In Play Magazine
Dear Sports Illustrated New Model Search entrants!
Firstly, let me apologise for the confusion our site has caused over the last few days! Let me please explain the situation and assure all of our existing internationally-based entrants that we welcome you to our competition and appreciate your effort and assistance in making this year’s New Model Search such an international success.
I’ll explain the situation as succinctly as I can. This competition is for the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SOUTH AFRICAN EDITION ONLY. We became aware that a lot of you are under the impression that this is a competition for the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED US SWIMSUIT EDITION, which it is not.
This created such confusion that we felt it best to make this very clear to any future entrants, hence the changes to our site that you would have seen recently.
We had to get the software program behind the voting system to identify all of our existing internationally-based entrants so that we could ensure that we are able to communicate with you today. We needed to separate our existing international entrants from any non-SA residents who may try to enter in the future.
That is why some of you have received ‘Undefined’ messages when looking at your urls.
The good news is that this process is now complete and we are happy to welcome back all of you who entered the competition prior to 24 February 2011! You will all soon be reinstated with the exact number of votes you have currently. Please continue rallying support.
Once again, apologies for the confusion!
If you would like to opt out of the competition or if you have any other queries, please email us on NMS@sportsillustrated.co.za
Good luck to you all!
Brendan Cooper
Editor, Sports Illustrated South Africa
