Author Topic: PGC Announces Its 7th Year Birthday Contest (Read 27580 times)

Pryopizm · « **on:** March 07, 2006, 09:56:21 AM »

Celebrate 7 years of PGC by entering our contest! It's over! Winners will be announced this weekend!

As everyone should know, this month marks the 7th Anniversary of Planet GameCube. We’re so excited to present to you, our dearest readers, a wonderful new contest that’s bound to blow the roof off the Internet and let the bodies hit the floor.

We here at PGC believe in the corporate ideal of empowerment. That means we let you do the work so we don’t have to! In this game, you will be empowered to come up with a photograph of your choosing. Of course, there are parameters, and I will present them to you here in a lovely, typewritten format:

Rule #1) To participate, submit a photograph of something having to do with the number seven and PGC. The number seven has a great amount of mystique surrounding it, and means many things to many people. For example, to me the number seven represents how many courses I need in a meal in order to feel sated.

Rule #2) Nothing obscene. PGC is a family website so we will not print any submissions that contain rude gestures, nudity, or any other kind of obscenity. How will we judge this? As Justice Potter Stewart said regarding pornography, “I know it when I see it."

Rule #3) The photograph must be taken by you and must be 100% real! Submitted photographs cannot be taken by some Pulitzer Prize winner nor found on the internet. For example, do not Photoshop your face on Neil Armstrong’s head with the PGC logo as the American flag. We are not MTV—we have standards.

Rule #4) No monstrously large files. Take pride and edit your work so that when I receive it, my hard drive doesn’t crash and I don't become a raving lunatic and don't get thrown in jail for about 300 human rights violations. Photographs should be of reasonable dimensions and file size.

Rule #5) Only one entry per person. You must include your real name and use a real email address so that we can contact you for shipping information if you are selected as a winner.

Winners will be decided by members of the Planet GameCube staff, whose decisions are final. By entering a submission for this contest, you confirm that you have permission to use the submitted photograph, including consent from any persons who may be depicted in the photograph, and you authorize Planet GameCube to display the photograph on this website if it is chosen as one of the winning entries. Planet GameCube staff and employees of the contest sponsors are not eligible to win. Entrants who violate the above rules may be disqualified. Open to our readers worldwide. Neither Planet GameCube nor the contest sponsors can be held responsible for electrical incompatibilities, regional encoding, or other complications with the prizes being used outside the United States.

Email your entry to contest@planetgamecube.com. The deadline for submission is 11:59 PM, Wednesday, March 15. Winners will be selected and announced later that week.

The winning entries will be proudly displayed on PGC with fanfare and ticker-tape.* We also have the following prize packages to award to the photos we think are best. (Note: all prizes are subject to change until the contest submission deadline. Some prizes may be added after the initial contest announcement, so check back often!)

One Grand Prize:

Nintendo DS System

Mario Kart DS

Animal Crossing: Wild World

Ouendan! ("The best game for Nintendo DS")

Neo Fami Black (Famicom clone system)

Famicom-to-NES Cartrige Adapter

Two Wireless Famicom Controllers

Naruto: Clash of the Ninja

Naruto: Ninja Council

Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble

Nintendo GameCube Mario Party 7 Bundle w/ game

One First-Place Prize Pack:

Naruto: Clash of the Ninja

Naruto: Ninja Council

Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble

Nintendo GameCube Mario Party 7 Bundle w/ game

Five Runner-Up Prize Packs:

Naruto: Clash of the Ninja

Naruto: Ninja Council

Nintendo GameCube Mario Party 7 Bundle w/ game

* No actual fanfare or ticker-tape will be provided.

Thanks to our wonderful sponsors for this contest:

Nintendo of America

D3 Publisher of America

Lik-Sang

Capcom Entertainment, Inc.

You could win one of these FABULOUS PRIZES!

Photo courtesy of Taylor Hill

Renny · « **Reply #1 on:** March 07, 2006, 10:23:01 AM »

It just occurred to me that I'm the only person in the first world without a camera. Not even a camera phone. Weep for my inability to participate.

Karl Castaneda #2 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 07, 2006, 10:26:19 AM »

Guys, seriously, this prize is HAWT. If I didn't already have most of this stuff and wasn't a staffer, I'd be drooling over this hardcore.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #3 on:** March 07, 2006, 10:41:33 AM »

What are PGC's rules about entering a contest when you've already won something? I know there's a time limit where you can't enter another contest, but I'm not sure how long it is.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #4 on:** March 07, 2006, 10:50:07 AM »

Open worldwide, eh? Always nice.

Though now I have to think of something to photograph.

It's very nice of Nintendo to donate prizes though a Cube seems almost redundant considering the audience. Still it's a good amount of stuff. The runner-up prizes are on par with typical first prizes.

vudu · « **Reply #5 on:** March 07, 2006, 10:58:55 AM »

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We’re so excited to present to you, our dearest readers, a wonderful new contest that’s bound to blow the roof off the Internet and let the bodies hit the floor.

Who writes this stuff? Classic.

I've never entered a PGC contest (mostly because I lack talent) but I'll see if I can come up with something to photograph. Does it have to be a single picture, or can it be a series of photos put into the same JPG file that tell a comic-book like story (or a photo montage)?

Flames_of_chaos · « **Reply #6 on:** March 07, 2006, 12:10:57 PM »

Seems very interesting go go digi cam!

Jonnyboy117 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 07, 2006, 12:48:26 PM »

The Lik-Sang prize is going to be some very cool stuff, I'm just finalizing it. We wanted a DS Lite, but they didn't feel right giving one away in a contest when they still can't supply all their preordering customers with enough units (and won't be able to for quite some time).

Pics of some prizes on the way!

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #8 on:** March 07, 2006, 01:17:12 PM »

Questions:

1. Does it have to be a photo with zero editing or can it be photochopped? (like to show a sequence of frames in one photo)

2. Can it have a 1-2 line caption at the bottom or something along those lines?

mantidor · « **Reply #9 on:** March 07, 2006, 01:43:51 PM »

How can you offer 7 GC when the picture only has 6

?

Im absolutely blank for ideas for this contest, if the holly spirit illuminates me Ill probably submit somthing with my very crappy webcam.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #10 on:** March 07, 2006, 01:52:08 PM »

Ahahaha, look closely and you might find the seventh...

Dasmos · « **Reply #11 on:** March 07, 2006, 01:57:29 PM »

He's holding one, right?

Pryopizm · « **Reply #12 on:** March 07, 2006, 02:02:10 PM »

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Originally posted by: vudu
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We’re so excited to present to you, our dearest readers, a wonderful new contest that’s bound to blow the roof off the Internet and let the bodies hit the floor.
Who writes this stuff? Classic.

Aww. . .thanks! I'm blushing.

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I've never entered a PGC contest (mostly because I lack talent) but I'll see if I can come up with something to photograph. Does it have to be a single picture, or can it be a series of photos put into the same JPG file that tell a comic-book like story (or a photo montage)?

We allow for creativity, so long as everything is 100% your stuff and it's one jpeg file.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #13 on:** March 07, 2006, 03:48:12 PM »

VERY COOL STUFF HERE!
I WILL ENTER!

Just gotta get my brain thinking for an idea....im crap with creative stuff like this lol. But I will try!

So yeah, Smasth_Brother's second question, are we allowed to put in some text as a sort of tagline/caption sorta thing on the photo?
Cause then it'd be like a birthday card sort of thing as well.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #14 on:** March 07, 2006, 03:50:22 PM »

LOL!

Bill loves Lindsay Lohan......*laffo*

oh, and how are you actually judging it?
The humour? Seriousness? BECAUSE HUMOUR IS SERIOUS BUSINESS, YOU SEE.
How it evokes one's emotions and pulls on one's heart strings with a strong sense of nostalgia?

Jonnyboy117 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 07, 2006, 04:14:28 PM »

All of the above? It's just whichever one we like the best. You won't get more specific criteria than that.

UncleBob · « **Reply #16 on:** March 07, 2006, 05:22:37 PM »

Neat-o.

Toad0787 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 07, 2006, 07:53:05 PM »

Ooooo, fun fun hmm I wonder if I could pull my idea off.....

KDR_11k · « **Reply #18 on:** March 07, 2006, 08:07:32 PM »

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Originally posted by: Pryopizm
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Originally posted by: vudu
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We’re so excited to present to you, our dearest readers, a wonderful new contest that’s bound to blow the roof off the Internet and let the bodies hit the floor.
Who writes this stuff? Classic.

Aww. . .thanks! I'm blushing.

I will submit this as evidence in my case against Take Two Interactive, thank you.

Sincerely,
Jack Thompson

Strell · « **Reply #19 on:** March 08, 2006, 06:06:21 AM »

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Originally posted by: KnowsNothing
What are PGC's rules about entering a contest when you've already won something? I know there's a time limit where you can't enter another contest, but I'm not sure how long it is.

I'd like an answer to this too, please, since I was one of the winners from the Metroid Mismatch contest last November.

vudu · « **Reply #20 on:** March 08, 2006, 10:04:11 AM »

Any chance you guys could provide us with a high resolution PGC logo?

TheYoungerPlumber · « **Reply #21 on:** March 08, 2006, 10:35:06 AM »

I cannot most of your questions, since I am not in charge of the contest. I can tell you that no photoshopping is allowed, so the PGC logo would have to be printed out for it to be used in an entry.

vudu · « **Reply #22 on:** March 08, 2006, 11:04:13 AM »

That's what I was planning on.

capamerica · « **Reply #23 on:** March 08, 2006, 01:08:22 PM »

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Originally posted by: vudu
Any chance you guys could provide us with a high resolution PGC logo?

If they do give out a High Res verion of the logo I'm going to be upset, I might even cry. I just finished putting mine all together and I had to re-draw out the logo as best as I could in Freehand.

I hope cropping and some color correction is okay Photoshoping. If its not they better say so soon so I can re-send my picture.

HadesGigas · « **Reply #24 on:** March 10, 2006, 07:17:28 PM »

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Originally posted by: TheYoungerPlumber
I cannot most of your questions, since I am not in charge of the contest. I can tell you that no photoshopping is allowed, so the PGC logo would have to be printed out for it to be used in an entry.

I took a photo of my computer monitor. That had better be allowed. I did not alter the actual photo I took in any way.

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