Buy/Sell/Trade Forum

Hi TCDB community.

It's been a couple months, I have been gifted some more prize cards (special thanks goes out to OverkillKid for this latest batch), and the NBA playoffs are just about upon us, so it seems like a great time to have a basketball themed contest.

Please read the following, as this one is again different than past contests.

I'm running this one a little differently. No signing up. No eliminations. Each day's question will have a point value given to it. (If it's multiple questions, there will be multiple points. And if I think it's harder to answer, I can give it a higher point value.) Each question will have a 24-hour window from the time of me posting the link to the giveaway manager page in the forums till the question close (and answer reveal). I will post (eventually) any points awarded for the correct (or partially correct) answers given. Please no discussions in my forum posting regarding the question. Any edited forums posts in reply to my post will cause you to lose the ability to get points that day. Discussion are allowed once the question has been closed. (If you are feeling generous and notice the thread is getting buried in the forums and you simply "bump" it, that is allowed - provided the post isn't edited - and would be greatly appreciated. No points for doing it, however.)

I am hoping to run this for about 2 weeks.

The top point-getter will win the "grand" prize, which will be a minimum of 10 cards. I will also award prizes for 2nd thru 5th place (which will be at least 2 cards each). Depending on participation, I hope to be able to drop (at least) a card each to 6th-10th. (This is not definite.)

If there is a tie for the top spot, I will video the use of a spinner app website, where I will eliminate the selections until the last person remaining is grand prize winner. Each person will have an equal chance on the spinner.

All prizes in this contest will be basketball cards. If you do not want basketball cards, please do not participate. I would say please participate and then use them as trade bait. :) I am looking forward to seeing a lot of the usual participants as well as a lot of our newer members. There are no restrictions on who may participate. If you signed up yesterday, welcome. If you've been here since 2010 and/or won before, welcome. (The only note is, due to postage rates, I may use a PWE to send the grand prize if the winner is not in the US. This also applies to 2nd-5th prizes.)

I plan to start the questions on Monday, May 24. I'm not sure about the time to post them as there is not a time where I can guarantee consistent posting. This is why there will be a 24-hour window from the time of posting until it closes - so that if you are on at consistent times, you'll be able to see the posting and answer the question(s).

Good luck to everyone and to those playoff-bound NBA teams.

Edit to add a rule - You may leave as many responses as you wish, but only the LAST one left will count as your answer.

AWEsome, Dont know much about Basketball but What the Hell. Thanks Dan

Neither do I! 

Questions are shaping up to be fairly simple (for the most part) so far.

I'll try to up my game for the second week of questions. 

If in doubt, I'll be answering Michael Jordan

So far, of all the questions I've created, he is not the answer to any of them. :) Sorry!

This is very cool of you Dan, I'll try to play along! Thanks for the contest! 

I love the idea. Thank you for doing this. I will likely be in as long as I remember to keep an eye out on the threads to answer the questions.

For those of you that are new, I will be posting in the B/S/T forum each day. In the post, there will be a link to the "Giveaway Manager" question page. Under the question, you will see a box labeled "Leave a Response". You will enter the answer there and no one but me will be able to see the answer. At first. Once the answer period is closed, I will change the setting and all will be able to see all the responses.

Oh, one rule I forgot in the original post - which I will go add after mentioning it here - if you add a second reply, that reply will be considered your answer. So you can't leave 3 replies with 3 answers. The third would be the only one accepted.

This sounds fun Dan.  As a basketball collector and fan I hope I remember to check down in the Buy/Sell/Trade section.  

Edit: Spelling

Im excited for this!