Amazin' Avenue Swag Contest: August Results

by Eric Simon on Sep 10, 2008 8:00 AM EDT in Contests Comment 19 comments

Congratulations to Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, the winner of the Amazin' Avenue Swag Contest for August!

For those of you who are new to the site or who still don't know what the deal is, all of the information about the contest can be found in the left sidebar under "AA SWAG CONTEST". There you will find a link to the current game, the current month's scoreboard, and the contest rules. If you have any questions about the contest I ask that you read over the rules first. If anything is still unclear after reading them then by all means fire away.

For winning the August contest, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright claimed -- among several options -- the The New York Mets: Greatest Games of Shea Stadium, which is a six-disc collection featuring six historic Shea games in their entirety.

Having won a month, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright is not eligible to win another monthly contest this season. If the Mets are fortunate enough to make the postseason we will have some sort of playoff contest, so he would be eligible for any prizes there. Also, there's a chance to win a prize every single game for racking up a perfect 100 on that day's contest, so he (or any other monthly winner) could still cash in there. It's not easy to score perfectly; you have to get all five questions right, including nailing the pitcher's game score right on the nose. However, this is a neat way for past winners to keep playing and for folks who missed a few games or joined the monthly contest too late to participate and still win a prize even if they are too far behind to win the monthly contest.

Here are the top ten scores for the month of August:

#	User	Score
1	Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright	1231
2	simons	1168
3	anonymous	1155
4	IanB in MD	1034
5	Sesmus	997
6	mmxii	979
7	kingcritical	934
8	beelzebot	858
9	ams258	845
10	BobbyV_Incognito	791

The full August scoreboard can be found here. You may notice the occasional duplicate entry because some folks have filled in forms using different e-mail addresses. As a reminder, the scores for the month are aggregated by username and e-mail, so make sure you use the same ones every day. Also, make sure the e-mail address you use matches the one you signed up with here on AA.

Thanks again to everyone who participated this month. I think we all had a lot of fun, and hopefully it made the games and the game chatters here a little more interesting. Here's to more fun and even more participation in September.

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Family pride

First my brother wins, now I win . . . I’d say the family was taking things over but, you know, we can’t win again this season. Ah well.

Simons? Sorry you couldn’t back up all your smack-talk. But I’m pulling for you this month, buddy. Finishing in second five times (or whatever) must be pretty rough.

'Catsmeat!' he cried. 'I see it all. It was that chump, Catsmeat.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Sep 10, 2008 8:10 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

My little brother

My little brother won the August Swag Contest!
My little brother won the August Swag Contest!
My little brother won the August Swag Contest!
He’s Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright and he’s out of control!

"The people of Houston are spending money like oil's selling at $40 a barrel."

by IanB in MD on Sep 10, 2008 8:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Excellent

You don’t see Art Brut songs referenced every day

by JoshNY on Sep 10, 2008 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

We're fans

We missed all but about a song-and-a-half of their show at Irving Plaza in October 2006 to watch game 7 of the NLCS at a bar on Houston Street (the name of which I can’t remember but I did walk past it early sunday morning — next to a gas station).

'Catsmeat!' he cried. 'I see it all. It was that chump, Catsmeat.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Sep 10, 2008 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Art Brut

I saw them in Philly when they opened for the Hold Steady. I left after their set ten different kinds of happy. I didn’t bother seeing HS. Nuts to that. Art Brut rocked my world.

"The people of Houston are spending money like oil's selling at $40 a barrel."

by IanB in MD on Sep 10, 2008 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That sounds like an excellent show, two great bands

Going to see the HS in November, couldn’t make it to their gig at McCarren Pool earlier in the summer.

by JoshNY on Sep 10, 2008 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

They do put on a good show

I saw HS/Art Brut in Columbus, OH last year. Great time. Got very drunk. Also shared a cab with the Brut. Nice guys, even tho they stuck me with the cab fare (but offered me guest list access to the show).

'Catsmeat!' he cried. 'I see it all. It was that chump, Catsmeat.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Sep 10, 2008 9:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs