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Backpack art contest

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Been meaning to announce this long time ago, but the low volume of messages and issues these days finally got my thoughts straight :)

We're having a backpack art contest!
The idea of backpack art is to take an empty container, and put items inside so that you form a nice picture, or a pattern, or well something that you think could make your idea the winning one.

1. You may use any of the following containers: Bag, Backpack, Wooden box, Wooden chest, Armoire.
You may use any item you find in the game, of any hue, even dyed with a unitub. But keep in mind that you have to gather all these resources yourself, the staff will not provide you with any items or unitubs.

2. When you're done with your backpack decoration, put this decorated backpack in another backpack. And in this outer backpack also drop a book in which you write your username and character name. Drop this outer backpack (containing a book and the backpack of your expression) into the Silver/metalic colored chest at the south-east side of Town Center

3. You have until Tuesday, June 9th 2009, 23:59 shard time, to submit your creation. At exactly 0:00 on June 10th, the submission box will be disabled. Then there will be a forum poll with screenshots of all backpacks, and players will be able to vote till the end of the week.

Judging will be based 70% on votes by players on the poll, and 30% by internal voting of the staff.




Prizes:
1st place: +50 to bank item limit & +50 to backpack item limit & +100 to backpack weight limit & small bag of keeping
2nd place: +50 to bank item limit & +50 to backpack item limit
3rd place: +50 to bank item limit

There will also be a reward for ingenuity, which will be determined by the staff. Reward is 100ED.


Good luck! 8)
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ooo so fun! any specific theme?

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Two Questions:
1) do we get the stuff back after contest?
2) are we allowed more then 1 entry?
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- Only one entry per person.
- Yes after all the voting is done, you will get your stuff back.
- No specific theme (although now that you mentioned, a sea/summer theme would be nice, but well you can make whatever you think will make your entry the winner).
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There are already 6 submissions and from what I can see it's going to be a tough competition. I'm amazed by all of the images i have seen so far, but i hope there's more on the way :)
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here's a stratics link to help give some people some ideas:

http://uo.stratics.com/content/contests ... kart.shtml
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hmm i dont think it's so good to copy stuff you see online, i think it should be original.

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I didn't mean it so people could copy, just for inspiration and examples of the range of possibilities can be achieved with the random simple stuff people just have lying around :)
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Well there's more than the stratics backpack art collection, so it would be hard to find copycats, that's why copying isnt against the rules. Though when i'll be judging for my part as staff, i will pick original creations.
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*crosses fingers* That was so fun to make! We should do this more often! Have a theme, once a month.
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I think a Monthly Art Competition sounds like an awsome Idea. I've submitted my BP art a few days ago. I put alot of time and effort in mine, and I can't wait to see what everyone has come up with. Good idea on this one.
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I'm so excited to see all the submissions! When are they going to be posted? :)
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Whoot! I can't wait to see them all. :D

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I look forward to seeing everyone's creations! :D
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Well the cheating part took some fun out of it, and i just finally had the time to take an hour and go through all of the results and verify them, and remove the false ones.

The winner is Llexa with 18 votes,
second place has been taken by Skyla with 17 votes,
and in the third place is Lady Hawk with 16 votes.

It was quite close ;)

The rewards will be given out right away. Thank you all for participating 8)
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