Last year I attended a seminar in Sydney for the launch of CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X4 (or 14). I actually started my graphic design career 15 years ago on CorelDRAW 5.
So anyway they announced that one lucky person would win a free copy of CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X4 at the end of the seminar so I decided to stick through the 2 hour long seminar for the small chance that I might actually win it. I actually bumped into a school friends older brother I hadn't seen for years so I had someone to talk to at least.
There were about 100 people so my chances weren't that bad even though I had no idea how they were going to pick a winner at the time. Funny thing is my wife said to me that morning that knowing my luck, I would probably win a copy since I had mentioned that 15 years ago my first boss won a copy of Corel 6 at a similar seminar. I've always had pretty good luck, mostly involving finding money on the ground, usually in the $100 denomination, plus finding my incredible wife of course.
Anyway at this stage I have been using the Adobe Suite of software for many years but I always liked CorelDRAW's generous FREE 10,000 clipart images, 1,000 fonts and 1,000 photos.
So it came to the end of the seminar and to set it up I better mention that in the early days Corel had a logo which included a colourful hot air balloon. They used this balloon for most of their versions but the last couple had gone away from that balloon. I think they used a chameleon at one point.
So the speaker held up the heavy box package of CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X4 and asked the audience what was the last version of CorelDRAW to use the colourful hot balloon. The audience began calling out versions "5!", "7!", "11!" etc then he looked in my direction and I yelled out "The version your holding in your hand right now!".... We have a winner!
And that ladies and gentlemen, is how I won CorelDRAW X4.