So it actually snowed in South Carolina and everyone here has lost their mind. In the last 24 hours there have been over 175 automobile accidents on major highways and kids everywhere are lining up to kill themselves by snow-boarding behind four wheelers.
To our credit, it is the fifth most it has ever snowed in a 24 hour period in South Carolina since 1894, so that may be why we have all gone SNOW-CRAZY.
Read my other blog posts to find out how my kids and I created "The Magic Snowball" and how a friend of ours, teamed up with us to produce a romantic comedy featuring, Frostine, Frosty's lesser advertised girlfriend.
We were looking at old pictures the other night, and my daughter, Savannah, laughed out loud at an old picture of me and my wife, and she said, "Walt, you have to come look at this old picture."
And before seeing it, Walt started laughing and said, "Is it of me naked, or you naked?
Back in December, my daughter, along with our entire family and a few friends at a Sunday meal after church at Le Peep in Northeast Columbia. She colored this snow-flake and entered it into their contest.
Well, she won, and was awarded a 25 dollar gift certificate to The Learning Express.
Continue reading for details on how they chose the winner from the 300 entries. The 8 finalists were chosen from over 300 entries. The staff of the restaurant narrowed down the entries to 8, and then hung them on the wall. They waited for the very next customer to walk in, and when he did, they asked him to choose a winner. He chose Savannah's picture!
Savannah Simpson is the daughter of former Gamecock Kicker and Punter, Marty Simpson. Marty is the president of Blue-Eyed Panda LLC. (Savannah's nick-name is Sonny.)
Savannah (or Sonny) will be picking her bowl game winners based on which team has the better looking uniforms, as she is quite the fashionista. Read on to register and play for free!
Savannah will be picking the games along with Tommy Moody, Benji Norton, and Bob Shields of 107.5 The Early Game morning radio show. The contest will be tallied, and if Savannah wins, the guys will have to do something special to be announced later.
If Savannah loses ... well, we'll jump off that bridge when we get there, but most likely she will simply remind everyone she is a ten year old little girl and that she picked the games based on the uniforms!
See Sonny's Video Explanations of Some of Her Picks
How Do You Get to Play?
If you would like to participate in this fun contest, read below on how to register with the site and enter your picks to see how you stack up against Sonny. Outlined below are the prizes for the web contestants as well as the rules.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot this part...Pray that you actually do beat a girl whose picks are based solely on the uniform fashion of the teams involved.
How Does Sonny Make Her Picks?
In case you missed it above, Sonny will choose her winner solely based on the teams' uniforms. (Sorry ahead of time to Joe Pa!)
If she likes both uniforms equally, or dislikes them both equally, she will then go to which mascot she likes better. (And not mascot name, but actual mascot character.)
How to Win?
Online winners will register at the site. Fill out the bowl list with their chosen winners. Each win that is predicted correctly is worth 1 point. No spreads are used for the game outcomes, only raw, real scores. After the final game has been played, all entries will be counted and the ones that have actually defeated (if there are any) Sonny's total wins will all be tallied.
From this list, finalists will be chosen. The finalists will be those entries that defeated Savannah's picks by the most amount. If there is only one entry left when this calculation is complete, then that person will be declared the grand prize winner. If there are multiple folks at the top of the win total that ended with the same number of wins, then a random drawing will be held to determine the grand prize winner.
The overall grand prize will be announced on the radio on the Early Game on 107.5 so stay tuned.
What if I Heard About it Late, Can I Still Play?
YES! There will be two grand prize winners. The first will be awarded to the person that picks all games between December 19th and the BCS National Championship game. The 2nd Grand Prize winner will be awarded to person who has the most wins in the bowl games that are played ON or AFTER January 1st.
So go ahead and get to pickin'!!
(Noteworthy: Any game played prior to your register date will not be counted towards your total win number for obvious reasons! However, you may still register and win if your total win number exceeds Savannah's. And as long as you register by January 1st, you will be eligible for the 2nd grand prize for the January 1 and later bowl games.)