#TheBlindList - Lufthansa Contest

Hey guys, sooooo sorry for the crazy delay  ... We should be able to annouce the winners tonight... The wait is almost over. 

And I thought it’s just me who’s constantly keeping a check on the results announcement since past 3 weeks 😅

When the results are coming out? We are eagerly waiting for it. Any update?

Results out!!
Happy to see my name in the winning list (made it to the 3rd runner up position).
Thank you, Indiblogger and Lufthansa. And congratulations to everybody else! 😊

1st Runners up? 

If my memory serves me right, it's my first ever big contest win in 7 years of being on IB. Hahaha..can't believe this! Thank you Indiblogger and Lufthansa :D

And congratulations to all the winners :)

PS: Why is the winning post returning a 'Page not found'?

Congrats to all the winners Cheers!

Congrats to all the winners.  

Congratulation to All Winners!!!

Congrats to all winners. :)

One of my three posts managed to get a 'special mention'... thank you, team Lufthansa.

Congratulations to all the winners!

And for people who didn't make it to the winner's list, better luck next time. This contest had a huge number of entries by the way. 

Runner up#3. Great News. Thanks a lot Lufthansa India and Indiblogger. Heartiest congratulations to all other winners. 

Thanks to Lufthansa and Indiblogger. Congratulations to all the winners :)

Thanks Lufthansa and Indiblogger and congrats to all winners.. I'm really excited that my post got special mentions..

Hi Friends,

A big congratulations and best wishes to the winners! I didn’t win it this time.
But, I’m going through all the winning posts now and each one of them is incredible. So well deserved!

Thanks IB and Lufthansa. Congrats to all the winners. 

Received the badge as well this time. That's awesome. But I can only open it through the link sent via email. Why isn't it included under my badges?

Badge not batch.... sorry for the typo:/

Congratulations to all the winners!

Feeling  totally dejected and disappointed. "The winners will be chosen based on quality, effort, relevance & originality." was what was mentioned. Was my creative entry so bad that it had none of these? Did it lack quality, effort, relevance? Wasn't it original? Should travel experiences be only about meeting people and activities? 

Well…I would like to start with congratulating all those who have won the contest.

Furthermore,being in agreement with  Vandana over feeling dejected…I would like to say that yes the winning list does show a discrepancy when we try to match it with the copy that was written for the contest.

The copy said: ”Put on your thinking caps and let those creative juices flow! Blog about going on a blind date with the world!”

When you go through the posts of Runner up #2,there is a sense that the two posts hardly commensurate with the idea of being a product of creative juice. The posts are plain articles and hardly give the feel of a blind date. (I would like to make it clear that I don’t have any personal ill-will against these two contestants, it is just that that I fail to match these two articles against the blind list yardstick with creative juice angle)

The winning list comprises a huge chunk of winners who have travelled abroad or India. So, I think that the copy of the contest should have stated clearly that the weightage would be given to entries which have mentions about real travelling of abroad or of India. I mean it would have made the point of the contest clearer.

I know that complaining after losing a contest is all about being a bad loser but I just want to say that blogging is all about expressing and observing and when some blatant divergence (the blind date issue related with two above mentioned posts) is observed as regards some contests then it should be made felt about …so that in future we should be able to see a watertight and discerning result list.

Dear Srinivasan,

I think that you have taken my dejection as my grouse. I think that we humans are driven by emotions and if you don’t feel excited after winning and dejected after losing then you miss the real essence of being a participant in a contest.  

I think that you have made a perception about me that I am that kind of guy who is immature and therefore becomes jealous of others’ achievements and happiness. I have seen enough autumns in my life to understand that what a happy moment does offer in somebody’s life. So, I am not at all against the effort and sincerity of the two posts that I named and my intention was not to spoil their happiness.

It was just an effort to draw attention to the ‘Creative Juice’ and ‘Blind Date’ phrases used. Actually, when you use some particular words to communicate a message the receptor is bound to analyze the message based on the ambit of those words. Since, I have been a student of advertising and copywriting, I have been taught to see the words as chief communicator as many a times even a single word choice can make or break the USP of a product.

Now that my directly pointing to the posts makes me immature, I would like to write in allusion. There was a post submitted for the contest that talked about a trip to the town ‘Malgudi’. It is an interesting post. I think that the writer of this post must have drawn inspiration from phrases ‘Creative Juice’ and ‘Blind Date’ otherwise why the writer would have given his thoughts a direction towards the town ‘Malgudi’? Had there been no mention of the words ‘Creative Juice’ and ‘Blind Date’…I firmly believe that the writer would not have been able to produce such brilliant creative write-up.  

I am just trying to say that the words have their impact on the thinking pattern and when certain words are mentioned to convey a message, the response should be weighed on the touch stone of those words.  

Yes… there might be several other criteria to make a decision about but we write our posts keeping in mind the criteria that are made open to us and based on those criteria we weigh our entry. I mean is it criminal to weigh the posts on the given criterion? If it is then I apologize for being a criminal in any way. Because… I have firm beliefs in civil tenets of society.