Come on, bear up! Who knows if you really had won if you picked up your phone. I also participated at a contest once (not A LP contest). But the only thing I won were marketing callings. So, don’t be too sad 
yip, in life there’re alot of thing far worse than “missing the phonecall”…
lighten up Jason, hopefully you can make it to the summit!
Try to look for another contest. Maybe another radio station or a sponsor of the show is doing a contest too. Don’t give up too fast!
Yikes… I really feel bad for you. But it so sounds like something that would happen to me.
This is just minor compared to what you experienced. But when the group pic of the meet and greet was taken. I listened to the lady and stood in the back… and then all of a sudden click click… and I wasn’t in it… and I was like fuuuuuuuuuuuudge :P. But well xD! Next time better luck I hope…
But damn… yours was kinda like once in a lifetime. I truly hope luck will turn your way sometime again so you do have an amazing once in a life time experience with all the band members!