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“Why do you deserve to meet Wayne Rooney in person?”

This question has been swimming in my head for the last 2 weeks since I was invited to take part in the Tiger Beer regional online influencer challenge.

Frankly speaking, I was stumped by this question, I mean, what has one got to do to deserve to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Manchester to visit Old Trafford Stadium and have a kick-about with Wayne Rooney? Yes you heard it right, The Wayne Rooney! The biggest Manchester United fan perhaps? And I’m not gonna kid you by pretending to be the biggest Man United or Wayne Rooney fan, that my room is decked in Man Utd colours, that I sleep in Man Utd perjamas, bedsheet and pillow case and wear Man Utd jersey to work everyday! No, that’s just superficial and doesn’t prove anything!

What I can tell you and I’m proud to say is that I’ve been a fan of English football for over 20 years, started watching “Big League Soccer” when I was a kid, and went on to witness the inception of the Premier League in 1992. I’m a huge fan of the English Premier League who has been served seasons after seasons of world class football actions through the football channel on cable TV, but that is simply an incomplete experience.

Please tell me which self-respecting fan of English football do not want to watch a live Premier League game in action? The Wembley Stadium, Stamford Bridge , Emirates Stadium, Anfield, and Old Trafford, these are the holy grails of football and truly are the theatres of dreams for football fans worldwide. Making a trip to Old Trafford and have a kick-about with Wayne Rooney would definitely be a once in a lifetime experience that not even money can buy!

What has my passion for the English Premier League  got to do with me being wanting to meet Wayne Rooney in person? Well, what I lack in sworn allegiance to Man Utd, I made up for in my fierce passion towards football and the English Premier League in particular. This, I’m sure is the common bond I shared with Tiger Beer and its latest brand ambassador, Wayne Rooney. In a nutshell, we enjoy winning! Rooney epitomized the very best of the Premier League, and it would really be a dream come true if I can play ball with this football genius!

And just to share a Man Utd trivia I picked up online, Man Utd always wins the EPL title after a World Cup! Going back to the record books, Man Utd won the title in 1998/99 (a memorable treble), 2002/03, and in 2006/07. And the new EPL season just got underway at the back of World Cup in South Africa ! Isn’t that exciting!

And assuming I’ve won this blogging challenge and gone on to meet Wayne Rooney in Manchester (let me dream a little, will ya?), what question would you want me to ask him? Come up with your most quirky questions for Rooney and leave them in the comment form. The person who submitted the most interesting question (selected by Tiger Beer judging panel) will win a piece of signed merchandise by Wayne Rooney.

Here’s another look at the Tiger Beer TV commercial featuring Wayne Rooney.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the wait is finally over! The day you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived and I’m glad to tell you that we have a winner! Three weeks ago I launched my First Anniversary Blog contest and subsequently celebrated this blog’s first birthday on Wordpress last Sunday.

The contest was relatively well received, although I thought it wasn’t that easy to enter and to gain extra points. I had a great time receiving all those entries and discovering some fascinating blogs and making new friends in the process. It was also great fun making those videos announcing winners of the 2 weekly draws. I hope you had fun too and also made some friends in the process of entering this contest. Before I announce the winner of the Grand prize draw, I want to thank all who had entered, and spread some link loves to all who made the effort to blog about the contest.

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To show my appreciation of your participation and blogging about my contest, the above blogs will each get a 7days 125×125 ad spot on my sidebar. Please send in your 125×125 banner so that I can put them up (in no particular order).

Now that the formalities are over and done with, let’s move on to where it matters – Announcing the winner! Enjoy the video…

A week has past since the first weekly prize winners were announced, I’m here to announce the second weekly prize winners for my First Anniversary Blog contest. Congrats to all winners, you will be contacted via email for details to claim your prize.

If you are reading this but have yet to submit your entries, you have slightly less than a week to enter and qualify for the Grand prize draw – a brand new Creative Zen MP3 player and a 125×125 ad spot on my sidebar for September. If you want to stand a chance to win some fabulous prizes, you will want to check out my First Anniversary Blog contest. May lady luck be with you.

The first weekly prize winners for my First Anniversary Blog contest is announced here. Congrats to all winners, you will be contacted via email for details to claim your prize. If you are reading this but have yet to submit your entries, there are still time to qualify for the second weekly drawing and the Grand prize draw. If you want to stand a chance to win some fabulous prizes, you will want to check out my First Anniversary Blog contest.

Betshopboy.net will be celebrating its first anniversary on 24th August 2008 and to thank all you guys for your great support throughout the past year, and also to invite more bloggers to join this community, I will be throwing a blog party throwing in some prizes to be given away throughout this month!

All prizes and shipping costs are sponsored out of my own pocket, and I do not have a deep pocket, so please do not expect miracle prizes like those sweet carrots being dangled by a certain affiliate network. Nevertheless, please join in the fun and make new friends and widen your network in the process.

Watch the video to check out what you stand to win by entering my first anniversary blog contest. These prizes are already purchased and waiting for new owners to claim them!

To reward early bird entries, there will be weekly drawing of various prizes, leading to the Grand draw on 31 August, 2008. Winners of weekly draw will be eligible for the Grand draw.

Weekly prizes

Prizes for 17 August draw
1st prize – a 4GB Sandisk Micro Cruzer skin flash drive
2nd & 3rd – a 125×125 ad book for 7 days (from 18 – 24 Aug) with PerformancingAds on my sidebar

Prizes for 24 August draw
1st prize – 4GB Sandisk Micro Cruzer skin flash drive
2nd & 3rd – a 125×125 ad book for 7 days (from 25 – 31 Aug) with PerformancingAds on my sidebar

Prizes for Grand draw on 31 August (one winner)

A 2GB Creative Zen MP3 player with 2.5″ TFT LCD for videos & audios & SD card expansion slot. Click for specification.

A 125×125 ad book for entire month of September 2008 with PerformancingAds on my sidebar

Early Bird Bonus
The first 25 submissions with minimum of 20 points each will have their total points doubled!

So here is the deal, if you want to win one of the prizes, then here is what you need to do to gain those points:

• Registration and 1 point –> Subscribe to our RSS Feed via email (mandatory) and comment below that you are registered to win. You can use the subscribe option in the sidebar or at the end of this post.

• 1 point: Stumble or Stumble Review this contest

• 2 points –> Follow me on Twitter and Twitt about this contest with link to this contest page.

• 5 points –> Make a *New* blog post on a publicly accessible blog (cannot be on a password protected page such as myspace or facebook) and link to this page and the homepage. Additional 5 points given if you embed the above video(found in this post) in your post.

Earn Bonus Points
15 points –> Make a *New* blog post (separate from above post) and embed anyone of my videos found in below posts with a short writeup and link to the respective posts. That’s 15 points for each new post with a video.

Video post #1: Singapore Toys & Comic Convention 2008

Video post #2: A Prelude To F1 Grand Prix

Rules:

• This contest is all in good fun and is open to anywhere that snail mail goes.

• Participating blogs must be 90 days old and consist of at least 10 posts.

• Comment must contain link to twitter posts and blog posts, Twitter id and StumbleUpon id, so they can be verified.

• Winner must have an active subscription to Betshopboy.net when selected.

• Winners of ad spot must supply your own 125×125 image, which will run during the period stated above.

• Winners will be selected by random draw and will be contacted by email and you have 7 days to response. If there’s no response, a new winner will be drawn

• Contest ends on August 30th at 11.59pm (GMT +8).

• The organizer (that’s me!) reserve the right to reject any entries from websites that are generally offensive or pornographic, and any websites that can be classified as spam.

• The organizer (me again) reserves the right, at my sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this contest, e.g., depending on the participation rate, additional prizes and/or early bird bonus may be thrown in if my subscription target is hit.

Submit your entries early to qualify for the weekly draws and to double your points for the first 25 submissions with minimum 20 points!

Good luck and have fun!