HeySummit selects giveaway winners from the eligible attendees for the event or talk, then chooses at random from that pool.
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An attendee must have a completed registration, an email address, and accepted the event terms before they can be selected. HeySummit also excludes people marked as excluded from giveaways, deactivated attendees, active speakers, hosts, and the event organiser.
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Every eligible attendee starts with one entry in the random draw. Social shares and completed viral incentives add extra weighting, so those attendees have a higher chance of being selected. They are not required unless your event settings also require attendance or the giveaway is restricted to specific tickets.
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If a giveaway is restricted to particular tickets, only attendees who hold one of those tickets can be selected for that giveaway.
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In Setup > Giveaway Settings, you can choose whether winners must have attended before they are eligible. If this is switched on, you can require live broadcast attendance, replay viewing, in-person attendance, or any of those attendance types.
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For a talk-level giveaway, the attendee must meet the attendance requirement for that specific talk. For an event-level or bundled giveaway, they must meet the requirement somewhere in the event.
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Giveaway winners are generated automatically by default. Event-level giveaways and bundled giveaways use the event/bundle winner date and time in your giveaway settings, or the default event-level timing when that field is blank.
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Talk-level giveaways use the Talk Giveaway Timing setting. You can generate them at the end of each talk, a set number of minutes after each talk ends, or at the event/bundle date and time.
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You can also switch off automatic generation or set an individual giveaway to generate at a custom date and time. If a giveaway is waiting for manual generation, use Generate Winners from the giveaway's actions.

If a giveaway has more than one winner available, HeySummit will not choose the same attendee twice for that same giveaway draw.
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Whether an attendee can win more than one giveaway across the event depends on the Allow Attendees to Win More Than One Giveaway? setting. If that setting is off, HeySummit excludes previous giveaway winners from later draws for that event.
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You can re-generate a winner from Reporting > Giveaway Winners. The replacement draw uses the same giveaway rules and excludes the previous winner.

If no eligible attendee is found, HeySummit marks the giveaway as No Giveaway Winners Found. It does not fall back to choosing someone outside the eligible pool. Adjust the giveaway settings or attendee eligibility, then generate winners again if you want to retry.
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When a winner is selected, HeySummit emails the winner. Depending on who provided the giveaway, HeySummit also notifies the linked speaker, sponsor, talk speakers, or event organiser so they can follow up about fulfilment.