Several vendors are still site sponsors through the year end and we obtain site pre-approval for our contests. I anticipate that the contest process will change once there are no longer paid sponsorships. In this case, I suspect that this contest posting did not follow existing protocol for preapproval and Scott allowed it to proceed, but clarified the facts out of respect to the relationships and contracts with current site sponsors.
As Scott mentioned in his reply, we did ask him permission via PM a few months ago to have a contest by giving away a brand new AzBox miniMe American Edition and he was OK with it. This was before the announcement that paid sponsorships and the FTA support brand sub-forums were being phased out.
Due to the delayed launch of AzBox US along with the recent firmware updates we had to release, it took a bit longer than anticipated to hold our contest. However, we did recently confirm our intention along with the "What would you do... 4:2:2" name for the contest when we were a guest on the Satellite Nation radio show. A replay of this can be heard starting at the 52:50 mark from the following recording of the show: http://ke4est.podomatic.com/entry/2013-07-03T21_12_45-07_00
After the show, it was determined that starting the contest on the first day of the month would be best which is why it was launched on August 1st.
Best regards,
PwrSurge
AzBox Canada & US
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