Back in February,
I hosted a fund-raising raffle for this site, BC.org, our community's virtual home. We were able to raise four months' worth of funding for the site, which means that starting next month in June the site could use more funds. So it's time for another raffle!
Summer Support A Fundraising Effort & Raffle for BC.org
This time around, the prizes are going to work a little differently! Thanks to the generosity of
@Nicohlas and
@Imazi, between the three of us we've been able to put together a really nice pool of prizes, and you'll see how the rewards will work at the bottom of the rules, below. (Though all expressions of generosity from our community are appreciated, right now we don't need any additional prize donations; the best thing folks could do at this point is to donate funds to the site, since that's the point of the exercise!
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Why This Fundraiser? This website is a home for a great community, and many of us frequent it daily. It is a home that further provides all sorts of wonderful amenities, beyond just that of a community forum - such as the HoloNet wiki, the Strongholds listing, the GuildNet features, and the Chatroom we use both for our RP events and for socializing. Now is an opportunity to do something to support it, and maybe get some prizes for doing so! It also appears that the site's domain renewal may be coming up this June, so that's even more reason to lend our support this summer!
Goal of the Fundraiser: To raise as many donation funds for the site as we can in the month of June! Those funds roll over into subsequent months, so we can help the site out for many months to come. This fundraising effort will take the form of a raffle, in which anyone who donates to the site in June is entered for a chance to win in-game prizes, which will be enumerated below.
The first iteration of this fundraiser was 100% organized and funded by me, and this time it's organized by me and supported by Nicohlas and Imazi with their donations. In other words, it's all just community member initiative, and though I got permission from the site admins to hold these raffles it's important that no one take this to mean that I am speaking on their behalf, or that they are pressuring the community to donate. The admins have funded and maintained this site for us through dry spells and good spells, and never put the burden on the community in any way. This is just an opportunity for us to reward that generosity by sharing the load!
How it Works: Below I will outline how the raffle works. If people have questions not covered here, I'll update this section as they get answered.
The raffle will look at donations in the pre-set increments that can be found on the
Donations page, using the last six: $5, $10, $15, $20, $25, $50.
Any donation that hits any of the above-listed increments will count as an entry into the raffle. Meaning: if you donate $5, you get one entry. If you donate $15, you get three entries. If you donate $50, you get six entries. Multiple donations can go toward this total, but they will be summed up and then broken down by these increments to determine ultimate raffle entries (i.e., you could donate $5 on 6/3 and $10 on 6/20, together that would count as the $15 increment and three total entries).
Participants would need to pick the option, when donating, for their name to be publicly shown. This is entirely so that I, as a normal site user, can have access to see how many entries into the raffle people will be getting. It's not meant to cause anyone to feel uncomfortable that they're donating more or less than other people. At the end of the day, we are all donating for the same reason: because we love the site. Those who, for any reason life circumstances might be throwing at them in June, can only donate $5 don't love the site any less than those who can donate $50. In fundraising, every little bit helps!
On Friday 6/30 at 7:30 PM Server Time I will be in the BC.org chat room to do the prize drawing in real time. Each person will be assigned numbers equal in quantity to the number of their entries, and then I'll use the /roll function to see what numbers win! For example: If the contest gets a total of 40 entries, and you are entitled to three of them, you might be assigned numbers 11, 12, and 13, and if any of those are the result on a /roll 1d40 then you win! (You don't have to be present in the chat room in order to win; I'll post the winners on the forums too of course.)
The window for donations will start on June 1st, and end on June 29th.
Prizes: The part everyone ultimately cares about!
This is working differently from last time, so take a moment to read through the below.
A total of
SIX WINNERS will be drawn / rolled for (six winning draws, which may or may not be six individual people). Each winner will get to take their pick of prizes according to one of the below prize selection options. The order in which winners are drawn will determine the order in which they get to pick; the next winner in the winning order will be sent an updated prize list to pick from via PM, with the prizes chosen by the previous winners removed from the listing.
Winners can choose one of four prize selection options: 1 Prize from the Aurek list
2 Prizes from the Besh list
1 Prize from the Besh list and 2 Prizes from the Cresh list
3 Prizes from the Cresh List
AUREK Prizes BESH Prizes CRESH PrizesTythian Lightsaber Pike Rangehunter Blaster Pistol White& Dark Orange Dye
20 Million Credits Descendant's Heirloom Dualsaber Dark Red & Pale Red Dye
I-O8 Operator Requisition Thexan's Lightsaber D5-2D Astromech Droid
Commemorative Statue of Satele Shan (Deco) Merciless Raider's Vibrosword BL-N3 Power Droid
Technolith Matrix Tuning GR-4 ST Blaster Iokath Circuit Panel (Deco)
Server Character Slot Unlock White and Medium Gray Dye Module Iokath Circuit Panel (Deco)
Arctic Gundark Deep Red and White Dye Module Revanite Camp Bed (Deco)
Imperial Devastator Vectron Predator Revanite Camp Bed (Deco)
Primary Black Dye Module Vectron Predator Temple Chair (Ornate)
Festive Weapon Tuning Yavin Tree Plot (Deco) Temple Chair (Ornate)
Yavin Tree Plot (Deco) Selkath Chair (Deco)
Revanite Camp Fire (Deco) Selkath Chair (Deco)
Revanite Camp Fire (Deco) Emote: Excited Child
Jedi Small Council Table (Deco) Emote: Excited Child
Jedi Small Council Table (Deco) Emote: OMG
Sith Temple Long Table (Deco) Armored Diplomat Set
Sith Temple Long Table (Deco)
Revanite Altar (Deco)
Revanite Altar (Deco)
Electroblade Rack (Deco)
Jolee Bindo's Armor Set
And remember - you have as many chances to win as you have raffle entries, so the same person can win multiple times if they have multiple entries and they get the luck of the draw!
Summer Support 
