Congratulations! You will be contacted as soon as possible to get your steam game codes. The contest winners were picked with random.org support.

Hope everybody had a bit of fun with this contest. Thanks to all that participated. Thanks also to Paradox Interactive for the support on supplying the goods.

The contest details and all the people that entered the contest can be found in this post.

I thought it was time we had another contest at Space Sector. So, I’m proud to announce that Space Sector has teamed up with Paradox Interactive and we’ll host a giveaway contest at Space Sector. Paradox will offer 10 copies of Sword of the Stars 2: Lords of Winter, this 28th of October. But that’s not all. Paradox was generous and in addition to the 10 SotS2 copies it will also offer 20 copies of Sword of the Stars Complete Collection (the entire SotS original series).

This means that the lucky 10 will get Sword of the Stars II and Sword of the Stars Complete Collection. The next set of 10 lucky ones will receive a copy of Sword of the Stars Complete Collection, which is a great way to enter in the SotS Universe also. So, in total there will be a total of 20 prize winners in this contest.

How to enter in the contest

1. Follow on twitter: @spacesector, @swordofthestars, @PDXinteractive - OR – like Space Sector, Sword of the Stars and Paradox on facebook
2. Tweet for Sword of the Stars. Example: “I will eXplore, eXpand, eXploit & eXterminate the universe! @spacesector @swordofthestars @PDXinteractive to win a copy” – OR – share this blog post URL in facebook
3. For the social network non-users out there (that don’t want to join these networks) you can still enter the contest. You folks can forget about points 1 and 2, you just need to subscribe the Space Sector newsletter (in the sidebar to the right) and Paradox’s newsletter by registering in their forum. This is not a big deal to ask I guess, and you can unsubscribe both newsletters later at any time if you wish. Although I think you’d lose a great opportunity to stay in touch with Space Sector’s news ;)
4. Make a comment in this blog post below. Submit your name and email in the comment form (we’ll use that email to contact you if you’re one of the winners). Let us know also what you’ve done regarding point 1,  2 and 3. Don’t forget to include your twitter id or facebook id (for points 1 and 2) or the username you used to register the Paradox forum (for point 3).

I will give examples of how you guys should post your comments to become eligible:

@<your twitter name here> has followed @spacesector, @swordofthestars and @PDXinteractive and tweeted

Another example:

<your facebook name here> liked Space Sector, Sword of the Stars and Paradox and shared this post in facebook

One more:

Registered Space Sector newsletter and registered in Paradox’s forum with username [the username you used to register in paradox's forum here].

We’ll pick the winners on the 28th of October 2011 at 12:00 am EST. I’ll check those to see if they fulfilled all points, if they shared and what it was. Edit: I forgot to mention. Contest closes on 27th October 12:00am EST. After that point you can no longer enter the contest. I’ll signal that by changing the contest status to [CLOSED].

The contest winners will be generated randomly with the help of random.org

Games will be provided via Steam.

Games’ info:

• Sword of the Stars 2: Q&A with Chris Stewart
• Sword of the Stars 2: Opening Cinematic Sneak Peak
• Sword of the Stars 2: New Video Interview With Martin Cirulis at GDC
• Sword of the Stars Complete Collection – Review

Good luck!

Cheers

Adam Solo

The totals are:

1. jomo44: 14 points (winner!)
2. gLf: 8 points
3. Evan, dvice, naturesnacho and lilyk: all with 2 points

jomo44, as winner of the contest your prize is (as you chosen): Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Edition !! (includes all Galactic Civilizations 2 acclaimed expansion packs). Here he is happily presenting his prize.

Thanks to all the participants. Stay tuned for the next SpaceSector.com contests.

Stardock kindly accepted my request for sponsorship and supported my initiative by providing the prize. So the prize will be one of Stardock’s flag games. The winner may choose one of these game for free: Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Edition (full edition – includes all GalCiv2 expansions – $39.95 worth) or Sins of Solar Empire Bundle (includes the Sins expansion – Entrenchment – $22.99 worth) .

What do you have to do to have the chance to win one of these excellent space strategy games?

Prizes

As said above the winner of this contest will receive one of these great games (of choice of the participant):

• Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Edition

GalCiv II: Ultimate Edition (Download + Retail Box)

• Sins of a Solar Empire Bundle
  

  Sins of a Solar Empire Bundle

How to Enter the Contest

To become a valid participant in the contest you only have to do two things:

1. Leave a comment on the forum under this topic (you need to subscribe in the forum for this): don’t forget to include in this subscription comment your prize pick (GalCiv2 or Sins);
2. Subscribe the SpaceSector.com Newsletter (you can subscribe it when filling the forum register form or in the main page sidebar)

These are the minimum requirements that you need to satisfy in order to enter the contest (this gives you 2 points).

To increase your chances of winning you have to do the following actions, that provide additional bonus points:

• (for 1 to 10 extra points) Make a comment to one of the SpaceSector’s articles. You can pick an article of your choice. The content of the comment will only be made public at the end of the contest. This will give you from 1 to 10 additional points depending on the quality of your comment (see “How the Winner Will be Chosen” below for details)
• (for 2 extra points) Follow SpaceSector.com on Twitter: you need to provide your twitter username in your subscription comment (point 1.) and follow the spacesector username on Twitter to validate this;
• (for 2 extra points) Twitt about the SpaceSector’s blog contest or make an entry about the SpaceSector contest on your facebook account for 2 extra points: you need to provide your twitter username or link pointing to your facebook account in order to validate this action;
• (for 1 to 2 extra points) Tell your friends about SpaceSector.com. If 1 of your friends registers the SpaceSector.com Newsletter you gain 1 extra point; if 3 of your friends sign the SpaceSector.com newsletter you gain 2 extra points): you need to provide the user names of your friends in your subscription comment (point 1.) in order to validate this step;
• (for 2 extra points): Make a blog post on your own blog about this contest with a link to this blog post. If you don’t have a blog don’t worry, you can gain the 2 extra points also if you post and link to this page on a relevant website forum (related with space or games) or on a social site like digg, reddit, stumbleupon, other. Just don’t forget to provide the link of your submission on your subscription comment.

In summary the only requirements to enter the contest are the first two (1 – leave a comment and 2 – register the newsletter), the other actions provide additional bonuses that I leave up to you to satisfy in order to increase your chances.

How the Winner Will Be Chosen

The participant that makes the most points wins. The maximum amount of points is: 20 (all actions fulfilled and top score achieved on comment to article)

All actions that provide bonuses are scored objectively except the one regarding the comment about one of SpaceSector’s articles. For this last action (the more valuable one) the criteria will be: relevance, quality of the content and humor (size is not a criteria). Chewbacca moderator and Myself will score the comments.

In case of a Tie

In case of a tie the number of fulfilled actions will be used to pick the winner. If that does not solve it the participantes sharing the same score will take straws, which means that the winner will be randomly picked from the final bunch.

Sponser

This contest is powered by Stardock, which I humbly thank for having supported this idea.

Stardock Entertainment is an emerging leader in the PC gaming industry. It develops and/or publishes a variety of popular games including Galactic Civilizations, Sins of a Solar Empire, The Political Machine, Demigod and more. Stardock has 2 of the top 10 highest rated PC games of the last couple of years according to Metacritic.

Start, End Date and Prize Claim

The contest started today at the time this blog was posted.

The contest ends in 18th of December 2009. In this day the winner will be announced. To pick the prize the winner just needs to create an account at ImpulseDriven.com (Stardock´s download central and Store) and after I announce the winner to Stardock the game of choice will be put in the user’s shopping cart for free.

Hope you enjoy the challenge.

Have Fun!

Adam Solo