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OverhaulNetwork · #**329** 10-06-2011, 07:14 PM

To go into a bit more detail why midnight becomes an issue is because we draw the raffles on a live video stream. So we have allot of people watching to find out who wins as well as people who are just finding out about the raffles (the purpose of the raffles is to draw new members to our site) so if we are broadcasting for 4 hours we encourage everyone to register tot he site and get a ticket as we will be drawing a winner in X amount of minutes.

It would suck to have to say, "You missed out on this weeks raffle, you can register and wait another week." people want things now now now. Forcing them to wait a week can possibly cause them to skip registering.

I have just been setting the raffle to end the following day then manually drawing it to get around this. But then it shows as drawing on the following day it is actually being drawn confusing members.

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