Windows Phone Competition Part 2

So since the end of last year, Microsoft NZ have been running lots of competitions in order to promote the new Windows Phones, as well as to gain more apps on the Windows Marketplace. After both winning in their first competition, my brother (Steven) and I entered as many of them as we could to try our luck. Our entries in the next few competitions were not as successful, but we still learnt a lot from the experience and kept entering their frequent competitions anyway.

But in their latest competition, we managed to both win top prizes again! We entered two new games, one under each of our names, and managed to score a Nokia Lumia 800 each! I'm sure you could imagine how stoked we were! We both already owned android Smartphones before these competitions, but now we have three each! That's crazy luck/skills! :P

Our app entries: Save My Chickens! (Top) and Towers of Nor (Bottom).

But our smartphone story doesn't end there. We also entered a luck draw competition where we had to deploy a Windows Azure cloud computing app that directly contributes to Stanford University’s Folding@home effort. Somehow we both managed to get drawn as winners of a Nokia Lumia 710! At this point, I felt like our luck was super ridiculous, but was very happy to win a third time. What feels even more surreal is that both Steven and I keep winning as separate entries in the same competitions! Someone is probably sitting there thinking that we somehow rigged it lol :S But I assure you that we won fair and square :P

Our collection of Smartphones (We plan to sell some of them off eventually)