Panini Blog And the Winners Are: Panini America Gets Caught Up on Its Recent Contests

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Between the National Sports Collectors Convention a few weeks ago and the upcoming NHLPA Rookie Showcase*next week, we’ve been burning the candle at both ends inside the Panini America marketing department recently.
As a result, we’re a little behind in selecting*winners from some our recent contests here on The Knight’s Lance. Today, we finally made it a point to get caught up.
It’s worth noting that two of the contests in question (the one awarding a handful of lucky collectors some of the highly sought after National wrapper-redemption packs and the always-popular Guess the Autograph shindig)*received an overwhelming number of entries — thank you to everyone who participated — and required more time than usual to sort through.
In any event, after spending much of the day plugging entrant names into*Random.org, we’re ready to announce the winners.

• For the National contest, we received so many great responses that we decided to award seven lucky collectors with silver packs . . .*and those collectors are*Marty, Jerry Scoppa, JOEMLM, Kevin C, joshua*milam, jp98 and Grid-Iron Gladiators.
• And now, for the three winners (one grand prize and two runner-ups) from last Friday’s Guess the Autograph contest . . .*congratulations to Mike Wagner, Samuel Breniman and Kollectornet.*

Finally, we lost all track of time and completely dropped the ball (or puck, in this case) on our Panini Unwrapped: 2010-11 Zenith Hockey contest.*We’re still waiting on one photo but as soon as we get it, we will honor all the winners from that contest in a separate post.
Congratulations again to all of our winners. Your participation and support are what make all of this work and*we’re grateful to have you.
(Oh, and winners, watch your email box for a message from us.)

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