Millionaire Pop Culture Mobile Sweepstakes

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MarleysGh0st · #1 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:42 am

Once again, TPTB is giving away a turn in the Hot Seat to the winner of--not any test of trivia skill, but a random sweepstakes. <sigh>

http://www.millionairetv.com/info-popculturemobile.html

WIN A CHANCE TO BE IN THE HOTSEAT
MILLIONAIRE POP CULTURE MOBILE SWEEPSTAKES
MARCH 11 - APRIL 11 AT&T, Capcom and Millionaire are joining together to give you a chance to take on the TV Hot Seat on our new season of Millionaire. The winner and one guest will travel to New York City. Air fair and hotel included plus $1000 spending money for the winner.

ENTER BY PHONE: If you have an AT&T phone log on to the "MEdia Mall" section of the main menu and follow instructions to purchase Millionaire Pop Culture or navigate to www.att.com/mediamall and follow instructions to purchase and download Millionaire Pop Culture. You will receive one (1) automatic entry to the sweepstakes upon download. All download entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. ET, April 11, 2008, when the promotion ends.

ENTER BY MAIL: You may also enter the sweepstakes without charge by mailing a postcard, with your name, age, address, daytime phone number and e-mail address (if available) to Millionaire Pop Culture Sweepstakes, P.O. Box 8022, Westport, CT 06888. Entries will be disqualified if they contain any inappropriate material or language, including profanity. All mail-in entries must be postmarked on or before April 11, 2008 and received on or before April 15, 2008.

ONLY ONE ENTRY WILL BE ACCEPTED PER PERSON, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH ENTRY IS BY THE ON-HANDSET ENTRY METHOD OR MAIL IN ENTRY METHOD. Potential winner will be randomly selected on April 30, 2008 from among all eligible entries received for the entire Entry Period.

No purchase necessary. Must be legal US resident, 18 (19 or 21 in certain states) years or older and meet all eligibility requirements. Must be available for qualifying phone call on April 30, 2008 between the hours of 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm ET. Contest ends April 11, 2008. Void outside US and where prohibited. Prize restrictions apply. See official contest rules for all requirements.

For official rules visit: http://www.tcspromo.com/Millionaire.cfm

gsabc · #2 Post by **gsabc** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:55 am

I shall enter regardless. I may even download the game, since pop culture, especially recent, is one of my weak areas. I should wait on that, though, since I'm due for a new phone soon. Are your downloads and ringtones transferrable?

MarleysGh0st · #3 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:59 am

gsabc wrote:I shall enter regardless.

Oh, I'll mail in a postcard, too, but I don't expect to get to the Hot Seat that way, any more than I expect to buy a winning lottery ticket.

gsabc wrote:I may even download the game, since pop culture, especially recent, is one of my weak areas. I should wait on that, though, since I'm due for a new phone soon. Are your downloads and ringtones transferrable?

I don't know, but since ringtones are a ridiculously lucrative profit center, I suspect the phone companies make that difficult, if not impossible.

AlphaDummy · #4 Post by **AlphaDummy** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:24 am

Refresh my memory, please, if you could.

IIRC, there was something very similar a year ago, but involving music instead of <barf> Pop Culture </barf>. Two questions:

1 - Is this contest, in fact, the "same" as last year's (except for the pop-culture aspect)?

2 - If this is the case, does anybody know if last year's winner was subjected to a stack dedicated to music once he/she was in the Hot Seat? Because, if this is the case, it would be even more worthless for me to enter than it would be under normal circumstances. Otherwise - if the winner is likely to play a "regular" stack - I might as well drop a postcard in the mail. After all, it is likely as much of a chance as I will ever have...

MarleysGh0st · #5 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:04 am

AlphaDummy wrote:Refresh my memory, please, if you could.

IIRC, there was something very similar a year ago, but involving music instead of <barf> Pop Culture </barf>. Two questions:

1 - Is this contest, in fact, the "same" as last year's (except for the pop-culture aspect)?

2 - If this is the case, does anybody know if last year's winner was subjected to a stack dedicated to music once he/she was in the Hot Seat? Because, if this is the case, it would be even more worthless for me to enter than it would be under normal circumstances. Otherwise - if the winner is likely to play a "regular" stack - I might as well drop a postcard in the mail. After all, it is likely as much of a chance as I will ever have...

1. Yes, I think this is working the same way. WWTBAM has bartered away one turn in the Hot Seat to one of their sponsors.

2. I think this person got a regular stack, but I can't recall who that person was or even if he/she was identified as the sweepstakes winner.

Anyone else remember?

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

goongas · #6 Post by **goongas** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:11 am

I don't think the winner was identified, so the winner must have gotten a normal stack.

MarleysGh0st · #7 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:00 pm

I guess it's possible that the winner of Capcom's "Millionaire Music Edition Mobile Game Sweepstakes" played in an episode that hasn't aired yet. We'll have to wait to see it it's ever mentioned.

Interesting that Capcom is the sponsor of both contests, but last year they were pushing their games on Sprint-Nextel phones and this year it's for AT&T phones. Or has there been merger of those outfits in the last few months?

gsabc · #8 Post by **gsabc** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:47 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:I guess it's possible that the winner of Capcom's "Millionaire Music Edition Mobile Game Sweepstakes" played in an episode that hasn't aired yet. We'll have to wait to see it it's ever mentioned.

Interesting that Capcom is the sponsor of both contests, but last year they were pushing their games on Sprint-Nextel phones and this year it's for AT&T phones. Or has there been merger of those outfits in the last few months?

AT&T bought Cingular. Capcom makes the same game for multiple platforms and phones, so they can offer it to all the purveyors.

dodgersteve182 · #9 Post by **dodgersteve182** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:57 am

Thanks Marley! I hope you win it! (unless they want someone geeky pre senior citizen from the left coast)?
I still haven't gotten over you missing out on the AOL contest 3 yrs ago. At least you lost to a fellow BB, actually you didn't lose, you finished a very strong second! IMHO they should have invited you both to be on the show!

MarleysGh0st · #10 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:06 am

dodgersteve182 wrote:I still haven't gotten over you missing out on the AOL contest 3 yrs ago. At least you lost to a fellow BB, actually you didn't lose, you finished a very strong second! IMHO they should have invited you both to be on the show!

Well, I won it the second time around, but they were offering the wrong prize!