Round 2 Arrgust 2014 – Contest Winners!

Congratulations To Our Prize Winners!

It’s that time! Time to announce our round of Game Code Prize Winners for the 2014 Arrgust in the Spiral Celebrations!

Winners received a game code good for: 5,000 Crowns

We tried to make our question easy, so what was the answer?

Round 2 – Trivia Question!

This one is a little harder…
There’s a lot of inter-connecting relationships in Port Regal.
The G&S Savoy has a relationship with Captain Corcoran over in the Port Regal Tavern.
Let’s see if you can find out who or what inspired Captain Corcoran.

Answer me this…it’s a 2 part question and you’ll have to provide 2 answers:

Who is Captain Corcoran AND how does he related to the proprietors of the Savoy?

Theater Poster From 1879

The Correct Answer!

Who is Captain Corcoran?
He’s a character in an operatic play.

How is he related to the proprietors of the Savoy?
Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert wrote the opera and scored
the music for the play.

Kudos to the 2 folks who made the connection that the series of
these operatic plays became know as the “Savoy operas”

Captain Corcoran is a character from the Operatic play “H.M.S. Pinafore”. Also known as “The Lass That Loved a Sailor” is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan’s fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation.

Pinafore’s extraordinary popularity in Britain, America and elsewhere was followed by the similar success of a series of Gilbert and Sullivan works, including The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Their works, later known as the Savoy operas, dominated the musical stage on both sides of the Atlantic for more than a decade and continue to be performed today. The structure and style of these operas, particularly Pinafore, were much copied and contributed significantly to the development of modern musical theater. – Read more on Wikipedia.

Congratulations to the Captains
Who Submitted The Correct Answer!!

We’ve sent you an email with your game code and instructions for how to redeem the code online.
If you don’t receive the email or have problems, please let us know.

We received a 25 Entries
Of those, 13 provided the correct answer. Of those 13, we randomly selected 4 emails
in the order received as the winners. We selected emails 2, 4, 9 and 12

Our Prize Winners
Captain Stephen Hawkins	Captain Brandon Quincy
Captain Crazy Cassidy	Captain Duncan Freeman

We hope you’ll send us a picture of your captain with your new prize so we can post it here on the Portal’s winner page!

Thanks to everyone for participating in our Pirate101 contest. Follow our blog, or on Twitter @PiratesPortal for more announcements, news and contests from KingsIsle and Pirate101!

And get ready for Round 3 of our Arrgust Celebration Grand Prize Give-away worth 10,000 crowns! We have only 1 code to give away! It’s coming up next!!