Hey everyone! I have the banners for the mod's choice and people's choice for challenge 1 of round 1.

BANNERS FOR:
sal_the_baka
oxygene

( Under here )

Here are the results for Round #001 Challenge #01! Wow, nothing could have prepared me for how much work LIMS results are. XD;

( Challenge #001;01 Eliminations )


( Challenge #001;01 People's Choice )


( Challenge #001;01 Mods' Choice )


( Challenge #001;01 Results Tally )

If you would like to know the critiques your icon received, respond to this post with your icon number and I will reply to your comment with the critiques, both positive and negative. Comments with critiques will be screened so that no one will be able to see them, but they will be emailed to you as a LJ comment reply from me. If you are not e-mailed your critiques, please let me know and I will e-mail them to you directly. All critiques will remain strictly anonymous. Please do not ask to know who voted for your icon, because we will not tell you. Please note that some of the critiques are harsh, so do not ask for your critiques if you will not be able to handle it.

There are 30 icon makers remaining in Round #001. Only the icon makers that survived Challenge #01 may submit an icon for Challenge #02.

Thank you everyone for your participation and effort!

Please do not forget to cast your vote for Challenge #01! We need every vote we can get to make this as fair as possible. You need not be a contestant in the round in order to vote!

Please remember to carefully and objectively consider all of the icons before making your choices. We appreciate people directing their friends to this community, but please, friends of icon makers, be objective when making your decisions. Also, everyone, please make your critiques as detailed as possible. Critiques are, ideally, to help icon makers improve. The more detailed you are in your critiques, the more helpful you are.

You can find the icons and voting guidelines here.

The voting post will close at 7:00 PM (-4:00 GMT) tomorrow, Tuesday June 19th. Results will go up as soon as possible after that, followed by the Challenge #02 submission post.

Also, a bit of a reminder that if you are eliminated (but not disqualified), you will have an opportunity to rejoin the round with the Comeback Challenge that we will post concurrently with a regular Challenge half-way through the round. The top two icon makers of the Comeback Challenge (by popular vote) will be invited to rejoin the round in the following Challenge.

We would also like to thank each and every one of you for being a part of this community and for all of your participation thus far and in the future. :)

Voting has begun for Round #001; Challenge #01! We have 34 icons out of a potential 36.

Byes used; N/A
Disqualified (cannot skip the first challenge); eliminate, tomoirochan
Withdrawn; N/A

♫ You must vote for 04 icons of lesser quality to be eliminated, and for 02 icons that are your favorites. Please evaluate the elimination icons based on overall technique and aesthetic quality, not personal preference (such as favorite color, or the icon maker you think made the icon). We reserve the right to void any vote we feel is unfair or petty. You do not have to give a reason for your favorite icon choices (though it is encouraged), but you must give reasons for your elimination icons.

♫ We encourage you to be as detailed as possible in your icon elimination critiques. Many participants here are looking to improve, and since we will allow participants to see their comments once results are posted, your opinion will help any aspiring icon maker. All votes are screened, so please be as honest and objective as possible. No icon maker will ever know who voted for or against them, and all icon critiques will remain completely anonymous.

♫ Do not vote for your own icons, and do not feel obligated to vote for your friends' icons. Keep things as objective as possible. Please look very carefully at each icon while you are voting, and please double-check your votes to make sure you've used the correct numbers in your voting comment. Votes are not weighted, so order does not matter.

♫ Here is an example vote for you to follow (04 eliminations, 02 favorites);

   Eliminations;
   #107 - The use of text is poor because it is too big and clashes with the rest of the icon.
   #108 - Icon is a little blurry and hard to see.
   #109 - The image is sliced awkwardly and the image looks disjointed.
   #110 - There is too much empty space that makes the icon look incomplete.
   Favorites;
   #111 - I love the cropping.
   #112 - The color enhances the subject perfectly.

Please be more detailed than this, however.

♫ ANYONE CAN VOTE. You do not have to be a contestant to vote! We encourage as many people to vote as possible.

♫ Voting for Challenge #01 will end Tuesday, June 19th at 7:00 PM EDT (-4:00 GMT).

( Icons under the cut. )

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

Good luck to the participants!

This is your final reminder! You have two hours before the challenge deadline.

The following people have not yet submitted an icon for this challenge:

eliminate
tomoirochan

You must submit your icon to the submission post by the deadline, Sunday July 17th at 11 AM EDT. You cannot use a bye for this first challenge. If you do not submit an icon for this challenge, you will be disqualified from the entire round.

You can still sign-up for this round if you have not yet! Please remember to join the community, comment appropriately to the sign-up post, and then make your icon for the first challenge, submitting it by the deadline.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

This is your 48-hour reminder!

The following people have not yet submitted an icon for this challenge:

eliminate
tomoirochan

You must submit your icon to the submission post by the deadline, Sunday July 17th at 11 AM EDT. You cannot use a bye for this first challenge. If you do not submit an icon for this challenge, you will be disqualified from the round.

You can still sign-up for this round if you have not yet! Please remember to join the community, comment appropriately to the sign-up post, and then make your icon for the first challenge, submitting it by the deadline.

As a side note, I was asked what other kinds of themes we're going to have, and I want to assure you all that the next theme will be j-rock. :D We will be alternating various languages and styles of rock in this icontest.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

We will be accepting sign-ups until the deadline of the first challenge; please remember to join (and watch), then comment to the sign-up post... and you will be free to submit your icon after that point. Please do not submit your icon until you have signed up.

ROUND #001 CHALLENGE #001: PANIC! AT THE DISCO

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Please also note;

♫ You cannot use a bye (skip) for this first challenge. If you don't submit your icon by the deadline, you will be disqualified from the round.

♫ You may submit one (1) icon using the image provided in this post. Your icon cannot contain images other than the one provided in this post. However, you can 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 that particular challenge is over and the results have been posted, or you will be disqualified from the round.

♫ To submit, reply normally to this screened post with the image and URL of your icon. If for any reason you need to resubmit, please delete your prior submission comment before posting a new one.

♫ The deadline for this challenge is Sunday June 17th at 11:00 AM EDT (-4:00 GMT).

Good luck!