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[MoC] First issue

Day 1,994, 15:44 • Published in Ireland Ireland

• by Liam Tatlock

Welcome to the latest MoC bulletin, now under new ownership. The aim of the department will be to attempt to provide a bit of fun for the community and the chance to win some money, while attempting to raise the odd smile. I would ask that this be treated as a neutral ground and any animosities be kept elsewhere, please.

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Competition number one is something that I've not seen here before, which either means I've not looked hard enough or it's been tried and flopped. You may have seen auctions run this way so, if you have, you'll know the drill.

Rules
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All entrants may "buy" numbers between 1 and 100 inclusive at a cost of 10 IEP per number. The total prize fund will be the total quantity of numbers "bought" times the entry fee e.g if 10 people buy 5 numbers each, the prize fund will be 10 x 5 x 10 IEP or 500 IEP.

"How do you decide the winner?", I hear you cry. In this instance, the winner is the lowest unduplicated number, so if player A has 1, 3 & 5, player B has 2, 4 & 6 and player C has 1, 2, & 3, the winning number would be 4 as the numbers 1, 2 & 3 have been chosen by more than one person.

The deadline for entries is Sunday 12th May at 20:00 GMT (12:00 eRep) and entries should be mailed to Liam's mail> and payments made to Liam>

Comments

Marinko Margarin Day 1,994, 16:16

you'll have my numbers tomo o7
nice idea

sir adriano prette Day 1,994, 16:20

Nice ideda! I hope it takes off 🙂

castaneda Day 1,995, 01:47

"The aim of the department will be to create funds for the Treasury by way of the usual competitions,"

😁 This was never supposed to be the aim of the MoC,........ There's a clue is in the name 😁

Liam Tatlock Day 1,995, 02:10

"while attempting to raise the odd smile". I don't really see a problem with raising money for the country by means of some entertainment for the Community.

castaneda Day 1,995, 03:45

Then work for the MoF

Damhnaic Day 1,995, 09:43

I totally agree on castaneda on this. It was determined in the past that the community funds would be used only for the community and not for other departments. When I and my predecessors did numerous fundraisings to get community funds, many people expressed the thought that they wanted their money to be used on community activities and not on millitary department.

I guess you have the right to change the past mind of the MoC, but it just alienates its past and commitment to community itself and not other governement activities.

Liam Tatlock Day 1,995, 15:34

If the community doesn't want to raise funds for the country, I can just as easily run the competitions with all the prize fund going to the winner. People will just have to let me know what they want.

moomoohead Day 1,995, 19:28

One time the country was totaly broke and MoC had funds. We still did not use the funds. Donut started MoC and always kept funds seperate. Agree with Cas but am sure Liam did not mean harm and did not know the History. Good Luck this month.

Paddy OBrien Day 1,995, 20:32

I'd agree with MoC funds being for community use only. If someone wants to donate for government usage, there is a way for them to do that.

D-Glennon Day 1,995, 08:18

voted

Releasethe Krakken Day 1,995, 14:39

wont all the numbers be bought 10 is not much.

Liam Tatlock Day 1,995, 15:32

The numbers can be bought multiple times by different people

Liam Tatlock Day 1,996, 02:02

Never let it be said that I don't listen. From now on, under my aegis, all entry fees for competitions will be returned as prizes. I still think raising money for the Treasury is a sound idea, but there seems to be resistance to it, so I'll abide by that view.