Show 'lottos' what have you won, kept or wound up letting go over the last few years?

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Those of us who are fortunate to either live near areas or in cities where there are the usual 'lotto's' at knife shows, what have you won, kept or let go of over the last several years?
If you have photos of lotto won knives feel free to post them.

For those few not familiar with 'show lotto's', many of the most popular knife makers have a lotto, you get a ticket either with your name written on it or a number on it and at a predetermined time during a show they pick a ticket out of a hat or a bowl, if they call your name/number you are given a chance to purchase only one of a dozen or more (or less) knives made by the maker.

For me my last three were:

At Blade Show in Atlanta, 2014.
A Zero Tolerance 0454, I kept it for a month then sold it.

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At the New York Custom Knife Show a.k.a. NYCKS in Jersey City N.J., 2013.
A Rick Hinder XM18 flipper with orange scale, I kept it for 3 months then sold it.

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At the East Coast Custom Knife Show a.k.a. ECCKS in Jersey City N.J., 2012.
A Rick Hinder XM24 non flipper with orange scale, bead blasted frame, tumbled blade, kept for a year then sold it.

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My one and only lotto win so far from ECCKS 2014:

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Highly unlikely to ever leave my collection.
 
omgomgyouguys said:
Wait, so you do a draw and you win a CHANCE to buy the knife?
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Exactly.
But it's the knife maker/s that do the drawing.
It's a lot of fun.

Basically looks like this:
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omgomgyouguys said:
Wait, so you do a draw and you win a CHANCE to buy the knife?
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A lot of new guys or people who aren't into high end customs are always perplexed by this. I remembered a couple years back there was a confusion during an online lottery where people thought they were getting a free knife if they were drawn.

I've entered a few online lotteries and one in real life at a knife show. Never won a drawing, but with my luck it's never a surprise for me. I can have a 50/50 chance at something and I always end up losing. I still enter though because "you never know".
 
The Logical One said:
A lot of new guys or people who aren't into high end customs are always perplexed by this. I remembered a couple years back there was a confusion during an online lottery where people thought they were getting a free knife if they were drawn.

I've entered a few online lotteries and one in real life at a knife show. Never won a drawing, but with my luck it's never a surprise for me. I can have a 50/50 chance at something and I always end up losing. I still enter though because "you never know".
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"you never know"... you're exactly right, it's the "luck of the draw" (yes, pun intended).
Keep at it next time you're at a show, your name/ticket gets pulled when you don't expect it.
 
@ Scurvy092... looks like you and I are the only one's that are willing to divulge we won knives at show lotto's. :p
 
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