Author Topic: Vote For your Favorites in the Festool Usage Demonstration Contest! (Read 11701 times)

Peter Halle · « **on:** December 08, 2012, 07:24 AM »

December 8, 2012 thru December 15, 2012

VOTE For YOUR Favorite TWO Entries!

Now that the entry period for the Festool Usage Demonstration Contest is over, all the members here have a chance to select their Two Favorites. You may change your votes.

Once he polling period is complete three ANONYMOUS judges will confer and determine prize winners. Each of the 5 will win something!

   Grand Prize: 400 Festool Dollars 
   Runner Up: 200 Festool Dollars 
   Third Place: 100 Festool Dollars
   Fourth Place: One Pair of Quick Clamps
   Fifth Place: One Pair of Screw Clamps

There will also be a random drawing for a Festool Syslite and all 14 entries are in that drawing.

Although you may not have been able to participate in the contest due to location or time constraints you can now participate by voting for your TWO favorites.

GOOD LUCK to everyone!

Peter, Seth, Shane

EDIT> fix link

Mopowers · « **Reply #1 on:** December 08, 2012, 09:00 AM »

Entry 4 and 5 have the same title but are different demonstrations. I believe entry 5 was titled Oak Table. I am sure davee would not want his great project confused with my half baked entry.

Peter Halle · « **Reply #2 on:** December 08, 2012, 09:12 AM »

Thanks for noticing the real name of that thread. I noticed the duplicate names but when I checked it out I didn't see how I could have changed the name. Changed now.

Peter

tjbnwi · « **Reply #3 on:** December 08, 2012, 09:27 AM »

Mr. Halle,

Would you mind fixing the tittle of mine. I believe I titled it "Boom Arm Demonstration". It is number 1 above but the wrong title.

Tom

Peter Halle · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2012, 11:20 AM »

This thread will be officially bumped to remind members to vote in this contest.

Peter

tjbnwi · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2012, 12:45 PM »

Quote from: Peter Halle on December 09, 2012, 11:20 AM

This thread will be officially bumped to remind members to vote in this contest.

Peter

"Will be" or "has been".

I know every one likes a piece of... but nobody likes a wise .....

I was hoping I was the only one who voted.

neilc · « **Reply #6 on:** December 09, 2012, 03:48 PM »

Some very good examples of demonstrations in the thread.

I voted but wish good luck to all those that found more time than me to provide step-by-step tutorials.

neil

MrToolJunkie · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2012, 05:01 PM »

I thought this was one of the best contests yet...some great tips and techniques.

Scot

SRSemenza · « **Reply #8 on:** December 10, 2012, 12:16 PM »

Quote from: ScotF on December 09, 2012, 05:01 PM

I thought this was one of the best contests yet...some great tips and techniques.

Scot

Glad you like it! The work and ideas of all the contestants is great to see !

Seth

Peter Halle · « **Reply #9 on:** December 11, 2012, 07:03 PM »

VOTE!

This is your chance to have a part in a contest even if you didn't enter.

Only 42 of you have voted.

More participation = more likelihood to get backing = more contests = more prizes in the future = more information shared = more lucky winners.

Peter

Peter Halle · « **Reply #10 on:** December 12, 2012, 08:15 PM »

I have to say that Shane's banners inspire people to vote, but we need more votes. Three judges are going to get your data and then use that in their own formulas to see who gets what. This is a painless process. Just go to the first post in the thread and after watching and learning, just check a couple of boxes. Would love to see a couple hundred votes!

Peter

jmbfestool · « **Reply #11 on:** December 13, 2012, 03:32 PM »

Quote from: Peter Halle on December 11, 2012, 07:03 PM

VOTE!

This is your chance to have a part in a contest even if you didn't enter.

Only 42 of you have voted.

More participation = more likelihood to get backing = more contests = more prizes in the future = more information shared = more lucky winners.

Peter

I bet alot of non USA members are not voting for obvious reasons.

Jmb

joiner1970 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 13, 2012, 06:07 PM »

Yeah I wish festool uk would get involved here so we can have competitions too

Peter Halle · « **Reply #13 on:** December 14, 2012, 08:53 AM »

The voting is getting interesting! Thank you to those who have voted, and for those who haven't - take some time to view the entries and please vote for your favorite. Voting ends at midnight (EST) tomorrow night. Then off to the JUDGES.

Peter

Festool USA · « **Reply #14 on:** December 15, 2012, 12:44 PM »

Time is running out... Get your vote on!

Peter Halle · « **Reply #15 on:** December 15, 2012, 04:50 PM »

A little more than 7 hours remaining (forum time). Hint!

Peter

Peter Halle · « **Reply #16 on:** December 15, 2012, 05:28 PM »

Please be aware that the information on the poll regrading the cut off time is incorrect. Unfortunately the software doesn't allow you to set a time but rather a number of days which set or reset if there have been any edits in the structure of the post. I had meant for the voting results to not be visible until the end of the poll but didn't check the correct box. I have changed that no but that has caused the posted deadline to change.

The deadline is midnight tonight EST time for voting.

Sorry about that guys.

Peter

Festool USA · « **Reply #17 on:** December 16, 2012, 12:01 AM »

The polls have been locked. Thank you to all who participated in the contest and those who voted. Peter and/or Seth will be posting the results soon.

Peter Halle · « **Reply #18 on:** December 16, 2012, 08:22 AM »

Well, as all of you can see if you scroll to the top of the thread the voting was close in this phase of the contest. The members here have selected entries 11, 12, 9, 3, and 2 as their top five favorites and now it is up to the three judges to determine the winners. Stay tuned....

Peter

Timtool · « **Reply #19 on:** December 17, 2012, 05:13 AM »

Quote from: jmbfestool on December 13, 2012, 03:32 PM

I bet alot of non USA members are not voting for obvious reasons.

Jmb

That, and the fact that these contests even for regular contributors like me often go by completely unnoticed. Most viewers are here only for the Festool tool section of the forum, and when i click on the main discussion page i automatically scroll down the enormous list of sticky threads to see if there are any new interesting posts. When theres a new sticky you hardly notice because there is just too many of them.
Out of all woodworking forums i know this one is still the most over viewable and easy to navigate, but because it is so vast things get lost.
Maybe it needs a welcome index page with the headlines of everything interesting going on?

Alex · « **Reply #20 on:** December 17, 2012, 05:26 AM »

Tim, go to the homepage and scroll down, you'll see all active threads/posts.

Timtool · « **Reply #21 on:** December 17, 2012, 05:51 AM »

Quote from: Alex on December 17, 2012, 05:26 AM

Tim, go to the homepage and scroll down, you'll see all active threads/posts.

How do you think i managed to find this thread

?

But honestly it took me a while to learn the use of that, but usually i limit myself to checking out the new posts in the sections of my interest.
Since non NA users are usually excluded from contests i involuntarily started skipping this section with time.

SRSemenza · « **Reply #22 on:** December 17, 2012, 09:57 AM »

Quote from: Timtool on December 17, 2012, 05:13 AM

Quote from: jmbfestool on December 13, 2012, 03:32 PM

I bet alot of non USA members are not voting for obvious reasons.

Jmb

That, and the fact that these contests even for regular contributors like me often go by completely unnoticed. Most viewers are here only for the Festool tool section of the forum, and when i click on the main discussion page i automatically scroll down the enormous list of sticky threads to see if there are any new interesting posts. When theres a new sticky you hardly notice because there is just too many of them.
Out of all woodworking forums i know this one is still the most over viewable and easy to navigate, but because it is so vast things get lost.
Maybe it needs a welcome index page with the headlines of everything interesting going on?

We have noticed that the visability of things such as the contest thread can be a problem. Which is why we created a banner for the contest that was a large portion of the header on most/many of the forum pages.

This visability issue is something for us to think about in general though.

Seth