Voting Preferences - Grey or White Background?
Voting templates have been discussed in the comments section for challenge 1 and 2.

-> Do you have a background colour preference when viewing icons posted for voting?
-> Is it better with a grey or transparent (white) background?


Personally speaking, I find it is better with grey since if icons have a white border or a lot of white in them, they can sometimes seem to melt into the background, which isn't always what one as an iconmaker had in mind.

As should it not matter or not anyone object, we will go with a grey background when posting voting for challenges from here on.



This Week's Challenges..
Currently we have 6 entries for both challenge 1 and 2 and 9 for challenge 3, but as always we'd love to see more entries! :)


Challenge 1 - Face The Music
Challenge 2 - Hera
Challenge 3 - At The Opera House (spoiler challenge)

As usual, you may submit up to three icons for each of the challenges. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Saturday, July 19th at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Composition.

Don't forget to submit some entries for Week 83! We currently have 10 entries for Challenge 1, 8 for Challenge 2, and 7 for Challenge 3. There are still a few days left to get your entries in :)

Challenge 1 - Light and Dark
Challenge 2 - Starbuck
Challenge 3 - He That Believeth In Me (spoiler challenge)

As usual, you may submit up to three icons for each of the challenges. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Wednesday, July 2nd at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Colour.

If you already haven't voted please remember to do so :)


Voting for Challenge 1 - The Doctor Will See You Now
Voting for Challenge 2 - Fragged
Voting for Challenge 3 - Gaeta's Lament (spoiler challenge)


Voting is due by Friday, June 20th at 11pm US EST (The Timezone Converter). The special vote this week is for Best Composition.

We currently have 17 entries for Challenge 1, 21 for Challenge 2, and 14 for Challenge 3, but it's always great to have more :)

Challenge 1 - The Doctor Will See You Now
Challenge 2 - Fragged
Challenge 3 - Gaeta's Lament (spoiler challenge)

As usual, you may submit up to three icons for each of the challenges. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Friday, June 13th at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Composition.

If you voted early on and did not see the previous revote notice post, please make sure to check so that you looked through all the icons again for challenges 1 and 2. As due to mod mixup some submitted icons were missing but have been added for those challenges. So should you want to change your votes, then you can resubmit votes.

And should you not have voted yet, please do so now :)


Voting for Challenge 1 - Hush
Voting for Challenge 2 - Armed and Dangerous
Voting for Challenge 3 - Cylons (spoiler challenge)


Voting is due by Sunday, June 1st at 11pm EST (The Timezone Converter). The special vote this week is for Best Cropping.

We currently have 18 entries for challenge 1, 16 for challenge 2 and 12 for challenge 3. But as always we'd love to see more entries! :)

Challenge 1 - Hush
Challenge 2 - Armed and Dangerous
Challenge 3 - Cylons (spoiler challenge)

As usual, you may submit up to three icons for each of the challenges. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Monday, May 26th at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Cropping.

We currently have 10 entries for Challenge 1, 12 for Challenge 2, and 9 for Challenge 3, but we would love to have more!

Challenge 1 - Hush
Challenge 2 - Armed and Dangerous
Challenge 3 - Cylons (spoiler challenge)

As usual, you may submit up to three icons for each of the challenges. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Monday, May 26th at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Cropping.

Also, don't forget to vote in Best of the Best 5, if you haven't done so already! The voting will end on Thursday, May 22nd, at 11pm US EST (The Timezone Converter).

*Best of the Best 5 voting
*Best of the Best 5 voting (spoiler section)

We currently have 8 entries for Challenge 1, 9 for Challenge 2, and 10 for Challenge 3, and it's always great to have more :)

Challenge 1 - Season 1 Captions
Challenge 2 - Beowulf Potpourri
Challenge 3 - Make Love and War (spoiler challenge)

As usual, you may submit up to three icons for each of the challenges. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Friday, May 9th at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Caption.

We currently have 7 entries for Challenge 1, 9 for Challenge 2, and 11 for Challenge 3, and we really need some more if the voting is going to be fun :) Please throw together some icons if you get a chance!

Challenge 1 - Blends
Challenge 2 - Smile!
Challenge 3 - The Last Supper (spoiler challenge)

As usual, you may submit up to three icons for each of the challenges. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Wednesday, April 23rd at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Colour.

If you already haven't, don't forget to vote! :)


Voting for challenge 1 - Landscapes
Voting for challenge 2 - Numbers
Voting for challenge 3 - Felix Gaeta (spoiler section)

Voting is due by Friday, April 11th at 11pm EST (The Timezone Converter). The special vote this week is for Best Composition.

Currently we have 16 entries for challenge 1, 9 entries for challenge 2 and 14 entries for challenge 3.
But as always we'd love to see more entries! :)

Challenge 1 - Landscapes
Challenge 2 - Numbers
Challenge 3 - Felix Gaeta (spoiler section)

As usual, you may submit up to three icons for each of the challenges. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Sunday, April 6th at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Composition.

There's been a lot of posts lately, so I thought it was a good time to gather them in an overview post!


Have you not cast your vote or voiced your opinion on whether a spoiler policy change is needed, please do so here:

- Spoiler challenges - a policy change needed or not?


And psst, banners for week 76 and week 77 have been posted ;)


Currently we have 6 entries for each of this week's challenges. But there's still some days left to submit entries :)

Challenge 1 - Landscapes
Challenge 2 - Numbers
Challenge 3 - Felix Gaeta (spoiler section)

As usual, you may submit up to three icons for each of the challenges. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Sunday, April 6th at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Composition.

Don't forget to vote unless you already have.. :)

Voting for Challenge 1 - Partner Challenge
Voting for Challenge 2 - Season 4 Promo Pics (spoiler challenge)

Voting is due by Thursday, March 27th at 11pm EST (The Timezone Converter). The special vote this week is for Best Colour.

Don't forget to submit your icons for Week 77! We currently have 6 entries for Challenge #1, and 15 for Challenge #2, and it would be great to have more - especially for the partner challenge!

Challenge 1 - Partner Challenge
Challenge 2 - Season 4 Promo Pics (spoiler challenge)

You may submit up to six icons for this challenge. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Friday, March 14th at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Colour.

Don't forget to vote in the latest BoTB round!

Voting for Best of the Best 4

Voting will end on Wednesday, March 12th, at 11pm US EST (The Timezone Converter).



Also note that the challenges are done a bit differently this week!

This means that for this week there are only two challenges. The first challenge is a partner challenge for which you have to work in teams of two, so please read the challenge post for more info on how to find a parter and other pointers on how to work together. The second challenge is a spoiler challenge, for this you work alone as usual :)

Challenge 1 - Partner Challenge
Challenge 2 - Season 4 Promo Pics (spoiler challenge)

You may submit up to six icons for challenge 1. You may submit up to three icons for challenge 2. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Friday, March 14th at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Colour.

Don't forget to vote for this week's challenges! Voting is due by Tuesday, March 4th at 11pm US EST (The Timezone Converter). The special vote this week is for Best Cropping.

Voting for Challenges 1 & 2
Voting for Challenge 3 (spoiler challenge)

Also, don't forget to sign up for the partner challenge if you want to participate in the non-spoiler challenges for this coming week! I should emphasize that it's not mandatory that you use the same program(s) as your partner - you can always collaborate in other ways, like coming up with ideas together, sharing caps to use, and passing your icons back and forth for comments from the other person :) I hope this will be a fun challenge, and I encourage everyone to sign up!

Don't forget to submit your entries for this week's challenges! So far we have only six entries for each one, and we would love to have a lot more than that :)

Challenge 1 - Centurions
Challenge 2 - Say What?
Challenge 3 - The Anniversary (spoiler challenge)

As usual, you may submit up to three icons for each of the challenges. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Saturday, February 23rd at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Cropping.

Don't forget to vote unless you already have.. :)

Voting for Challenge 1 - There Are Many Copies
Voting for Challenge 2 - Couples
Voting for Challenge 3 - Razor: Extended Edition (spoiler section)

Voting is due by Monday, February 11th at 11pm EST (The Timezone Converter). The special vote this week is for Best Composition.

We so far have 13 entries for challenge 1, 13 for challenge 2 and 12 for challenge 3.. and there's still some time for you to submit entries if you haven't, as we're always looking for more entries! :)


Challenge 1 - There Are Many Copies
Challenge 2 - Couples
Challenge 3 - Razor: Extended Edition (spoiler challenge)


As usual, you may submit up to three icons for each of the challenges. Icons must be 100x100 or smaller. All entries must be submitted by Tuesday, February 5th at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Composition.

Don't forget to submit your icons for our challenges this week! You still have a few days left! We currently have 8 entries for Challenge 1, 7 for Challenge 2, and 3 for Challenge 3, and as usual we always want more! :)

Challenge 1 - There Are Many Copies
Challenge 2 - Couples
Challenge 3 - Razor: Extended Edition (spoiler challenge)

All entries must be submitted by Tuesday, February 5th at 11PM US EST (The Timezone Converter). This week's special vote will be Best Composition.

Also, don't forget to vote for the Best of the Best if you haven't already! Cast your votes here: BotB 3 and BotB 3 (spoiler section). The Best of the Best voting will end on Sunday, February 3rd, at 11pm US EST (The Timezone Converter).