XYZPrinting Contest Complaint
So about a month ago XYZPrinting started a contest on Facebook for a DaVinci XYZ AiO 1.0 3D Printer, telling people to post their models to get votes and have a chance to win a 3D Printer, on the 15th the contest ended and the winner was going to be announced on the 18th, it was pushed back to the 20th and not actually announced until the 21st.
The finalists were my Judge Dredd Lawgiver, a Tiki Screwdriver design, a Sound Horn, a Nimoy Tribute and a 20 Sided Die. The winner selected by the XYZPrinting page was the 20 Sided die, which an hour before the contest ended it didn't have more than 30 votes on it, I don't recall the amount of shares it had but it was low.
The Lawgiver and the Screwdriver fought over votes until the end, nearing 200 votes the last time I checked which was about an hour before midnight when the contest was due to end. The Screwdriver had about 18 shares with the Lawgiver having 35. As for the Sound Horn and the Nimoy Tribute they both had a lot of votes but not as many as the Lawgiver or the Screwdriver entry.
So the winner was announced as jlambe15, Joe Lambert, or as his Facebook page was titled Joe Assdnee. I would say you could try to find his Facebook page now but it was deleted. The only person I could tell that was trying to get votes for him was his brother Julian Lambert. But that could very well be due to other people sharing it only with friends instead of the public. His other entries were a hair pick, a couple coffee designs, the D20, a toy bullet, Millennium Falcon turret, and a couple other small objects. So the only way this person could have possibly won was because of the amount of models they entered.
So I've come to believe that the contest was a fluke, sham, a way for XYZPrinting to get likes for their page without having to give anything away. Or they just did a very poor job with judging. All the other entries had a lot more creativity, and complexity not counting votes. The rules of the contest were that entries would be judged on the # of models entered, votes and shares received, and before they closed the contest page I think it was also judged on creativity and complexity as well.
This is the page for XYZPrinting
https://www.facebook.com/XYZprinting