We just added more prizes so more people would win! :) They were all assigned from the leftover tickets once we drew the main ones (from the best down). Enjoy!

We also added the unlucky title at the last minute, because of the odds it wasn't really "unlucky" to not win anything based on the incredible amount of entires that we got.

You'll have plenty of opportunities to try for it again in the future! We look forward to reusing this title :)

Also I would just like to note that if we had not added a lot more prizes, the unlucky title wouldn't even exist (yet). Losing if there'd been 800 winning tickets out of almost 13,000 is hardly unlucky, and would not qualify anyone for that title :P

Only people who would have literally won nothing got "junk". It was an added bonus, which is something we'd mentioned since day one so that if we did add additional prizes we wouldn't mislead anyone. Besides, if it's just junk like you're calling it, I don't really see the problem with it being given out, especially since it didn't interfere with the winners of the initial prizes in any way. Just some more bonus goodies for more people who took the time to enter. The title was a silly bonus for those that, despite all of the extra prizes STILL didn't win. I'm sure it will be much "easier" to win in the future as we can use it with proper contests (something based more on merit over randomness) that have far fewer winners.

The title will be one of the easier ones to get once we use it for another contest or two. Like I mentioned, with the proper contests we often have thousands of people who don't win. It may technically be "valuable" now, but that really won't last. If we had made it event specific I'd totally understand being upset. But this is practically a gimme going forward because of the ratio of winners being so vastly different usually.

When we have contests it's usually hundreds and hundreds of entries where less than a dozen people win. The holidays are coming up, we are in prime contest season. It will be given out in huge quantities.

Next time don't write an awesome story and it shall be yours! XD

Sorry if that wasn't entirely clear. We pulled the big prizes that we had announced (best first), and then used the remaining tickets to pull for the next tier and so on. It was possible to get a combination of the better prizes and the lesser ones. But if you only got one or more of the prizes we added (from the forum points and below on the news post), that means you would otherwise have gotten nothing. Both you and the OP wouldn't have received anything had we not added the extra prizes.

The vast majority of raffles I've seen work this way? I know sometimes you have the option to enter various contests, but in my experience it's been way more common to enter one and have a chance at different things. My son just entered one at our county fair like this last week. It varies if you can win more than once (I've seen some say "one winner per household" and others not), but that's why we made sure to note from day one that you would be able to win multiple times.

From the first news post announcing the contest:

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