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August 15, 2008 7:01 pm AEST — By Long Zheng

Microsoft ups Imagine Cup 2008 prize

Remember the dip in the graph? Well the generous Microsoft Imagine Cup organizers have filled it up with an extra $10,000 bringing the first-place prize money back to $25,000. Can’t complain about that and I’m sincerely grateful for their extra generosity which I must stress was not in any bit compelled.

18 Responses

  1. sw says:

    Lucky!

    Are you in Europe? Europeans put periods instead of commas to signify digit separation.

  2. Long Zheng says:

    @sw: Nah, my European friend insisted he use Keynote to make the splashy graph. I’ll get that fixed ;)

  3. Joseph Wang says:

    Wow, nice! Congrats again Long!

  4. MJ says:

    congrats, long.

    I hope you give me money.
    hahaha.

  5. Wouter says:

    Wow, that’s great Long! I definitely didn’t expect that to happen. :)
    But I still wonder why they had originally lowered it… What’s 10 000 dollars compared to the total cost of organizing the Imagine Cup?
    Using keynote to create a graph about Microsoft giving you that much money isn’t very kind, is it? :d

  6. Haha, that’s cool. Who knows what will happen after this blog post… Maybe 66% more? :) )

  7. sw says:

    Ha, nice to see the graph “corrected”.

    Congratulations!

  8. Kevin says:

    Excellent, Long! Money is good.

  9. Drew says:

    @SW: Actually, we Europeans use commas as digit separators, just like everyone else!

  10. hahaha says:

    hahahaha

  11. Andrew says:

    Nice of MS to do that for you :)

  12. Andre F. says:

    So.. does that mean you cashing out for our trips to Aussieland next year? :D

  13. Avatar says:

    damn… i guess Long will be getting a new computer soon. maybe a blackbird 02? :P

  14. Peter Menadue says:

    Long,

    Great to see – congrats again for your win, and good on you for acknowledging the addition to the prize…

  15. Karun AB says:

    So an even bigger party now eh? ;)
    As Andrew said, it was nice of MS to do that :) You guys did deserve it :)

  16. This is awesome news, especially for a guy like me who still has a 30GB!

  17. Oops, I thought I was commenting on the Zune news, darn computer!

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