Australian Competitions Club

http://hasbromonopoly.promotions.com/monopolymoney/front.do

Imagine for a moment that all the MONOPOLY money in the game – all $20,580 AUS in the bank – turned into real money. What would you do with it: Would you take a trip around the world? Give it to charity? Buy properties? Hold that thought, because to celebrate the 75th Anniversary, MONOPOLY we are giving away the bank!HOW
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You can submit one story per day so login, be creative and dream big. Tell us in 75 words or less what you would do if you won all the money in the MONOPOLY bank! You can also comment on other people’s stories so tell us what you think.HOW
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Starting September 3 at 10am AEST, fans will be able to vote for their favourite stories! Be sure to get your story out there and share it with your friends. And, you can vote for your own story once per day! The overall top 75 stories with the most votes get judged by us for one winner!KEY
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From now until September 3, 2010 at 9:59 am AEST: Submit your stories and comment on stories
September 3 at 10:00 am AEST through September 28 at 9:59 am AEST: Gather your fans to vote for your story!
Early October: Reveal Top 75 finalists as voted by you

One (1) Grand Prize: A check in the name of the Grand Prize winner for $20,580 AUS. Seventy-five (75) Finalist Prizes: a Monopoly Streets video game in winner’s choice of one (1) of the following formats: Nintendo XBOX360/ARV: $29.99 AUS, Nintendo PS3/ARV: $29.99 AUS, Nintendo Wii/ARV: $29.99 AUS, or Nintendo DS/ARV: $19.99 AUS. Maximum retail value of all prizes is $22,829.25 AUS. Winner may not substitute, assign or transfer prize, but Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to substitute the prize with one of comparable or greater value. All applicable federal, state, provincial, and local taxes (including income and withholding taxes), if any, as well as any other costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided are the sole responsibility of the winner per the tax laws of the Australia. All prize details are at Sponsor’s sole discretion.

MONOPOLY Money Makes it Real Contest

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

The MONOPOLY Money Makes it Real Contest (the “Contest”) starts on July 15, 2010 at 10:01 am Australian Eastern Standard Time (“AEST”) and ends on September 3, 2010 at 9:59:59 am AEST (“Contest Period”). These terms and conditions of entry, including how to enter and prize details form part of the Official Rules. Entry into the Contest is deemed to be an acceptance of these Official Rules.

ELIGIBILITY: Contest is open to legal residents of Australia who have reached the legal age of majority in their place of residence (and are at least 18) at the beginning of the Contest Period. Employees of Hasbro, Inc. (“Sponsor”), Promotions.com, LLC, and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, promotion and advertising agencies, regardless of where they reside, and persons, whether or not related, living in the same household as such employees, are not eligible to enter or win. Void outside Australia and where prohibited by law. Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

HOW TO ENTER: This contest asks participants what they would do with the money in the MONOPOLY game if it were real. Each entry must be submitted in one of the following MONOPOLY-themed Entry Categories: Family and Pets; Health and Physical Enhancement; Giving Back to Charity; Buying a Dream House; Learning About Stuff; Play, Thrills and Sports; Culinary Arts; Business Endeavor; Trips Around the World; Music, Arts, Entertainment; or Other (each, an “Entry Category”). During the Contest Period, visit www.monopoly.com and follow the directions to write an essay of seventy-five (75) words or less that answers the question: “What would you do if the money in the MONOPOLY game were real and it was awarded to you?”, select the appropriate Entry Category, and submit (your essay and entry form are jointly your “Entry”). Your essay should talk about the movers, the characters, the rules, or any other elements of the MONOPOLY game. By entering you agree to comply with Hasbro’s Terms of Use, available at www.hasbro.com/home/terms.html and privacy policy, available at www.hasbro.com/home/privacy.html. All Entries must be received during the Contest Period. Limit one (1) Entry per person, per email address and per member account per day. Entries received in excess of the stated daily limitations will be void. Each Entry must be substantially different from every other Entry you submit. Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means and entry by any means which undermines the integrity of the entry process are void. All Entries become the sole property of the Sponsor and will not be returned.

REQUIREMENTS OF ENTRIES: Entry must (i) be your original work, (ii) be in English, (iii) cannot have been previously published or submitted in connection with any other contest or promotion, (iv) be in keeping with the Sponsor’s public image and the best interests of the MONOPOLY brand and (v) not be offensive or inappropriate, all as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion, nor can it defame or invade publicity rights or privacy of any person, living or deceased, or otherwise or infringe upon any person’s personal or property rights or any other third party’s rights. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Entry that it determines, in its sole discretion, to be offensive or inappropriate, not in keeping with Sponsor’s public image or the best interests of the MONOPOLY brand, or not to comply with these Official Rules.

By submitting an Entry, you acknowledge and agree that Sponsor will receive many Entries and that your Entry may be similar or identical in theme, idea, format or other respects to other Entries or to other ideas conceived by or provided to Sponsor, and you waive any and all claims you have or may have in the future based on such similarity or identity. Except where prohibited by law, you acknowledge and agree that the Sponsor does not have now, nor shall it have in the future, any direct or indirect duty or liability with respect to the infringement or protection of any copyright in your Entry.

By submitting an Entry you give permission to the Sponsor to post your Entry on www.monopoly.com or other Sponsor websites. You agree that the Released Parties (defined below) are not responsible for any unauthorized use of Entries by third parties. The Released Parties do not guarantee the posting of any Entry. Entrants may post their Entries on social networking sites.

PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE ESSAYS: All eligible Entries received will be posted online at www.monopoly.com after they are reviewed and deemed eligible for posting. From 10:01 a.m. AEST on July 15, 2010 through 9:59:59 a.m. AEST on September 28, 2010, individuals will be invited to go to www.monopoly.com to register and comment on the essays. Registration includes obtaining a user name and password. No other information is requested and individuals should not use personally identifiable information in their user names. Limit one (1) comment per entry per person, per email address and per member account per day. Any comments made on the essays will not be considered in judging Entries. All comments must be appropriate and in keeping with Sponsor’s public image and the best interests of the MONOPOLY brand. Sponsor reserves the right to remove any comment that it determines, in its sole discretion, to be offensive or inappropriate, not in keeping with Sponsor’s public image or in the best interests of the MONOPOLY brand. Sponsor also reserves the right to remove the comment capability in its sole discretion if Sponsor determines the comment section is abused and/or misused.

PUBLIC VOTING: All eligible Entries received will be featured at www.monopoly.com from 10:00 a.m. AEST on September 3, 2010 through 9:59:59 a.m. AEST on September 28, 2010 (“Voting Period”). During the Voting Period, individuals will be invited to www.monopoly.com to register and vote for their favorite Entry. Registration includes obtaining a user name and password. No other information is requested and individuals should not use personally identifiable information in their user names. Limit one (1) vote per Entry per person and per email address per day during the Voting Period. Votes received for any Entry from any person or email address in excess of the stated daily limitation will be void. Entrants are prohibited from obtaining votes by any fraudulent or inappropriate means, including, without limitation, offering prizes or other inducements to members of the public, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. The seventy-five (75) entrants that receive the highest number of votes will be deemed the finalists and advance to the judging phase. In the event of a tie, a “tie-breaking” judge will determine the finalist based on the “Commitment to the Spirit of the MONOPOLY Brand” judging criterion. Use of script, macro or any automated system to vote or which impairs the integrity of the voting process is prohibited and all such votes will be void. Finalist status is subject to verification of eligibility and votes cast and compliance with these Official Rules.

JUDGING: All eligible finalist Entries will be judged by a panel of Sponsor-appointed judges based on the following criteria: Creativity, Imagination and Uniqueness of the Essay (25%); Persuasiveness of the Essay (25%); and Consistency with and Embodiment of the Spirit of the MONOPOLY Brand (this criterion includes references to the movers, the characters, the rules, or related elements of the MONOPOLY game in the essay) (50%) (“Grand Prize Judging”). The Entry with the highest score will be deemed the potential Grand Prize winner. In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined by the Entry with the highest score in the “Commitment to the Spirit of the MONOPOLY Brand” criterion. The Grand Prize Judging will take place on [insert date] at [insert address]. Sponsor reserves the right to select fewer than the stated number of finalists or not award the prize if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient number of qualified Entries that comply with these Official Rules. Prize awards are subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules. This is a game of skill and chance plays no part in determining the finalists or the Grand Prize winner. Prizes will be delivered to the winners within four (4) weeks of the Grand Prize Judging.

WINNER NOTIFICATION: Judges’ and Sponsor’s decisions are final and binding on all matters relating to this Contest and no correspondence will be entered into. Potential winner will be notified by telephone, mail and/or email within forty eight (48) hours of the Grand Prize Judging and may be required to complete an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and Publicity Release (unless prohibited by law) and any other documents required by Sponsor, which must be returned within fourteen (14) days of date appearing on prize notification. Return of prize or prize notification as undeliverable, failure to sign and return requested documentation within the specified time period, the inability of Sponsor to contact the potential winner within a reasonable time period or noncompliance with these Official Rules by any potential winner will result in disqualification and, at Sponsor’s sole discretion, the prize may be awarded to a runner-up. You agree that the Sponsor and its designees may disqualify the potential winner at any time, in their sole discretion, on the basis of anything contained in or learned or obtained as a result of the submission of winner documentation, Releases or any other forms requested by Sponsor that indicate a breach of these Official Rules.

PRIZES/APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUES (“ARVS”): One (1) Grand Prize: A check in the name of the Grand Prize winner for $20,580 AUS. Seventy-five (75) Finalist Prizes: a Monopoly Streets video game in winner’s choice of one (1) of the following formats: Nintendo XBOX360/ARV: $29.99 AUS, Nintendo PS3/ARV: $29.99 AUS, Nintendo Wii/ARV: $29.99 AUS, or Nintendo DS/ARV: $19.99 AUS. Maximum retail value of all prizes is $22,829.25 AUS. Winner may not substitute, assign or transfer prize, but Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to substitute the prize with one of comparable or greater value. All applicable federal, state, provincial, and local taxes (including income and withholding taxes), if any, as well as any other costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided are the sole responsibility of the winner per the tax laws of the Australia. All prize details are at Sponsor’s sole discretion.

GENERAL CONDITIONS: By participating, you agree: (a) to abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and judges, which shall be final and binding in all respects relating to this Contest; (b) that Sponsor, Promotions.com, LLC, and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertising and promotion agencies, and the respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees, agents and representatives of the foregoing (collectively, “Released Parties”) shall not be responsible for any and all injuries, liability, losses and damages of any kind to persons, including death, or property resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from your participation in the Contest, the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any awarded prize (except to the extent that such liability cannot be excluded by law, any personal injury or death is caused by the Released Parties’ negligence or breach of these Official Rules) or the use by Sponsor or its designees of any entry or component thereof; and (c) if selected as a winner, to the use of your name, voice, performance, photograph/video, image and/or likeness for advertising, publicity and promotional purposes in any and all media, now or hereafter known, worldwide and on the Internet, and in perpetuity by Sponsor and its designees, without compensation (to the extent permitted by law) or additional consents from you or any third party and without prior notice, approval or inspection, and you agree to execute written documents evidencing your consent (or any third party’s consent) to such use if asked to do so. Lack of consent does not prevent winner from receiving a prize. By participating, entrant also agrees not to release any publicity or other materials on their own or through someone else regarding their participation in the Contest without the prior consent of the Sponsor, which it may withhold in its sole discretion. You agree that you will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that you comply with the spirit and the letter of these Official Rules; and if you fail to comply, or if the Sponsor is unable or unwilling to enforce compliance, you agree to indemnify and hold the Sponsor harmless from and against any and all liability, claims, judgments, costs, demands and expenses (including legal fees) arising directly or indirectly from your lack of compliance.

OWNERSHIP/USE OF ENTRIES: By entering, you agree to assign and do hereby assign all rights, including all copyrights throughout the world, in and to your Entry to Sponsor. By submitting an Entry and to the extent allowed by law, you agree that Sponsor shall own the Entry (and all its components) and all rights in and to the Entry and that Sponsor and its designees may exploit, edit, modify, and distribute your Entry and all elements of your Entry in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, worldwide, in perpetuity without further compensation, permission or notification to entrant or any third party. To the extent permitted by law, you waive and release the Released Parties from any and all claims that you have or may in the future have in any jurisdiction based on “moral rights” or “droit moral” or unfair competition with respect to Sponsor’s exploitation of your Entry without further notification or compensation, and you agree not to instigate, support, maintain or authorize any action, claim or lawsuit against any Released Party. Each entrant unconditionally and irrevocably consents to any act or omission by the Released Parties which would otherwise infringe his/her moral rights and present and future rights of a similar nature conferred by statute anywhere in the world, whether occurring before or after this consent is given. You agree that you will, promptly on request by the Sponsor or its designees, take all such steps as Sponsor or its designees may reasonably require including without limitation execute all documents which Sponsor considers desirable, to perfect, maintain the validity of and/or enforce rights in the Entry granted by these Official Rules to the Sponsor.

RELEASE OF LIABILITY: Except where prohibited by law, Released Parties are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, damaged, inaccurate, stolen, delayed, misdirected, undelivered, or garbled Entries, votes, comments or emails; or for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, or other connections, availability or accessibility or miscommunications or failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, lines, or technical failure or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or other errors or difficulties of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic, computer, network, typographical, printing or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Contest, including, without limitation, errors or difficulties which may occur in connection with the administration of the Contest, the processing or judging of Entries, the tabulation of votes, the posting of comments, the announcement of the prizes, or in any Contest-related materials. Except where prohibited by law, Released Parties are also not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest. The Released Parties shall not be liable or any loss or damage whatsoever which is suffered (including but not limited to indirect or consequential loss) or for personal injury which is suffered or sustained, as a result of participating in the Contest or accepting any of the prizes, except for any liability which cannot be excluded by law. In particular, Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to any person's computer related to or resulting from participating in this Contest or downloading materials from or use of the website.

MISCELLANEOUS: Persons who tamper with, abuse or undermine the integrity of any aspect of the Contest or website, who act in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or who violate these Official Rules, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified and all associated Entries and votes will be void. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND OTHER REMEDIES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES) FROM ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. In the event of a dispute regarding Entries received from multiple users having the same e-mail account, the authorized subscriber of the e-mail account at the time of entry will be deemed to be the entrant and must comply with these Official Rules. The authorized account subscriber is the natural person who is assigned the e-mail address by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses.

RIGHT TO SUSPEND MODIFY OR TERMINATE THE CONTEST: Should any portion of the Contest be, in Sponsor’s sole opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, non-authorized human intervention, force majeure, or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the Contest, or submission of Entries or votes, or if any action, regulation, orders or requests by any governmental or quasi-governmental entity requires the suspension, modification or termination of the Contest (or any portion thereof), Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the Contest (or any portion of the Contest), disqualify any suspect Entries or votes, and, if terminated, at its discretion, select the potential winner from all eligible, non-suspect Entries and votes received prior to the action taken using the judging procedure outlined above.

CHOICE OF LAW: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant and Sponsor, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Rhode Island without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Rhode Island.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES: If any provision of these Official Rules is invalid under the law, rules or regulations of Australia, it will only apply to the extent permitted. In addition, entrants are required to abide by the applicable laws, rules and regulations of Australia as they may pertain to participation in this Contest.

PERSONAL DATA: The following information will be collected by Sponsor and Promotions.com, LLC for the purposes of administering this Contest: login and password, name, address, city, state, zip code, phone number, country, and email address (collectively, “Personal Information”). Personal Information collected from you will be used only to administer this Contest. All Personal Information will be securely stored by the Sponsor. Sponsor will not sell, share or otherwise disclose information collected with third parties, except as necessary to fulfill the above purposes, unless you have consented to receive additional information from Sponsor or a third party. Entrants have a right of access to, modification and withdrawal of their personal data. They also have the right of opposition to the data collection, under certain circumstances. To exercise such right, entrants may write to: Promotions.com, LLC, Attn: Monopoly Money, PO Box 389, Elmhurst, IL 60126 USA or call (773)444-4042 USA. By entering this Contest, you acknowledge and hereby consent to your personal data being transferred and processed outside Australia. The data controller is: Hasbro, Inc., 1027 Newport Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02861 USA and the recipients of the data are Hasbro, Inc., 1027 Newport Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02861 USA and Promotions.com, LLC, 29 W. 38th Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10018 USA.
Mid-October: Winner announcement

I've been trying to submit an answer which is pure, clean and inoffensive but their system's rejecting my answer because

"Our scanners picked up an inappropriate word(s) in your post. We’re all for creative language but please keep it clean. Click below to fix your copy."

I'm trying to find a contact email so I can ask them what's wrong with it but can't find an email address.

Can anyone else spot on in their t&c or think of another way of contacting them.

Doing the same to me. And nothing even close to a bad word.

Interesting - that explains why there are so few entries so far!  I've removed innocent (in context) words and phrases like "get some" and still no welcome.  Either they're really strict or there's a problem with their system.

By the way forgot to thank the poster for the great competition.

perhaps look at other entries and see what words they got away with?

methinks they have a problem with their censor  :lol: :lol:

I'm sure it's a dodgy censor but there's absolutely nothing questionable in my entry - I've tried changing nearly every word except probably "and" and "the".

So I'm still wondering if there's any way to contact them.  Thanks so much for any replies.

C

I just entered this morning successfully
Perhaps try again now

I had to take out Hasbro and Monopoly for mine to work.

Very strange indeed

Nope still not letting me and absolutely nothing I wrote even comes close to a "creative" word

Finally let me do it hahah i took out the word Disney Land lol weird.

Taken out every proper name - even Melbourne and Victorians - had to use words like city and country - can't think of another way to write it given they're looking for unique ideas. Tried writing to info@.... and it didn't get bounced back so maybe it'll work.

It is a great comp but I hate comps where people have top VOTE  your entry the best!
I dont have many online friends  at least enough to make it worthwhile.

I found it!!!!! apparently "medical treatment" is my forbidden phrase.

I agree about the voting but at least they'll read the top 75 themselves and make a decision based on creativity, imagination and uniqueness of the story (25%)
Persuasiveness of the story (25%)
Consistency with and embodiment of the spirit of the MONOPOLY brand (by this we mean references to the game pieces, the characters, the rules, or related elements of the MONOPOLY game) (50%)

Good luck with writing your stories.

disgust

omg whatever where you thinking putting such rude words in there - think of all the children that might have been damaged by reading that :roll:

methinks their censor is a little :roll: too fussy :lol:

Methinks so too.  Hope someone here will vote for me after my great effort - must have changed it around a hundred times.  Mine'll be the one about offering my new b&b to people needing shhhh medical treatment shhhh near the city and having the Monopoly prize cover the costs .. when it finally gets posted on the site of course!

... as a matter of interest, which do you think was my obscene word? "medical" or "treatment"?

lol mine was Disneyland hahaha

I'm very suprised to see most of the entries are playing the sympathy card, you don't really see that very often. I wonder how many of them will get through

i've done a couple, works all fine with me!

And now another problem.  My husband's been trying to register to vote for me and we keep getting sent back to complete things like email address but there isn't a box for that on the page.  Anyone else having problems registering new voters?

Hi Calpot,

yep i'm having the same registering issues too. also, the voting once per day rule isn't worrking for me. I voted yesterday afternoon and I tried again today at 11.30 am and it ddn't work! Anyone else having trouble?

Voting everyday runs on a 24hr time i think...:)

instead of hitting on register, click on login in, then from there go to new user. This way it gives you all the boxes you need to register.  :D

i had a look at the faq section and the voting runs on a per day basis for example a wednesday would count as 12.01 (just after midnight) to 11.59pm. Well at least that's what i understand

does anyone know what date the winner will be annouced? I've read through the t&cs about 5 times and I can't find it anywhere

from memory it just said 48 hours after the judging is finished - we'll just have to wait it out - feeling optimistic?


JUDGING: All eligible finalist Entries will be judged by a panel of Sponsor-appointed judges based on the following criteria: Creativity, Imagination and Uniqueness of the Essay (25%); Persuasiveness of the Essay (25%); and Consistency with and Embodiment of the Spirit of the MONOPOLY Brand (this criterion includes references to the movers, the characters, the rules, or related elements of the MONOPOLY game in the essay) (50%) (“Grand Prize Judging”). The Entry with the highest score will be deemed the potential Grand Prize winner. In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined by the Entry with the highest score in the “Commitment to the Spirit of the MONOPOLY Brand” criterion. The Grand Prize Judging will take place on [insert date] at [insert address]. Sponsor reserves the right to select fewer than the stated number of finalists or not award the prize if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient number of qualified Entries that comply with these Official Rules. Prize awards are subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules. This is a game of skill and chance plays no part in determining the finalists or the Grand Prize winner. Prizes will be delivered to the winners within four (4) weeks of the Grand Prize Judging.

WINNER NOTIFICATION: Judges’ and Sponsor’s decisions are final and binding on all matters relating to this Contest and no correspondence will be entered into. Potential winner will be notified by telephone, mail and/or email within forty eight (48) hours of the Grand Prize Judging and may be required to complete an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and Publicity Release (unless prohibited by law) and any other documents required by Sponsor, which must be returned within fourteen (14) days of date appearing on prize notification. Return of prize or prize notification as undeliverable, failure to sign and return requested documentation within the specified time period, the inability of Sponsor to contact the potential winner within a reasonable time period or noncompliance with these Official Rules by any potential winner will result in disqualification and, at Sponsor’s sole discretion, the prize may be awarded to a runner-up. You agree that the Sponsor and its designees may disqualify the potential winner at any time, in their sole discretion, on the basis of anything contained in or learned or obtained as a result of the submission of winner documentation, Releases or any other forms requested by Sponsor that indicate a breach of these Official Rules.

yep it said the winner would be notified within 48 hrs of the grand prize judging, but it doesn't actually say when the grand prize judging is.
My understanding is that the grand prize judging and the closing date don't necessarily have to be the same time.

That's right, I was just confirming that the dates aren't on their site - they actually have "[insert date]" where they should have had the correct date in their judging paragraph.  We're just going to have to wait it out.

Just checked on the monopoly site where the latest message is:


The judges are hard at work pouring over the stories you voted into the top 75. Check back in mid-October to find out who wins the grand prize in MONOPOLY Money Makes It Real.



Not sure if the huge thank you to ACC Compers who voted for the members is on here as I may have written it within "the lost posts" of last week.  Thanks once again for your kindness.

Calpot

any idea when winner(s) will be announced? I've been checking the site like a crazy but still no updates. I'm keen to read the winning entry

I checked all the other countries too and none of them have announced their winners.  Do we think they've told the winner already and are waiting for verification or that they haven't decided yet?

i don't think they've decided yet because the top 75 haven't been announced officially either

I got an email back from the monopoly people, it's all run in the US, so the aussie contact is going to get back to me on expected announcement time, but they said it might be likely thats it's in the end of oct.

Update:

Thank you for your email.
 
The winner of the competition has been contacted by Hasbro, they need to wait for the legalities to be finalised before the results can be published.
 
This process could be delayed if any problems occur in which case another person may be nominated the winner instead.
 
The final results are due to be published early to mid November.

Thought you'd like to know.

C
 

Cheers for the update, I'm itching to read the winning entry.

Here's the winning entry.  They called themself Monopolize on the chart and were ranked 35th in the voting (I was sad enough to copy the entries before they were deleted) - this one was in my top 5 too.

75 years of MONOPOLY, thousands of stories, your votes for 75 finalists for a chance to win a bank of MONOPOLY money in real cash. One winner has been chosen to GO to begin living the MONOPOLY money dream.

A. Tow, Rivett
Story: 20 grand is fab, when Monopoly skills can bank a further grab!! Getting "go"ing fast; in order to gain, and an Old-Kent-style property; I would attain. With this, I'd make a splendid living, so birthdays become a "chance" to be giving! I'd upgrade my house from green to red - when adding extensions and a new bed! Family and dog - happy and humming. Savings - ready for when the taxman is incoming!