Candy Corngrats to Our Corsair Case Contestants
So...much...candy...
Just before Halloween, we held a contest for you guys to guess how many candy corn pieces were inside this Corsair 800D case.
Today we're pleased to announce the winners. While nobody guessed the exact number, the closest entry came within 62 candy corns of the real total.
Before we reveal the winners and their guesses, let's take a look at cased filled with candy corn craziness.
The total number of candy corn pieces in this case is 50,712. See the filling of the case at YouTube.
Our grand prize winner is Michael Chinander of Chicago, IL and he guessed 50,650, and gets to take home a Corsair combo of Obsidian Series 800D Case, HX850 Power Supply, Hydro Series H50 Cooler, and 128 GB Extreme Series SSD.
We also have 32 GB Voyager flash drives to give to our three runners up who came next closest with their guesses:
- Justin Langness of Long Beach, CA guessed 50,598 (114 away)
- Erin Cleary of Portland, OR guessed 50,840 (128 away)
- Timothy Finnegan of Tucson, AZ guessed 51,000 (288 away)
Corngratulations to all of our winners and thanks for entering to all those who participated!
We've reached out to our winners to see if they'll share their stories of how they arrived at the numbers that they did. Stay tuned!
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Can I get the candy corn? Yummm....
Wow, intense competition. So close too, who would've known.
I don't remember the number I guessed...
so who gets the candy corn?
I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!!
Nice alliteration.
I guessed somewhere in the 60k range.
Man i was off by 10k lol the candy corn must be fun to remove
Am I the only one that thinks candy corn is gross?
I was 10k away. *facepalm* 61,532.
Am I the only one that thinks candy corn is gross?
Indeed. Repulsively so...
Agreed - hate candy corn.
Side note - amazingly close guessing.
damm, I was really close - I guessed 51k
Ah, there they are.
ah man... I said 50,500 So.. close
I forgot what I had guessed. I came up with my numbers before the video was put up so I wasn't sure if they filled up all of the spaces.... I think before I deducted all of it, I was around 50k..
I had it all in Excel.. But at that time my Hard Drive failed and I lost all of my files so I can't go back and check >
oh wait... 48,500... darn.. far off
oh wait... 48,500... darn.. far off
50500 woulda gotten you a prize. Still- only 288 off for 3rd runner-up. Crazy tight contest.
Wow- just did the math- just over half a percent deviation to get a prize (0.568%)
I was waayyy off I think I guessed like 144,000 or something.
Cangrats to the winner....
Damn my guess was 46,000 pretty close
Where are the benchmarks of this system? How does candy corn thermodynamics compare to water cooled systems?
I wonder if anyone bought this case and 50,000+ candy corns. financially, it would of been worth it. I wonder how many guesses were put in?
Damn, I was like 900 off.
lol i said 5,000
i was way off... i said 38,000 something
Does the winner get the candy corn too? I know I would ask for it!
for god sakes I was going to submit 51000 before finding out that its restricted to US residents.
with all of that candy corn in there, what is the FPS like in crysis?