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Answerers from all over the globe battled it out over 4 days during Answerthon Xtreme and now we are crowning the champion!  Congratulations to Fuzzy Logic from Vancouver, British Columbia, who took the title.  She will walk away with a $500 Amazon.com gift card.  The other gift card winners are listed below.  Answerthon.com features a full listing of the winners and will have information about our next Answerthon with a twist in the coming months!

1st place ($500 gift card):

Fuzzy Logic

2nd place ($400 gift cards):

Steven Keyman

Hyper X

3rd place ($250 gift cards):

Aggie80

TexAlex94

Squirrel Man

What day is today? Oh! The next AnswerThon starts tonight at midnight, with a new twist – it’s the AnswerThon Xtreme, a chance to see who can answer the most questions over four days, May 14-17.

This is not your mother’s 48-hour AnswerThon. Four days of non-stop answering can win you amazing prizes. As the contest time has been expanded, so have the prizes:

• The FIRST PLACE winner will receive a $500 Amazon.com gift card.
• Two SECOND PLACE winners will each receive a $400 Amazon.com gift card.
• Three THIRD PLACE winners will each receive a $250 Amazon.com gift card.
• Twenty RUNNERS UP will receive Answers.com merchandise.

What are you waiting for? Technically, the AnswerThon starts tonight at 12 am (EST). Get a head start by reading through the AnswerThon Xtreme rules.

We came…  We saw…  We edited…  To the tune of over 23,500 unanswered question edits this past weekend!  Thanks to all who participated in the 2010 Spring Cleaning contest.  The winners in each tier were HisPowr4U (with an amazing 3,855 edits!) and Fourthfrench.  They will each receive a $300 Amazon.com gift card.

The 2nd place finishers included Fuzzy Logic, Wonderful Wanda, Yourchasehelpers, Cotton C Doyle and Em1989 who have each earned a $200 gift card.  A full list of all top finishers and runners up is now available.

Preparation is underway for our next fun contest so watch this space for details about it in the near future!

Straighten up that spelling, give that grammar an upgrade and correct that capitalization! We’re having an Answers.com Spring Cleaning contest for editing unanswered questions this weekend: March 27th and 28th. First prizes are $300 Amazon.com gift cards and 2nd place winners receive $200 gift cards as well. There are over 25 other great prizes too.

The aim of the game is to improve the most questions (only unanswered questions count!) in 48 hours. Learn more about how to edit questions properly. Keep in mind question edits will be reviewed for compliance with the rules and the questionable strategies highlighted there may cause you to be disqualified.

The question editing contest begins at 12:00 am (EST) on Saturday (late Friday night), March 27, 2010. The event ends 48 hours later, at 11:59 pm (EST) on Sunday, March 28, 2010. Only edits made within this time frame will be counted as part of the contest. Be sure to read through the rules before you start.

Good luck and game on!

Can I get a “Helloooo Austin, Texas!”

Our very own Shaya (@pickleshy) is running around SXSW Interactive with tons of Answers.com gear to giveaway. If you’ve been answering @Answersdotcom‘s tweets and getting prizes for it, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t been – well, only 2.5 days left!

Shaya reported a bit on what she’s seeing and hearing at SXSW and here are a few snapshots to piece together… Oh, and the following statement that Shaya will have to explain at some point:

“Crowdsurfing sheep, flame-throwing buses, robots that play music, random random random (and ppl who call it stochasticity). Nearly saw a terrible rehashing of the super bowl Janet Jackson event during a slightly slutty soul sistas karaoke performance.”

Bag o’ giveaways in transit to Austin, Texas.

Getting the interactive on.

Lego A-burst!

Moose dude.

Answers.com sticker pole dance.

Sticker makes its mark.

The one and only Shaya!

Stay tuned for more tales from Texas later this week…

Good luck to all the teams participating in the first WikiAnswers Answerhunt, starting at 1pm Eastern time.

Looking forward to hearing how it goes!

Winning teams will be announced here, so stay tuned.

The first WikiAnswers scavenger hunt – known as the Answerhunt – is starting tomorrow at 1pm Eastern Time.

Team registration for the Answerhunt ends tonight at 11:59pm Eastern Time; you need three members to a team, one of whom must be a Supervisor. Get help coordinating a team by emailing WikiAnswers @ Answers.com (no spaces) or check out this Community Forum thread for help. Register your team and get ready to rock the clues, the first of which is being given from the Community Forum under Site Announcements.

And what’s the point, you ask? What’s in it for you?

FIRST PLACE TEAM wins $250 Amazon.com gift cards.
SECOND PLACE TEAM wins $100 Amazon.com gift cards.
THIRD PLACE TEAM wins $75 Amazon.com gift cards.
FOURTH PLACE TEAM wins $50 Amazon.com gift cards.
FIFTH PLACE TEAM wins $25 Amazon.com gift cards.

All winners will receive great WikiAnswers 9³ swag in addition to the other prizes.

Register your team now!