Contest prizes

I’m sure you’re all excited to find out who the 23 winners are in our Christmas contest. Can’t blame you. The prizes to be given away are fantastic, thanks to our generous sponsors.

The correct answers to the three questions in our contest are: (1) Sta. Lucia Realty, the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors Cup champion this year, (2) Danny Ildefonso, the season’s PBA MVP, and (3) Doug Collins, Michael Jordan’s coach with the Washington Wizards in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

We drew 1,304 entries from all over the country. Not a bad response, considering readers only had 9 days within which to send their entries. We announced the contest last Nov. 28 and the cutoff for submission was Dec. 7. Majority of the entries came from Metro Manila. There were also entries from Iloilo, Tacloban, Baguio, Camarines Sur, General Santos City, Cebu, Ilocos Sur, Bulacan, Laguna, Batangas, Zamboanga City, La Union, and Negros Occidental, among others.

About 90 percent of the entries chose San Miguel Beer to win the Third Conference crown. Pop Cola had a few votes and the rest went to Sta. Lucia. Ildefonso was the runaway choice in the MVP poll. Others who were named in entries included Dennis Espino, Danny Seigle, and Ali Peek. No problem on the identity of Jordan’s coach–Collins was the unanimous pick of all the entries.

We’ll announce the names of the lucky 23 in tomorrow’s column. Winners will be invited to claim their prizes at The STAR office this Friday at 4 p.m.

The contest wouldn’t have been possible without the support of our generous sponsors. And we’d like to acknowledge their contributions:

Photokina Marketing Corp. (George Balagtas) – a Samsung Digimax 35 MP3 triple mode camera, Agfa film, Red Bull energy drink.

San Miguel Corp. (Robert Non) – San Miguel caps, bags, T-shirts, and jackets plus a San Miguel umbrella and a San Miguel watch.

Sta. Lucia Realty (Buddy Encarnado) – P5,000 worth of P200 gift certificates for Sta. Lucia East.

PBA (Commissioner Emilio Bernardino) – two copies of the PBA 25th anniversary coffee table book, PBA T-shirts, basketballs, lunch bags, utility kits, basketball necklaces, basketball yoyos, and bags.

No Fear (Tommy Ong, Relly de Leon) – 9 No Fear T-shirts, 6 caps, and 10 pairs of socks.

Barangay Ginebra (Ira Maniquis) – 10 Ginebra T-shirts.

Shell (Bobby Villarosa) – 20 Shell T-shirts, 6 wallets, 5 mini-basketballs, and 10 basketballs.

Alaska (Joaqui Trillo) – 10 Alaska basketballs, 15 caps, 5 bags, and 10 E-Cow stuff toys.

RFM Corp. (Elmer Yanga) – 10 baskets of assorted groceries worth P500 each.

Talk ’N Text (Frankie Lim) – 10 bucket hats, 10 gym bags, and 10 sippers.

Tanduay (Pai Alvarado) – 23 bath towels, caps, and T-shirts.

Adidas (Goody Custodio) – caps, gym bags, and bucket hats.

Nike (Auty Villarama) – Nike T-shirts, collared shirts, shorts, warm-up pants, and a jacket.

Dunlop Slazenger (Roland So) – 5 Dunlop T-shirts and 5 Dunlop basketballs.

Sonia Trading (Anil Buxani) – Molten basketballs and Puma darts T-shirts.

Philippine Basketball League (Commissioner Chino Trinidad) – an instamatic camera, a digital watch, PBL collared shirts, PBL pins, PBL caps, umbrellas, paperweights, and PBL keychains.

DSS Productmakers (Dioceldo Sy) – Shark energy drink, Blu all-purpose powder detergent.

And 1 (Ideazplus president Bob Zozobrado) – 4 And 1 T-shirt, and 4 And 1 VHS tapes.

Purefoods Hormel Co. (Rene Pardo) – 10 gift bags of assorted Purefoods canned goods.

Emerald Headway Distributors (Itin Villanueva) – 23 packs of assorted magazines, including Slam, Basketball Digest, KO, and Sports Illustrated for Kids.

The first prize winner will take home a Samsung Digimax 35 MP3 triple mode camera, a PBA coffee table book, P5,000 worth of gift certificates for Sta. Lucia East, a San Miguel jacket, a San Miguel watch, a San Miguel umbrella, a pair of Nike warm-up pants, a PBA basketball, a Shell mini-basketball, a Shell leather wallet, an And 1 T-shirt, an And 1 VHS tape, two rolls of Agfa film, a PBL umbrella, a PBL paperweight, Mobiline gym bag, a Mobiline bucket hat, an Alaska E-Cow stuff toy, an Alaska cap, a PBL lunch bag, a PBA utility kit, a PBL collared shirt, a PBA T-shirt, a Ginebra T-shirt, a pair of No Fear socks, a Dunlop T-shirt, a Dunlop basketball, a Tanduay towel, a Tanduay T-shirt, a Tanduay cap, two dozen packets of Blu all-purpose powder detergent, 10 bottles of Shark energy drink, 10 bottles of Red Bull, a basket of assorted groceries from RFM, a bag of assorted Purefoods canned goods, and Slam and KO Magazine from Emerald Headway Distributors. That’s quite a haul.

Find out who are the lucky 23 winners in tomorrow’s column.