Community Profile

mod: halleyscometmsu
co-mod:del_kaidin
banner artist: oddobsession

Welcome to wicked_challeng! This is an icontest community that focuses primarily on the hit Broadway musical Wicked: its story, actors, characters, themes, etc. If you enjoy making icons, and you enjoy this fabulous production, come join us!

What is an icontest?
An icontest is a contest for livejournal graphics makers. Each week, this community will hold a contest to see who can create the best icon based upon the Challenge requirements issued.

Is that all you do here?
While the icontest is the main portion of this community, members will have moderated posting access, and will be able to post Wicked graphics, links to graphics, and banners.

Do I have to apply to get in?
Membership is moderated, but I will accept almost everyone.



POSTING
Every member of this community will have moderated posting access.

A couple guidelines, however...

o1. Please do not use any of the icons you show off as entries in any of the communities later Challenges. They will not be considered, since this would clearly be breaking a few of our rules. You may post your old entries after the contest has already ended, but nothing you ever plan on submitting.
o2. If you plan on showing off any more than three icons in a personal post, please place the rest under an LJ cut. Also, if you post any size banner, please place this under an LJ cut as well.
o3. Please use a reliable image-hosting service! I recommend Photobucket.com. If your icons turn into Red Xs, I will delete your entry.
o4. Please try to avoid posting without graphics to accompany your message. This is an icon/graphics community. I understand that sometimes it cannot be avoided, but I would not like this community spammed with messages like this!
o5. Please, do not ask where you can get premade layouts or graphics. This is an icon/graphics community, and I'm sure that if someone makes one, they will post it.


CHALLENGES
A post will be made by halleyscometmsu featuring Wicked graphics, lyrics, a topic, or some kind of combination on a Monday. Members will have until Thursday of that week at midnight to submit their entry. Friday morning the voting will begin, and it will last roughly until Sunday. You may vote at any time during this window. The winning icons will be announced the following Monday, the winners will receive banners, and a new Challenge will begin.

WINNERS
There are four categories. Three are simply first, second, and third place icons overall, as voted by the members. Then, halleyscometmsu will choose a MOD's choice, judging foremost on creativity and talent. It is possible for an icon to be chosen in more than one category. IE, third place could also be "MOD's choice”. I will try to avoid "doubles," but if I feel an icon truly fits more than one category, sobeit.

ENTERING
o1. Please submit your entry as a comment in the post containing the Challenge. I will make it easy for you and just put CHALLENGE RULES & ENTRY SUBMISSIONS in the subject line. This is the ONLY place to which you may place your submissions. All entries will be screened, so you will not have to worry about others seeing your icon(s) ahead of time.
o2. Your entry must be compatible with LiveJournal standards: less than 40kB, and no larger than 100x100 pixels. Fail to follow these guidelines and your entry will be disqualified.
o3. Your entry must contain the image, lyric, or topic described/given in the Challenge, or it will not be considered when voting time comes around.
o4. Please make all of your entries new! AKA, do not submit an icon you've had lying in a folder for months that happens to fit the Challenge requirements. Please, make something fresh!
o5. Please, do not share your icons with the public until AFTER contest winners have been announced. If I find that you have, your icon will be disqualified from the contest.
o6. Only ever submit one icon for the icontest.
o7. You must appear as a member of the community to be eligible to win. NOT JUST A WATCHER! I will be checking before I post the entries for voting.
o8. When entering your icon into the contest, please use this format:
Graphic Icon
Icon URL

To avoid any confusion here is an example:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/ladykagome0818/Wicked/Wicked.jpg

VOTING
o1. When it comes time to vote, please leave a comment in the specified post. You are to vote for your top three favorite icons. All votes will be screened.
o2. You are permitted to make only one vote. No more.
o3. Please, do not vote for your own icon. I will know whose is whose. If you vote for your own icon, your entries and votes will be disqualified, AND I will potentially embarrass the hell out of you. You have been warned.
o4. In order for your Challenge entry to be considered, you must vote! Failure to do this will result in disqualification. As will many other things already mentioned.

PROMOTING
If you like this community enough to promote it to others, please remember a few simple rules before proceeding...
o1. Please, do not promote in anyone's personal journal especially if you do not know the person. Promotions in the comments of someone's journal are against LiveJournal Terms of Service, and are overall rude and annoying. I don't want people to be irked with this community!
o2. Please heed to the rules of other communities! If they do not allow promotion of other communities, do not promote this community there! If the promotion must be behind an LJ-cut, do it behind a cut! Please remember that the rules of every community are different, and they should all be followed within the parameters of that specific community.
o3. It is perfectly fine to promote this community within your own journal, IE, in your userinfo or a personal post. What you do with your own space is your business. ;D
o4. Please, please, please do not promote other communities here. If you do this once, you will be warned. If you do it again, you will be banned.
o5. Following are banners provided for the easy promotion of the wicked_challeng community.






note: Clip in banner four created by blueyes413




Please follow all of these rules. Repeated ignorance of the rules will result in either disqualification from icontests, removal of posting priveleges, or banning. You have been warned.

AFFILIATES
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