From one BBN member to the rest--UPDATED 6/3 WITH RESULTS.
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Voted again a couple times. Do we all get hats with mouse ears if you win?
feel like I'm cyber stalking these kids back to Disney. Oh, well. has to be done. voting. again
did all I could - even got my daughter who is a fan of OTIS to vote for ya!
should have this thing above 9k views before time's up
Have voted every day. That other family got front page of the local newspaper? LOL.
Final listing of "views" each video received:
1) Our Magical Storybook (my kids' video) - 9,218
2) Our Whole Trip to Disney - 5,854
3) The Memories Never End - 4,130
4) Prince Mighty Matthew - 3,968
5) A Two-Year-Old's Trip - 2,770
6) Disney Magic - 1.914
7) Elsa! - 1.776
8) Lila Meets Tigger - 1,391
9) Kayla's Love Poem to Disney - 1,182
10) Afraid to Fly - 1,168
11) Twins Love Disney World - 1,056
12) Noah Defeats Darth Vader - 948
As you can see, these results look VERY promising for my family. However, one last time, I must point out that number of views does NOT necessarily correlate with number of votes. I know there were a lot of people trying to vote over and over again on certain videos each day, even though Disney will only count one of those votes per day, which throws the accuracy of the views off.
I don't know the true vote tally, nor do I know when Disney will announce the winner. The official rules state that the winner will be notified "on or around June 2015" -- whatever that means.
As SOON as we know the results, win or lose, I will post them here. And in the event we win: believe me, I will bring this thread back up when we go on our trip and post tons of pictures, links to videos, etc.
1) Our Magical Storybook (my kids' video) - 9,218
2) Our Whole Trip to Disney - 5,854
3) The Memories Never End - 4,130
4) Prince Mighty Matthew - 3,968
5) A Two-Year-Old's Trip - 2,770
6) Disney Magic - 1.914
7) Elsa! - 1.776
8) Lila Meets Tigger - 1,391
9) Kayla's Love Poem to Disney - 1,182
10) Afraid to Fly - 1,168
11) Twins Love Disney World - 1,056
12) Noah Defeats Darth Vader - 948
As you can see, these results look VERY promising for my family. However, one last time, I must point out that number of views does NOT necessarily correlate with number of votes. I know there were a lot of people trying to vote over and over again on certain videos each day, even though Disney will only count one of those votes per day, which throws the accuracy of the views off.
I don't know the true vote tally, nor do I know when Disney will announce the winner. The official rules state that the winner will be notified "on or around June 2015" -- whatever that means.
As SOON as we know the results, win or lose, I will post them here. And in the event we win: believe me, I will bring this thread back up when we go on our trip and post tons of pictures, links to videos, etc.
Thank you BBN so much for coming through and supporting my family the way you have. In the grand scheme of things, it's a pretty meaningless contest, but it has been incredible to witness so many of you performing acts of complete kindness to a stranger who's only connection to you is by our "brotherhood" of UK fandom.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You win this and all of bbn needs to spread the word just like this contest. It needs to hit ksr, lhl, , lcj, I want it to get to Calipari and he say " you people are crazy"
I don't find it meaningless. You have worked hard to win this thing.
Keep us posted on the results. Really hope you won this trip for your kids. Good Luck. Any idea when you will hear back?
That connection is (BIG) the other people had a front page of the newspaper but you had the BIG BLUE NATION behind you.I think when you win you owe all of us one thing a family picture at the castle.Have a great trip,you will win.
Waiting to hear from Disney. The official rules on the website states that the winner will be notified "on or about June 2015" ... which doesn't really make any sense. As soon as I know one way or another, I will post it here.
And I will definitely be posting pictures (if not a full on review of the Castle suite) on here if we do in fact win.
Thanks again!
Well BBN, as much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, I have to announce that the Spring of Misery for the UK fandom continues. Our family unfortunately did not win the Disney competition.
We were honestly a little surprised when we were notified this morning given the number of views our video had received compared to the competition, but apparently another video was voted on many more times than it was actually viewed. As I noted all along, the views total was not equivalent to actual votes.
While it's disappointing to be so close and come up short (feels a lot like early April in our household! haha), I very much appreciate the support shown here, especially by the posters who voted multiple times on successive days. I am honored by the kindness that was shown, and I take some comfort in the fact that the winning video (the one with the second most views) belongs to a family with four very adorable children who had previously only been able to go to Disney for one single day (which was the basis for their video).
We'll make it back to Disney on our own terms--though minus a Castle suite stay of course--and when that comes, it will be wonderful and we will be sure to take a photo with some UK love to post on here and represent BBN!
As a final note, we shot this video a week or so ago as a "thank you" to everyone who supported us with the intention of releasing it once the results were out, win or lose. Enjoy:
We were honestly a little surprised when we were notified this morning given the number of views our video had received compared to the competition, but apparently another video was voted on many more times than it was actually viewed. As I noted all along, the views total was not equivalent to actual votes.
While it's disappointing to be so close and come up short (feels a lot like early April in our household! haha), I very much appreciate the support shown here, especially by the posters who voted multiple times on successive days. I am honored by the kindness that was shown, and I take some comfort in the fact that the winning video (the one with the second most views) belongs to a family with four very adorable children who had previously only been able to go to Disney for one single day (which was the basis for their video).
We'll make it back to Disney on our own terms--though minus a Castle suite stay of course--and when that comes, it will be wonderful and we will be sure to take a photo with some UK love to post on here and represent BBN!
As a final note, we shot this video a week or so ago as a "thank you" to everyone who supported us with the intention of releasing it once the results were out, win or lose. Enjoy:
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A lot of times (usually when browsing on smartphones, I think) clicking on a link from Facebook or elsewhere would take you directly to the video without it actually starting to play. If you voted without the video playing, it would count as a vote but not a view. For people who returned day after day (myself included), often we would just vote directly without watching the videos.
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