Pumpkin Carving Submission Deadline Extended

We have decided to extend the submission deadline for our 4th Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest to Wednesday, 10/31/12. Voting will then take place Thursday and end Friday at midnight. A winner will be posted on Saturday 11/3/12.

 

 

 

 

See link to contest details and submission rules:

http://agentfaircloth.com/chris-faircloth/fourth-annual-pumpkin-carving-contest/

Fourth Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest-Deadline Extended

Time to get your carve on! 

How to register:  One pumpkin submission per person. All submissions should be prepared to provide a photo of you carving the master piece, should it be called into question, or be one of our finalists, to keep everyone honest. Email your entry to FairclothContest@gmail.com  Your email entry should consist of a photo (jpeg format) no larger than 100KB. Be sure to include your contact information (pumpkin’s name, your name, email address & city you live in). We will accept emails until midnight on Wednesday, October 31,2012. 

Voting will start on Thursday, November 1 st and last through midnight on Friday, November 2 nd.

GO TO: http://agentfaircloth.com/vote/ Get your friends, family & coworkers voting,  the winner will have a choice between an iPhone5 or an ipad!  The winner will be announced on Halloween (Oct. 31, 2012)!  (Note The name of the winner and the winning photo will be posted on the site on the afternoon of Oct. 31st.)  One vote per person. We have put security measures in place to make it difficult to cheat!  Anyone found cheating will be disqualified from the contest.

So, go get your carve on!

 

Entries remain the property of AgentFaircloth.com.  Chris Faircloth aka “AgentFaircloth.com” , licensed Realtor with Shaffer Real Estate, Inc. is the sponsor of this contest.

 Check out the entries from last year! 

Over 10,000 people flood AgentFaircloth.com to view pumpkins

Virginia Beach, VA – October 31, 2011 – Over 10,000 people flooded site to view and vote on local Real Estate Specialist, Chris Faircloth’s (aka Agent Faircloth) Annual Online Pumpkin Carving Contest.  Contestants came from California, Colorado, Washington, New York, Florida and of course, the Commonwealth of Virginia. Voters from all over the world including the UK, South Africa, China, Korea and Australia selected their favorite pumpkins online.

After a grueling count of the votes and working with IT and Word Press experts, Faircloth said “I am delighted with the creativity of all our contestants this year. We had an amazing turn out and I am thankful to all who participated”.  AgentFaircloth.com received 65 pumpkin submissions along with 959 votes and over 10,000 visitors scoping out the contest. One vote separated first place from second place.  Faircloth was quoted “Next year we will be using a polling application to give real time voting status, as I think this will help contestants push for more votes”.

The winner, Matt Ryan of Midlothian, VA won with his submission named Bartholomew. This was Matt’s first pumpkin carving contest and he was the gracious winner of an iPad.

Tune in to Chris’ site AgentFaircloth.com for next year’s prizes, as she hopes to take this to a national level.

2011 Winner of the Third Annual Online Pumpkin Carving contest is….

After several hours of counts, recounts, investigating IP addresses, reports of spamming  and accounting for multiple votes from the same individual, we have a WINNER!

 

Bartholomew - by Matt W. Ryan of Midlothian, VA

 Honorable mention goes to #64 & #2! The numbers were so very close! Congrats Matt, you’ve won an iPad!
 
Next year we will be using a polling application to simplify the process! Start planning for your pumpkin submission next year, we’re planning on bigger prizes too!
 
Thank you to everyone who participated you all did an amazing job!

Vote here for your favorite pumpkin 2011

We have had an amazing turnout for this years online pumpkin carving contest. A HUGE thank you to all who submitted entries.

VOTING STARTS NOW and lasts through Monday 10/31/11 at 12:00 Noon (eastern time).  We will tally up the votes afterwards and post the winner in the afternoon on 10/31/11 HALLOWEEN.

Scroll through the pumpkins posted below and select one pumpkin. (I am sorry the pumpkins are not in numeric order, after 3 plus hours of reloading and reassigning the caption numbers, I gave up).

 At the top right of the blog post you will see “comment”, click on the comment button and in the body of the comment section enter the number you are voting for, be sure to click the “Post Comment” button!

Be sure to give this link to all your friends, family  & coworkers so they may also vote!

REMEMBER, and ipad’s on the line!  The entry with the most votes by the Monday, 10/31/11 at 12:00 eastern time  will win an iPad!

LET THE VOTING BEGIN ~ GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

Note:Only one vote per person! We had two entries that were too large to load, I have tried to resize the photos but unfortunately had no luck doing so, I sincerely apologize to those whose pumpkins were not able to be uploaded. I have not submitted nor has my husband submitted a pumpkin for judging. Neither of us will be voting! GOOD LUCK.

 
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