And the Winner Is...

It’s time to announce the winner of the Better with Weber challenge. There was no judging. This was just a random draw from all the entries to the contest.

Here’s how it worked, so you know I just didn’t fix it to let one of my friends win.

I labelled every email that came in for the contest with the label “Contest” in gmail. So far, so good.

In the end, there were 247 entrants.

(There will be slightly more trick recommendations than that in the ebook, since some people came in after the cut-off point.)

But who could be trusted to pick the winning entrant? I went with the man himself, Michael Weber. He used random.org to select a random number and sent me this screenshot.

So now it was just a matter of seeing who submitted the 35th entry into the contest.

Counting up from the bottom in this next image (which is the first 40 or so entrants) we see that the winner is Richard I. Congrats, Richard I! I’ll be contacting you soon.

Now here’s something a little strange. The winner, Richard, was number 35. If you look below him, it’s someone named Michael. That’s Michael Weber. He entered a contest for his own material! Ain’t that some shit? And he almost won! He was number 34 and the winner was 35.

When I told him this he said, “Turn your laptop around.” And when I did I saw, scrawled on the back, “Off by one.” He Kenton Knepper’d my ass!

No, that’s not true. Well, everything is true up until that last paragraph.

So, thus ends the contest. Get your submissions in by the end of today if you want the ebook but haven’t yet given your recommendation (see Tuesday’s post).

And just a reminder. All of you who entered the Better with Weber contest are now on the clock for the Better with the Jerx contest. You have a much better chance of winning this one as I would guess most people will flake out when it comes to accomplishing their goal. We’ll see.