How the forget is coming onto the forums by chance and seeing some random bullstuff about a phone number effort in any stretch of the imagination?
If he is going to state the rules of the contest in the very beginning, it's extremely stuffty to deviate from them after everyone has entered. The only reason you're defending it is because you've won. If you hadn't been the winner, the odds are that you would be quite upset about this as well.
Seeing some jumbled, incomplete phone number isn't where the effort is required, it's finding the number that is challenging. People bitched and moaned about the contest and the eliminations before he changed it, even though they had a chance to win an excellent prize of their choice. You didn't even try to find the number, you have no reason to bitch. If I had lost, I would have been disappointed sure, but only because I tried to win. If I had sat on my fat lazy ass without trying, I wouldn't have had any chance to win and no reason to complain.
There was 17 hours between the time he announced that it was changing and the time I found the number. I wasn't awake when he announced it. I didn't even try finding it until 11 am. I spent 15 minutes thinking before going to lunch. I had forgotten about it by the time I got back. I remembered it after supper, around 5:30 pm. It took me less than 30 minutes of searching to find his number and text him.
