Who’s Up For An ANTI-Valentine’s Day Contest?

Let’s all get into the spirit of bashing and thrashing the most hated holiday of the year: Valentine’s Day! :banana:

For now I’m just putting out feelers to see how much interest this will generate, but if enough people participate, I will hand out two prizes: 1000 EC credits for bloggers who are members of Entrecard, and for nonmembers, a secret gift that will only be revealed the day after Valentine’s. :naughty:

The rules are simple:

Create a post linking back to the home page of my blog. Mention the contest to your readers and include a link to this post as well.

Write about a former relationship gone bad, a story about unrequited love, or just about any experience you can think of that made you want to spit on love and romance and in the face of anyone who still believes in that crap. If you hate this holiday as much as I do, here’s your chance to unleash the venom!

The contest will run through Valentine’s Day, at which point I’ll choose the post I like the best, and then announce the winner the next day with a link back to the winning post and blog.

Note, at least 20 people must participate in this contest, otherwise the prizes will be voided. If that occurs, you can check my Technorati stats afterwards to confirm that not enough people participated, just in case you don’t take my word for it. :deal:

Have fun!

Tags: anti valentine, contest, entrecard, prizes, romance, unrequited love, valentines day

Categories: Romance and Relationships

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11 Responses to “Who’s Up For An ANTI-Valentine’s Day Contest?”

John wrote a comment on January 31, 2008 @ 10:45:am

Hey! It’s that time of year again! Linc gets cranky and spends the next 3 weeks dissing Valentine’s Day because he can’t get any lovin’! I love it! Better than television!

evilwoobie wrote a comment on January 31, 2008 @ 12:52:pm

this is like the antithesis of my blog contest. XD
i wanna join, but it will be like contradicting my feel good valentine contest won’t it?

more power! XD

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on January 31, 2008 @ 05:17:pm

@John: Bite me ho bag.

@Woobie: Looks like I’m going to be the yang to your ying. Or was it the other way around? :blink:

Traveller wrote a comment on January 31, 2008 @ 05:43:pm

That’s terribly unfair isn’t it? For the people who actually participate and take the time to do the things you ask them- you reward them with a, “sorry, I didn’t do a good enough job of marketing my contest so no prize will be given out.”

I think you need to reconsider the last clause.

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on January 31, 2008 @ 06:11:pm

@Traveller: The last time I ran a contest I offered a $100 gift certificate, and in spite of promoting it everywhere I could, only 6 people participated. I’m not making the same mistake twice.

If you don’t want to participate, then don’t. No one’s holding a gun to your head.