If you want to win the laptop, you shouldn't remove Plus! from your name before the final draw, wether you were previously picked at random or you sent an email. If you are pre-selected, you get about 1 chance over 300 to win the laptop which is incredibly good considering that in the end of the contest, about 100,000 people will have participated
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PS: send me emails, not PMs, I'm sorry, I just have too many of those
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