The Final Winners for Our March contest

Winners

This is the end…my only friend the end
So the contest here has ended. Why do I use the above quote from The Doors? Because I’m exhausted! This thing was a ton of fun, but damn am I tired! The final winners will now be announced. The only question is who will remain active? Will this site survive? Yes, this site will die if the users don’t support it. This is a 100% user driven website. Without you people we are gone. A site that is driven by content can keep putting out content no matter what. A user driven site doesn’t do a damn thing unless the users are there to keep it alive. So to say that you users are important to us is a massive understatement. We can’t stress this enough. We are only as valuable as you users want us to be. Without you we die. So we hope you have fallen in love with this site as much as we have.

First Prize Goes To…
First prize goes to cgt2099, so he can now collect $1000! Just download the legal form HERE, fill it out, and snail mail it back to us (do not email it). For legal reasons we have to have anyone who wins more than $600 to do this. Otherwise we get into trouble with the I.R.S.

Second Place Goes To…
Second place goes to rockergirl. CLICK HERE to go to the message center and send me your full name and address so I can send you your $500.

Third Place goes to…
Third place goes to symbolicdeath. Please CLICK HERE to go to the message center and send me your full name and address so I can send you your $250.

Close only counts in nuclear war
revoink came in fourth for this contest and ccortes came in fifth. Now there is no prize for 4th or 5th place, but I think it is important to give them some props for being such active users. Hell, as a way to say goodbye to this contest you two win a free cd. So CLICK HERE to go to the message center and send me your full name and address so I can send you your prize.

EVERYONE
Please do me a favor and send me a photo of you with your prize. You don’t have to, but it helps to show people winning.

We can’t send prizes to P.O. Boxes since someone will have to sign for the package. With amounts this large we need to be able to track that it was received by the correct person.

As this contest ends, this means that there are no more cash prizes. However, I still have cd’s to give away. In fact I think I will always have stuff to give away. So stay tuned for further announcements. Make sure and follow both My personal Twitter account as well as the official HAH Twitter account for more info.

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Winners For The Week Of March 29th 2010

The last full week of the campaign
So the last full week of the Heavy As Hell contest is at an end. This means that we are now kicking off the FINAL three days of the contest. Sure that is a really short week, but that just means there is no time for messing around. So if you haven’t won yet, I would start going nuts right away and not stop until the clock strikes April 1st . Before that though, let’s announce last weeks winners!

First Prize Goes To…
First prize goes to Northend, so he can now collect $1000! Just download the legal form HERE, fill it out, and snail mail it back to us (do not email it). For legal reasons we have to have anyone who wins more than $600 to do this. Otherwise we get into trouble with the I.R.S. Use the Heavy As Hell message system to ask what the address is. If you can’t figure that out you can email me. The email address is mark@HeavyAsHell.com.

Second Place Goes To…
Second place goes to bonehead. CLICK HERE to go to the message center and send me your full name and address so I can send you your $500. Or you can email me at mark@HeavyAsHell.com

Third Place goes to…
Third place goes to beccasbiz. Two things shock me about this. First I’m shocked it took her this long to win! With as active as she is on the site I’m blown away she didn’t win until now. The other thing that shocks me is that she didn’t get first place! I have always thought she was one of the most active. Anyways, please CLICK HERE to go to the message center and send me your full name and address so I can send you your $250. Or you can email me at mark@HeavyAsHell.com

Close only counts in nuclear war
XTRMDave came in fourth for this contest and babynarwal came in fifth. Now since 4th and 5th place doesn’t win anything, these people are still in the running for our three day week (Remember this contest is for March only). Can they pull ahead? Only time will tell. Remember that you can’t win twice. So there are a ton of active users who are not eligible for this final three days. I can’t win either. Neither can my wife VaporRub. So don’t give up if you are at the bottom of the chart. You might still be in the running!

EVERYONE
Please do me a favor and send me a photo of you with your prize. You don’t have to, but it helps to show people winning.

We can’t send prizes to P.O. Boxes since someone will have to sign for the package. With amounts this large we need to be able to track that it was received by the correct person.

As this contest ends, this means that a new contest has been launched. If you have won already this month you can’t win a cash prize again (follow HAH on Twitter to win cd’s). So if you haven’t won yet, your chances are even greater. Bring it on! Who will take my money next?

CLICK HERE to get started trying to win this week!

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Heavy As Hell community, please post this in as many places as possible as soon as possible. Feel free to post a link in the comments to where it was posted. Thanks.

For Immediate Release:
Thursday March 25th 2010

Nuclear Blast America Gets Heavy As Hell

Thursday March 25th is Nuclear Blast America Day on Heavy As Hell! What does that mean? Well, it means that because Nuclear Blast America is a sponsor of the month long campaign to giveaway over ten thousand dollars in cash and prizes (mostly cash) at HeavyAsHell.com, the site is going to be giving away physical copies of several of the latest and greatest releases from this fine label.

• Avantasia - Lost In Space
• Immolation - Majesty And Decay
• Annotations Of An Autopsy - II: The Reign of Darkness
• Mnemic - Sons Of The System
• Arsis - Starve For The Devil
• Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions
• Ex-Deo - Romulus
• Epica - Design Your Universe
• Threat Signal - Vigilance - Claimed

The rules of this contest are simple. Send out the message below on Twitter. HeavyAsHell admins will be tracking this and will contact the first 9 people to send the message below through their Twitter account.

The first 9 people to ‘Tweet’ “Today is Nuclear Blast Day at #heavyashell Go to http://www.heavyashell.com/blog/tag/free/ for details on how to win free music!” gets a free cd from Nuclear Blast America from the list above! It has to be those exact words. Change anything and you get nothing! Once they are gone, the contest is over. It is first come first serve. So don’t you dare hesitate!

Sorry, but this contest is also only for the US. Otherwise shipping costs will kill us. I hope you all understand.

So everyone send a Twitter message RIGHT NOW that says “Today is Nuclear Blast Day at #heavyashell Go to http://www.heavyashell.com/blog/tag/free/ for details on how to win free music!”

http://www.heavyashell.com/blog/tag/free/

http://www.heavyashell.com

http://www.nuclearblastusa.com/

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In case you are wondering, these Twitter contests can be won more than once. This is unlike the contest we have going for tons of cash. If you have won cash, you can still win cd’s. If you have won cd’s, you can still win more cd’s. In fact it saves us in postage to send more than one at a time. So let’s kick this thing into gear already. Cool?

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We Are A Force To Be Reckoned With
So another week of the Heavy As Hell contest is at an end. This means that we are now kicking off the FINAL full week of the contest. Sure we have that tiny week, but this is now the last week of the contest. Things could go a little insane so I recommend anyone who wants to win, to go into the upcoming section and vote like crazy to get started. Before that though, let’s announce last weeks winners!

First Prize Goes To…
First prize goes to Warpt_666, so he can now collect $1000! Just download the legal form HERE, fill it out, and snail mail it back to us (do not email it). For legal reasons we have to have anyone who wins more than $600 to do this. Otherwise we get into trouble with the I.R.S. Use the Heavy As Hell message system to ask what the address is.

Second Place Goes To…
Second place goes to someone we only know of as leenga. All I know is they have been very active on this site this week. Thanks leenga! CLICK HERE to go to the message center and send me your full name and address so I can send you your $500. You earned it! I hope you still stick around.

Third Place goes to…
Third place goes to illninoese, who did not submit a single thing! All they did was vote for the most part. They made one comment on one submission. So go into the upcoming section and vote like crazy! That is what gains sins faster than anything else in this contest. There is a fix being worked on for future contests, so take advantage of this while you can! I don’t have a clue who illninoese is, so please CLICK HERE to go to the message center and send me your full name and address so I can send you your $250.

Close only counts in nuclear war
XTRMDave came in fourth for this contest and BeccasBiz came in fifth. Now since 4th and 5th place doesn’t win anything, these people are still in the running for this week. Can they pull ahead? Only time will tell. Both of them are users who we know will be part of the site long after this contest no matter if they win or not. So I figured I would showcase their profiles.

EVERYONE
Please do me a favor and send me a photo of you with your prize. You don’t have to, but it helps to show people winning.

We can’t send prizes to P.O. Boxes since someone will have to sign for the package. With amounts this large we need to be able to track that it was received by the correct person.

As this contest ends, this means that a new contest has been launched. If you have won already this month you can’t win a cash prize again (follow HAH on Twitter to win cd’s). So if you haven’t won yet, your chances are even greater. Bring it on! Who will take my money next?

CLICK HERE to get started trying to win this week!

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Ok, so I want to see how many of you Sinners I can get to start using Twitter to get people to check out your submissions here on HeavyAsHell. So here is the deal, below I have a list of cd’s from our great sponsors. There is some pretty cool stuff in there, right? I know you want one of them. So I will be watching for people using the hash tag #heavyashell all day Tuesday March 9th. It is first come first serve. So the first ones to promote their new (as in that day) submission through Twitter with the hash tag #heavyashell get the cd’s. Cool?

So to be clear, your Twitter message needs two things. A link to your submission on this site and the hash tag #heavyashell.

I also want to make it clear that this contest is not part of the main contest. So just because you already won that contest, does not mean you can’t win this contest. You can win both contests. However, just like with the main contest, you can only win this one once.

If that doesn’t make sense just know that this contest is open to former winners too. And that with each contest on this site, you can only win once.

As with all our contests, you must be at least 18 years of age. You must also be a legal resident of the United States Of America. Both of these are for legal reasons. We encourage everyone to participate in the site. Even if they can’t be part of the contests.

So you ready for the list?

• Through The Eyes Of The Dead - Malice (2 copies)
• Beneath The Massacre - Dystopia (2 copies)
• Carving Desert Canyons - Scale The Summit (2 copies)
• All That Remains - Overcome (has no cover)
• All That Remains - Overcome
• Testament - Demonic Reissue (2 copies)
• Avantasia - Lost In Space
• Immolation - Majesty And Decay
• Annotations Of An Autopsy - II: The Reign of Darkness
• Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was
• Mnemic - Sons Of The System
• Arsis - Starve For The Devil
• Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions
• Ex-Deo - Romulus
• Epica - Desiggn Your Universe
• Threat Signal - Vigilance
• Psychostick - Sandwich (10 copies)
• Evacuate Chicago - Veracity (10 copies)

most importantly make sure and follow both the official Heavy As Hell Twitter account and my personal account. I tend to update my own account more often.

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Who really gives a crap about the Academy awards other than people who work on movies, gay guys, women with no lives, and just plain sheep with their heads shoved so far up their backsides that they couldn’t see the light of day if their lives depended on it? Seriously, what people should have really cared about was who would win the first week of the Heavy As Hell Ten Grand Giveaway.

Well, first prize went to the fan favorite. Many people were rooting for this guy to win, so I’m glad he did. threaper13 you now get to take $1,000 of my money. So download the PDF and send it to me as soon as you can. For legal reasons I can’t send the money until we have that legal form. Second place goes to drvondoom. Since the legal limit for being forced to use that annoying form is $600 and you won $500, all I need is your real name and the street address I need to send it to. No P.O. Boxes since someone will have to sign for the package. With amounts this large we need to be able to track that it was received by the correct person. Fourth prize goes to a long time supporter of the site Mortalwind. Same rules as 2nd prize go for your $250 prize.

Can I ask a favor?
There are some that question if this contest is legit. So can I ask a huge favor of the winners? Can you pose with your prizes when you get them and send me the photo as soon as possible? We would love to feature you winners if you’re cool with it. You don’t have to, but it would really help us out.

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Guitar Hero Metallica giveaway contest!

You pick what game system version you win!
We are giving away 1 Guitar Hero Metallica packages. Last month many said they wanted to pick the game system version after they won. So we have continued this plan for our March contest.

How you earn “points” to win:
As always, you earn “sins” (points) for submitting links to stories about hard rock, classic rock, metal, punk, industrial, glam, goth, grunge, grindcore, hardcore, metalcore, etc. It’s not just metal! For example, we think THIS VIDEO is Heavy As Hell. Voting for stories others submit also gets you “sins”. The third method of getting “sins” is to comment on submissions others have made. Pretty much just be active on the site. The point of the site is to be social, so make sure and “friend” users with the same musical tastes as you have. Feel free to invite friends, too.

Three Hints on how to win:

• If someone was to just vote for every story in the upcoming section that they think deserves a vote, they could have a good chance with that alone. It’s just that easy, people!
• Voting for other people’s stories can only help your chances of winning.
• If you don’t vote for other people’s stories it can really hurt your chances in this contest.

The first user chart means nothing:
We used to give the prize away to the top users of all time. Last month we gave the prizes away to the top 3 users of the month. This month we are giving one prize to the top user of the month. So that first chart means nothing really. Eventually we will give the Top Users Of The Month chart it’s own page, but until then please scroll down to the chart that counts most! We hope this makes new users feel more welcome.

How can you tell if you are winning?
Go to the Top Ten Users Chart link at the bottom of every page. The first chart is ranking users overall and has nothing to do with this contest. For the rest of the month, the important chart is the one below that. It’s the one that says “Top 10 Users During the Latest Contest” in big bold letters.

Winner will be announced April 1st.
Ok, we understand that this is also April Fools Day. So please trust us that there will be no April Fools joke connected to this contest. Your trust is too important to the success of this site. Once we receive said winner’s address the “Guitar Hero Metallica” package will be sent out to them. We are very sorry, but only winners from the United States are eligible due to legal reasons. Users worldwide are welcome to be a part of the site, but this contest has to be for U.S. residents only. Of course any user suspected of cheating, gaming the system, or being involved in activity that could harm the site or it’s users may be banned. Being banned from this site will disqualify you from this and any contest.

Only guitar based music stories win Guitar Hero prize!
So why no rap? Rap doesn’t use guitars. We are giving away a Guitar Hero Metallica package. Not a beat box hero game. We want to celebrate people who actually play instruments. This is what we are passionate about. This site was started to talk about hard rock, classic rock, metal, punk, industrial, glam, goth, grunge, grindcore, hardcore, metalcore, etc. No rap, rapcore, dance music, techno, hip hop, pop, or country. So we strongly discourage those styles. Now before thinking there are racial reasons for us not liking rap, please look up the bands God Forbid, Bad Brains, Kings X, & S2C. I’m pretty sure the admins of this site have not only voted up stories of black artists on this site, but submitted them as well. It’s not about color, it’s about the music!

To be clear, rap and techno do NOT count for this (or any) contest at this site. This has always been the case with this site and it always will be.

The contest has already started!
When does the contest start? If you are reading this it already has. So CLICK HERE and get started already!

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Guitar Hero: World Tour giveaway contest gives in to your demands!

You now pick what game system version you win!
We are still giving away 3 Guitar Hero: World Tour packages. It is still the full “band Kit” package. However, many have said they wanted to pick the game system version after they won. Well, we have heard your cries and this is the only change to the contest. More options. So now third place is as good as first place. Are we cool now?

How you earn “points” to win:
You earns “sins” (points) for submitting links to stories about hard rock, classic rock, metal, punk, industrial, glam, goth, grunge, grindcore, hardcore, metalcore, etc. It’s not just metal! For example, we think THIS VIDEO is Heavy As Hell. Voting for stories others submit also gets you “sins”. The third method of getting “sins” is to comment on submissions others have made. Pretty much just be active on the site. The point of the site is to be social, so make sure and “friend” users with the same musical tastes as you have. Feel free to invite friends, too.

A little hint:
If someone was to just vote for every story in the upcoming section that they think deserves a vote, they could have a good chance with that alone. It’s just that easy people!

New users have a better chance than ever!
Last time we gave the prize away to the top users of all time (that were not directly connected to the site). This time we are giving the prizes away to the top 3 users of the month! We hope this makes new users feel more welcome. Honestly it doesn’t do us any good to give a prize away to someone who was really active for a few weeks, but hasn’t been to the site in 6 months. Now of course programmer DarkNemesis618, my wife VaporRub, and myself are automatically disqualified from winning (as is standard for any contest anywhere). Everyone else (within the United States) however is free game. Now we want to make sure that everyone has a good and fair chance of winning, so we are giving you until March 1st at Midnight East Coast time. This means the second the month changes, a screenshot will be taken to show the winner in a blog post the morning of March 1st. Whoever are the top 3 users win the contest.

How can you tell if you are winning?
Go to the Top Ten Users Chart link at the bottom of every page. The first chart is ranking users overall and has nothing to do with this contest. For the rest of the month, the important chart is the one below that. It’s the one that says “Top 10 Users During the Latest Contest” in big bold letters.

Winner will be announced March 1st.
Once we receive said winner’s address the “Guitar Hero: World Tour package” will be sent out to them. We are very sorry, but only winners from the United States are eligible due to legal reasons. Users worldwide are welcome to be a part of the site, but this contest has to be for U.S. residents only. Of course any user suspected of cheating, gaming the system, or being involved in activity that could harm the site or it’s users may be banned. Being banned from this site will disqualify you from this and any contest.

Only guitar based music stories win Guitar Hero prize!
So why no rap? Rap doesn’t use guitars. We are giving away a Guitar Hero: World Tour package. Not a beat box hero game. We want to celebrate people who actually play instruments. This is what we are passionate about. This site was started to talk about hard rock, classic rock, metal, punk, industrial, glam, goth, grunge, grindcore, hardcore, metalcore, etc. No rap, rapcore, dance music, techno, hip hop, or country. So we strongly discourage those styles. Before calling us racist for not liking rap, please look up the bands God Forbid, Bad Brains, Kings X, S2C, etc. To be clear, rap and techno do NOT count for this (or any) contest at this site. This has always been the case with this site and it always will be. Why? Because we are the only social news site that truly ROCKS!

It has already started!
When does the contest start? If you are reading this it already has. So CLICK HERE and get started already!

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So we think it is time for another contest. This time we will be giving away 3 Guitar Hero: World Tour packages. When buying these we wanted to go with the biggest and most expensive version we could find. Not saying it is the most we could have spent, just saying that as far as we could find this is the best package we found. It would be a lame contest to cut corners.

You earns “sins” (points) for submitting links to stories about hard rock, classic rock, metal, punk, industrial, glam, goth, grunge, grindcore, hardcore, metalcore, etc. Voting for stories others submit also gets you “sins” (points). The third method of getting “sins” (points) is to comment on submissions others have made. Pretty much just be active on the site. The point of the site is to be social, so make sure and “friend” users with the same musical tastes as you have. Feel free to invite friends too.

Last time we gave the prize away to the top users of all time (that were not directly connected to the site). This time we are giving the prizes away to the top 3 users of the month! We hope this makes new users feel more welcome. Honestly it doesn’t do us any good to give a prize away to someone who was really active for a few weeks, but hasn’t been to the site in 6 months. Now of course programmer DarkNemesis618, my wife VaporRub, and myself are automatically disqualified from winning (as is standard for any contest anywhere) Everyone else however is free game (Within the United States). Now we want to make sure that everyone has a good and fair chance of winning. So we are giving you until March 1st at Midnight east coast time. This means the second the month changes, a screenshot will be taken to show the winner in a blog post that morning. Whoever are the top 3 users win the contest.

How can you tell if you are winning? Go to the Top Ten Users Chart link at the bottom of every page. The first chart is ranking users overall and has nothing to do with this contest. For the next month, the important chart is the one below that. It’s the one that says “Top 10 Users During the Latest Contest” in big bold letters.

Now we have 3 of these. One for the Playstation 3, one for the Xbox360, and one for the Nintendo Wii. Whoever gets frist prize gets to pick which one they want first. Second prize gets to pick which one they want second. Third place gets whatever is left. 4th place gets nothing, but our thanks for playing. So if you get one that doesn’t fit your game system, it will be your responsibility to deal with exchanging it. Should have fought harder for the top spot.

Winner will be announced March 1st. Once we receive said winner’s address the “Guitar Hero: World Tour package” will be sent out to them. We are very sorry, but only winners from the United States are eligible due to legal reasons. Users worldwide are welcome to be a part of the site, but this contest has to be for U.S. residents only. Of course any user suspected of cheating, gaming the system, or being involved in activity that could harm the site or it’s users may be banned. Being banned from this site will disqualify you from this and any contest.

So why no rap? Rap doesn’t use guitars. We are giving away a Guitar Hero: World Tour package. Not a beat box hero game. We want to celebrate people who actually play instruments. This is what we are passionate about. This site was started to talk about hard rock, classic rock, metal, punk, industrial, glam, goth, grunge, grindcore, hardcore, metalcore, etc. No rap, rapcore, dance music, techno, hip hop, or country. So we strongly discourage those styles. Before calling us racist for not liking rap, please look up the bands God forbid, Bad Brains, Kings X, S2C, etc. To be clear, rap and techno do NOT count for this (or any) contest. This has always been the case with this site and it always will be. Why? Because we are the only social news site that truly ROCKS!

When does the contest start? If you are reading this it already has.

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