{"id":2477,"date":"2010-09-09T18:07:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T17:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2010-09-09T18:07:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T17:07:42","slug":"police-expendables-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/police-expendables-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"SelectSpecs Limited Edition Police &amp; Expendables Competition Winner Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2480 aligncenter\" title=\"Police and Expendables Competition at SelectSpecs\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/banner.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been keeping an eye on our twitter or facebook pages you\u2019ve probably seen and hopefully entered our competition to win an amazing limited edition <strong>\u2018Expendables\u2019<\/strong> box set from <strong>Police<\/strong> containing a pair of Police S8362 Sunglasses and a limited edition Police wallet with a metal, brushed steel numbered certificate of authenticity all to the value of \u00a3175.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/8362.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2481\" title=\"Police S8362 Sunglasses\" alt=\"Police S8362 Sunglasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/8362.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wallet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2482\" title=\"Police Expendables Wallet\" alt=\"Police Expendables Wallet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wallet.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also had a fistful of Police and Expendables T-shirts to give away as runners up prizes, each featuring the poster image from the latest Sylvester Stallone adrenaline fuelled action movie The Expendables on the back.<\/p>\n<p>We had some great responses through both twitter and facebook with a real mix of responses to our open question: <strong>\u201cYour favourite movie featuring a member of The Expendables cast\u201d<\/strong>.\u00a0 Quite honestly it turned out to be a massive list of movies, including (perhaps expectedly) some real classic 80\u2019s action movies from the original action heroes themselves including Sly Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the rest of the beefcake bridge club.<\/p>\n<h1>Winners<\/h1>\n<p>Thanks to all those who entered, it was fun to see all your entries, but there can be only one winner for the top prize.\u00a0 All entries from both twitter and facebook were collected up, put into a hat and a winner &amp; runners up were chosen at random.\u00a0 Congratulations to all, who are: &#8211;<\/p>\n<h2>1st Prize<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Karen Walkden<\/strong> (Braintree, Essex) \u2013 She entered via Facebook with her vote for Jason Statham in The Transporter movies.\u00a0 Well done Karen.<\/p>\n<h2>Runner Up T-Shirt Prizes will go out to<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter user <strong>@paulinepppp<\/strong> \u2013 who voted for Arnie in Terminator 2<\/li>\n<li>Twitter user <strong>@uberotaku<\/strong> \u2013 who voted for Jason Statham in Lock Stock &amp; Two Smoking Barrels<\/li>\n<li>Twitter user <strong>@Shells19827<\/strong> \u2013 who voted for Bruce Willis in Die Hard<\/li>\n<li>Facebook user <strong>Kirsty Bowyer<\/strong> \u2013 who voted for Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2<\/li>\n<li>Facebook user <strong>Carrie Hobbs<\/strong> \u2013 who voted for Bruce Willis in Hostage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the winners will be notified via twitter or facebook to arrange delivery of your prizes.<\/p>\n<h1>Movie Nominations<\/h1>\n<p>Not surprisingly the classic 1988 John McTiernan Christmas terrorist shoot em\u2019 up Die Hard staring Bruce Willis came out way in front.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it, for years it has been the benchmark by which all subsequent action films are compared to.\u00a0 It was a well deserved win with an equally well deserved 2nd place going to Sylvester Stallone\u2019s Oscar winning Rocky.\u00a0 Hard to believe that movie came from way back in the 1970\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>What we found most surprising was the number of votes for The Transporter in 3rd place, beating some big movies like Rambo, The Terminator and Terminator 2.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the Top 10 Nominated movies in our little chart bellow; the remaining 30% of votes was spread amongst a vast number of other movies, most of which seemed to be Jason Statham movies like Crank, The Bank Job, Snatch etc.\u00a0 It was surprising to us how many votes his films got\u2026 That said, there were a lot of female entries into the competition\u2026 Just saying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Expendables-Movie-Votes1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2479 aligncenter\" title=\"Expendables-Movie-Votes\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Expendables-Movie-Votes1-1024x647.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh and we also got some strange and funny entries too for films like Hudson Hawk, Stop or my Mom will Shoot, White Chicks, Kindergarten Cop, Star Wars, Finding Nemo and Dirty Dancing to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I think I would have voted for either The Wrestler or Rocky.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for taking part everyone.\u00a0 Keep your eyes peeled as we hope to be doing more competitions soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been keeping an eye on our twitter or facebook pages you\u2019ve probably seen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[178,329,485,611,722,771,1750,1969,2208,2240,2243,2382,2467],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}