David in LA

Just a suggestion (since I have no skin in the game) but rather than doing a drawing, you could consider assigning numbers between 00 and 60 and then using the last two digits of the winning time of the Singapore F1 (race is this weekend) to determine the winner. If you wind up with more than 60 tickets, then you could assign numbers 00 to 99 and the winning number is the last two digits of the sum of the times of the podium finishers. No need to video tape a drawing and there should be no question as to fairness of the process if the numbers are assigned and posted prior. Of course this also gives everyone an excuse to watch the race.

Flying Finn

Unfortunately no Paypal (it's Paypal's, not Steve's fault).

Great idea!

RollingArt

So, who else here thinks I'm the one who's going to win this watch?






Phil

Mike J

Not me! Haha!

TargaMatt

My money's sent! Sorry so slow, haven't been online much lately

mongrelcat

Cool idea. Sir Jackie Stewart is commentating on the BBC coverage this weekend, quite a nice treat.

96PorscheTwinTurbo

Got it.

Thanks, Matt

96PorscheTwinTurbo

Interesting and creative idea. I'm not a big race fan (doesn't mean I love may cars any less!) so I'm not as familiar with the race. Also have a 12 or 13 hour time difference (correct?) so we may be running out of time to do that. When is the race? Saturday or Sunday? May be too late to do this now but I actually like the idea.

mongrelcat

The race is in Singapore on Sunday night, so 5AM Sunday PDT. Races run 2 hours so results should be up by 7AM PDT. There's a handy timezone converter on the F1 home page:
http://www.formula1.com/

Slow Guy

I really like your idea but it looks like we're expecting 67 tickets sold. I would love to figure a way to make that work.

David in LA

Assuming 67 tix sold, you assign numbers 00 to 66 in the order in which tickets were sold/cash received. The easy way would be to use last two digits of the hundreths of a second of the winning time. Last year Alonso *ahem* "won" the Sing F1 with a time of 1.57.16.304...so using that as an example the winning number is 04. If no one wins it this week because the finishing time was say .089 or some number greater than 66, then roll it over to the next race, and if needed, the next after that.

I think as long as everyone is informed of the rules and procedure beforehand and that the winning number is randomly generated, that would be the most transparent. As I said I have no skin in this game but it's quite a bit of money on the line.

MarkD

not as cool as the F1 idea but random.org is a good site to check out for drawings and stuff.

good luck to those in the game!

John Velasco

Velasko = Velasco

Slow Guy

Do they post the times of 2nd and 3rd in hundredths? If so, there's 3 chances to get a winner. And if you have keep going from there add the time of 1 & 2, if that doesn't do it add 1, 2 & 3.

Just a thought, don't want to get too complex for Steve.

MarkD

http://www.random.org/integers/

set to generate 1 random integer
set range from 1 to 67
press "get numbers" button

But it is REALLY low excitement