Free Mountain Dew Codes (Old school New School)

Awesome! I won a pair of the old school kicks on my 37th try! I submitted my play at exactly 3:30 AM Eastern time on Monday, July 14th. It was after I entered an AMP code, but I doubt that made a difference. Most of my codes were Mountain Dew bottle codes obtained through trash diving at work. I work in an office that is adjacent to a warehouse, and I collect tops between the workers’ breaks. My company’s web server is in Minnesota even though I live in North Carolina; so I’m not sure which state will be reflected on the winners map…Good luck to the rest of you!

Those of you playing for the XBox,

How often do you get the screen that shows you kicking the field goal? 25% of the time? Half the time? etc.?

Yeah ET, you can only get shoes once, according to the official rules. So, if you won the old school shoes, you cannot get the new school Adidas Response because they are in the same category. But you can play for other prizes. Whether or not there is a check in the system for multiple shoe winners, or whether additional wins will be voided, I don’t know.

ET, The prizes seem to be evenly distributed across the promotion period. I computed the total number of prizes and the number of days in the promotion period. On July 17th, for example, 70% of the prizes had been awarded, while 70% of the period had passed.

Is there a way to tell how many of the 2009 Corvettes have been won so far?

For any of you who may be worried that all prizes have been exhausted, don’t despair. As of the end of August 3rd, 7486 of 8271 prizes have been awarded, while 77 of the 85 days in the promotion period have passed. So, 90.5% of prizes have been awarded through 90.5% of the promotion period. There has been an even distribution of the prizes over time. Keep trying, and good luck to all of you!

Derek,

The high number of winning entries in Michigan has to do with it being a bottle deposit/recyling state. That somehow contributes to more people in that state paying attention to bottle tops, thereby creating more entries, and more winners. Neighboring states will also have a lot of winners, as I’m sure residents from Wisconsin & Ohio cross the border to collect deposits…It also wouldn’t surprise me to find out that Mountain Dew bottles bearing the codes were made available to the Midwest states first, enabling a higher pre-promotion collection rate.

The official rules state the total number of prizes in each category. If you add it up, it comes to 8,271 prizes. Well, guess what? As of 11:00 p.m. EST Sunday night, with 25 hours left in the promotion, all 8,271 prizes have been awarded according to the winner’s map. It looks like playing for prizes on the last day may be a lost cause. That really sucks because I had 44 plays left. I will still keep playing just in case prizes are placed back into the pool due to ineligibility. If no more prizes are to be awarded, I really wish they would just post that all prizes have indeed been exhausted.

Steph,

I live in Charlotte, prime NASCAR country. I would have been able to get a good bit for it just by listing on eBay as a pickup only item…Even if you don’t live in what is considered NASCAR territory, I still say sell it on eBay – PICKUP ONLY. I’m sure shipping would be a bear…There are plenty of Dale, Jr. fans wherever you are. Trust me.