Contest Updates and a NEW Contest

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The submissions for the Better with Weber contest are now over. A winner will be selected randomly and announced on Friday.

If you missed out on the contest but would like to get a copy of the ebook with everyone’s trick recommendations in it, you can still do so. Just submit your own recommendation and get a copy of the book as well. Here’s how you do it:

Send me an email at thejerx@gmail.com with a subject of: Ebook

The body of the email should contain these two items:

  1. Tell me about one of your favorite magic tricks that you perform regularly. Give me a basic description of the trick, where it can be learned, and then tell my why you like it. Be detailed, but don’t talk my ear off. And try to give me something I might not be familiar with. I want to learn about some stuff that might have slipped under my radar. Maybe it’s buried in a book/magazine/dvd. Or maybe it’s something that never got a wide release. Or maybe it’s your own unreleased trick. (If so you’ll have to give the method Hey, I’m looking to maybe learn some new stuff here. Not just hear some fan-fiction about a trick you can’t really do.) Don’t say ambitious card, or sponge balls, or something like that. I’ll just toss your entry. In fact I’ll physically print it out just so I can crumple it up and put it in the trashcan.

  2. Tell me how you want to be referred to. This could be your full name, first name, initials, a secret code-name. I don’t give a shit. Just let me know.

If you already submitted this information for the contest, don’t do it again. You’re already receiving the ebook. I will stop taking submissions Friday at 11:59 PM ET. Then I’ll put together the ebook over the following couple days.

I probably should have given you better instructions than to “be detailed but don’t talk my ear off.” Some of you guys are quite chatty. It doesn’t matter. Everyone’s getting a single page in the ebook, whether you wrote three sentences or three pages. I’ll cram it on a page.

New Contest: Better With the Jerx

There is another contest coming in early May. The prize for that is a free 2020 supporter package. So you’ll get the next book, deck, and a subscription to the newsletter. At the moment, these supporter packages are already sold out, so this is the only way to get one. In addition, I will be sending along a couple other special bonus items. If you are already a supporter of the site, you will get the bonus items and I will refund your payment for this year’s support package or give the package to someone of your choosing.

How to enter…

First, you can only enter the Better With the Jerx Contest if you entered the Better With Weber Contest.

In the announcement for the previous contest I said:

It looks like for the next month, at least, we’re going to be on a partial lockdown in the US with similar situations happening in most other countries as well. The overwhelming majority of us are going to be fine, so our focus should be on how we come out on the other end better than we went in. The purpose of this contest is to get everyone thinking about that and to create a little gift for everyone who enters.

In your entry to the BWW Contest, you told me what your goal was for the month of April.

And the way you get entered into the BWTJ Contest is to prove to me that you accomplished that goal.

How will that work? Well, I’ll get into the specifics in early May. But essentially you’re going to send me some sort of proof that you achieved your goal. I will rate that proof on a scale of 0-10. Zero means I’m not convinced by your proof and 10 means I’m fully convinced. Whatever number I rate your proof as, that’s how many entries you’ll get in the drawing for the next prize package.

Hey wait, that Weber contest wasn’t some fun giveaway. You were setting us up.

Yeah, I was. But look, I’m just trying to give you an extra incentive to accomplish something you told me you wanted to accomplish. I’m not the bad guy. I’m trying to help you out. So get your shit together, do what you said you were going to do, and then be ready to prove it once May rolls around.