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Meet the Winners of Our Five Points Festival Contest!


The contest has closed, and the entries have been accounted for. Now, it’s time to meet our winners in our Five Points Festival ticket giveaway!

  • Liu Shuwei
  • Pamela Zwaskis
  • Thomas Santoni
  • Wen Ching Lin

Each of the four winners will receive a free one-day pass to the Five Points Festival. I’d like to take a moment to thank everybody who participated. Whether you won or you weren’t selected, you’re all fantastic.

Note: If you’re on this list and you haven’t received your email, check your junk mail folder. Failing that, reach out to us!

In the Interest of Transparency

As part of our Statement of Ethics, I like to keep a generally transparent means of communicating things like this. So, I’d like to take a moment to walk through our methodology for choosing the winners.

First, let me give you a look at what we see when loading up the contest entry box:

By practice, we keep things 100% anonymous. A bolded link means “unread”, while a standard link shows a read entry.

Now, we get to work! Each winner was chosen 100% randomly. With the aid of Random.Org’s “True Random Number Generator”, we did a simple 1-n random integer selection, four times over. “1” would be the first item, while “n” would be the very last.

And, well, that’s it! With the winners chosen, we reached out to let them know. I hope you enjoyed this little peek behind the scenes.

About the author

Samantha Ferreira

Samantha Ferreira is Anime Herald’s founder and editor-in-chief. A Rhode Island native, Samantha has been an anime fan since 1992, and an active member of the anime press since 2002, when she began working as a reviewer for Anime Dream. She launched Anime Herald in 2010, and continues to oversee its operations to this day. Outside of journalism, Samantha actively studies the history of the North American anime fandom and industry, with a particular focus on the 2000s anime boom and bust. She’s a huge fan of all things Sakura Wars, and maintains series fansite Combat Revue Review when she has free time available. When not in the Anime Herald Discord, Samantha can typically be found on Bluesky.

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