Welcome to Noni's 2024 Sinterklaas Event!

Hear the wind blows through the tree tops
Even in house here blows the wind
Will the good Saint even come
Now that the weather so terrible he finds
Now that the weather so terrible he finds

Yes, he rides in darkest of nights
On his horsie, oh so fast
If he knew how much we're yearning
Yes, for sure that he would come
Yes, for sure that he would come


December 6th is Sinterklaas / Saint Nicolas Day. Therefore, all good children may put their shoe in front of the chimney, in the evening of December 5th. Then they sing a song for Sinterklaas and put something in it for his horse - on which he travels over the rooftops. They then may find sweets or presents in it the next morning. The horse is called "Oh-So-Fast" by the way. And he likes carrots. And hard liquor. Not entirely sure about that, but whenever I put a glass of booze in my shoe, it's empty next morning.

Please put your shoe in this thread to participate in a Hath Give-Away & Lottery event to celebrate this occasion.

How to enter for a small prize (50% of prize pool divided equally over all entries)
Just post a link to cloth armor shoe with EID higher than 298832369 owned by you (persistent equipment only)
One shoe is enough to enter. But you are allowed to enter more than 1.
you can enter up to 3 cloth armor shoe equipment:

1. One Magnificent or lower quality shoe (Magnificent or Exquisite or Superior or Average or Fair or Crude)
2. One Legendary quality shoe
3. One Peerless quality shoe

Each valid entry will get a ticket with number, see next post
Read the rules carefully!

How to make your entry participate in the lottery-part of the event as well
RENAME your cloth armor feet wear before posting them.
renaming is mandatory for entering the lottery (IW to 10, then click 'rename' and change the name)
The name can be your gift to the horse of Sinterklaas - but that's optional (this does not affect your chance of winning).
Read the rules carefully!

Rules - read carefully!
- if you want to participate in the lottery part, your equipment needs to be renamed
- if your equipment is not renamed, you will only get a ticket with number 99999, which will only give you the small prize that every valid entry gets
- if you first post equipment without rename, and then rename, you need to re-submit the equipment in a new post
- you will not get a PM if your entry is invalid, check in this thread after a couple of days to make sure that you have a valid ticket
- max 3 entries per person, 1 per quality:

1. One shoe of 'Magnificent or lower' quality: Magnificent or Exquisite or Superior or Average or Fair or Crude
2. One Legendary quality shoe
3. One Peerless quality shoe

- Use as many posts as you need, no need to put all caps in a single post
- editing will be ignored after you have a valid ticket
- persistent equipment only
- equipment must be EID > 298832369
- equipment must be a shoe, any type (cotton, phase)
- equipment must be tradable
- equipment must be owned by you until you have a valid ticket listed in 2nd post (usually a couple of days after you posted it)
- a piece of equipment can only be entered by 1 person, first entry counts
- if you change your display name after entering, please PM me before end of event, or you don't get a prize. (your prize will go to the next player in order of MM sending and they can keep it)
- if you don't take the prize from the MM within one month after sending, I'll recall the prize and you get nothing


Prizes
- 50% of prize pool goes to the 10 renamed equipment with ticket number closest to target, closer to target gets bigger share
- 50% of prize pool goes to all valid entries, shared equally over all entries


Prize pool
Total: 21,493 hath

Sponsors - more sponsoring is welcome
Noni: 1000 hath
caxerx: 10,000 hath
kamio11: 10,000 hath
ppp4321: 397 hath
Juggernaut Santa: 69 hath
Lady_Slayer: 45 hath


Timing
post your entry before December 6th 2024 00:00 UTC



"I still don't get it...can you explain in detail how the lottery works?"(you don't have to read this)
Play HV and get an cloth shoe equipment drop. IW that shoe to 10 and rename it to a funny name. Then post the renamed cap by posting like this:or like this (but then renamed to for instance Carrot for Oh So Fast):Last 3 characters of equipment link: 94a

I convert that from HEX to DEC to get the lottery ticket number
My lottery ticket number is then: 2378
To win, this lottery ticket number must be very close to the lottery ticket number of my Mystery Shoe. Ranking is based on absolute numeric difference between your lottery ticket number and the goal
If you make it into the top 10 - good for you, you get more of the prize pool!
If not, - still good, everyone gets a share of the prize pool.

The Goal - get a ticket number close to this one - Noni's Magical Mistery Shoe
I have just generated shoes:
This is Noni's Magical Mystery shoe. You'll notice that the equipment link is missing the numbers and letters at the end. So you don't know if your renamed shoe is good or bad. It's a lottery.

Inspiration


This post has been edited by Noni: Nov 18 2024, 18:14