Liam said:
I think what we did is fine. However: I think that the door-prizes should be seperate from the tournament prizes and each person may only win ONCE.
I think the winning only once idea is not so great. I think you should be able to win as many times as you won a game. And door prizes should be seperate, as liam said. I think there should be a set number of prizes for a set amount of winners. Each winner could get a ticket and get a random prize. This should work in theory as long as the prizes are equally good. As for a grand prize, there could be a separate raffle just for it. Sorry for complaining, and I don’t blame anyone for it. It just happened and that was that. I’m not criticizing anyone.
There has to be a fun way to do prizes. I was thinking something along the lines of a gift exchange sort of thing. Maybe you guys have done it before, but the place I used to work at did it for christmas. You’d draw numbers from a hat and in the order they were numbered randomly, everyone would go and pick unknown items at random. The person would then unwrap the item and reveal it to the group. The second person would then have a choice of getting person #1’s item or choosing another unknown item at random. If person #2 picks an unknown item, they unwrap it and reveal it to the group. If they choose person #1’s item, then they keep it and person #1 goes and picks another item from the random stack or from another person. This process continues. All the while, more and more gifts are revealed. Higher numbers get more of a choice.
Yeah, that method may get kinda ugly. And people would probably find it unfair. It sure is fun when you’re doing it in a small, cheap prize, family-style setting though.
Let’s see.. I had another idea, but forgot it while writing about the other style. It’s nice to have this opinion out in the open.