Wowhead's 12 Killer Days of Khristmas
by Eliah Hecht 
Dec 15th 2008 at 7:30PM
The Feast of Winter Veil has officially started, and Wowhead is joining in the holiday spirit. The site logo has been made a bit more festive, and the icons for items and users on the forums are now sporting a cheery holly border. They're also running a contest titled (slightly threateningly) "12 Killer Days of Khristmas." Each day between now and December 24, they're giving away fabulous prizes:
- For phase one of the contest (12/13 to 12/18), winners get a Wowhead Prize Package, containing one of those nifty steins, a (slightly tacky, IMO) K-logo necklace by Killer, an Alienware cap, and a totally rad Wowhead t-shirt.
- Phase two (12/19 to 12/21) offers a Killer K1 network card each day. Killer's cards are set apart by an on-board CPU and some other hardware-based features, which they claim can lower your latency by taking some load off your main CPU.
- Phase three (12/22 and 12/23) can get you a Killer M1 network card, allegedly even better.
- Finally, phase four (12/24) is your chance to win a totally sweet Alienware Aurora desktop, kitted out with a K1 card as well as a quad-core 2.6 GHz CPU and all sorts of other good stuff.
How do I win one of these amazing prizes, you ask? Just answer one simple question: What does your WoW character want for Christmas? Put your answers on the contest post on the Wowhead blog, and you're entered to win. You can enter once per day, and your entries are cumulative - if you've answered every day by the 12th day, you then have 12 chances at the Alienware machine.
A quick caveat: the contest is US-only. Sorry, Canadians, Europeans, and other folks from around the world; laws suck sometimes. For the full rules, click on over to Wowhead.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Trilynne Dec 15th 2008 7:36PM
DAMN YOU CONTEST LAWS!
*is Canadian*
Trilynne Dec 15th 2008 8:06PM
oooh, first! xD
Mystical Parrot Dec 15th 2008 7:38PM
you get used to it
(european)
Pronoiac Dec 15th 2008 7:42PM
I LOVE CONTESTS!
-American
CM Dec 15th 2008 7:42PM
What's the over/under on how long until some wacky religious person posts a complaint about how you spelled Christmas?
offday Dec 15th 2008 9:34PM
That's how they spell it on Wowhead.
And while I do think it is a bit disrespectful, I've come to accept that the internet is one big disrespectful place. And I don't consider myself a "wacky religious person." I consider myself, and others, a person who obviously has different beliefs than you.
Adonis Dec 16th 2008 8:17AM
In this case, I don't think to goal is to take the religious reference out of Christmas, they're just putting in the K because the contest is sponsored by Killer.
Medved Dec 15th 2008 7:49PM
For some reason lately, i havent been able to access wowhead. Every time i go on, and wait an unusually long 5 minutes for it to load, all i see is white with a few wowhead links. Tooltips also don't work, so when i read wowinsider, im often left in the dark on what item/spell is being mentioned. Ive heard that the cure is updating Java, yet ive done that, and it still doesnt work.
Can anyone help me?
sickbox Dec 15th 2008 7:57PM
Umm.. try clearing your cache and if that doesnt work reinstall your OS. And if that doesnt work, burn down your ISP.
kesherz Dec 15th 2008 9:29PM
Don't use Internet Explorer.
Ryan Dec 15th 2008 8:32PM
My night elf warrior wants a toilet. Nobody wants to go in the bathroom in the same place as feral druids...
Gleb 70 Draka [A] Dec 15th 2008 9:00PM
I want to ding 80 by then, As I rerolled on Grizzly Hills and just dinged 70 last night! :)
Panoko Dec 16th 2008 12:02AM
My hunter would like to finish leveling his engineering so he can get a chopper!
Antidamage Dec 15th 2008 10:36PM
KKK allusions aren't really all that funny in their own right.
toromei Dec 15th 2008 11:02PM
why does that damn elf not have feet, only stumps..? thats just creepy...
snakeye142 Dec 15th 2008 11:23PM
to answer the question:
my wow character wants to be the first to have 500 mounts
Narshe Dec 16th 2008 12:19AM
Thx for posting this article on the third day that the wowhead contest has been running, would have been nice to have the 3 day stack :(
Dightkuz Dec 16th 2008 7:23AM
This contest is only open to users located in the United States.
Ofcourse...
wendy Dec 16th 2008 9:52AM
First day of Christmas I want 12 stacks of frostweave colth.
Aramaethien Dec 16th 2008 10:27AM
The blood elf in the picture wants limbs for Christmas.