| Challenge Four |
[05 - 24 - 04 @ 12:29 pm] |
CHALLENGE FOUR
Movies are always a good way to go when you are trying to bring together teammates. The contest for this week is fairly simple, just some basic rules and guidelines that have to be followed.
Rules
- All icons must be from a movie of your choice
- All icons must have a quote from that movie (or, if you want to use a song lyric from a song on the movie's soundtrack, that's ok too)
- All icons must be still (not animated)
- All icons must be in black and white
As always, all icons must be submitted in the form of a comment to this post by Thursday 11:59:59PM EST time. Good luck to everyone! This contest is getting better and better each week.
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| Results |
[05 - 22 - 04 @ 11:56 pm] |
Although both teams did very well this round and I loved the originality of the icons, it seems that Pixel Chix has won, once again. It was a very close call this round (3 over 2). Slackers, I'll be posting a poll in your journals shortly. Don't let this discourage you! The ultimate icon maker could be in your team!
This weeks contest is going to be a bit more fun and laid back for y'all... And in two more weeks we'll have a surprise for the remaining contestants! Bet you can't wait for that!!
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| Challenge Three |
[05 - 17 - 04 @ 2:25 pm] |
CHALLENGE THREE
This next challenge is going to be a bit more difficult than the last two.  slayertv and I are calling this week's challenge the Scavenger Hunt. I suppose this challenge isn't as difficult as I'm making it out to sound... Here are the rules.
- From the 10 words listed below each teammember must pick a different word each, go to google.com and pick a picture from the first page that pops up.
- You must make an icon using one of the pictures that popped up from the first page in your google search.
- All icons must also incorporate a song of your choice into it. (Let us know which song and artist you used as well! :))
I'm pretty sure those are some crazy ass confusing rules so let me break it down so there isn't too much confusion. Here are the 10 words:
soccer, cows, beer, beanie babies, summer, military, president, music, bugs, weird
Each teammember must pick a different word to search for a picture! Let's say I pick 'beanie babies'... I'll then head on over to google, go to the 'images' search and type in beanie babies. You'll be allowed to use anything from the FIRST PAGE ONLY. We've checked all these and know whats on each search so please don't try anything! As far as content goes - Be creative! Be funny! We want to see things you normally wouldn't make an icon for!
As always, all icons must be submitted in the form of a comment to this post by Thursday 11:59:59PM EST time! :) Good luck everyone... This should prove to be very interesting!
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| Results |
[05 - 14 - 04 @ 1:16 pm] |
We really don't have to wait until Saturday to post this. The judges all voted last night and we've chosen a winner. Pixel Chix has won challenge two!
Everyone did a nice job this round... It seemed to bring the two teams closer with what they like and don't like. Get ready for the next challenge! It's going to be a bit more difficult and crazy!
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| Mod Post |
[05 - 08 - 04 @ 2:43 pm] |
prevgirl made a good point over on the fans community ( _icontest_fans) ... and us mods have decided that we're going to give this a try. So yep, everyone out there who wants to get the goods on what's happening behind the scenes go ahead and sign up for the team communities: _icontest_team1, _icontest_team2
We know that there are some devious methods that contestants from one team can use to join the other team, but we just hope you refrain from such practices because if brokina or I hear or find that anything of that sort has happened, guess who's out of the game ... YOU! We're doing this as a favor for everyone who's being a spectator this round because we want everyone to enjoy the game. So, those of you who aren't contestants, go ahead and sign up for the two team communties. You won't be allowed to post, but you will be allowed to view the entries. Please do not do anything to interfere with the proceedings. Thanks!
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| To clarify some things |
[05 - 08 - 04 @ 10:42 am] |
There are two and half hours left (EST time) for the teams to submit their remaining icons. In the cut below are all of the icons so far. For those of you who have not submitted your icons yet please do so in the first Challenge One post. Thank you!
That was from a couple posts back letting you all know how much time was left and some other news...
To submit your icons in this challenge just comment to this post with what team you are a part of (team 1 or 2 for now) and your icon. Simple as that. You have until Friday, May 7th at 11:59:59PM EST time to submit your icons. Good luck!
And that was apart of the original challenege post and you'd think people would know that the icons were being submitted in the ORIGINAL challenge post because not only was everyone else doing so, it is also in the rules, which by the way, you all have read.
I don't mean to be mean or brutal and I don't want to piss anyone off. However, I feel as though that is going to happen anyways. It's a game and by rules, Pixel Chix completed everything they had to do. They even made up for the slack of Marie by submitted another icon (I believe I talked to _getoverit about all that confusion). If at all, at any time, you are confused or don't know what you are supposed to do then e-mail me or you could personally message me at tiddlebit04. I'm sorry I didn't see the comment that you made earlier lenabee. That, obviously, was my bad if it was posted in the main community. If it was posted in your team's community I try not to comment to those... That's why I created team communities - For the teams to help each other out and communicate.
Once again, I'm sorry about all the confusion. Hopefully, things will become more clear after this post. I'm going to re-post the rules in an LJ-Cut below so that from now on there will be no confusion. Please re-read the rules and if you still have any questions then let me know!!
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| Result |
[05 - 08 - 04 @ 12:07 am] |
RESULTS
Unfortunately, the judges do not need to vote on this weeks challenge. I'm a little bit disappointed at the turnout of this week. I'm upset that marieamethyst took the time to submit an application but didn't follow through for team one and left them to make up for the slack and I'm also upset that team two didn't submit their final icon in before midnight when I know that they had them finished and I have yet to find out what their team name is and I made a post in both team communities. It may be cruel, but you all know the rules and I'm not going to back down because I feel sorry for anyone because once it happens it'll continue to happen. le sigh.
This weeks winner is Pixel Chix! Congratulations, you are saved from voting someone off your team (however, if marieamethyst doesn't show up by Sunday she's GONE). Team Two, I will be posting a poll in your community journal shortly for you to vote off someone from your community. Please keep in mind why you lost this challenge. Your icons were amazing (as were yours, Pixel Chix) but a few members from your team didn't send in their icons and that's why you lost.
On Monday, May 10th, I will announce who was voted off as well as the new challenge. Awesome week you guys! Take a few days to relax, mingle, and make alliances! :)
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| Challenge One almost over |
[05 - 07 - 04 @ 9:38 pm] |
There are two and half hours left (EST time) for the teams to submit their remaining icons. In the cut below are all of the icons so far. For those of you who have not submitted your icons yet please do so in the first Challenge One post. Thank you!
I went over all the answers from the poll and here's the news:
The challenges here on out will run from Monday - Thursday. Not too big of a change but the majority of you voted for that. Submissions will also continue to be posted within a comment to the original challenge post but in a screened comment. The 'best overall' and 'most creative' idea seemed ok and there were a couple of you who didn't like that so much so I am going to go with mewey's idea and post all the icons in the fan community (_icontest_fans) and the fans can vote on that sort of thing when/if I do that. Thanks to everyone who took the time to take that poll, I appreciate it.
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| Last Minute Post |
[05 - 06 - 04 @ 10:48 pm] |
So there were a couple of things I just realized. (I'm glad this is a practice round that counts and that I noticed this now!!) Each challenge is announced on Monday and runs from Monday to the following Friday. So in the two day weekends that we have the judges have to pick a winner, announce the winner, and the losing team has to vote off a member. Is this possible in two days? Should the contests run from Monday-Thursday and then on Friday we'll announce the winners and on Saturday-Sunday you guys can take your time (with busy schedules and all) and vote off a member? Feedback is awesome!
Please take a minute and fill out this poll.
When should each challenge run?
Monday thru Friday
4(28.6%)
Monday thru Thursday
10(71.4%)
What would you rather do?
Post submissions in a screened comment to the original post
14(100.0%)
E-Mail your submissions to the communities address
0(0.0%)
What can I do to make this contest run more smoothly?
What do you think of having individual awards like 'best overall' or 'most creative' during each group challenge? (this would not affect the judges decision on the winning or losing team it's just something to do when we see great icons)
What would you like to see come from this community?
Promote. The fan community should grow! :)
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| Mid-Week Update |
[05 - 05 - 04 @ 8:31 pm] |
There are some things that I think may become a problem further down the road in the survivor icon contest. As I mentioned before, this first one is a practice round that counts as for me knowing what will and will not work. I think that posting your submissions in the comments will not work because the other teams could get ideas from what you've already submitted. So if it's at all possible, how would people feel about e-mailing their icons to the community e-mail. Do you think that would be a better idea? Feedback is awesome.
Also, both teams are missing one member each. marieamethyst had not joined team one's community and freeswimmer11 has not joined team two's community. I'd hate to start off this contest by eliminating two people the first round out of technicality. That would make all the hard work you guys put into this weeks icons for nothing. Both team members have to be in their communities by Sunday! If they're not then they are out. It's clearly stated in the rules that you have to join you teams communities and I've been watching both teams and I can clearly see it was a good idea because everyone is communicating with everyone. Remember... This is a game and eventually you will be voting people off of your online icon "tribe." Make friends quick so that you can move on! :) Drama. Drama. Drama. We love it!
Also remember, these first challenges are GROUP contests. That means there has to be an icon for each member on each tribe. If their isn't then you better hope you have some pretty awesome icons to make up for that slack. You may NOT, NOT, NOT make icons for other team members. If that happens and they move on... You just gave them a free ride and they could be voting you off in the next round. Each contest (until we enter individual challenges) is judged as a whole....
Hope this all makes sense.
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| Contest One |
[05 - 03 - 04 @ 10:03 am] |
CONTEST ONE
We thought we'd start things off fairly simple just to get the ball rolling on what is allowed and not allowed within each contest. Although this contest still counts any and all errors we see made will be corrected and not tolerated in the upcoming contests. We'll say that this is a practice round that counts. Make sense? Good.
Here's the contest...
Each member on each team must make an icon out of one of the following eight pictures found on this site. It is not required that each member pick a specific image that they will make their icon out of but it is perfered. Again... Not required, but perfered. Make sense? Good. To submit your icons in this challenge just comment to this post with what team you are a part of (team 1 or 2 for now) and your icon. Simple as that. You have until Friday, May 7th at 11:59:59PM EST time to submit your icons. Good luck!
If you are wondering who is on each team... Well, I'm about to tell you. It was really hard to decide who we thought should be able to participate in this because there are so many great icon makers! Overall we went with people who not only had awesome icons but were willing to put in the time and effort into keeping this community active and not letting it die out. Congratulations to those of you who made it into the final 16! You now have a 1 in 16 chance of winning paid account time! Doesn't that rock? For those of you who didn't get picked... Don't worry, you can always try again next time and feel free to stay and watch the action and drama unfold each week!
TEAM ONE
neverseenfire
purple_foam
lauranobaka
cassie2003
bentfire
_getoverit
marieamethyst
riverofsound
TEAM TWO
lenabee
emoterellish
0nlymemories
kirstee
 freewimmer11
bwlrbry
faithlesssinner
jedispyder
Along with your first icon challenge your team must also join your respective team communities. Be sure to make all entries FRIENDS ONLY so that we don't have any snooping teammates try and see what's going on in each community. The only people that will be able to see what's going on in there besides yourselves are the judges. Keep it that way. Once you've all joined the respective team communities your next little activity is to decide on a team name! You have until May 7th to decide on your team name (be creative!) and we'll reveal what each team is called during challenge two.
Good luck to everyone and congratulations!
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| Mod Post. |
[05 - 01 - 04 @ 12:02 pm] |
After this post everyone's posting privileges (except for the judges) will be taken away so we don't get cluttered here. Although everyone's posting privileges will be taken away you can still comment... That's mostly why I'm posting this entry. I have to questions for the future players/future watchers of this community...
First Question: Someone mentioned earlier about a "fan" journal for everyone who wants to talk about the contest and post icons each week just for the hell of it for those of you who don't make it and those of you who just enjoy the community... What do you think of that?
Second Question: What are some other things we could give away to the ultimate icon maker when they win?
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| Attention Judges! |
[05 - 01 - 04 @ 11:45 am] |
All judges need to join _icontest_jury so we can discuss who is going to be in the final 16! There were 29 applications sent in for our first Survivor Icon Challenge... Good luck to everyone who submitted an application!
Once again, you'll find out if you've made it (along with you first challenge) on Monday!! I can't wait!
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| Mod Post. |
[05 - 01 - 04 @ 1:46 am] |
Submissions for becoming a contestant will not be considered after this post. I had one submission slip in after midnight, but I'll let it go...
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED...
We'll let you know on Monday who we've chosen and the fan-journal will be up and running by then too...
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[05 - 01 - 04 @ 1:57 pm] |
Name: JC
Age: 22
Location: Australia
Are you willing to participate weekly? yep
Are you willing to keep in contact with other members of your team? definately
Do cuss words, crude graphics/remarks bother you? not in the least
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| I love rock'n'roll |
[04 - 30 - 04 @ 7:10 pm] |
Name: Eva P.
Age: 20 years old
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Are you willing to participate weekly? Heck yeah
Are you willing to keep in contact with other members of your team? Absolutely
Do cuss words, crude graphics/remarks bother you? Nope
Examples:
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This is something awesome you guys got going, seems like it'll a lot of fun... just hope I get to participate!
Edit - Okay I thought of something and mentioned it to Katy, and she thought I should suggest it here, so I will. ^_^
I was thinking that since this contest is most likely going to become extremely huge, especially as time goes on, it might be a good idea to have a separate "fan" journal? That way "fans" can talk about the competition as it goes on, without cluttering up the "main" contest journal too much. Also, I was thinking it would be fun to have a separate community for fans because if I'm not selected, I will most likely do the challenge icons just for fun. :D And it would be a good place for other fans who also want to do the challenge icons to show off their work. ^_^ Anyway, just an idea.
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chipper