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First-ever national text messaging contest

Posted in Contests, LG, Text Messaging by Darrin Olson on March 20th, 2007

First national text messaging contest by LGIf you own an LG enV, are fast with your thumbs and have some time to kill, LG is putting on the first-ever National Texting Championship competition with a chance to win a total of $25k.

You must own and use an LG enV or V phone for the competition, and the contest involves you texting phrases that appear on a screen and sending them to a specified recipient. The first to send the correct message with no errors wins.

There will be basically two chances to let your apposing digit help you make your way through the apposing competition to the big cash prize with this text messaging contest. A west coast competition will take place March 31st in Hollywood, CA, and then and east coast and national champion competition will take place in New York, NY on April 21st.

The contest is open to the public and registration is available online through LG. You can also take a look at the text message contest official rules to see if you’re a contender.

UPDATE:

This competition was won by a 13 year old girl named Morgan Pozgar by texting “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” in 15 seconds with no errors.

Read more here.

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