The winners have been drawn

Fireworks 2nd anniversaryGood morning!

I have just drawn the winners of our recent anniversary-giveaway.

We had 3 in-game t-shirt codes which have been won by tatu meskanen, Blackheart and H. J. de Bruyn. Congratulations! Then we had one Guild Wars party item giveaway which has been won by Gorzagorz. We will need to schedule a time and place to meet for the trade. :) And our last package was one for a few items in Guild Wars 2 which has been won by Arsenette. Congratulations to you all!

I will send emails to the winners shortly.

And if you haven’t won this time, I’m pretty sure we’ll host more giveaways in the future. I’m just afraid that we’re now all out of items for Guild Wars. ;)

2 years of Nerdy Bookahs!

Update, March 23: Comments are now closed. Winners will be drawn tomorrow, when I’m properly awake and not too tired. ;)

Fireworks 2nd anniversaryIt’s been two years since we started our Nerdy Bookahs blog. Two years ago, I was playing Rift and Lotro, Guild Wars 2 had still been far away in the future. As the name of the blog suggests, however, even at that time we were already pretty excited about Guild Wars 2. The blog’s name was “Nerdy Bookahs and their travel guide” in the beginning indicating that we do like checking out games and travelling from one MMO to the next to see what they’re like.

Bookahnerk had begun his MMO days with Ultima Online and later played World of Warcraft. He got me hooked to WoW as well. After that came Warhammer Online which kept me in it much longer than it could keep him. Then I took a detour to Lotro while he went back to WoW. But we both felt like we were tourists in the MMO space looking for a new place to settle. With Guild Wars 2, we have found such a place and thus, the “travel guide” part wasn’t really needed anymore.

The first time I mentioned Guild Wars 2 here was when I wrote about race/class combinations. It’s funny to see that I actually did a) stick to my decision to play asura and b) did find the mesmer to be the profession I want to play. The mesmer was the last one to be revealed and it has both spells and tricky gameplay. ;)

Oh well, long-winded explanations aside, we want to celebrate our anniversary by having another giveaway! Ha, you didn’t see that coming, now did you? ;)

Here’s what we have.

1. 3 Guild Wars 2 in-game t-shirts

Those t-shirt codes are for players on EU accounts only, unfortunately. Sorry about that. :(

2. Our GW1 party package.

We had previously given it away during our Advent calendar, but the winner couldn’t claim the prize and told us we can give it to somebody else which we are doing today. This package contains mostly things that you can use for your party title. Bookahnerk is adding 59 spiked eggnoggs to this package. :)

3. A small Guild Wars 2 item package

This package is available for EU and US players! This package contains 12 unidentified dyes, 3 heavy miner’s bags and 2 miniatures (Mini Green Moa and Mini Fire Imp).

Rules and regulations
Fireworks_2nd anniversary_21. Leave a comment and tell us which giveaways you’ll participate in. Of course, you can enter all three giveaways! The t-shirt code only works for players with a European account. The giveaways will be open until March, 22, 11.59pm Berlin time (GMT +1 if I’m not mistaken).
2. Leave a valid email address in the “email field” when commenting. We can see that address but nobody else will be able to see it. It will only be used by us for contacting the winner and nothing else!
3. The winners will be contacted by email each week. Please reply before March 30, 2013. If you fail to do that, we will draw another winner.
4. One entry per post per person (IP addresses are always logged by wordpress.com when somebody comments)! We reserve the right to exclude entries when we think you’re trying to cheat by entering multiple times. Stay fair, please. :)
5. No debating about the outcome! We will draw randomly, so everybody has the same chance at winning. :)

Find Bookahnerk and win 1 of 5 (EU) in-game t-shirt codes

Guild Wars 2 BookahnerkIf you thought that with our last giveaway, we ran out of codes, you’re wrong! We just thought it’s more fun to keep them and surprise our readers with giveaways during the year. ;)

So today, we are starting our giveaway for 5 codes for Guild Wars 2 in-game t-shirts. As usual, those codes are only valid if you have a European Guild Wars 2 account. I am really sorry about that and there is nothing we can do to change that. :( (Though we do hope there will be more codes for US accounts in the future!)

If you want to win one of our codes, you need to do something: Find Bookahnerk! Go to our Wayfarer Foothills and Diessa Plateau screenshot galleries. One of the pictures shows Bookahnerk (the cute little asura seen above). Send us an email and tell us the name of the image (e.g., GW2_Diessa Plateau_Ascalon_999 or GW2_Wayfarer Foothills_Shiverpeak Mountains_999).

GW2_Flummi_Gamescom ShirtIf you haven’t seen it before, the picture on the right shows my asura mesmer, Flummi, in her town clothing and her very own Guild Wars 2 t-shirt. It’s kind of silly, but cool! ;) The t-shirt cannot be dyed, unfortunately. She is also wearing the Guild Wars 2 cap that was available in the gem store for free for some time. That one can be dyed, but it’s apparently not available anymore.

Rules

1. Send us an email with the correct answer before February 14, 2013, 20:00 Berlin Time to:
email address

If you’re confused about time zones, have a look here to find your local time.

2. The winners will be announced here on our blog and contacted by email. Please reply before February 21, 2013. If you fail to do that, we will draw another winner.

3. One entry per person! We reserve the right to exclude entries when we think you’re trying to cheat by entering multiple times. Stay fair, please. :)

4. No debating about the outcome! We will draw randomly, so everybody has the same chance at winning. :)

Please note that comments to this post are disabled. It’d be a bit boring if you could simply look at the comment section to find the correct answer. ;) If you have any additional questions about this giveaway, please use our email address to contact us.

Winners of our Christmas giveaway

Postcard Christmas BlogIt’s a bit sad that this was our last giveaway. Should we ever receive more zaishen keys, oppressor or tormented weapons, minis, etc., we’ll definitely do this again. It was fun and we’re glad we could give people more points in their Hall of Monuments.

Anyway, you’re not here to read that we had fun. You’re here to see if you were lucky. One person was indeed very very lucky: Marandor has once again won our GW1 item bundle. I checked twice but the numbers matched. Congratulations to you! Rebecca has won our GW2 item bundle. Last but not least, Keiran has won the GW2 in-game t-shirt code. Congratulations to both of you. :)

But it’s Christmas… and we really wish we had more to give away. Unfortunately, as far as items in GW1 and GW2 are concerned, we don’t have more (before you ask: I’m poor in GW2 and am currently saving to buy some fancy dyes myself ^^). But hey, we actually do have more t-shirt codes. So we decided that everybody who participated in the Christmas giveaway and who wanted a code should have one. So, congratulations to regendo, Katie M, overlow, shadowwolf76, Galerius, Shuk, Wedge7, Akiyama, coolasc/Decomposing Brains and Rebecca.

Then we thought again: What if there are people who participated in most of our giveaways but the Christmas one? We’ve had 5 giveaways where you could win a t-shirt code… so what about those who participated in 3 or 4, but just missed the last one? We had a look at our list again and that concerns Reteq, Houjun, tatu meskanen, Mads Larsen and Nuarda. All of you participated in 3 – 4 giveaways. So, why not? Congratulations to you as well!

We’re really happy about the amount of people who participated and especially about those who came back (almost) every week. And this is our way to say “thank you” for being our readers. :)

We will be sending out emails tomorrow. Please remember that you need to reply before January 5, 2013, in order to claim your won items. If you don’t reply, we will draw another winner instead.

Once again, we hope you’re having a great time and a happy new year! :)