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Oneslowz28
05-14-2011, 11:32 PM
http://thebestcasescenario.com/oneslowz28/front_page/contest/bitfenix_contest_banner.jpg (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/frontpage/?q=win-a-bitfenix-shinobi)By: Charles Gantt

It’s that time again, TBCS is hosting yet another giveaway. Coming off of a very successful launch of their new chassis the Shinobi (http://bit.ly/kEVdAM), BitFenix has teamed up with TheBestCaseScenario.com to give away not one but 3 awesome prizes with a combined value totaling $150. Keep reading (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/frontpage/?q=win-a-bitfenix-shinobi) to find out how to enter today!

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We have covered 2 of BitFenix’s (http://www.bitfenix.com) cases recently: The Colossus Venom (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/?q=bitfenix-colossus-venom-review) and The Survivor (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/?q=bitfenix-survivor-review), both of which received outstanding scores from our editor Colin Ormsby ( AKA Slaveofconvention). To promote our upcoming review of the Shinobi, BitFenix has generously given us a second one to give away as a grand prize to one lucky TBCS member. Also donated were Second and third place prizes of Alchemy cables valued at $50 and $25 respectively.


http://thebestcasescenario.com/oneslowz28/front_page/contest/shinobi_contest_banner.gif (http://bit.ly/kEVdAM)Click for more information.

Gaining entry into the contest is as simple as signing into Facebook, visiting BitFenix’s Facebook fan page (http://facebook.bitfenix.com/) and click the "Like" button. Then you must visit the TBCS Facebook fan page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/TheBestCaseScenariocom/144072398999501) and click the "Like" button. Visit this thread (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26422) and post a link to your Facebook profile. If you wish to do this privately send a PM with the info to Oneslowz28. Finally you must post the following message in your Facebook status.

“I just entered to win some awesome hardware from @BitFenix and @thebestcasescenario.com Visit @thebestcasescenario.com to find out how to enter. My TBCS screen name is (Enter screen name here). “

When you are finished with your entry please visit this thread on TBCS and post a reply letting them know you entered. Please include your first name in the thread so they can verify that you completed your entry.


http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/slaveofconvention/cables_fans_728_90.gif (https://store.bitfenix.com/bitfenix%20premium%20modding%20series/bitfenix%20alchemy%20cables)Click for more information.

Prizes
1st - Shinobi Window (https://store.bitfenix.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=57)
2nd - $50 in Alchemy Cables (https://store.bitfenix.com/bitfenix%20premium%20modding%20series/bitfenix%20alchemy%20cables) (Winners choice of color and cables)
3rd - $25 in Alchemy Cables (https://store.bitfenix.com/bitfenix%20premium%20modding%20series/bitfenix%20alchemy%20cables) (Winners choice of color and cables)

Rules


To be eligible for prize drawing, contestants must be New or Existing members of TBCS, so if you are not a member sign up today.

Contestants must complete the following task to be entered into the drawing.

Visit BitFenix’s Facebook fan page (http://facebook.bitfenix.com/) and click the "Like" button.
Visit the TBCS Facebook fan page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/TheBestCaseScenariocom/144072398999501) and click the "Like" button.
Post the following message in your Facebook status.


“I just entered to win some awesome hardware from @BitFenix and @thebestcasescenario.com Visit @thebestcasescenario.com to find out how to enter. My TBCS screen name is (Enter screen name here). “


Visit this thread (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26422) and post a link to your facebook profile so we can verify your entry. If you wish to do this privately, please send a PM with the info to Oneslowz28.

Due to shipping restrictions, entries are limited to USA residents only.

Contestants must not be employed by BitFenix nor be a member of the TBCS Staff.

Contest Runs from Midnight May 15th to Midnight June 4th.

Prize drawing will be held live on Ustream the following weekend on either June 11th or June 12th. We will post the actual date and time before the contest ends.

Scirocco
05-14-2011, 11:50 PM
Here's the link to my FB profile. I've "liked" as appropriate and am about to post a status update with the required message too. Killer case and other goodies!

http://www.facebook.com/cgreenwald1

jtheater
05-15-2011, 12:15 AM
Wohoo!!!

http://www.facebook.com/jtheater22

NightrainSrt4
05-15-2011, 12:15 AM
My facebook page. (http://www.facebook.com/rick.maranhao) All liked and status updated. I hate seeing this kind of crap in other people's pages, but if it's to help us out then I guess I can't not do it.

mofo
05-15-2011, 01:49 AM
Bam, here you go! Thanks for another sweet contest!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000717610176

diluzio91
05-15-2011, 02:33 AM
mine
http://www.facebook.com/alexanderdiluzio

Fuganater
05-15-2011, 03:51 AM
I'm in!! http://www.facebook.com/fuga.shane

billygoat333
05-15-2011, 04:49 AM
I'm in as well: http://www.facebook.com/billygoat333

rrplay
05-15-2011, 09:26 AM
Thanks for the opportunity !
here 's mine
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000375446413

DynamoNED
05-15-2011, 09:46 AM
Count me in, too!
Liked, Posted, & Linked: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=34104777

StormRider
05-15-2011, 10:03 AM
Here's mine:http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000478605499

Cale_Hagan
05-15-2011, 11:25 AM
all done! http://www.facebook.com/cale.hagan 8))

pie36
05-15-2011, 04:09 PM
Count me in http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000501687104

omegadoom13
05-16-2011, 01:35 AM
Rule 2... done! Here's the link to the link to my Facebook post:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=173404339381342&id=100001353326693

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001353326693


Thank you BitFenix and TheBestCaseScenario!!!

Yornike
05-16-2011, 01:40 AM
http://www.facebook.com/Yornike/posts/10150179573696954
http://www.facebook.com/yornike
I just entered to win some awesome hardware from @BitFenix and @thebestcasescenario.com Visit @thebestcasescenario.com to find out how to enter. My TBCS screen name is Yornike.
man i need a new case =)

ugt
05-16-2011, 01:47 AM
Here's my link
http://www.facebook.com/WillCS
Thanks for having the giveaway!

slugbug
05-16-2011, 02:28 AM
Oops, just noticed this is open to US only.

Harris_
05-16-2011, 03:57 AM
Hell yeah, count me in :D

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000280980386


Harris

crzwith5_plus
05-16-2011, 04:35 PM
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=806330817 this is the link to my post of liking and registering

Oneslowz28
05-16-2011, 07:53 PM
Oops, just noticed this is open to US only.

We hate to have to exclude anyone from our contest, its just that a case, due to size and weight, many times cost more to ship than the case sells for retail. We looked into shipping one to the UK one time and it was going to cost us $79 USD which was $14 more than the case was worth. You should check out the folding competition we have going on in the Chatterbox. TT eSports has generously donated 2 prizes for it, and its open for world wide entries.

AmEv
05-17-2011, 12:15 PM
As nice as it seems, I can't wait for the next TBCS MODDING challenge, not involving pumpkins........

slaveofconvention
05-17-2011, 12:37 PM
We've been holding off on a formal modding competition mainly because almost all of us re feeling the pinch when it comes to finances and as much fun as modding is, it costs money lol. Never say never however - we are, first and foremost, a modding site so who knows what's in the works.....

AmEv
05-17-2011, 01:01 PM
A "hand tool only, use only what you have" mod????

Fuganater
05-17-2011, 01:15 PM
I'm down to put my next project into a contest!

SXRguyinMA
05-17-2011, 09:50 PM
me too :whistler:

aznguile972
05-17-2011, 10:33 PM
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100002166580371

Count me in...

AmEv
05-17-2011, 11:48 PM
That makes three. Enough to make a mini-challenge.

Krusher33
05-18-2011, 12:53 AM
Y'all made it hard for me to register. ;)

https://www.facebook.com/Krusher33

Keryian
05-19-2011, 10:09 PM
Here's my link:

https://www.facebook.com/Keryian

Now I'm set/entered to win.
Good Luck to all!

Antedev
05-25-2011, 01:15 AM
Nice, contest here ya go!

http://www.facebook.com/Antedev

FPMachine
05-30-2011, 03:54 PM
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1087810848

like and like

Antedev
06-12-2011, 01:48 PM
So when is the drawing ? :)

Fuganater
06-12-2011, 02:23 PM
I'm wondering the same thing. This competition was done over a week ago...

billygoat333
06-12-2011, 04:19 PM
Drawing was supposed to be this weekend according to the first post. They are only a little behind :P

AmEv
06-14-2011, 12:23 PM
Oneslowz28 seems to be living up to his name....


Seriously though, it's kinda frustrating with the slow shipping.
Understandable if life is busy, but still....

diluzio91
06-16-2011, 07:45 PM
Bump

Fuganater
06-18-2011, 08:11 AM
Bump

mofo
06-20-2011, 12:38 AM
Patience people, I won an xmas contest on another site, got the prize about 3 weeks ago. Free is free.

StormRider
06-21-2011, 12:27 AM
I won a Haloween contest. Still waiting
Edit: Bump

Cale_Hagan
06-29-2011, 03:25 AM
bump! :banana:

Fuganater
06-29-2011, 03:39 AM
Oneslowz hasn't been on at all since he found out he had diabetes. I'm sure he will be around once he's finished with the doctors.

Oneslowz28
07-12-2011, 12:23 PM
Hey guys,

Sorry for the drawing being postponed. With my recent heath problems I was a bit delayed in verifying all of the entries. So with that said, here is the official list of all who are confirmed and will be in the live drawing held by OvRiDe. If I missed your name you have 24 hours to notify me in this thread and in a PM. Stay tuned for an update on the drawing date from OvRiDe.

Scirocco
jtheater
NightrainSrt4
mofo
diluzio91
Fuganater
billygoat333
rrplay
DynamoNED
StormRider
Cale_Hagan
pie36
omegadoom13
Yornike
ugt
Harris
crzwith5_plus
aznguile972
Krusher33
Keryian
Antedev
FPMachine

Fuganater
07-12-2011, 12:41 PM
He lives! Thanks for the update Oneslowz28.

FYI to all who entered. You have a 4.54% chance of winning but 1/22 sounds better.

omegadoom13
07-16-2011, 03:14 AM
Your health and well-being are far more important than a contest. Please take all the time you need.

OvRiDe
07-20-2011, 09:04 PM
Ok guys.. I appreciate your patience with us. Let's see what we can do about getting the drawing put together. First... when is a good time for you guys to watch if we do it live. The BitFenix representative has expressed interest in attending if we do it live, so he can answer any questions from you the consumer.

I know we can't accommodate everyone with the live drawing but I would like to make it so that the majority of members can attend if they want to.

ugt
07-20-2011, 10:05 PM
I know this isn't much help but anytime is fine with me. Does the BitFenix rep have a preferred time?

Fuganater
07-21-2011, 01:32 AM
Saturday?

diluzio91
07-21-2011, 06:08 AM
Won't matter to me, Whenever you do it just shoot me an email if I win, I'm working a ton of overtime the next 2 weeks.

diluzio91
07-25-2011, 02:22 PM
?

OvRiDe
07-25-2011, 10:51 PM
Well I was hoping to get a little more feedback then 3 people.

So the next step is to coordinate with BitFenix.

I will keep you all posted, and thank you for your patience.

billygoat333
07-25-2011, 11:36 PM
I'm down for whatever. :p I usually work all weekend and 12-9 pm MST so I won't be able to participate most likely anyway unless you do the drawing at like 11 pm.

omegadoom13
07-27-2011, 12:27 AM
A night time drawing would work for me and any day is fine with me. Sorry for late answer

monkeyfun
07-27-2011, 05:16 PM
I'll go and like them just to drum up more publicity for them if need be, and I'm not even in the drawing. :) I just like to see people win cool stuff.

Fuganater
07-28-2011, 11:25 AM
So................. when is this going to happen?

diluzio91
07-28-2011, 05:43 PM
Lol... I hope I win, but I don't know what I would do with it... Maybe a home server...

Of course by that time i might be building a new pc. lol...

StormRider
08-01-2011, 11:53 PM
good question: When is this actually gonna happen?

Cale_Hagan
08-16-2011, 01:07 PM
yeah, i entered, and its been so long i forgot about it..... email the winners. just please draw soon. :facepalm:

FPMachine
09-17-2011, 12:26 PM
its funny you expect a 24 hour turn around from us but you can go months and months without any feedback. I hope you are well but what do you think will happen when you try and hold a live drawing to gain publicity a year after it was supposed to happen? I mean if you needed a case and some headphones and a mouse....

OvRiDe
09-17-2011, 10:39 PM
Well it just so happens that I have gotten an answer from Bitfenix. This got held up a bit but the previous contest prizes. We have been trying to make sure we get those into the hands of the winners, before we compound the issue with more prizes that need to be delivered. Also Bitfenix is in Taipei, Taiwan and since they are 13 hours ahead of me, it been interesting trying to get this coordinated. BUT FEAR NOT! We have a time and a date!

Right now we are planning on:


This Thursday!
9/22/11 at 9PM CST

We will have a representative from Bitfenix in the chat with us. If all works out it might be live via video as well.

So mark you calendars and warm up your lucky rabbits foot.

Fuganater
09-18-2011, 03:04 AM
Woot woot! That's 3am for me so I'll find out in the morning if I won.

AmEv
09-18-2011, 03:34 PM
Well, a start-of-fall bonus, eh?

ugt
09-20-2011, 02:34 PM
Can't wait!, I'll be here at 9.

OvRiDe
09-23-2011, 03:19 AM
Congratulations to our winners!

$25 in Alchemy Cables (Winners choice of color and cables) -- Antedev

$50 in Alchemy Cables (Winners choice of color and cables) -- pie36

Shinobi Window -- NightrainSrt4

Thank you so much for your patience, and I apologize for all the delays.

Thank you to all those that watched live.. I really appreciate you all sticking with me through all the chaos that spawned from me being "prepared" I did have a blast hanging out with you guys!

A big Thank you to BitFenix for there most generous sponsorship of this contest!

NightrainSrt4
09-23-2011, 04:36 PM
Thank you so much TBCS and BitFenix!

This brings a great happiness to my day. I was about to go buy a new case as I needed one. This just makes my day. I never win anything. Last thing I won was a gatorade contest in 1998 I think it is with the Bulls winning the series 4-2. It was a gatorade bag with like a t-shirt and gatorade mix drink, haha. This so owns that.

Thanks again to both TBCS and BitFenix. This really made my day!

Congrats to the other winners as well.

NightrainSrt4
11-29-2011, 04:35 PM
The case arrived! It's a semi sad moment though.

I've sent an email back explaining the situation. The case is beautiful, but the near paper thin sheet metal lets the entire case down. The case arrived with dents and creases on both panels. The windowed panel pulled and distorted the rear panel do to being attached by the thumbscrews. The paint is also chipping at nearly every corner.

The case was free, so I can't complain, but it is really disappointing to see a case that could have been a knockout let down by thin metal. Had the case been as thick as something like an Antec 300 instead of something like a Xion it would have been incredible.

I'm sitting here with a sadface. But, I'm appreciative for getting anything. Happy/Sad moment all at the same time. Gently going over it with a ball-peen hammer has at least made it so I can get the case door back on. The metal is so thin and malleable that I made the creases and dents less noticeable.

diluzio91
11-29-2011, 10:34 PM
Pics?

d_stilgar
11-30-2011, 02:23 AM
Pics?

I'm with diluzio. I want some pics.

Fuganater
11-30-2011, 02:34 AM
Have the 2 people that won the cables claimed their prizes?

NightrainSrt4
11-30-2011, 09:11 AM
Here are some baseline pictures I took when I still thought I was going to use it as the base for my mod. I went out of my way to try and hide the dents, damage, and creases from view in case I did use the case and / or these pictures.

If you meant for the pictures to be of the damage, I have a few of those. It was hard to get pictures of a black case in this crappy lighting. I didn't mean to come off as whining, if that was the way that it did. I am super appreciative to get anything for free. I just wanted them to know my experience, because if that is the way paying customers could receive their cases it might seriously hurt BitFenix's reputation.

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/8043/img2593f.jpg

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/8652/img2599f.jpg

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/8756/img2601a.jpg

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4549/img2605y.jpg

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5003/img2616i.jpg

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/6400/img2628ta.jpg

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/8919/img2626f.jpg

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/4459/img2627z.jpg

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2658/img2629t.jpg

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/2628/img2630j.jpg

billygoat333
11-30-2011, 03:41 PM
Awesome looking case. Sorry to hear about the dents man.

NightrainSrt4
11-30-2011, 04:25 PM
It's no big deal. I just wanted them to know what happened. The hammer fixed most of it, and for the most part the chipping paint doesn't show up in the pictures, just on my carpet if you move it around, change builds, etc. I just won't be able to use it for the mod I had in mind, as the amount of cutting would make the chassis far too weak, especially the doors.

I might just go back to my roots and scratch build a case like Project: Nightrain. The last two cases I either started working, or drew out the plan to work on have been let down by metal that is just too thin. I might just get some wood and build it from the ground up and toss a motherboard tray in.

Fuganater
11-30-2011, 04:42 PM
Free case = alot of good internal hardware for a scratch build. I just wish I had one I could have chopped up instead of buying a $60 mobo panel.

NightrainSrt4
11-30-2011, 05:28 PM
True, to an extent. I don't know how the tray would hold up if I took it out of the case. It bends and flexes quite a lot just by pressing a finger against it, and not hard. Putting the stand offs in did the same.

I'm going to use it just as a basic system case.

OvRiDe
12-01-2011, 07:51 AM
Have the 2 people that won the cables claimed their prizes?

Yes, I haven't heard if they received their prizes yet. I received PM's from both of them and forwarded them to BitFenix.

:think:


Meh. Gratz anyways. 20 bucks says they don't even claim the prizes because they stopped checking :P

:whistler:

:P

OvRiDe
12-01-2011, 07:58 AM
Rick, I am sorry to hear about the condition of the case, at first I feared the worst. Luckily it doesn't look too bad. (I had envisioned a car wreck of a case.) In any case I am hoping BitFenix will take care of this or at least take the message to heart and figure out a way to prevent this from happening in the future. I appreciate your graciousness and positive attitude.

Fuganater
12-01-2011, 08:33 AM
Yes, I haven't heard if they received their prizes yet. I received PM's from both of them and forwarded them to BitFenix.

:think:



:whistler:

:P

color me suprised. Never seen them on here thats why I said that.

NightrainSrt4
12-01-2011, 09:20 AM
Rick, I am sorry to hear about the condition of the case, at first I feared the worst. Luckily it doesn't look too bad. (I had envisioned a car wreck of a case.)

It isn't a car wreck, but the side panels took some good hits. I deliberately took angles that didn't show anything for those pictures. Here were a few pictures after I pressed some of what I could out with my hands, but before taking the hammer to it.

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/1747/img2609y.jpg
http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/7160/img2623i.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1185/img2620dg.jpg

It was really hard to get any pictures that showed it off, but it was quite jarring looking at it in person. The windowed panel was twisted and creased in multiple directions. The door wouldn't go back on. The rear panel was pulled outward and twisted as well.

Ultimately, I got it so the door could go back on, and you'd have to try pretty hard to see the damage, though small ball-peen hammer marks are now visible. Every time I move or use it, there are a whole bunch of little black bits all over the carpet, from the corners of the paint. I'm just one of those people though, were if I had purchased this case it would be entirely unacceptable. If I purchase something new it needs to be in new condition. But, being free, I can definitely overlook some flaws.

I have cheaper cases of sturdier construction and build quality. I don't believe this case would keep its shape with the amount of cutting I had in mind for it. It's a great case if you treat it as a premod, complete your build, and just leave it somewhere. It wouldn't do well being carried/moved constantly to lans, nor would it do well to any substantial modding to its physical structure without some kind of substantial reinforcement. If you de-riveted this case, you would be hard pressed to get it to keep its shape to put it back together again.

But a beautiful case though, and I will cherish it.

d_stilgar
12-01-2011, 06:45 PM
That's really too bad. I mean, I know free stuff is free stuff, but companies should focus on either thicker sheet metal, or shaped/pressed thinner metal that reinforces itself.

I'm also happy to see that (from the pictures at least) it doesn't look as bad as I imagined, but if tolerances are high then small imperfections can really screw up a case.

AmEv
12-01-2011, 07:39 PM
I was imagining a case that looked like it was chucked out a window or down a long flight of stairs.

Antedev
01-21-2012, 06:38 PM
Hey all, i have not recieved the cables yet. I will let u know when/ if i get them.