Photography Contest - We have a winner!!

[shinta|hikari]

Can we have an extension? Please make it Friday, Xan. It would really help out a lot. Been really busy as of late.

If Friday is too much, considering that everyone else has submitted except me (sorry about that), just one more day is fine, so tomorrow if possible.

[XanBcoo]

I'll put up the poll on Wednesday morning.

Resubmissions are fine with me.

[Psyke]

I'm fine with the extension, though I'm not going to resubmit. Good luck Shinta!

[shinta|hikari]

Already sent mine in. Sorry for the delay. Good luck to everyone!

[Buffalobiian]

I sound like the bad guy now

Oh well, all's well.

The one I handed in can be my final too.

[XanBcoo]

I have everyone's entries. Bagandscalpel mentioned wanting to resubmit, so I might give him until this evening to do so.

This week has been/still is extremely busy for me, so I'll put up the poll as soon as I get word from him. I want this last round to be the best, so I hope everyone's happy with their own submissions. I apologize for my busy-ness this week.

The poll will go up ASAP, and voting will last for one week.

[Buffalobiian]

Does Gotwoot have any staple competitions? I think the photo contest would be popular, and accessible enough to be held once every year. Or bi-yearly.

Bit more work on the mods I suppose

[Archangel]

So who won?

[oyabun]

Oh I know! But lets wait for the official announcement.

[Assassin]

Alrite ladies and gents. Sorry for the slight delay, we'll all been a little busy. But here we are at last, at the end of this contest.

Here are the final contestants and your winner:

Buffalobian - 40 seconds
shinta|hikari - The Clock Struck First
Psyke - Counting Down
Bagandscalpel - Time Waits for None

Congratulations to shinta|hikari on winning the final round with his homicidal entry "The clock struck first". Shinta, as the winner you get to choose between the following prizes.

1) larger ava/sig size
2) custom title
3) animated ava/profile pic.

As for the runner-ups....you get zilch. You guys will have to be content with bragging rights for being the top four contestants in GW's first ever Photography contest.

I'd like to thank everyone who participated (mods and users alike) and put aside some time for this contest, we all appreciate your creative input and your often wacky ideas. A special thanx to Xan for helping to run this contest, without him we probably would've stopped after the first 2 weeks.

Some of you have suggested making this a annual, or bi-annual thing. Whether that will be the case is still up for discussion. Originally, that was my idea, but if this contest were to happen again, it would probably be on a smaller scale and with a shorter time period. Lets see how things progress.....if theres enough members who want another photo contest, i'd be willing to give it a shot.

As for whats next, well there are some other things in the works. Again, it all depends on user participation. I believe NM said he'd take charge of the next one, so annoy him until he caves. Once again, and ideas or suggestions can go to the proper thread in the Support forum (i think thats where it was). We look forward to seeing what you guys have to say.

Once again, congrats to shinta|hikari, and thank you all for being a part of this. Now GTFO of my thread >_>.

[XanBcoo]

Welp, despite a few members dropping out, I'm really happy this thing went off with very few hitches. I'd like to call it a success! I hope everyone who participated had fun with this thing. I'd also like to do this again in the future. Look forward to it.

Assassin already covered the formal stuff. Congratulations shinta|hikari. You are the 2008 Gotwoot Photography champ! I hope you enjoy your prize.

Psyke, Buffalobiian, Bagandscalpel: You all did really well. I had actually predicted one of the 3 of you winning, but it looks like shinta delivered a knockout punch in the last round. Congrats, all 4 of you!

I had no idea this community could be so creative. Thanks to everyone for playing.

For reference purposes, here is a recap of how the contest went, taken from my updates in this thread:
Round 1
Round 2
Wild Card Round
Round 3
And Round 4 is listed in Assassin's post above mine.

[Animeniax]

Thanks Xan and Assassin for organizing it and putting up with our procrastination and sometimes lack of participation.

Hopefully we can do another contest like this in the future.

[Board of Command]

I'll try not to drop out if we have another contest. I couldn't help it this time.

[Ryllharu]

Congrats to shinta on the win!

If I am capable of participating in whatever contest comes next, I shall do my best to win this time.

[Animeniax]

I think we would have gotten some amazingly whacked out concepts from you BoC.

Oh yeah, congrats Shinta|Hikari! Nice work in every round man.

[oyabun]

Just please don't make the next contest a photoshop contest. Were gonna get creamed y the PS gods here in GW. lol. Congratz!

[Buffalobiian]

Goes without saying that Shinta blew us all away this last round. Good job man Congratulations!!

I'd also like to thank all the participants and mods (special thanks to Xan and Assassin) for organising this contest. It couldn't have been anywhere near as fun without you guys.

And not to forget Psyke, the one to come up with the idea in the first place.

I'll be looking forward to whatever'll be happening next with anticipation

[Psyke]

Congrats to Shinta! And thanks to Xan and Assassin for the hard work put into the organization of the contest!

[shinta|hikari]

Thanks guys! I really enjoyed myself in this contest and it goes without saying that I greatly appreciate the efforts the mods, contestants and voters put into it.

As for the prize, I think I will go for the larger sig size, but I am not sure if I get both the bigger avatar and sig size by choosing number 1. It would be better if it means both, but I am quite satisfied with just the larger sig.