TATA ZICA; Win two TATA Zica Cars, #TATA Zica Marathon

Admin, Please let me know what exactly the contest is about.

Hi Sheetal,

This marathon has now ended and results too have been declared. Only that the vouchers and the prizes are to be given. This marathon thing was quite different from the usual contests that we have here every now and then, because bloggers were given a period of almost one month to write as many posts as they could. The organisers had given us 5 keywords and we had to somehow base the themes of our posts along any or all of those keywords and so also had to include them in our writeups. So obviously it was not easy at all. Almost all of the table toppers wrote as many as 100 posts in a month (literally writing around 7-8 posts in a day)! Bushra alone wrote a total of 150 posts!

The top 10 contributors will be getting vouchers worth Rs 20,000 each (you can find their names on the leaderboard on the contest page) and the first 100 bloggers who submitted (and had their entries approved) will be getting Rs 350 for each of their approved submissions (for a maximum of 10 posts). Two bloggers (Arvind Sir and Saurav) won a car each - Arvind sir's post was chosen as the best of all the entries whereas Saurav won the Tiago for having the best quality across multiple entries. 

(P.S. I am not an admin, I am just a mango member)

Suhaani raat dhal chuki..  Na jaane vouchers kab aayenge.. 

Aaayegaa... aayegaa.. aayegaa, aayegaa voucherwala.. Indimail aayegaa

My heart is beating,

Keeps on repeating,

I am waiting for you (voucher),

Exciting deals and,

so many offers (on Flipkart)

I fearrrrr, that I may miss out 

Bcoz love you know that time is fleeting,

Time is fleeting, time is fleetingggg

continue with G

Has anyone got their assured vouchers?

so...next contest is for the Ford Mustang?

Pehle, give my Tata vouchers 

No SSP. Please use the review section if you want reviews. 

Congrats all the winners.  

Any idea when can we get our assured vouchers? 

Oh man, that's called grand winning.... congrats folks!

Now anyone has any 'suraag' about assured vouchers?

No suraag 

अरविन्द सर और सौरभ को जीत की बहुत बहुत बधाई! 

Thank you for the wishes, everyone! Congratulations to Arvind sir, and all the other winners as well :)

Congrats to the Winners, Runners and all participants . Finally after around seven months  thanks to IB / Tata.

Congrats Arvind sir…I am wondering, is there that much hidden secret from Donkey and Mule   that too only identified by Tata after you. Great! See, there is an advantage too if one ride on Donkey / Mule. Nice observation and written sir jee .

BTW, our voucher IB? 

Thanks to Sujata Tawde, Shivani Shourie, Felicia Nazareth and other friends who have gone ahead and read my post and liked it... frankly, even I re-read it today and thought, 'Really? So I did manage to complete this post.' I remember struggling hard with the concept and at one point had decided to chuck the idea out as it had drained me out. But thank God, I didn't and finally completed it. :)

Congrats to the winners and runner ups. Great effort put in by many bloggers to make this marathon a success. Loved reading Arvind sir's winning post. 

Many congratulations to all the winners! Mr.Passey, I read that post when you published it and the first thought that came to my mind was, 'Wow!' Truly a deserving win!

Hearty Congratulations to Arvind Sir , Saurav , the 20k Gv winners and all. 

Ab toh mere 9 vouchers de do, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. 

Arrey merey dus peheley...

Congratulations to Arvind sir and Saurav. All of the guys in the leaderboard and even those near did a great job. Great work guys. 

Many many congratulations to you, Mr. Passey and also to Saurav biswas. Heartiest congrats to all the runners up. They really deserved the prize, the contest being such a long and tedious affair. Yet thoroughly enjoyable.

Sharing a quote from my post that won...

"The donkey also had the final management lesson for all organisations: seek out the right bloggers and pamper them. They are the ones who are read."

Do read this post. You'll love it. :)

Hearty Congratulations to you for a fascinating post...a true winner...

Congratulations to the winners of the coveted 20K vouchers... an acheivement indeed! It isn't easy to write so many sensible and meaningful posts during a prescribed period. Congrats to Saurav as well... :)

Thank you Arvind sir, and congratulations to you as well! :)

Hearty congratulations everyone  and especially Saurav ... way to go, boy and Arvind Sir 

So is it true that Arvind sir wrote only one post for the marathon? Wow, then that is incredible, more like "sau sonar ki aur ek lohaar ki" 

Well, Amit... if I remember correctly, I wrote 32 posts and could have written more had I not been away from the blogging scene for a few days during that period. My Samsung Forum trip to Malaysia, my son's visit from London, and a few days of fever added to my seeming lack of numbers in posts submitted. But I'm glad the judges loved the travel post that finally gave me this prize. :)

Yes, I remember, Sir, you had missed the initial phase of the marathon and could submit only in the closing stages, probably in the last three or four days of the marathon. Therefore you had also requested for an extension. Writing even 32 posts within such a short time frame is still a huge task for me, unthinkable  

Most of us had this belief/apprehension that the best post for quality would be given to someone from the top 10 on the leaderboard. I am glad that the judges looked beyond that list  Congrats once again, sir.