Winter Deco Contest

[+Nyx]

I am hosting a winter/holiday themed deco contest for the month of December. All players are welcome to participate, within the stated rules below.

Players wishing to participate will place a rune to their house in the chest in TC. You may submit your rune at any time, even if you are not yet finished with your decor. The houses will not be judged until the end of the contest. Houses should be decorated to a theme within the overall winter/holiday theme. You might opt to create an ice rink, Santa's toy shop, or a winter wonderland, but your deco should have some directed theme beyond just "winter" or "Christmas". Clever and elegant decoration will be rated more highly than a house that has simply slapped down some holiday addons or put winter items willy-nilly around their plots.


Rules:
These rules are subject to change at any time.
- Participants may decorate a maximum of 2 house plots to be considered for the contest. Houses may be combined as part of a larger plot, but must be easily accessed via a rune marked within 10 tiles. If your rune is marked further than 10 tiles from the entrance, you will be disqualified.
- If submitting more than one plot, they must be combined plots. You cannot submit 2 castles or a home in one area and another placed elsewhere. You also cannot submit a plot on the west side of a 10-house compound, and the other plot on the east side. They must be connected directly to each other.
- The submitted property must be owned by the person who signed up by dropping the rune.
- One entry per account. Any attempt to circumvent this rule will result in disqualification.
- Deco must be shard-appropriate, and to the stated theme. Be creative!
- Pre-made addons may be used, but may detract from the overall score if used in lieu of actual decorating skill.
- The administrators (+Veritas, +Colibri, and myself) will judge the plots.
- House location will not be taken into account when scoring the properties. This is decoration only, so those with plots in the stars or other 'special' places will not receive any special consideration for environmental perks they did not design, just as houses in less attractive locations will not be marked down due to their placement.
- Any infractions resulting in jail during the course of the contest will disqualify that player. NOTE: This means infractions above 'warning' and/or jail tasks above 10.
- Houses must be "open to the public" from January 1st - 4th, as all participating houses will be displayed for everyone to visit during the judging period.
- If you enter the contest you must actually participate - if you submit a rune and then all you have is a couple of misc deco items on an otherwise not-to-theme house, you will be disqualified.
- If you are disqualified for any reason you will not receive a participation reward.



To enter the contest:
- Mark a rune close to the house you will be decorating for the contest. You may submit the rune at any time, even before your decoration is completed.
- Drop the rune into the Sign-up chest in TC
- Decorate your house and complete it before January 1st.

On January 1st, the rune box will be removed and gates to the houses will be made available for the public to visit the participants' submissions. The administrators will visit the submitted houses and score them according to the criteria outlined in the rules. The winners will be announced on or before January 5th.


Prizes (subject to change):
1st place - 500 ED + banner
2nd place - 300 ED + banner
3rd place - 200 ED + banner

Happy decorating!

[Ornias]

Hi Nyx. I have a question if you don't mind. It says one entry per account and I wonder if it is alright if my brother wanted to participate if he could? We share a household and both have separate accounts, I was wondering the rules on this? Thank you.

[Gaara]

[quote="Ornias"]Hi Nyx. I have a question if you don't mind. It says one entry per account and I wonder if it is alright if my brother wanted to participate if he could? We share a household and both have separate accounts, I was wondering the rules on this? Thank you.[/quote]

2 separate accounts, so there should be no problem :)

[Birko]

I'm decorating for the Holiday Season, no matter what. Because it is fun.
I'm in the southern hemisphere and will be decorating more for my summer.
Is the deco competition specifically about winter? It is also my holiday season, and I have never experienced a White Christmas with all it's trappings. But we sing the winter songs in the heat of the day... Over to you Bing! .....I'm dreaming of a ....

[Annachie]

[quote="Birko"]I'm decorating for the Holiday Season, no matter what. Because it is fun.
I'm in the southern hemisphere and will be decorating more for my summer.
Is the deco competition specifically about winter? It is also my holiday season, and I have never experienced a White Christmas with all it's trappings. But we sing the winter songs in the heat of the day... Over to you Bing! .....I'm dreaming of a ....[/quote]

Many a Christmas in my youth was spent gathered around the pool with the mercury nudging 110. A white Christmas being the froth on a glass of beer :D (Or the soap suds in said pool after aunty threw a box of washing powder into it one year)

[+Nyx]

It is about Winter/Holiday season. So, your personal theme could be to show us what this time of year is like for you, more tropical rather than the traditional white christmas.

[von Schlagt]

Aw too bad I was late for this, but next contest I will surely be in +Nyx - deco already eats most of my time ingame lol



- von

[+Nyx]

The winners are as follows:

1st place - Lust
2nd Place - Vraxxus
3rd Place - Baby Spendy

Honorable Mention - EndeR

I'll be sending out prizes when I wake up tomorrow (Monday). Thanks to everyone who participated, there were some really excellent entries!