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THE BLACK FRIDAY PROVIDER AWARDS 2017
The BF leaderboards went a little bit wrong this year (combination of not enough sleep and too much alcohol), so instead I thought that this year we would celebrate the providers who gave us all these ludicrous plans to buy with the inaugural BLACK FRIDAY PROVIDER AWARDS!
These awards have been voted for by a jury of LET members, old and new.
Our first award is the BLACK FRIDAY MVP - this is for the provider who made the biggest difference on the day, and made the biggest effort TO BRING THE DEALZ.
And the winner is....... INCEPTION HOSTING (@AnthonySmith) - deals all day long, beating other providers deals, creating custom deals - Ant did all these things.
Our runner-up here was Virmach (@Virmach) - the revolving door of crazy deals rolls on.
Next up is the PLAY OF THE GAME award, for the best single offer of Black Friday. This is for the deal that made us all cry WTF before realising it was an INSTABUY.
This award goes to...... Secure Dragon (@Kujoe) for the insane $18/y Deadpool special. Truly the spirit of LET Black Friday in a single offer.
We were unable to choose just one runner-up for this category, so it's shared between Clouvider (@Clouvider, for the 2x256NVME £30 server) and Virmach (@Virmach, for the incredibly silly $2/month KVM)
Our final award is for BEST NEWCOMER. This is for new provider, participating in their first LET Black Friday and knocking it OUT. OF. THE. PARK.
This was a very close category, and in the end, we just couldn't separate two of the challengers....so we have a TIE FOR FIRST PLACE! So congratulations to both VMHaus (@VMHaus) and FlowVPS (@Trewq) for getting involved right from the start of festivities!
An honourable mention goes to Netcup for their insane deals - they may not be part of the community here, but they certainly helped fuel the fun.
Finally, thank you to my fellow judges, @WSS, @Harambe, @Falzo, @Lurch, @Imok and @Tom for helping to judge these awards, all the other providers who brought out offers, and to everyone who joined in the thread, bought shit and made it SO MUCH FUCKING FUN.
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I'm sure I speak for everyone here; THANK YOU NEKKI
Just realised the formatting didn't tag the providers, so @AnthonySmith, @Virmach, @Kujoe, @Clouvider, @VMHaus, @Trewq.
Thank you, all providers, for doing your all to replace the crease marks into our wallets, and remove it from the front of our trousers!
It was one to remember that is to be sure. We do owe you one, so feel free to pop open a ticket and I'm sure we can give you a thank you
Thanks guys! It was loads of fun! I'm already prepping for next year.
Next year?! There's Monday yet!
I'll have something for Monday it just won't be as crazy. Next Black Friday I expect to rock the house.
Congrats on the draw by the way
Don't you know about "Cyber Monday"?
My first Black Friday here at LET (been a long time lurker at LEB though), and what a pleasant surprise the "BLACK FRIDAY: LET'S ALL GO BROKE EDITION" thread was.
The LET highlight of the weekend for me was this post that made me laugh out loud:
Thanks guys!
Psst. Monday is not that far away..
NOW THAT'S THE SPIRIT!
Questionable calls. Panel more corrupt than FIFA
Someone ban him fast before he exposes everything.
Thanks providers, thanks @Nekki for running CAPSLOCK THREAD!
I am NOT the reason for Virmach's listing twice.
Thank you all!
There is not a craziness category, but sure @virmach wins with the weird deals.
Also, notice 4/6 providers are not from US, keep that in mind for the incoming cyber Monday deals
We had a ton of stock left before we started. Then one of our devs on Friday afternoon asked if we should get a spare node just in case. We've about filled the stock from before. Monday should put the spare node to use if you are hungry enough.
You too! Glad to see NVMe can make it "down under"
it was really nice, and special thanks to WSS for a surprise pm this morning.
@ehab
Welcome to the VirtualMachine.
For everyone else PM'd (and scrolled right)- you done missed out!
@Nekki- you were a hell of a host, as always.
If you find my underwear, give me a tinkle!
just thank YOU :-)
hmmm netcup was good
Everything was great, even I bought 3 from the winner and one from the runner.
Totally agree with your list, though I'd like to add that it was nice to see @veesp coming back!
It was good fun anyway!
Thank you for your great service to the community @Nekki
@Nekki Thanks for all the time you put in. Besides getting great deals out of it I had a lot of fun as well. Cheers!
Thank you @Nekki for spending your time organizing the black friday threads! It was fun
Cool list
I hope they can give some offers again in christmast
@AlexBarakov 's offers were good.
@Virmach 's Amsterdam location deals were good too, but I have so much of Virmach.
@Abdullah 's 8$/yr NVMe was perfect.
Indeed. Didn't last long but very nice deal!
@Nekki next time separate providers by location. Maybe in the next fucking black friday create 2 threads. One for occidental and another for oriental. You get it right? Yeah ok thanks.
Thanks for going out of your way to shit on every one of the 14,032 Black Friday threads this year!
No problem, is my duty. But I'm talking to the real thing aka @Nekki . You are kind of the imitation of it* , is like 4 inches vs 10 inches, that might get you a better picture.
Love you, just kidding...