As you'll recall, last month's contest was to name the date and time of the 500,000th post on the Football message board. Our winner is Graham Tiller, who guessed Nov. 11th at 10:42:12 a.m. The post occurred on Nov. 11th at 10:39:21 a.m, which means that Graham was only 2 minutes and 51 seconds off! Not bad, and Graham is the proud winner of our $300 leather attache/laptop case.

The second place finisher was off by over an hour, so it wasn't even close. Congratulations, Graham! And hey, folks, we only had 105 submissions, so if you didn't participate in this one, jump into future contests, because at this point, there isn't much competition!

"Future contests"? That's right, we've decided to go monthly with our contests. So, without further ado�.

Since we've decided to do the contests on a monthly basis, we'll have to scale back on the prizes we're giving away. This month's prize is 75$ of store credit at TechLocker.com, and it will go to the person who most closely guesses the answer to the following question: How many yards rushing will the Hokies have against Miami?

Here's the full rundown on the contest and how to enter:

The Prize: $75 of store credit at TechLocker.com.

The Contest: Answer this question: How many yards rushing will the Hokies have in their December 1st game against Miami? And the tiebreaker question: How many points will the Hokies score in the game?

How to Enter: Answer both questions -- Tech's rushing yards and Tech's points -- by sending an email to [email protected] (note: NOT [email protected]) with the subject line "TSL Extra Rushing Yards Contest," and include the following information:

Your full name
Your email address
Contest: How many rushing yards Tech will have against Miami
Tiebreaker: How many points Tech will score against Miami

For example, if I wanted to enter, I would format my answer like this:

Name: Will Stewart
Email Address: [email protected]
Tech's rushing yards against Miami: 178
Tech's points against Miami: 17

Send in your entry, and good luck!

Recently, we conducted a demographic survey on-line, in order to get a better feel for our readership and to provide potential advertisers with a good picture of our readership. We received nearly 2400 responses, and many of you expressed interest in knowing the results. So here are the highlights:

92% of respondents are male. 7.6% are female. And I assume the other 0.4% are still trying to figure things out.

55.7% have a household income greater than or equal to $75k/year, with 34.3% over $100k/year.

61.7% live in the state of Virginia, 8.5% live in North Carolina, and all other states have a percentage of less than 4%.

98.5% have some college schooling or are college grads.

69.4% own their own home.

50.5% have children.

93.9%, when asked if they would purchase something over the Internet, responded yes (this is good for us!).

80.2% own a cell phone.

70.3% visit TSL at least once a day, with 22.3% visiting very frequently (3 or more visits per day).

21.8% live in Roanoke/Southwest Virginia; 17.3% in Northern Virginia/DC; 15.2% in Richmond/Central Virginia; and 5.6% in Tidewater/Virginia Beach.

92.2% access the site from home, 83.2% from work.

Interesting stuff, huh?  See you next month, and don't forget to enter that rushing yardage contest.

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