Since it's my fault we're behind schedule for this week, I'm going ahead and posting this... I hope I get it right. :)~

ROUND #004 CHALLENGE #10

( Theme under the cut. )

Please note;

• You may only submit an icon for Challenge #10 if you survived Challenge #09.

• You may submit one (1) icon using the theme provided in this post. You will use your own image to make your icon. You can also use stock images, brushes, and textures. Please be sure your icon contains all necessary details for the challenge.

• Your icon must conform to LiveJournal standards; 100x100 and 40 kb or less.

• Do not promote your icon, and do not post, display, or otherwise use your icon anywhere on the Internet until after this Round is over and the results have been posted, or you will be disqualified from the round. This includes telling your friends about your icon. You may not reveal your character at any point until the Round is over.

• You cannot use a skip for this challenge. If you do not submit your icon by the deadline, you will be disqualified from the round.

• To submit, reply normally to this screened post with the image and URL of your icon, as well as your name and House if you are a sorted member of hogwartsishome. If for any reason you need to resubmit, please delete your prior submission comment before posting a new one. You may resubmit as many times as you'd like until the deadline. Use the following text box as a template if you'd like:

<img src="URLHERE"> URLHERE Character Name Your Name/House

• The deadline for this challenge is Wednesday, July 8 at 15:00 EDT (20:00 GMT). If we get everyone's submissions before the deadline, we will post voting early.

Good luck!

Here are the results for Round #004 Challenge #09!

( Challenge #004;09 Eliminations )


( Challenge #004;09 People's Choice )


( Challenge #004;09 Mods' Choice )


( Challenge #004;09 Results Tally )

If you would like to see the comments that your icon received, respond to this post with the number of your icon and one of us will reply to your comment. You will receive both the negative critiques and the positive comments. Our replies will be screened so that no one other than the moderators will be able to see them, but they will be emailed to you as an LJ comment reply from us. If you do not receive the comment in your email, please let us know and we will email them to you directly. All icon comments and critiques will remain strictly anonymous; please do not ask who voted for your icon, because we will not tell you. Also, please note that some of the critiques are harsh, so do not ask for your critiques if you will not be able to handle criticism.

Due to the nature of this icontest, all comments to this post will be screened and will stay screened.

There are 5 icon makers remaining in Round #004. Only the icon makers that survived Challenge #09 may submit an icon for Challenge #10.

Thank you everyone for your participation and effort!

Voting has begun for Round #004; Challenge #09! We have 8 icons out of a potential 9.

Skips used; N/A
Disqualified; Seamus Finnigan
Withdrawn; N/A

( Guidelines and icons under the cut. )


If you have any questions, you may ask them here.

Good luck to the participants!

Sorry guys, I thought this had been posted...

The official deadline for your OLIVER WOOD icons is WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24. I know there was a mix-up with the dates, but nope, this is official. So get in your icons, please! A couple of people haven't submitted... if you don't submit, you'll be disqualified. We're sorry to those of you who thought you missed the boat... it was our fault for mixing up the times.

You can find the submission post here!!!

Good luck!

Our schedule has been pretty screwy lately, but we're still here, we're still passionate, and we still need your Oliver Wood icons!

So far we have 4 gorgeous icons... but that's not enough! Remember: there NO MORE SKIPS ALLOWED so you must enter an icon before tomorrow is over!

Get your Oliver Wood icon in today!

Here are the results for Round #004 Challenge #08!

( Challenge #004;08 Eliminations )


( Challenge #004;08 People's Choice )


( Challenge #004;08 Mods' Choice )


( Challenge #004;08 Results Tally )

If you would like to see the comments that your icon received, respond to this post with the number of your icon and one of us will reply to your comment. You will receive both the negative critiques and the positive comments. Our replies will be screened so that no one other than the moderators will be able to see them, but they will be emailed to you as an LJ comment reply from us. If you do not receive the comment in your email, please let us know and we will email them to you directly. All icon comments and critiques will remain strictly anonymous; please do not ask who voted for your icon, because we will not tell you. Also, please note that some of the critiques are harsh, so do not ask for your critiques if you will not be able to handle criticism.

Due to the nature of this icontest, all comments to this post will be screened and will stay screened.

There are 9 icon makers remaining in Round #004. Only the icon makers that survived Challenge #08 may submit an icon for Challenge #09. The submission post for Challenge #09 can be found HERE.

Thank you everyone for your participation and effort!

Please remember to cast your vote for Challenge #08! We need every vote we can get to make the results as fair as possible.

You do not need to be a contestant in the round in order to vote in this challenge, but if you are a contestant, it would be best if you do vote. Voting is frequently extremely close, so your vote can strongly effect results and even help prevent your own icon from being eliminated (no, really).

Please remember to carefully and objectively consider all of the icons before making your choices. When voting, please write your critiques so that they are as objective and as detailed as possible. Critiques are, ideally, to help icon makers improve. Therefore, the more detailed you are in your critiques, the more helpful you are. If your critiques are not written properly, we will inform you. If you do not rewrite your critiques or if they are still substandard, your vote will not be counted and you will not receive points. Please read the voting tutorial or ask a mod if you need assistance forming proper critiques.

You can find the icons and voting guidelines at this linked post.

Voting will close at 5:00 PM EDT (22:00 GMT) tomorrow, Monday June 15. Results will go up as soon as possible after that.

Thank you!

The time table may be a little askew at the moment, but we're trying not to let that stop the fun.

You wont be able to submit an icon until the results of the previous challenge have been announced, but we believe that it's such a worthy theme that we hope you'll get started on it straight away...

One last thing: There are NO MORE SKIPS. If you are eligible to participate and fail to enter an icon for this challenge, then you will be disqualified. So you must enter an icon to stand a chance of winning.

( Click For Your New Theme )


Please note;

• You may only submit an icon for Challenge #09 if you survived Challenge #08.

• You may submit one (1) icon using the theme provided in this post. You will use your own image to make your icon. You can also use stock images, brushes, and textures. Please be sure your icon contains all necessary details for the challenge.

• Your icon must conform to LiveJournal standards; 100x100 and 40 kb or less.

• Do not promote your icon, and do not post, display, or otherwise use your icon anywhere on the Internet until after this Round is over and the results have been posted, or you will be disqualified from the round. This includes telling your friends about your icon. You may not reveal your character at any point until the Round is over.

• There are no more skips left, therefore you must enter an icon, or you will be disqualified from the competition.

• To submit, reply normally to this screened post using the information in the textarea above. Then add the image and URL of your icon, as well as your name and House if you are a sorted member of hogwartsishome, and any additional information that is required of this Week's Challenge. If for any reason you need to resubmit, please delete your prior submission comment before posting a new one. You may resubmit as many times as you'd like until the deadline.

• The deadline for this challenge is Wednesday June 24 at 15:00 EST (20:00 GMT). If we get everyone's submissions and/or bye confirmations before the deadline, we will post voting early.

Good luck!

Voting has begun for Round #004; Challenge #08! We have 9 icons out of a potential 13.

Skips used; Seamus Finnigan, Hermione Granger
Disqualified; Peter Pettigrew, Fred Weasley
Withdrawn; N/A


( Guidelines and icons under the cut. )


If you have any questions, you may ask them here.

Good luck to the participants!

As you may have noticed, voting did not go up on Wednesday, and it's now Friday. I'm going to be putting up voting tonight at about 10 PM EDT. It's been a long week, and I'm sorry for the neglect.

This means that if you have not yet submitted your icon for this theme, you will have until 10 PM EDT to submit it.

YOU CAN FIND THE SUBMISSION POST HERE!

Voting will be until MONDAY night, and then you'll obviously have over a week for the next theme.

Thanks so much for putting up with me bearing with me.

P.S. The following people WILL be disqualified if they do not submit an icon to this theme: Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort, Fred Weasley.

Simply put, there are NO entries for this week's Challenge. It is a simple lyrical theme, you don't get much more easier than that.

Please submit your Harry Potter based icon to this screened post before the deadline on Wednesday night.

( Click For Your New Theme )


Please note;

• You may only submit an icon for Challenge #08 if you survived Challenge #06 or were voted back in to the competition from the Comeback Challenge.

• You may submit one (1) icon using the theme provided in this post. You will use your own image to make your icon. You can also use stock images, brushes, and textures. Please be sure your icon contains all necessary details for the challenge.

• Your icon must conform to LiveJournal standards; 100x100 and 40 kb or less.

• Do not promote your icon, and do not post, display, or otherwise use your icon anywhere on the Internet until after this Round is over and the results have been posted, or you will be disqualified from the round. This includes telling your friends about your icon. You may not reveal your character at any point until the Round is over.

• If you would like to use a skip for this challenge, please comment to this post saying so. You can check your remaining skips here.

• To submit, reply normally to this screened post using the information in the textarea above. Then add the image and URL of your icon, as well as your name and House if you are a sorted member of hogwartsishome, and any additional information that is required of this Week's Challenge. If for any reason you need to resubmit, please delete your prior submission comment before posting a new one. You may resubmit as many times as you'd like until the deadline.

• The deadline for this challenge is Wednesday June 10 at 15:00 EST (20:00 GMT). If we get everyone's submissions and/or bye confirmations before the deadline, we will post voting early.

Good luck!