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.

Photo courtesy of Taylor Hill