Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 03:50:09 PM

Quote from: BitcoinGirl.Club on Today at 02:33:37 PM

If I understand correctly o_e_l_e_o and TryNinja declined the tour sponsored from Sportsbet.

That's correct. I would have loved to accept the prize, but I'm not willing to lose my privacy to do so. As icopress explained above, icopress and Steve very kindly offered to send me the money to pay for my own travel to, and accommodation in, England, and to attend the stadium under a pseudonym, but this would obviously still have involved booking and flying under my real name (which therefore still puts my personal details at risk), and revealing my face, age, gender, ethnicity, accent, etc., to everyone involved in the tour and the rest of the prize. I hope Steve and the Sportsbet team don't take this personally after offering such a generous prize, but my stance regarding privacy and protecting my personal information is long standing and universal across all people and services.

I had other ideas on how to distribute the prize, but that's not a decision for me to make. The rules were clear before the competition started, and so the outcome is as icopress has stated above.

To anyone who follows the sport with passion the prize offered by Sportsbet - accommodation, booking - is marvelous. However, I think that everyone involved in it (from the sponsors and organizing committee of this contest ) understands the stance that some members took regarding their privacy and hold no grudge. It's not like the winners couldn't say that they didn't want to me nominated - I guess? - and considering we're in a forum of which a majority of users share a deep care for their private data, such reaction was to be expected. I guess we will never be able to please both sides - I'm sure that there would be winners who wouldn't mind to take the prize (either the one from Sportsbet or the goodies from the YT channel - but there would be others who wouldn't go along considering their stance on privacy.

Perhaps for the next edition we should increase our imagination a notch and try to come up with prizes that could satisfy both parties, besides the usual BTC prize? I know it's not an easy task, but something can be achieved I'm sure. I'm up for a session of brainstorming if someone is up for it!