Have you ever wanted to participate in a lims icontest but didn't want the pressure of an elimination? Would you like a chance to participate in a full round of challenges with no chance of being eliminated? If so, welcome to firefly_rumble!

We'll have sign-ups for each round. Each round will consist of 10 challenges. Members vote for their favorite icons and the scores keep adding up. There will be winners after each challenge and an "overall" winner for the entire round.

Round 2 Sign-Ups are now CLOSED, but please feel free to stick around and watch the community to participate in the voting. We'd love to have you!

Round 1 winners can be found here.

As promised, here are the banners for last week's challenge. ( Congratulations again to blueymcphluey, xx_squish_xx, beauty_untold, rinalin, and lusciouspandora! )

Also, please remember to VOTE for Round 1: Challenge 5. Voting ends tonight and we could use some more votes.

Round 1: Challenge 6 is also up.

I don't have your banners ready just yet, but I promise to get them to you next week. I'll be out of town this weekend so I'll get them out once I get back. However, I thought it best to post the results.

You can check the total points here.

( Congratulations to the winners! )

The tally for this round is below the cut. If you'd like to see your comments, please leave a comment with your icon number and we'll post them in a screened comment (or if you prefer them e-mailed, just leave your address along with icon number). Check your icon number at the voting post. Additionally, since comments were optional this time, some icons have many more comments than others. Also, since I'll be a car all day tomorrow, my response time for these may be a bit delayed.

( Tally )

I'm doing this really late so hopefully everything is done correctly.

• Vote for your 3 favorite icons. Remember, you are voting on the quality of the icons.
  
• Also vote for the 1 icon you think best meets the requirements for this weeks special category. It's okay to pick an icon you've already voted for above. The special category this week is 'Best Text.'
  
• Please leave a comment stating why you chose that particular icon for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and SC. Comments are optional, but if you liked receiving them in the last challenge, you'll want to keep leaving them. These comments will be made available to icon makers after the results are posted, if requested.
  
• Incomplete votes will not be counted.
  
• You do not need to be a participant to vote, but anonymous votes will not be counted.
  
• Don't vote for yourself, but I highly encourage you to get your friends to come vote - just don't tell them which icon is yours. :D
  
• You MUST vote to win.
  
• Votes will be submitted through screened comments.
  
• Voting is weighted as follows: 1st = 3 pts; 2nd = 2 pts; and 3 = 1 pt. These totals are added to determine challenge winners. SC votes are tallied separately.

Voting will close Monday, April 28th 11:59pm, PST.

Voting Sample
# - reason (optional, but encouraged)
# - reason (optional, but encouraged)
# - reason (optional, but encouraged)
SC (Best Text) # - reason (optional, but encouraged)

( I think I know this one. )

Click the banner to enter Challenge 4.

The following people have not submitted icons for Challenge 4: xx_squish_xx // bigsciencybrain // megathy27 // little_dupont // lusciouspandora // lostcointoss // hbpen // rinalin // _stolendreams_

Entries are due my midnight, Saturday, April 26, 2008 (PST). You can earn one point per challenge just for entering. If you need to skip this challenge, just let me know. Also, if you know you won't be around for voting through Monday, let me know that, as well.

Rules

• Make sure you are actually signed up. To make sure that you are, check here.
  
• Only ONE icon per participant is to be submitted.
  
• Icon must meet LJ Standards (100x100, 40kb).
  
• Only use the caps given.
  
• No animation. Brushes, textures, blends, and text are all fine.
  
• Since this is an anonymous community, please do not display your entry anywhere until the voting results are posted.
  
• Post your icon and its URL as a comment to this post. All comments for this post will be screened.
  
• Entries will be due Saturday, April 26th, 2008 11:59 pm PST
  
• If you are skipping this challenge, please leave a comment letting me know. Remember, you earn a point just for participating each week, but if you skip 3 challenges in a row, you will be disqualified.

Special Category: This week's special category is 'Best Text.' You do not have to make an icon specifically for this category; it's just an option.

( Possible you were right before. This ain't my kind of a party. )

Caps provided courtesy of _jems_