The One-Ton-o'-Real-Deal-Fun Contest: 2,000 Facebook Fans R Us!

Small company, big fanbase. Go, us!

A few days ago, our Facebook site crested the 2,000-fan mark, a big dang Real Deal to us. So it's giveaway time again, RDB brethren and sistren! And while we may not still be able to pull this type of thing off if we reach, y'know, 20,000 fans, we guess we'll just have to see what shakes out, won't we? So bring it, people! Bring it!

For now, we're happy to offer this, as a serious thank you to all of you Real Deal Brazil fans, outright RDB junkies, geocaching hatters, photo posters, world travelers, sarcasm purveyors, hunters, fishers, hikers, loungers, beer swiggers, et al., and generally just truly fun folks (Our fans are the best! All you other sites can go to hell!), for giving us your dedication, and your time:

Twenty (yes, 20!) lucky fans will each receive one classic Real Deal Brazil recycled tarp hat, plus a choice of either a Real Deal Brazil Hat Hitch Wind Strap or Real Deal Brazil Coconut Hat Band.

OR

One Real Deal Brazil Recycled-Tarp Ballcap and one Real Deal Brazil Wallet (either Bi-Fold or Tri-Fold).

Not bad, huh?

So how do you enter? Well, ya gotta play to win, folks! Ya gotta play to win!

CONTEST RULES:

It's simple: Answer a question posted on our Facebook page. Every day of the contest, we'll re-post the question, as well as a link back to here, in case you forget these outrageously complex rules.

NOTE: You only need to enter ONE time; additional postings will NOT increase your chances! Though the cleverest response, judged by, well, us, won't get you any further in this contest, we do so love us a clever response!

Anyone who becomes a Real Deal Brazil Facebook fan before the contest closes is eligible to enter.

The contest closes at 8:30 a.m. Monday, July 18, at which point we'll collect all names of fans who've posted real responses, and provide those names, as soon as we reasonably can, to the random third-party drawing service at Random.org. Then, as soon as we hear back from them, we'll post those results on Facebook, and here at this blog as well.

The question:

If the Real Deal Brazil recycled tarp hat were a celebrity (other than Woody Harrelson), who would it be, and why?

(Frank, our Site Administrator Guy, only thinks he's a star. Some people.)

Both parts of the question are required to qualify as an answer! Clean answers only; naughtiness, however much we might get a kick out of it, will get your answer yanked, and you disqualified. And remember: Go back to our Facebook site to answer. Don't answer here!

So what the H are you waiting for? Get busy answering, and get entered!

Contest in the Rearview, Contest on the Horizon

At the Real Deal Brazil, we like giving stuff away. Obviously, as a small company, we can't just go nuts about it; yet when we can, it's our way of saying thanks to all of you for being such dedicated fans of who we are, and what we do. Which explains why we're really into contests. Giveaways, and what have you. Sometimes, we're very, very obvious about it. Other times, not so much.

And as to the latter:

Recently, we wrapped up a contest that you had to have been really paying attention to even know was going on. Many folks still doubt it happened; consider this recent fan comment from our Facebook site:

"I keep hearing about contests, secret or otherwise, but have yet to actually see one."

Ah, but one happened, good fan! One happened!

It went like this: For a couple of months, we added roughly one letter a week to the corners of our changing profile pics, thus:


(We can't not comment, by the way, about how much we love the above pic of South Dakota Real Deal Brazil fan Rafael Andrade! Raf is reacting here to the rattlesnakes he's been warned might be lurking in the scrubby brush all around him in his home state's Badlands National Park.)

Admittedly, we did intentionally skip one week of posting letters with profile pics, and we did also double up on letters at least twice, just to be, y'know, jerks. Heh, heh.

Strung together, the letters ultimately spelled out: GOHEREYOUWINAHATDOTCOM.

Even once people started to catch on as to what was being spelled out, it threw some folks for a loop, because they tried to make the whole thing a URL, as in GoHereYouWinAHat.com. Alas, that wasn't it. You had to see the "GoHere" part as a direction, as in:

Go here: YouWinAHat.com.

So if you haven't been, go there and see for yourself!

The first three folks to find their way there each won a Real Deal Brazil recycled-tarp hat, and a choice of RDB Hat Hitch Wind Strap or Coconut Hat Band. Everyone after that likely just gnashed their teeth a bit, realizing they were, as the saying doesn't quite go, a day late and a free RDB hat short.

Still, a pat on the back to any and all of you who figured it out. Because when it was all said and done, not all that many folks caught on to what was going on.

Our winners, in order of their arrival:

1. Jenn Kunze of West Barnstable, Mass., seen immediately below, giving the world a friendly hello, of sorts.


2. Mack Simpson of Richardson, Texas, appearing below in the midst of a mysterious Texas ritual involving RDB hats, cacti and tequila. And from what we can gather, a lot of tequila.


3. Eric Spence of Winthrop, Mass. Unfortunately, we have no photo of Eric to share.

Jenn and Mack have been Real Deal Brazil fans for quite some time, so we've managed to accumulate a few photos along the way. The two pics posted above are obviously among our favorites.

Our belated formal congratulations to all three smarty-pants winners!

As for all the rest of you fine folks: If you see something unusual on our site, assume we might be up to something; we often are! But one piece of advice: If you think you're on to us, don't necessarily share your suspicions on our site, as you might tip someone else off to winning something that could be yours instead (this happened more than once in the contest in question). Not that we in any way advocate greed and failing to help out your fellow fan -- that would, after all, be wrong! We're, y'know, just sayin', is all.

And as for Real Deal Brazil contests yet to come? Look no further than soon. Really, really soon.

Is it tomorrow yet?