IPOM Contests

Welcome to the Contest section of IPOM. Here you will find contests in which you can win prizes!

Contest #17 - Now Running!

• Prizes
• How To Enter
• Rules
• Winner Selection

IPOM is a labor of love, but it wouldn't exist without all of you! We appreciate everyone who sends us bug reports, helps Beta Test new features, tells your friends, donates, or any other way you participate on the IPOM community.

So we thought why not give some stuff away for helping out! To that end, we're running a little contest. For different things you can earn a number of entries into a drawing to win some cool shit.

Prizes

Here are the prizes up for grabs. Each winner will also receive a new IPOM pick to go with their prize. All relevant Profile Badges will also be given to contributors.

There are 5 prizes up for grabs, though the number of winners will depend on the number of entries (see below).

The possible prizes are:

• Four (4) Metallica picks from Phil's private stash
• Metallica-themed Budweiser can (empty)
• The Angry String Orchestra's Say Your Prayers Little One on CD courtesy of Vitamin Records
• We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones on CD featuring Metallica's cover of 53rd & 3rd
• Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas USA February 5th, 1989 - the CD from Fan Can 4

Depending on the criteria below we may pick up to 5 winners. See Winner Selection below for details on the drawing process and be sure to read the Rules.

The total number of winners wil be determined as follows.

• There will of course be at least one winner chosen
• If there are at least 6 participants and 10 entries we will pick a 2nd winner
• If there are at least 10 participants and 20 entries we'll pick a 3rd winner
• If there are at least 15 participants and 25 entries we'll pick a 4th winner
• If there are at least 20 participants and 30 entries we'll pick a 5th winner

How To Enter

There are a ton of ways to earn entries for this contest. Unless otherwise specified, click here to email us the details from the email address associated with your IPOM account to get your entries.

• 1 entry: Submit a concert review in our Tour section.
  Simply find a show you were at and click info then reviews and submit your own! All reviews submitted within the contest window will automatically be counted - no need to email us
• 2 entries: Submit a concert review with photos in our Tour section.
  See above.
• 3 entries: Find the owner of a currently-unclaimed concert review on our site.
  We tried to reach out to the emails associated with concert reviews which did not have IPOM accounts. But maybe you know some of those people! Find reviews listed as "Unclaimed" - the email address will be shown. Have them email us from the email in question and let us know their current IPOM account to claim it. They should mention your IPOM account so you get credit.
• 3 entries: Find a venue rename we don't know about (i.e. don't know they are the same venue)
  We track venues that are renamed as the same physical venue, but we've certainly missed some in the thousands of worldwide venues. See the Finding Venue Renames section below for tips.
• 2 entries: Find a Tour error
  Find a setlist that's missing a song that was played, or has the wrong song. Or, find a show with the wrong venue listed. Or another issue. You must provide evidence of the correction.
• 1 entry: Find a typo on the site. Pick descriptions, venue names, etc.
  Typo must not be in the Archives section, or any area linked under Archives.
• 1 entry: Find a broken link.
  Link must not be in the Archives section, or any area linked under Archives. Link must not be to an external site.
• 2 entries: Find a bug.
  Find a bug on the site that we can reproduce.
• 2 entries: Lend a pre-M72 pick we do not have a scan of for scanning
  See our Contributing page. Be sure use the link above to reach out to us about it.
• 3 entries: Donate a pre-M72 pick we do not have a scan of
  See our Contributing page. Be sure use the link above to reach out to us about it.
• 2 entries Lend any coin or laminate we do not have a scan of for scanning
  See our Contributing page. Be sure use the link above to reach out to us about it.
• 3 entries: Donate any Coin we do not have a scan of
  See our Contributing page. Be sure use the link above to reach out to us about it.
• 5 entries: Donate any laminate we do not have a scan of
  See our Contributing page. Be sure use the link above to reach out to us about it.

Finding Venue Renames

We've worked hard to have the most accurate Tour Archive out there. In particular, we worked hard to keep track of venue-renames so that stats on a venue ("Metallica played here X times") is accurate even if the venue has been renamed many times. However, keeping up with this for all venues is a herculean task. So check venues you know (or pick other venues and look them up!) and make sure that we're properly tracking venues across renames, and report it to us if there's any errors. The easiest way to do this is to go to a show at a given venue, click on the venue, and make sure all shows that have been played there are listed, even if the name is different. For example this link shows both Volksparkstadion and Imtech Arena because they are actually the same physical building, it just changed names.

One thing to note: the band must have played at the venue under the name for the entry to count. So if a venue has had 5 names: A Stadium, B Stadium, C Stadium, D Stadium, and E Stadium, but Metallica only played there under the names B Stadium, D Stadium, and E Stadium, then when you click on any of those the shows for all 3 should show up. If they don't, you have earned 3 entries! We will award additional 3 entries for each missing association. So in the example above if we didn't know any of those 3 were the same, you'd get 6 entries (3 for B and D, 3 for B and E - you can't double-dip for D and E :) ). If we knew 2 were the same but not the 3rd you'd get 3 entries.

It's important to know entries must contain proof of their claim. Proof of a venue rename might be a Wikipedia article about the venue - they usually list all historical names. Proof of an incorrect venue might be a picture of a ticket or flier from the show, an article about the show, etc. The cover art of a bootleg of a show is not considered strong proof.

Some great resources we can recommend: the Wikipedia pages for venues (just Google the name of the venue and chose the Wikipedia link), the Wikipedia page for a given Metallica tour (Google for the tour and Wikipedia), MetPage has tons of picture of tickets and fliers from shows, and Googleing the date (in YYYY-MM-DD format) with "Metallica" and the city name will often bring surprisingly useful results as well.

Rules

• To enter, you must have an IPOM account and have access to the current email address associated with it
• You may enter as many times as you wish
• Entries without proof will be disqualified
• By entering you agree to let IPOM use the information submitted to improve the site
• If you win you agree to let IPOM post your entries and a link to your IPOM Profile
• By entering you agree to our shipping policy (available upon request)
• We are not responsible for the items lost or damaged in shipping
• The prize may be forfeited at the winner's choice, but no replacements/exchanges may be made
• Contest entries must be received by midnight June 31, 2025, PDT
• It is up to the IPOM Staff to determine what entries are eligible and not eligible. We reserve the right to disqualify entries we deem to be fake or incorrect.
• If multiple invalid entries are received from the same person we reserve the right to disqualify that individual
• Winners must confirm and choose a prize within 7 days of being notified.

Winner Selection

All entries will be randomized and placed in a random drawing to select winners. At drawing time, the first name drawn will get their pick of all available prizes. Then their name will be removed from the drawing before any additional winners are selected. Additional winners will get their pick of the remaining prizes, and so on.

Winners will be notified via email to email address associated with their IPOM Accounts. Winners will have 7 days to confirm, otherwise their prize will be forfeited.