Don has posted about this as a response in previous months giveaways.  It's based on participation with some preference for people who have been active in past months.

Great prizes yet again.  Good luck to all the winners of these awesome monthly prizes. 

But with me just starting out in cyber security, how can one validate my contributions to this forum and the field as a whole? Now me working as an Apple Rep for the military community in Germany has many positives for contributing to my local community, it does no good here. So the only thing I can do is read posts, and respond with more questions. But now if the prize givers are looking for a newbie into cyber security that is passionate about computers, then I am the guy. So yes, I am going to make posts on daily, but I don't think my knowledge of security can contribute to any one persons success, and therefor must try in every way possible to win said prizes, because even the smallest prize that is being given away here can do nothing but make me better!

Best prize so far! Great job Don!

I always read a lot here but with a sponsor like this I just had to sign-up haha. This year I started to turn my knowledge into certificates (always good when you meet the HR folks) and of course Offsec certs are something worth having. So regardless of winning they will see me for sure.

Will AWE become available as normal track as well? Right now it links to Blackhat. Very interested in it since web pentesting is my weakness.

AWE (Advanced Windows Exploitation) is a live course only. Their Advanced Web Attacks course will most likely become available in an online format by the end of the year.

Thanks for such an amazing offer and would love to have the chance to learn more!