Scope Month 2017 Megathread

[MrBungle]

Then i got thrown off by the form not submitting when i hit submit, and it took me a while to work out it needed a company name in the form to allow it to be submitted... sigh.

Submit button under the text fields worked for me, kinda, all that happened is the frame went a dark gray and a new button appeared further up under the Scope Month logo, labeled 'submit answer'....
Clicking that one seems to do nothing 

[MrBungle]

Clicking that one seems to do nothing 

Ok, just tried again and this time I got a Captcha, then "Thank you for entering!"
Woot! I'm in... but...

I also just got an email....
"Here is your friendly reminder that the Australian Scope Month contest question will be posted today between 11:30am-12:00pm AEST"

Ah dang it, I guess I'm too late then....
Ah well. Next week.

[carl_lab]

I also just got an email....
"Here is your friendly reminder that the Australian Scope Month contest question will be posted today between 11:30am-12:00pm AEST"

What contest are you talking about?
I thought it's a daily drawing of each day's participants? Isn't it?

[aargee]

Strange, AEST is Australian Eastern Standard Time - ie Non daylight savings time (Queensland time). AEDST indicates daylight savings time.
So which time zone is the competition referring to?

[Brumby]

Being on AEDST, I'll just take the time as advertised.  If during that window the question isn't available, then I'll look for it an hour later.

Not having found any T&Cs relevant to the Australian competition, some things are a bit of mystery.  I'll just take my shots whenever I can and hope for the best.

[ProBang2]

I also just got an email....
"Here is your friendly reminder that the Australian Scope Month contest question will be posted today between 11:30am-12:00pm AEST"

What contest are you talking about?
I thought it's a daily drawing of each day's participants? Isn't it?

Australia has a separate contest, because it is not eligible for the main sweepstake. 
It really matters only for australians.   
Honestly, from pure curiosity, I gladly would know their conditions and prize distribution.   

[continuo]

Hmmm... Maybe I just missed it but I can't find a list of the daily winners on Keysights scope month website? 

[Keysight DanielBogdanoff]

Well, all the times should be correct for the Australia now. The word on the street is that even Australians haven't all figured out daylight savings time  . Anyways, I apologize for any trouble that it caused, I've worked with the team here to make sure it's more clear next for the next one.

For the overall sweepstakes, we are posting all winners in the form of a daily video on our YouTube channel  , but if you'd like feel free to start a thread here.

[DimitriP]

but if you'd like feel free to start a thread here.

You say this as if all names are as easy to spell as yours

A daily link to the drawing video would eliminate this problem.

Suggestion: Add the Year to the date on the video title:
Touchscreens and our first 4000 X-Series winners! (3-Mar 2017)

So here is the one from today March 3, 2017 :

 

[Keysight DanielBogdanoff]

Yes, my name is definitely an easy one 

I'll add the year to the titles, thanks!

[AmnevaR]

Really surprise that they giveaway so many scopes

Unfortunately my country does not include in the list but I wish good luck to all people that can enter this giveaway

[TheAmmoniacal]

Any discount or promo opportunities for the poor people who have to buy one? 

[DimitriP]

March 6, 2017 winners announcement

[FireFlower]

One scope for eevblog user 

Got confirmation email today and need to sign a few papers and see what happens with customs tariffs 


Good luck to others also, to make your chances higher I will limit myself to two entries. I will post info here regarding about infamous W-8BEN form also when I get more info what tax treaty articles you should actually cite there.

[bitseeker]

Congrats, FireFlower!

[ollihd]

Congrats FireFlower! I though I heard a Finnish name (eli onnea vaan!). Let us know how things with the customs go!

[MrBungle]

Wow, congrats FireFlower!

[Zucca]

I am also in the game, everything works fine with the website. Do you guys got an email confirmation for partecipating? I am worried my company Spam filter is blocking them out... 

@Daniel: I would love to have a job like yours...

[neslekkim]

1. "Why isn't country XYZ included?" - I really wish we could include every country on the planet, but in order to comply with local laws & regulations we simply cannot. We work with our legal team to make sure we include as many countries as possible while remaining compliant.

Which laws exclude Norway here?

[Bud]

@Daniel: I would love to have a job like yours...

You do not. One has to have a thick skin.

[S13]

One scope for eevblog user 

Amazing! 

And congrats of course 

Makes you wonder how many people actually compete each day? If out of 20 scopes already given away, one has gone to a pool of about 200 eevblog users (rough estimation based on eevblogs own giveaway contest), then there must be only a couple of thousand participants in the Keysight contest. With 125 total scopes to win the odds are actually not very bad at all! Wish i lived in an eligible country though... 

What confuses me is that i can still enter the contest each day with a not listed country (and enter my own country name). What actually happens with these entries? Are they included in the draw or are they disregarded immediately? If disregarded, why is this not mentioned when entering? Now i get a message saying ive successfully entered the contest. Seems a bit unfair, proving false hope only?

[FireFlower]

Filled the forms (hopefully correctly) and sent them back to Keysight where they came from (cause no instructions?).

Also contest rules state:
"Winners of this sweepstakes agree to provide a written quote for publication regarding the use of the prize within 6 months of receiving the prize."

What would happen if a winner didn't provide a written quote for publication? The walk trough the streets? *shame*

[thm_w]

Amazing! 

And congrats of course 

Makes you wonder how many people actually compete each day? If out of 20 scopes already given away, one has gone to a pool of about 200 eevblog users (rough estimation based on eevblogs own giveaway contest), then there must be only a couple of thousand participants in the Keysight contest. With 125 total scopes to win the odds are actually not very bad at all! Wish i lived in an eligible country though... 

What confuses me is that i can still enter the contest each day with a not listed country (and enter my own country name). What actually happens with these entries? Are they included in the draw or are they disregarded immediately? If disregarded, why is this not mentioned when entering? Now i get a message saying ive successfully entered the contest. Seems a bit unfair, proving false hope only?

I will send you $100 CAD if I win, so consider yourself semi-entered.
I think that box is a design mistake, they will not use those entries (was mentioned in this thread or another).

[RGB255_0_0]

Not even sure why these people even bother entering when they know they will get found out.

[cheeseit]

I am also in the game, everything works fine with the website. Do you guys got an email confirmation for partecipating? I am worried my company Spam filter is blocking them out... 

Nope.

What confuses me is that i can still enter the contest each day with a not listed country (and enter my own country name). What actually happens with these entries? Are they included in the draw or are they disregarded immediately? If disregarded, why is this not mentioned when entering? Now i get a message saying ive successfully entered the contest. Seems a bit unfair, proving false hope only?

I believe Daniel added the Other-option to avoid answering the "Why is $COUNTRY$ not listed?!" and apparently traded that for "Why is $COUNTRY$ not eligible?". These entries are disregarded since they are unfortunately not valid per the rules of the contest.


Congrats FireFlower!