We're turning five years old, and that means awesome prizes for you.
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On March 7, 1999, Planet GameCube was born as N2000HQ. It was one of the first websites devoted exclusively to the next generation Nintendo console, and it is the oldest one still surviving. To give you an idea of how far ahead Billy was thinking, this was two months before anyone ever heard the words "Project Dolphin". Over the years we've expanded to cover both GameCube and Game Boy Advance, and we'll continue to serve as an all-purpose Nintendo site with the upcoming release of Nintendo DS and the first information on the GameCube's successor.
On the Internet, five years is a long time, especially considering the trials and tribulations this site has been through. We think PGC was and is a very unique and special institution, so we're celebrating our birthday with another big contest. (Go here to see what we gave away for our fourth birthday.) Last year, we honored the people with the most fanaticism for Nintendo, as well as writing and/or film directing abilities. This year, we're giving a chance to you artists out there.
Your mission: make a commercial for Planet GameCube. Help us show the world why PGC has been one of the premiere Nintendo websites for the past five years. All entries should mention our birthday, but the rest is up to you. Feel free to focus on your favorite features of the website, from our legendary Planet Trivia game to our extensive import reviews to our yearly E3 impressions onslaught. The winning entry will be the one that best shows off PGC's heritage and content. Your commercial doesn't have to be the slickest or prettiest, but artistic merit helps, so show us your best! (Note: you may use animation, live-action footage, or a combination of the two.) The winners will be used to promote the website in the period leading up to E3.
First Prize (one winner):
Famicom Game Boy Advance SP
TWO X-Arcade Solo Controllers
Super Mario Bros. Mini for GBA
Legend of Zelda Mini for GBA
Donkey Konga for GameCube w/special controller
Freeloader for GameCube (to play Donkey Konga)
Platinum Wave Bird Controller
Plush Jirachi doll from Japan
Viewtiful Joe Limited Edition Cel Art
Viewtiful Joe T-shirt (blue, size XL)
Mega Man Battle Network keychain
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for GameCube - signed by the Silicon Knights development team
Second Prize (one winner):
X-Arcade Two Player Controller
Hori Digital GameCube Controller
GameCube-logoed shoulder bag
GameCube-logoed notebook
1080: Avalanche t-shirt (gray)
Game Boy Advance SP carrying case
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles poster
Metroid: Zero Mission poster
Viewtiful Joe T-shirt (blue, size XL)
Mega Man Battle Network keychain
Auto Modellista for GameCube
P.N.03 for GameCube
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for GameCube - signed by the Silicon Knights development team
Third Prize (one winner):
X-Arcade Two Player Controller
Aqua GameCube controller
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles giant game box
Viewtiful Joe bobblehead figurine
Mega Man Battle Network keychain
Auto Modellista for GameCube
P.N.03 for GameCube
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for GameCube - signed by the Silicon Knights development team
Very special thanks to our contest sponsors:
How to enter:
You may submit as many unique entries as you wish. You may use animation, live-action footage, or a combination of the two. Entries may be up to five minutes long, but shorter is better in most cases. Most video formats are acceptable, including MPEG, DivX, Quicktime, Windows Media, Flash, and even animated GIF. If we are not able to open your filetype, we will ask you to submit it in a different format. Entries may be attached in an email or hosted on the entrant's personal webspace. (Please do not attach entries larger than 1 MB in file size.) By entering this contest, you are authorizing Planet GameCube to use your entry for the purposes of promoting the website. Send your full (real) name, age, valid email address, and your commerical (either attached or linked to where it is hosted on your own webspace) to bigcontest@planetgamecube.com. See the
official rules for more details and legal information.
Resources you may use in your entry:
Any screenshots of PGC or our original media (event photos, Louie artwork, etc.)
Game footage, artwork, and screenshots, if and only if you are not making fun of the games and you insert the following message at the end of your commercial: "All game materials are the property of their respective copyright holders."
The following files: (please right-save and "Save Target As")
PGC Video Intro/Outro (Raw AVI, 19MB)
PGC Logo (Hi-Res, .PNG bitmap format)
PGC Logo (Hi-Res, .EPS format)
PGC Logo (Hi-Res, .AI format - Adobe Illustrator)
If you have any questions about this contest, the prizes, or the rules, please use this special thread in our forums.
This contest is open to all Planet GameCube readers, regardless of nationality. Submissions must be received by 11:59PM CST, April 7, 2004. Winners will be chosen by a committee of Planet GameCube staff members and notified within one week of the submission deadline.
WARNING: Entrants violating any of these Official Rules may be disqualified. See below for additional eligibility restrictions. By entering, you agree to this contest's Official Rules, which can be found below.
Official Rules:
Sponsored by Planet GameCube ("Sponsor").
NO ENTRY FEE. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO PLAY OR WIN. Entry deadline is April 7, 2004.
1. Eligibility: The Planet GameCube Birthday Contest (the "Promotion") is open to anyone who loves Nintendo, age 13 or older, who has an active e-mail account and Internet access as of the beginning of the Promotion period. Entrants under the age of 18 must have permission from their parents or legal guardians to participate. Employees of Sponsor and its respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, and fulfillment agencies, their immediate family members and persons living in their same household, are not eligible to participate in the Promotion. Participation in the Promotion constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules & Regulations ("Official Rules"). VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
2. To Enter:
(a) To enter online, select the Promotion link from the Promotion main page (http://www.planetgamecube.com/specials.cfm?action=profile&id=487) on the Planet GameCube web site between March 10, 2004 at 00:01 AM, CST, and April 7, 2004, at 23:59 PM, CST. Then send an email to bigcontest@planetgamecube.com containing your first and last name (no screen names), age, valid email address, and a commercial for Planet GameCube (“Entry”). Entries with files larger than one (1) megabyte attached will be discarded. Contestants submitting larger files should upload them onto personal webspace and include links with the entry. Entries must be the original work of the entrant and may use materials copyrighted by Planet GameCube, as well as materials copyrighted by other companies (e.g. game publishers) only if the entry includes the disclaimer "All game materials are the property of their respective copyright holders." Incomplete entries, including those with inactive file links, will be discarded.
(b) Eligible entries are those consisting of all information and one Entry as detailed in Section 2(a). Validity of information and Entry will be determined by the Sponsor, and all judgments by the Sponsor are final. (c) No mechanically reproduced mail-in entries are allowed and any use of robotic, automatic, programmed, or similar entry methods will void all such entries by such methods.
Entrants violating any of these Official Rules may be disqualified.
3. Awarding of Prizes: All Promotion entries meeting the requirements of these Official Rules will be entered into prize contention. Winners will be determined by a panel of judges consisting of Planet GameCube staff members, who will choose the entries which best promote the Planet GameCube website and its fifth birthday. The judges’ entirely subjective decisions are final and binding. Winners will be notified by e-mail, regardless of method of entry.
4. Prizes and Odds: Each prize will be awarded to one (1) entrant only. The prizes to be awarded from the Promotion are as follows:
(a) First Prize: one (1) Famicom Game Boy Advance SP system (Japanese version), two (2) X-Arcade Solo controllers, one (1) copy of Super Mario Bros. Mini (Japanese version) for Game Boy Advance, one (1) copy of Legend of Zelda Mini (Japanese version) for Game Boy Advance, one (1) copy of Donkey Konga (Japanese version) for GameCube, one (1) copy of Freeloader for GameCube, one (1) Platinum Wave Bird Controller for GameCube, one (1) plush Jirachi doll (Japanese), one (1) Viewtiful Joe limited edition cel art, one (1) Viewtiful Joe t-shirt, one (1) Mega Man Battle Network keychain, one (1) copy of Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for GameCube (signed by the Silicon Knights development team). Approximate retail value: $685 USD.
(b) Second Prize: one (1) X-Arcade Two-Player controller, one (1) Hori Digital GameCube Controller (Japanese version), one (1) GameCube-logoed shoulder bag, one (1) GameCube-logoed notebook, one (1) 1080: Avalanche t-shirt, one (1) Game Boy Advance SP carrying case, one (1) Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles poster, one (1) Metroid: Zero Mission poster, one (1) Viewtiful Joe t-shirt, one (1) Mega Man Battle Network keychain, one(1) copy of Auto Modellista for GameCube, one (1) copy of P.N.03 for GameCube, one (1) copy of Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for GameCube (signed by the Silicon Knights development team). Approximate retail value: $355 USD.
(c) Third Prize: one (1) X-Arcade Two-Player controller, one (1) Aqua GameCube Controller (Japanese version), one (1) Viewtiful Joe bobblehead figurine, one (1) Mega Man Battle Network keychain, one(1) copy of Auto Modellista for GameCube, one (1) copy of P.N.03 for GameCube, one (1) copy of Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for GameCube (signed by the Silicon Knights development team), one (1) Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles giant game box. Approximate retail value: $300 USD.
The odds of winning a prize depend on the quality of the entrant’s Entry, as described in Section 3. Winners are solely responsible for any and all federal, state, provincial and local taxes that apply to prizes. No cash or other substitution of prizes is permitted, except at the sole option of Sponsor for a prize of equal or greater value. Prizes won by minors will be awarded to the parents or legal guardians, who must sign all required affidavits and releases. Sponsor will not replace any lost or stolen prizes. Approximate total value of all prizes to be awarded: $1340 USD.
5. Notification of Winners: Winners will be notified by e-mail within five (5) business days of the judges’ decisions. Winners may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release within seven (7) days of notification. If a selected Winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a prize and/or where applicable an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release is not timely received, is incomplete or modified, prize may be forfeited and an alternate Winner will be selected from remaining valid, eligible entries timely submitted. In the event of a dispute regarding who submitted an entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail account specified in the entry. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. No automatically generated entries will be accepted.
6. Privacy Policy: Any personal information supplied by you to Planet GameCube will not be sold, sent, rented, transferred or otherwise disclosed to any third party and will be used solely for the purposes of this Promotion. All Entries become the property of Planet GameCube and may be used in promoting the Planet GameCube website, without compensation to you, though you will retain the copyright for your Entry, and you will be credited as the author of the Entry.
7. General Rules: By entering, you agree to be bound by these Official Rules. The Promotion is offered by the Sponsors, Planet GameCube at 190 E. University Dr. #2607, Auburn, AL 36832, which is not responsible for late, lost, delayed, damaged, postage-due, incomplete, illegible, or misdirected entries, responses, or other correspondence, whether by e-mail or postal mail or otherwise, or for theft or destruction or unauthorized access or alterations of entry materials, phone, electrical, network, computer, hardware, software program or transmission malfunctions, failures or difficulties. By participating and winning a prize, Winner releases Sponsor and affiliates, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, sponsors, and agents, including advertising and promotion agencies, from any and all liability with respect to the Promotion or the acceptance, possession or use of any prize, including without limitation (i) any condition caused by events beyond Sponsor’s control that may cause the Promotion to be disrupted or corrupted; (ii) any injuries, losses, or damages (compensatory, direct, incidental, consequential or otherwise) of any kind arising in connection with or as a result of the Promotion and/or prize, or acceptance, possession, or use of the prize, or from participation in the Promotion; and (iii) any printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with the Promotion. Sponsor’s decisions in all respects relative to the Promotion are final. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, modify or suspend the Promotion in whole or in part, in the event of fraud, technical or other difficulties or if the integrity of the Promotion is compromised, without liability to the entrant. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any winner, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. The winner is responsible for paying any income taxes on the value of the prize received. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. All federal, state, provincial and local regulations apply. So basically no matter what….Planet GameCube is not responsible for anything. You can’t sue us for taking part in our contest. By entering you agree to that statement and all of the above terms.
8. These rules are subject to change at any time during the contest period. Changes to the rules will be indicated at http://www.planetgamecube.com.
9. Cheating: Louie the Cat ("Louie"), Rumors Editor for Planet GameCube, will poop ("Poop") on the heads of any Entrants who attempt to falsify or duplicate entries or otherwise violate the Official Rules. The Sponsors cannot be held responsible for any damage Louie’s Poop may cause to you, your property, or your family and/or unborn children. Remember, cheaters always miss.
10. Sponsor's Address:
Planet GameCube
190 E. University Dr. #2607
Auburn, AL 36832
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