible prizes?
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