The Annual Points Contest is BACK!

AmyReyes
Community Manager

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Today marks the start of our Annual Points Contest, and this is one you won’t want to miss! There are tons of great prizes up for grabs, including some Meraki hardware. 

 

For the next four weeks (today through June 30th), you’ll earn points just for participating in the Meraki Community as you normally would. The more points you earn, the more chances you have to win some fantastic prizes.

 

Details below!

 

How it works

Just like in our previous Points Contests, starting today, certain actions you take in the community will earn you points. Those points will enter you to win a smattering of Meraki-branded prizes. You needn’t opt in — simply taking one of these point-earning actions will do:

  • Reply to any topic or blog post — 5 points
  • Start a topic (e.g. ask a question, pose a discussion point) — 5 points

 

To optimize the bang for your buck, writing high-quality posts can earn you even more points:

  • Receive a kudo — 7 points
  • Write an answer that gets marked as a solution — 10 points
  • Share details of a recent deployment in the Projects Gallery — 15 points
  • Write a how-to guide in any forum — 20 points

 

As you can see, the more helpful your action is to the community, the more points you receive!

 

There are 3 tiers that you can reach based on the number of points you amass. Within each tier, at the end of the month, we’ll randomly select winners to receive swag as outlined below:

 

  • Tier 1 requires 30 points and will have 50 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a Cisco Meraki pin set.

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  • Tier 2 requires 100 points and will have 25 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a Cisco Meraki pin set and Nike Dri-Fit hat.

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  • Tier 3 requires 200 points and will have 10 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a Cisco Meraki pin set, Nike Dri-Fit hat, and Nike Polo shirt.

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AND, just like in previous years, everyone who earns enough points to achieve any tier will be entered to win the GRAND PRIZE of a brand new CW9178I (with 5-year license)! Reaching Tier 1 gets you 1 entry, Tier 2 doubles your entries and… (guess what!?) Tier 3 triples your entries to win!

 

That means that, over the course of this month, you could write just 6 replies or author just 3 solutions anywhere in the community and be entered to win one of these:

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We will also be offering a prize to the top 3 Meraki Employees who earn the most points during the contest. 

 

How will I know how I’m doing?

To keep you all up to date on your progress, each week I’ll post a list of everyone who has reached Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3.

 

When are the winners chosen?

On June 30th at 11 am EST, the contest will end. We’ll then randomly select winners for each tier (50 for Tier 1, 25 for Tier 2, and 10 for Tier 3) and we’ll also draw the lucky winner of the GRAND PRIZE.

 

We’ll announce each of the winners here, so be sure to stay tuned!

 

More details:
  • Promotion period: Monday, June 2nd, 2025 at 11am EST through Monday, June 30th, 2025 at 10:59am EST
  • Up to three possible entries per community member: Each time you progress a tier, your entry remains in the tier below as well (meaning more chances to win stuff!). If you are randomly selected to win in two or three separate tiers, you’ll receive only the prize from the highest level tier. If you are selected to receive the Grand Prize, this will be in addition to any tier-level prizes.
  • Shipping limitations: We can only ship prizes to residents of these Eligible Countries 
  • Complete rules and eligibility can be found here
40 Comments
rwiesmann
Head in the Cloud

Well nice is the points contest back!

Thanks @AmyReyes, I am happy to participate 😀

Mloraditch
Kind of a big deal

Good Luck to everyone!

DanD
Conversationalist

This is super cool! Good luck, everyone!

@AmyReyes do you have a link for the project gallery?

RWelch
Kind of a big deal

Fun!  LET’S GOOOOO!!! 🎉

RWelch
Kind of a big deal
AmyReyes
Community Manager

Thanks @RWelch for sharing the link to the Projects Gallery! I will update the blog post to include it as well. Great question, @DanD!

CloudStrife
Getting noticed

Good luck to everyone, this is indeed exciting.

 

KFoster
Here to help

Good luck, all!

jgrbb
Comes here often

whoop!

FreshFrank
Here to help

This is awesome! Looking forward to collecting those kudos and points!

SethG
Here to help

Cool, good luck to all.

RobertOcampo
Here to help

I am excited to join this community and to take part of the contest, good luck all!

DarrenOC
Kind of a big deal

Yahooo…! Love these competitions and prizes.

 

Just watch all those projects come out of the woodwork 😂🤣

jumbojake
Here to help

Good luck everyone! Really hoping I can win that polo

DarrenOC
Kind of a big deal

Hi @AmyReyes - could you please clarify how many points are awarded when an All-Star gives a Kudo as ours count as 2 Kudos - still 7 points or 14?

AmyReyes
Community Manager

Excellent question, @DarrenOC! A kudos from an All-Star would be worth 14 points, as it is 7 points per 1 kudos. 

DJ6078
Comes here often

New to the Meraki community and excited to be part of an outstanding group of engineers. Look forward to sharing and learning.

vagrant
Here to help

This is cool. We just deployed a bunch of these APs to one of our locations. What a fantastic prize!

PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal

I see what everyone is going here.  🙂

ndkCrystal
Comes here often

good luck everybody.

Gopinath_Pigili
Getting noticed

Nice points Contest..! Looking forward to collecting those kudos and points!

Aashish2506
Comes here often

Good luck everyone! Really hoping I can win that polo👍

NicolasRen
Here to help

Nice contest ! Let's gooooooo 💚

Osvaldo_Quihila
Comes here often

Fantastic initiative. Thanks to keeping us entertained.

Raj_Wipro
New here

Feels Great to be part of this community and contest. All the best

 

Inderdeep
Kind of a big deal

This is awesome ... I am unlucky on most of the contests 🙂 

Ralph_at_Sharp
Comes here often

Point just to post. Sounds too easy!

Inderdeep
Kind of a big deal

@Ralph_at_Sharp : This is coming Every Year in june ..

 

CloudStrife
Getting noticed
@Inderdeep, that is awesome‼️
 
wswanson
Conversationalist

Sounds fun.  I could always use a sharp, new Polo, or even a fancy ceiling tile warmer!

UCS
Conversationalist

On your Mark, Get Ready...., Go!  Good luck all!

Youssef-Jelloul
New here

1

EJacobs
New here

Excellent! Ready to earn points!

dmbooth
Here to help

Oh I see what everyone's doing here 😉

Inderdeep
Kind of a big deal

@dmbooth : Its not specifically on this post .. Its anywhere or any posts on the Meraki Community.. 

Raziv
Conversationalist

Sounds great and going to have loads of fun 

Blast
Conversationalist

I’m very excited for this contest. Let’s go create a strong community and make it happen for everyone who wants to join the Meraki magic

merakian26
Meraki Employee

Excited!!! Good luck everyone💚

CloudStrife
Getting noticed

Me as well @jumbojake, me as well.

PatWruk
Getting noticed

This is always a great way to get people to join in the community more. Good luck everyone!