It was at the end of September that we announced that we’d be giving away a new Huawei Nova 8i smartphone to one lucky winner. The passage of time has brought us inexorably here, to the point where we’re actually going to give it away.

Securing your very own Huawei Nova 8i was laughably simple — all you have to do was enter your details into a form, answer a question that was basically just your opinion, and you were in with a shot. And that’s what loads and loads of you went and did. But, before we get to which of our entrants got lucky this time, first we need to go over how we give away stuff for free.

Giving away the Nova 8i

You see, there’s a very specific way things are done when it comes to giveaways. Our competition winners are always drawn the same way — we make a computer do it. Because computers don’t have mates that entered the competition (except for that one incident, but we caught that one in time). There were a few limiting factors as well — in line with our Terms and Conditions, you had to be a South African resident and you couldn’t work for Stuff or Huawei at all. Because that’s just not cool.

By now, you’re bored with how all of this works. It’s time to get to who is taking home a new smartphone.

And our winner is:

Amanda Cloete

Congratulations to our lucky winner — keep an eye on your inbox, there’s going to be an email there that we need you to answer. For everyone else who didn’t win, stay tuned. We’ve got something new turning up very soon.