Despamber Celebrations!

For the entire month of December I will be running a competition, the object of which is to increase your TGD Elite Member Points. How do you do that? Simple - you spam your way there!

At the start of the month, either on the 1st or just before I will note down the TGD Points of each competing member, and then I will do the same at the end of the month. The member with the largest gain in TGD Elite Member Points will win him/herself a prize!

As it's a month long competition (and it's Christmas time!) I feel kinda like one prize isn't enough, so will be dishing out a few from the Waggly hoard across a different range of [as yet unconfirmed] categories. These may be things like largest gain in a day, funniest post, best review. Maybe I'll even throw in a booby prize for the lowest gain!

Prizes may range from XBLA & DLC codes, retail games, retro gaming goodies, DVDs and whatever else I find in my cave of goodies. Think I have some little PS3 goodie codes too. The more interest in this competition, the more I'm likely to throw in. [if anyone else fancies throwing anything into the prize mix feel free to let me know!]

Rules
- Post as much as you can over the course of December.
- Competition open to old and new members.
- Members can join in part way through the month if they miss the start, and we will start counting from the day they first post.
- The term 'spam' is used loosely - posts still need to be largely on-topic.
- Learn how to maximise your TGD Elite Member Point score by reading this thread.

If you would like to be part of the competition (and please do - you have nothing to lose), please reply to say so and I'll add you to the list.

Members Joining In (and their starting TGD Points as of 01/12/13)

• Waggly Bean - 3167
  
• GrahamOfTheDead - 6695
  
• Colne Crusader - 6290
  
• Tricky34 - 7334
  
• KENT HAMMER - 15042
  
• minkey_monkey - 8227
  
• Leigh36295 - 5893
  
• Markav - 4731
  
• Fatboy Geezer - 609
  
• stubbymite - 5321
  
• RabidHellBunny - 4955
  
• Tenlo - 7303
  
• Lighthouseman - 4607
  
• harry haddack - 2632
  
• chrism1066 - 2964
  
• TitChz - 303
  
• Ba5sett - 4573
  
  

Sure...why not? I'm in. 

Waggles, you are a gem.. Count me in of course. Pleased just to support you.

I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Markav in advance on winning the title of Spam King!

Well done mate! Enjoy your prize.  

Well done Waggles. December should be a bumper month.  

Nice idea Waggly, count me in pal.

Well it would be wrong of our all time epic poster(me) not to join in!  

Lighty is a spamhead

I'll join in

Sure why not. I'll contact you in the morning about a few prize games I can donate

Great Comp Waggly
Count me in
I will donate £25 of xbox marketplace currency to the prize fund

Count me in, awesome idea!

KENT HAMMER wrote:Well it would be wrong of our all time epic poster(me) not to join in!  

Lighty is a spamhead

Emmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!1 Spam buttie !

Hammer you mute party chat is fucked ! 

Nice one guys. And big thanks to Leigh and Markav's for their contributions too, should make this a much more enticing compo!

Lighty are you in?

I'll make a contribution  when.i figure out what it is
 

I need to keep some prizes back for our 5th Birthday celebrations on Jan 5th, which is 5 weeks away!!!  

KENT HAMMER wrote:I need to keep some prizes back for our 5th Birthday celebrations on Jan 5th, which is 5 weeks away!!!  

Don't feel pressured to contribute to this comp Kent! I suspect there will be plenty of prizes as is with mine, Markav's and Leigh's offerings.

The last thing I want is for anyone to feel like they have to contribute, it's just a bit of fun and I didn't actually expect anyone to offer anything up when I started the thread.

Ill join in bud why not  

I'll join in... Might persuade me not to lurk so much an actually post!

hHaha, a good excuse to start posting all these news e-mails I keep getting sent and am too lazy to post up, onlyproblem is once I start will I be able to stop!!

Waggly Bean wrote:Nice one guys. And big thanks to Leigh and Markav's for their contributions too, should make this a much more enticing compo!

Lighty are you in?

Do bears shit in the woods, is kent a smeg head,shit yes.

Tenlo wrote:onlyproblem is once I start will I be able to stop!!

Hopefully not - give the top spammers some competition!

Lighthouseman wrote:Do bears shit in the woods, is kent a smeg head,shit yes.

I sense some good posts coming in the following month....

I'll give it a a go

harry haddack wrote:I'll give it a a go

Nice one, another one to add to the list!

Don't forget to get signed up for this if you haven't already, the counting begins tomorrow!

I'm a bit of a quiet one but I'll give it a go!

chrism1066 wrote:I'm a bit of a quiet one but I'll give it a go!

The more the merrier, and like I said - nothing to lose!

1 week down! Here is an update with new total TGD Points:

• Waggly Bean - 3241
  
• GrahamOfTheDead - 6735
  
• Colne Crusader - 6332
  
• Tricky34 - 7379
  
• KENT HAMMER - 15119
  
• minkey_monkey - 8287
  
• Leigh36295 - 5934
  
• Markav - 4795
  
• Fatboy Geezer - 619
  
• stubbymite - 5349
  
• RabidHellBunny - 4961
  
• Tenlo - 7330
  
• Lighthouseman - 4693
  
• harry haddack - 2649
  
• chrism1066 - 2976
  
• TitChz - 303
  

Comparing these scores with the starting ones, the current leaderboard of TGD Point Gain for December stands at:

1. Lighthouseman - 86
   
2. KENT HAMMER - 77
   
3. Waggly Bean - 74
   
4. Markav - 64
   
5. minkey_monkey - 60
   
6. Tricky34 - 45
   
7. Colne Crusader - 42
   
8. Leigh36295 - 41
   
9. GrahamOfTheDead - 40
   
10. stubbymite - 28
    
11. Tenlo - 27
    
12. harry haddack - 17
    
13. chrism1066 - 12
    
14. Fatboy Geezer - 10
    
15. RabidHellBunny - 6
    
16. TitChz - 0 (just joined the comp)
    

So current standings put Lighthouseman in first place, KENT next up and me in third (not that I'm going to give myself a prize!).

The competition is still fairly close, and with three weeks still to go everything could change! Don't forget to check the link in the first post to see how to earn the biggest TGD Elite Point gains!

Also, I'll remind you all that there will be a few additional brackets for winning prizes, so don't give up if you're trailing too far behind - your activity may still net you a prize anyway.