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Originally Posted by Carl-NC

Hi Robert,

Thanks for reminding me. I have extracted the statistics I need and am now making numbered paper slips to do a drawing. This is slow because I thought it would be more automated, but I am having to do everything manually.

There are 290 contestants with a total number of posts of 6551 (and that's how many slips of paper there will be). Everyone is assigned a number so, for example, '1843' is #1 and will get 33 slips with that number on it since he had 33 posts. I'll put all the slips in a bucket and have the granddaughter of a co-worker draw a slip. Hopefully this next week.

- Carl

Uh! To much hard labour!
As E.E. and pretty conversant expert; could'nt you contrived more advanced way to draw? For example small code to search forum members database and by given conditions to pull out the winner (Excell can do the job just fine)...or few finalists? 10 minutes job!
By present method you will torture yourself much! You will worn 20 pair of scissors until cut all the slips!
6551 slips! Wow! Once you cut all the slips - you'll deserve first prize also, for such hard labour!
Best Regards!