>You will be receiving your free COP8-EMFLASH design > development tool, and your 5 free samples of COP8CBR9HVA8 Flash > Microcontrollers in the mail. I think I would just take the bits and run - not even bother to submit an entry once I had them. My excuse would be that the project did not get done by the deadline, that's why they did not receive the entry. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.