Win a Corepad Mousing Surface!

Along with the review sample Corepad, the Corepad company's owner, Marcel, sent us a Corepad to give away as a competition prize for the HEXUS readers. It's a fully boxed Corepad with 50cm of Corepad Skatez (hard to find in the U.K!), the neoprene stability sheet and the small instruction leaflet.

http://img.hexus.net/v2/gaming/corepad/images/weave.jpg

All you have to do to win it is count the number of times the words MOUSING SURFACE are used together as a phrase in this article, and post your answer in this very forum thread.

As a tiebreaker question incase a bunch of you get it right, also state a guess for the weight of the Corepad (on its own without the neoprene sheet, as measured by me using my digital scales :devilish: ) and the nearest guess (to the metric gram) will win the Corepad.

Get your entries in by the end of next week (Friday 13th August) and I'll contact the winner using the forums for his or her postal address, to send it out as soon as possible.

The only rules are that you must be resident in the U.K (sorry to our overseas readers!) and that HEXUS forum staff or main site employees aren't allowed to enter. You only get one guess/post, but you can edit that guess/post containing as much as you like before next Friday. A final hint: it's not as obvious as you may think.

Good luck! :rockon:

Rys

10

And a guess for the weight? :p

16?

Edit: 680g

675gms

there are 8 "MOUSING SURFACE" only which used in the context of a phrase

as for weight 650grams

One guess (count for the phrase, and one for the weight) per post please.

Rys

21

620gms

But 'Mousing Surfaces' also includes 'Mousing Surface', plus there's the title and the drop down box which are all a part of the article :D.

12

630gms

14 640g

12 mousing services.
245g for the weight.

13 Mice Petrol Stations (Mousing Services)

256g of weight

12 and 400g

9

500g

hmm well it all depends on if you include the headings and hte drop down box. However for my answer i will assume we include the heading and dont include the drop down box

so.....12

and for the weight....550g

12 400g

15 and 675g

12 (13 if you count the link at the bottom of the Introduction page!)

300 grams

12 - 475 Grams

TiG

12 mousing services.

528grams for the weight.

12

&

368grams

11 times & 500 gms

12 & 350grams :)

12 and based on some glass here almost exactly the same size 575g

10

Weight: 501 grams

There are 9 uses of "mousing surface" within the review itself, including the title on the second page but excluding the use of "mousing surfaces" 3 times(different phrase) and the 2 page links "corepad mousing surface", and the menu link :p(page links .. whats that got todo with the review?:P) an

as for the weight, if its 280x220x4 (at the max length/width) as you say, glass is around 2600kg/m3, making its weight around 640, add 10g for the preforated sheet, and take off 100 for the rounded edges and wrist cutout my guess would be about 550g :> (heavy mouse mat :P)

(never won anything in my life, sweet if i did :P)

15 - excluding repetition in title of review on each page

490g

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Originally Posted by arsen

There are 9 uses of "mousing surface" within the review itself

..snip..

as for the weight, if its 280x220x4 (at the max length/width) as you say, glass is around 2600kg/m3, making its weight around 640, add 10g for the preforated sheet, and take off 100 for the rounded edges and wrist cutout my guess would be about 550g :> (heavy mouse mat :P)

(never won anything in my life, sweet if i did :P)

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Guess you've won something now!

WINNAR!!!111oneone

9 is correct. You don't count mousing surfaces and it's just article text, so you don't count header, title or menu instances either.

Willy also stated the instance count correctly, but your guess was closer. 98.9% close to be precise.

http://img.hexus.net/v2/news_page/rys/corepad556.jpg

556g in weight, when you guessed 550g, means you win the Corepad.

Congratulations!

PM me with your postal address and I'll post the Corepad out first thing in the morning. You'll have it on Monday.

Also, thanks to everyone who entered, and many thanks to Corepad themselves for the competition sample.

Rys

<3

:D ty .. ill enter more competitions in future :s
finally found my talent, how about a competition for a sony p900?:P

nice one

ok well done arsen (lucky git ;)) but i can still only find 8 "mousing surface" 6 page 1 ,1 page 2 ,0 page 3 and 1 on the last page thoughts?? where's number 9??

also out of pure curiosity why did arsen edit his entry l8 last night?

decided the 20g i had added for cut outs / corners etc wasnt enough, but id of still won with 580g guess i had the other day :p

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Originally Posted by da_ging

ok well done arsen (lucky git ;)) but i can still only find 8 "mousing surface" 6 page 1 ,1 page 2 ,0 page 3 and 1 on the last page thoughts?? where's number 9??

also out of pure curiosity why did arsen edit his entry l8 last night?

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Counts:

Page 1: 6
Page 2: 1
Page 3: 0
Page 4: 1
Page 5: 1

Total: 9

Rys

Congrats Arsen, I should have used the same physics equation thinking about it, but its a bit late now :P Enjoy the pad dude :D

Don't suppose you offer consolation prizes Rys? ;) :p

buy me a p900 and ill give you the pad for FREE! ;P

Hmmm, i'll have to get back to you on that arsen :P

Have you recieved the pad yet? I wondered if you could give me your opinions on it, as i'm quite close to buying one (since I was robbed in the competition :D)