# Like sports? Like money? $250 & $100 contests

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/like-sports-like-money-250-100-contests/261961>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [June 2, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/like-sports-like-money-250-100-contests/261961 "2008-06-02T05:32:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![ecksit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ecksit](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ecksit)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/like-sports-like-money-250-100-contests/261961/1 "2008-06-02T05:32:26Z")

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For my new forum, we need some members so we are running some contests.

The $250 contest is for an NBA mock draft, check out the forum for details. The other is a $100 contest to the first user who reaches Legend rank. (5,000 posts)

here is the forum, [http://www.thedraftwatch.com](http://www.thedraftwatch.com)

hope to see some of you!

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**Author:** ![B\_L\_U\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@B\_L\_U\_E](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/B_L_U_E)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/like-sports-like-money-250-100-contests/261961/2 "2008-06-02T05:43:01Z")

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Taking any bets on the spreads for the finals?

🙂

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**Author:** ![eilsoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc348/32.png) [@eilsoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eilsoe)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/like-sports-like-money-250-100-contests/261961/3 "2008-06-02T05:44:24Z")

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Wauw, nice way to ruin your own board. A cash prize for the one who can spammage up the 1st 5000 posts.

I’ll leave this as it is… this is gonna be fun…

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**Author:** ![ecksit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ecksit](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ecksit)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/like-sports-like-money-250-100-contests/261961/4 "2008-06-02T05:48:26Z")

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[quote=B L U E;2334605]Taking any bets on the spreads for the finals?

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Haha, I wish we had the site up before the finals started, or else we would have. We are planning on holding monthly contests for sports in their active seasons.

Its nice to have rich friends, haha.

@ Eilsoe

I don’t think the posting contest will end up being a spam competition. Its very unlikely to see someone post 5,000 posts over a couple days just to get a hundred bucks. It’ll be more of a long term goal for some new users that plan on sticking around for a while.

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**Author:** ![eilsoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc348/32.png) [@eilsoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eilsoe)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/like-sports-like-money-250-100-contests/261961/5 "2008-06-02T05:49:40Z")

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you’d be surprised…

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**Author:** ![ecksit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ecksit](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ecksit)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/like-sports-like-money-250-100-contests/261961/6 "2008-06-02T05:55:36Z")

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> [@Eilsoe;2334611](#):
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> you’d be surprised…

Well if it did get out of control we would just ban the people who are spamming after a warning.

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**Author:** ![nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/like-sports-like-money-250-100-contests/261961/7 "2008-06-02T06:01:03Z")

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Eilsoe’s with stupid.

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**Author:** ![ecksit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ecksit](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ecksit)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/like-sports-like-money-250-100-contests/261961/8 "2008-06-02T06:04:08Z")

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> [@nobody;2334615](#):
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> Eilsoe’s with stupid.

☹

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**Author:** ![ajcates](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ajcates/32/2435_2.png) [@ajcates](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ajcates)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/like-sports-like-money-250-100-contests/261961/9 "2008-06-02T07:06:17Z")

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Yea just ban the spammers, Make sure that each post is valid and people aren’t posting out the side of there necks and you should be fine.
