I am very sorry for the very late announcement of winners. I have been reallly, realllllyyyy busy these past few days and to top it all off, my DSL at home is disconnected (don’t ask why though).

Anyway, let me give you the list of winners of the PinoyTux contest. Please note that the winners are picked randomly based on their numbers of entries during the contest.

500 Entrecard Credits Winners (convertible to $5 PayPal money):

bunny (12 entries)
kris (2 entries)

$5 PayPal Money Winners:

clair (10 entries)
patrick (19 points)

First Prize Winner of 3iX Webhosting Account:

b_ng (23 points)

And as an added bonus, I am giving 200 EC credits to those who joined the contest but did not win the top three prizes. That is my way of saying thank you for joining the contest! I will send confirmation emails to the winners so please wait for your prizes after confirming.

Congratulations to all winners!

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