First off, we’d like to send out a huge thanks to Microsoft Canada, Electronic Arts, and Jaken Bear for providing us with the codes for this giveaway! Next would be a massive thanks to our whole community for participating so actively in this giveaway.  We did use this as somewhat of an experiment to see which giveaway methods might work best for us, so you may see some of them re-appearing in the near future.  As a side note, the GTA IV: The Lost and Damned Giveaway should be closing within the next couple days, so be sure to enter it if you haven’t already!

This contest was highly successful and here are some stats for it:

• Method 1 racked up a staggering 130 eligible comments
• Method 2 showed that our readers like the Anaheim Ducks the most from 25 eligible replies (Buffalo Sabres were second and the Colorado Avalanche and Pittsburgh Penguins were tied for third)
• Method 3 was tweeted 26 (eligible) times (meaning it does not include any of our writers nor any duplicate tweets)

Now after much verification, clearing up the results, here are the winners for each method:

• Method #1 – Comments – #45 – Darghan
  • This winner will receive an email with their winning code to the email they registered on Intense Debate.
• Method #2 – Forums – #16 – Mattism
  • This winner will receive a PM with their winning on the 360Sync Forums.
• Method #3 – Twitter – 23 – mmiyamoto
  • This winner will receive a DM (direct message) with their winning code on the

Congratulations to all the winners!  You should be getting your notifications within the next 24 hours. Thanks to everyone that participated in the contest and thanks for making it such a huge success.

One final note, shouts go out to BigC24, skillz_in_killz, Wriggy, and Darth_Doomsday for some entertaining comments!