{"id":25755,"date":"2011-05-15T13:56:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T12:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=25755"},"modified":"2011-05-17T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:54:12","slug":"enter-abts-facebook-contest-to-win-galaxy-video-cards-and-powerdirector-movie-making-sw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/enter-abts-facebook-contest-to-win-galaxy-video-cards-and-powerdirector-movie-making-sw\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter ABT&#8217;s Facebook Contest to win Galaxy Video Cards and PowerDirector movie-making SW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Why go out at all to spend your hard earned money on hardware when you can win a brand new Galaxy GTX 550 or GTX 560 Ti right here? Have a great Summer by winning one of two Galaxy video cards or great PowerDirector movie-making software.\u00a0 Help AlienBabelTech celebrate our Spring into Summer Contest by entering to win.\u00a0  Just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/AlienBabelTech\/123268467142\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/AlienBabelTech\/123268467142', '&#8216;Like&#8217;']);\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Like&#8217;<\/a> AlienBabelTech on Facebook and tell us your Facebook name on our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/viewtopic.php?f=30&amp;t=22945\">ABT Forum<\/a> and you will be automatically entered to win the Galaxy GTX 550.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Spring-into-Summer-Contest.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25763\" title=\"Spring into Summer Contest\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Spring-into-Summer-Contest.png?resize=550%2C275\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To enter to win the grand prize &#8211; the Galaxy GTX 560 Ti &#8211; simply make ten posts during the 2-week contest (no nonsense posts, please). \u00a0 This contest is now open to all North American residents including <em>current<\/em> ABT forum members &#8211; except ABT staff and their families. \u00a0  The winner will be decided by  a random program at 10 AM Pacific Time on May 29, after the contest ends at 11:59 PST on Saturday, May 28, 2011.\u00a0   The winning ABT forum members each gets a brand-new Galaxy GTX 550 or 560 Ti in accordance with the contest rules (below).\u00a0 To summarize the contest rules:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><em>Like<\/em> AlienBabelTech on Facebook and then tell us your facebook name <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/viewtopic.php?f=30&amp;t=22945\" target=\"_blank\">in this designated forum thread<\/a> and you are automatically entered to win the Galaxy GTX 550<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong>Make ten posts(*) on ABT forum and you are automatically entered to win the Galaxy GTX 560 Ti. <\/strong><em>(*Nonsense posts will disqualify you!)<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After you have signed up at ABT forums, feel free to start or join a discussion already in progress.\u00a0 We will be giving away two full retail downloadable copies of Cyberlink&#8217;s PowerDirector 9 and a copy of PowerDvD 11 &#8211; they are each valued at $99 &#8211; at random during the contest.\u00a0 Watch our forums carefully for three announcements for more chances to win and these Cyberlink prizes are open to ABT forum members living anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>ABT forum is the best place on the Internet to freely speak your mind &#8211; with minimal moderation and no &#8220;site point of view&#8221; imposed on anyone!  Instead, everyone has real freedom balanced with personal responsibility.  That means that <em>everyone is their own moderator<\/em> and is empowered to block those that they deem trolls as a &#8220;foe&#8221; and you will never see their posts again.<\/p>\n<p>AlienBabelTech is a Great Experiment that you are invited to become a part of; one that is evolving into the first true twenty-first century forum.  In the meantime, you are very welcome to join our growing lively membership and maybe win great Galaxy hardware or Cyberlink movie-making software.  It is all free to join and enter.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are always legal details and fine print as below:  <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #ffff00;\"><strong>&#8220;Spring into Summer\u201d Contest Eligibility and Disclaimer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Eligibility<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">This contest is open to all; but only residents of North America who are at least 18 years of age may win the Galaxy video cards as prizes. This contest excludes employees or staff of AlienBabelTech.com from participating in this contest and\/or those living in the same household. No one may win a prize in two consecutive contests. Only entries submitted electronically through <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/viewtopic.php?f=30&amp;t=22945\">ABT forum<\/a> are eligible for consideration. Contest officially starts now &#8211; Sunday May 15, 2011 at 12:01 AM  &#8211; and will run until the ending date of Saturday May 28, 2011 at 11:59 PM PST. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">There will be two prizes offered &#8211; (1) as &#8216;runner-up&#8217; prize there is a brand new Galaxy GTX 550 1GB video card and (2) as Grand prize, a brand new Galaxy GTX 560 Ti 1GB video card. The runner-up winner whose name is drawn at random from the members who have entered the contest and posted their Facebook name on our forum in the designated thread, will win a Galaxy GTX 550; and the grand winner&#8217;s name will be drawn from the pool of members who have also posted ten no-nonsense posts on our forum during the contest.\u00a0 <strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">General Conditions<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">All contest entries, including whatever personal information provided in them, become the property of AlienBabelTech.  The entries submitted are accepted under the conditions by ABT will become the property of ABT. By participating in this contest, entrants agree to be bound by these Contest Rules and Regulations, including the eligibility requirements. The submission of an entry constitutes permission for AlienBabelTech to use the entrant&#8217;s email address and other submitted information for purposes of marketing and promotion. AlienBabelTech, its officers and employees, shall have no obligation nor responsibility regarding entries that contain inaccurate information or are unintelligible nor entries that do not comply with these contest rules and regulations.  Entries that are lost or submitted after the official deadline or not received by ABT will not be considered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">In the event of a dispute regarding who submitted an on-line entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the holder of the forum account.  The chosen winners&#8217; names will be posted online and they will also be contacted via email. Entries will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized account holders of the forum membership at the time of the entry. &#8220;Authorized account holder&#8221; is defined as the person who is assigned membership by ABT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">The selected entrants will be contacted by email within 2 days of winning and their names also announced on the ABT forum. The selected entrants must respond to the e-mail\/announcement within one (1) week of its receipt\/posting in order to claim the prize. If the selected entrants cannot be contacted and\/or does not respond within the specified time period, ABT reserves the right to select another winner from the pool of correct answers \u2013 the runner up in the contest, and so on. An email address is deemed invalid if the destination email server is unable to deliver the message, which includes full mailboxes, content filters or any other circumstance that prevents the timely delivery of the message. Invalid email address shall be immediately disqualified, and another winner shall be selected. The selected entrants must sign a declaration and waiver form releasing ABT, its officers, employees, agents, respective affiliates, representatives, sponsors and franchisees, of any and all liability, claim or legal actions of any nature for injuries, damages or losses resulting from acceptance, possession or use of the prize, including transportation, preparation and\/or participation in activities in connection with this contest. The video card prizes will be shipped by Galaxy.\u00a0 Cyberlink prizes consist of the full retail download from their site and a valid key to operate it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">The odds of winning the prize depend on the number of eligible online entries. Prizes must be accepted as awarded with no substitutions. The prizes are not redeemable for cash.  ABT reserves the right to disqualify any entrant trying to tamper with the contest submission process and\/or disqualify any entrant violating these rules and regulations.  This contest is subject to all applicable Federal and State laws of the United States. Any contestant who does not agree with the above terms and conditions should not enter this contest.  No purchase or payment of any consideration is necessary to enter the contest. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing you on our forum.  Besides staying home and gaming on your new Galaxy video card and making videos with your PowerDirector movie suite, we think you will like the freedom of ABT forums that no other site has or can handle.    This is just ABT&#8217;s fourth contest; please stay around for another big one that is planned for June.  Welcome and good luck in the contest.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/viewtopic.php?f=30&amp;t=22945\" target=\"_blank\">Start here to enter to win!<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Please join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forums<\/a> Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech', 'Twitter']);\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> For the latest updates from ABT, please <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=25755\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=top title=\"Author: ABT Staff\" src=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Article-Image2.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2533,7814,6],"tags":[3522,4667,4666,1354,680,4665,4506,639],"class_list":["post-25755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abt-news","category-articles","category-news","tag-abt-contest","tag-cyberlink-power-director-11","tag-cyberlink-power-director-9","tag-facebook","tag-galaxy","tag-gtx-550","tag-gtx-560-ti","tag-prizes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}