{"id":624,"date":"2011-01-20T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Master_Immersion_Event_Competition.aspx"},"modified":"2013-04-02T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T01:22:20","slug":"competition-win-a-free-place-in-our-class-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/competition-win-a-free-place-in-our-class-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition: win a free place in our class in February!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">We&#8217;re really excited about the classes we&#8217;ve got coming up and to say &#8216;thank you&#8217; to the SQL community for all your support of SQLskills.com over the years, we&#8217;re running a competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The contest is now closed.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">The Prize<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The prize is a <strong>free seat<\/strong> in our class in our <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">5-day\u00a0Internals and Performance class in Dallas, February 21-25<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. If yo<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">u win the competition, <strong>you pay US$0<\/strong> instead of the $2,995 early-bird price or $3,495 full price. You&#8217;ll be\u00a0responsible for all travel expenses and your hotel bill.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\"> The class includes catered breakfast, catered lunch, bottom-less tea and coffee and tons of juicy content :-)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">There may also be runner-up prizes&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">The Challenge<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">All you have to do is write a blog post explaining why you want to come to\u00a0a class taught by us and why you&#8217;d make the best use of the knowledge you&#8217;ll get from being in the class. We&#8217;ll pick what we consider to be the best entry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">The Rules<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Your blog post must go live before 11.59pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, January 25th, 2011<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Your blog post must contain a link to the class details<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">You must post a comment on this blog post that links to yours<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">If you&#8217;re on Twitter, you must tweet your blog post using the #sqlskills hash tag<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">If you win, you will be able to register for the class at the special price of US$0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">If you win, you will be responsible for all travel and hotel costs for attending the class<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">If you enter the competition and you win a prize, we will include your name in a blog post announcing the lucky winners<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">If you are a runner-up, you may win an unspecified prize&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>The Summary<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">We&#8217;ll announce the lucky winner on Wednesday, January 26th, 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Good luck and we hope to see you there!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re really excited about the classes we&#8217;ve got coming up and to say &#8216;thank you&#8217; to the SQL community for all your support of SQLskills.com over the years, we&#8217;re running a competition. 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