Unfortunately they did not win although they were by far the most watched of all the videos. On the bright side, everyones help in passing this around brought a lot of exposure to this family and they are optimistic good will come form all of this.
Thats everyone for your help. Official contest post below.
Official Winner Announcements
Thanks for your patience everyone. Let’s get rolling!
On behalf of everyone from The Home Depot – we’d first like to say THANK YOU for making the time and effort to enter The Home Depot Holiday Gift Card Contest. Your videos were fantastic!
With more than 260 wonderful, heartfelt and often hilarious videos, choosing winners has been very, very difficult. We were both surprised and thrilled to see so much participation in the contest and so many great entries. It’s also been amazing to watch a small community grow around the videos and share mutual support and holiday cheer on the discussion forums.
And the grand prize winner is…The Long’s Rap from Houston, Texas!
View the winning video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Z2fZhBqhw
Congratulations are also in order to the entrants below who have been selected as second prize winners! You’ll receive a $200 Gift Card from The Home Depot via mail very shortly. Here they are in random order:
Jana’s Home Depot Renovation in Jackson CA
Tom, Northampton, Mass
Jennifer in Oklahoma
The Home Depoverture - Rich Najuch
What a Story! Tom & Jennifer Hernando, MS
DOGGY DEPO Cyndal & Maggie Wylie, Texas
Vince’s Home Depot Home Improvement Needs
Mt. Bethel Fire Company Home Depot Movie
Home Depot Contest The Dream
Home Depot Contest: Magic – Kevin from Portland, OR
Carrie’s Wish for Boys Hope Girl
A Home for Mark
Jayson and Amy’s Home Depot Contest Entry, Orlando, Fl
Andy/Huntington Beach, CA Depot Contest The Ultimate Gift
Allan’s Montana Home Depot Contest Entry
Victor from Altadena, CA
Rob from Rhode Island
Angelos and Jason’s HO, HO, HOME DEPOT CONTEST San Antonio, TX
Bill from NJ - Depot Contest
Gigi from Albuquerque Depot Contest
And a special announcement to all contestants: the judging has been so difficult, we wanted to make sure everyone takes home a Home Depot Gift Card! So even if you weren’t selected as a grand prize or second place winner, you’ll still receive a $20 Home Depot Gift Card by mail as a small gesture of thanks for participating. If you haven’t already, please make sure you’ve filled out the contact form so we have your name and address. That form can be found here: http://www.contestrules.net/survey/survey.form (note: you only need to fill it out once, 95% of you have completed this already)
Again, thank you all for sharing your projects and dreams with us, and thanks for making The Home Depot your home improvement partner! We hope you’ll continue to visit us online and at your local store for home improvement ideas, solutions and value deals.
How To Stay In Touch:
· Leave us your feedback and thoughts about the contest on the discussion forum below
· Get step-by-step project guides from our Know How section at www.homedepot.com/knowhow
· Find the weekly deals for your local store at www.homedepot.com/weeklyad
For your reference, contest rules:
http://www.contestrules.net/thdgiftcards/