Shycast and Bix (acquired by Yahoo) are also experimenting with brand based contests, albeit through video (and Shycast is also a social network).
When it comes to the elections, much like the sports based contests, there is a certain amount of predictability, such as the most liberal and conservative states, but once you get beyond the obvious, arriving at the correct result for every state takes more than luck.
The race now appears to be turning into a regionally based contest, with Santorum as the heartland candidate, Gingrich as the southern candidate, and the Mittster as Mr. Everywhere Else — or so he hopes.
Beyond an unspecified number of ads, the campaign pushes out, in English and in Spanish, fact sheets, press releases, emails, tweets and smart-phone based texting contests intended to appeal to Latinos.
Although tennis is perceived as a genteel sport, it has always confronted the same problem as other contests based on individual competition like boxing.
These results contribute towards design guidelines for contests based on behavioral principles that take into account implementation features of a contest.
In 1953, as Petty Officer Olefsky, he won the Michaels Memorial Award competition, a contest based in Chicago, with his performance of Saint-Saëns' Concerto in A Minor.
The bold concept recently took home first prize at eVolo's 2015 Skyscraper Competition, a contest based on radical reimaginings of the traditional skyscraper. .
The plan is to rank everyone participating in Kaggle contests, based on a rolling average of performance over the preceding 12 months.
As explained above, section 102.168(3)(c) explicitly contemplates contests based upon a "rejection of a number of legal votes sufficient to change the outcome of an election".
The close 23rd Congressional District race between United States Representative Francisco Canseco, Republican of San Antonio, and State Representative Pete Gallego, Democrat of Alpine, was one of the costliest contests, based on dollars per vote.
