Special Contest 1

DieTer-Xz · Post by **DieTer-Xz** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:12 pm

Hi

Because of some practical difficulties, this contest is quite late.

I have decided to make this contest a special one. A competition among the last twenty (twenty-three, in this case) winners.

To reduce the number of entries, I won't include the runner-ups.

If this works out okay, after every twenty contests there will be a special contest.

You can vote on the winning pictures found here.

Voting allowed until the 28th.

Good luck everyone!

DieTer-Xz · Post by **DieTer-Xz** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:01 pm

Okay, here are the results!

(I've ended the poll one day earlier because of some technical problems that seem to have appeared. Further votes wouldn't have been able to change the outcome though!)

The absolute winner is Dominique, with 17 out of a total of 53 votes, with her beautiful Mammillaria luethyi. The runner-up is Paracelsus with 6 votes!

Of course congratulations to all winners! Without you, we wouldn't have been able to keep this contests.

The results:
faslimy (Gymnocalycium eurypleurum)
0% [ 0 ]
GeneS (Echinopsis pentlandii)
7% [ 4 ]
templegatejohn (Sulcorebutia rauschii)
3% [ 2 ]
Franj (Cereus spegazzinii)
0% [ 0 ]
Daiv (Ferocactus wislizeni)
1% [ 1 ]
bunmoh (Parodia leninghausii)
0% [ 0 ]
Dominique (Mammillaria luethyi)
32% [ 17 ]
GeneS (Ferocactus peninsulae)
0% [ 0 ]
neely9820022000 (Parodia magnifica)
0% [ 0 ]
Buck Hemenway (Cereus peruvianus)
0% [ 0 ]
Paracelsus (Cereus Beeline)
11% [ 6 ]
Buck Hemenway (Echinocactus polycephalus)
9% [ 5 ]
Tumamoc (Carnegiea gigantea)
1% [ 1 ]
Faslimy (Stenocereus beneckei)
9% [ 5 ]
GeneS (Weberbauerocereus fasiculatus)
1% [ 1 ]
Tumamoc (Carnegiea gigantea)
1% [ 1 ]
grand choum (Hybrid epi)
0% [ 0 ]
peter (Cacti Universe)
1% [ 1 ]
Martin_Heigan (Stapelia flavopurpurea)
5% [ 3 ]
ihc6480 (Opuntia erinacea)
0% [ 0 ]
hablu (Echinopsis haemanthantha rebutiodes)
3% [ 2 ]
Tony (Flower Power)
1% [ 1 ]
GeneS (Pleiospilos nelii)
5% [ 3 ]
Total Votes : 53

GeneS · Post by **GeneS** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:51 pm

Congratulations ... again, Dominique !

I hope you are still listening ?

And, thanks to everyone who voted. Our turnout was double what it has been.

If you didn't vote, you are missing a unique opportunity to be a show judge, without prior qualification

If you voted twice ... daiv? Wait, double = 2X ???

GeneS

peter · Post by **peter** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:32 pm

Congrats Dominique, wherever you are!

Post by **daiv** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:53 pm

Gene, no double individuals, the forum doesn't allow double votes if we wanted to!

53 is quite the turnout! Sending the mass e-mail helped, but I have a feeling if 2 get sent each time, that we'll get a lot of "Take me off the list!" requests.

Dominique hasn't been on in a while. Used to be here a lot. Hope she's still growing full steam. She was our "French Connection" for a long time. Don't know if we have anyone else from there.

Dominique · Post by **Dominique** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:33 am

Hello, everyone ! What a surprise to win the contest and what a joy ! Thank you very much. I disappeared almost a year ago for a good reason : I finally found a job and in my country, at my age, it's a miracle. I'm out of home from 7:00am to 7:00pm at best and the week-ends are awfully short. But the little time I have goes to my plants. The collection has not stopped growing and is now close to a thousand plants. Since the plants won't need me much in the coming months, I'm going to try come here more often. It's where I learned most about plants and for me, it's the best forum ever.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:36 pm

Congrats And welcome back!
Even if it is only on the weekends.

david.g · Post by **david.g** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:16 pm

congratulation domminique

cactuspolecat · Post by **cactuspolecat** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:20 pm

Congrats Dominque, I'm glad you got your job... though you've certainly been missed around here... I thought maybe you were abducted by Aliens or something!!

Nice to have you touch base with us, and I look forward to hearing an update on your collection, but I'm also interested in hearing about your job.

Cheers, CP.

hablu · Post by **hablu** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:34 pm

Congrats Dominique on the job and this contest and welcome back. Let's see your collection. Harry

ihc6480 · Post by **ihc6480** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:32 am

Welcome back Dominique. Looking forward to seeing some pictures of your future winners

Dominique · Post by **Dominique** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:41 am

It really goes straight to my heart to be welcomed again like that ! I had a big crash on my computer a few months ago and I lost a lot of pictures but since then, I made some more...
David.g, I'm glad to see you here

Post by **daiv** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:32 pm

Hey Dominique! Good to hear you are doing well and the plants are growing!

And David G. you are also from France -so I am corrected -it is not just Dominique.

ag10 · Post by **ag10** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:50 pm

daiv wrote:Don't know if we have anyone else from there.

It is really interesting (and often useful) to know where members come from - would it be possible to encourage new (and indeed existing) members to fill in to their profiles at least which country they live in??

Post by **daiv** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:19 pm

Yes, that's a good idea - It expecially helps others give cultivation tips.