Contest Information:
This month's main theme is: Frightening Fairytales + Tales of the Supernatural (Entrants may decorate in line with one or the other, or both if they wish).
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 within the main theme. Participants should select a sub-theme and decorate accordingly. The theme should be obvious to the judges simply by viewing the space, however it is allowed for a participant to add further information into a book that is locked down in plain sight at the entrance. You may opt to decorate any way you desire, but your deco should have some directed theme beyond just "visually pleasing". Clever and elegant decoration will be rated much more highly than a house that has simply slapped down some addons or put deco 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 your entry plots are combined with more than the allowed 2 entry plots, you must put up walls to delineate which plots are not part of the contest entry. Failure to properly define the space entered for the contest (when that space is directly connected to other plots not entered) will result in disqualification.
- 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 a clear 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 November 1st - 6th, 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 November 1st.
On November 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 & guest voter will visit the submitted houses and score them according to the criteria outlined in the rules. The winners will be announced on or before November 6th.
Special terms for this contest:
- The previous contest winner, Baby Spendy, has chosen the theme of this contest and will vote with equal weight as the staff. Any attempt to solicit her vote will be considered cheating and result in disqualification.
- This month's deco contest will also include a voting system for players to vote for the best-decorated plot. The "players' choice" winner will receive a special prize, to be announced at the time of awarding. Players' choice voting will begin on the day the contest is closed and gates to the entrants' plots are made available, and will end on November 5th. Players are not permitted to solicit votes in any way. Doing so will disqualify the participant from the entire contest. This should not be a popularity contest for who has the most friends on the shard. It became such for the last deco contest, and if it happens again I may opt not to offer the player's choice voting in further contests. Vote for the best execution of theme, regardless of who decorated it.
Prizes (subject to change):
1st place - 400 ED + banner
2nd place - 200 ED + banner
3rd place - 100 ED + banner
Players' Choice Winner - To be announced
Happy decorating!
- +N
