A costume contest.

Bah. I just found out I have to work on Saturday.

Best of luck to all the participants, and a big giant thanks to Pum and Chloe for running this event. Sorry I can't be there.

Partial Prize list (All prizes except door prizes):

General Entries:
Note that ONLY 1 Grand Prize will awarded, there is NO Hero and Villain Grand Prize. The winner will receive the Grand Prize according to the winning toon's faction. No mix and match of Hero and Villain Grand Prizes will be allowed. Second Place and Third Place will also be awarded similarly.
Hero Grand Prize
1 Billion Influence
1000 Task Force Merits (50)
[Membrane Exposure.50]
[Armageddon: Damage/Recharge/Accuracy.50]
[Armageddon: Chance for Fire Damage.50]
[Panacea: Healing/Endurance.50]
[Gladiator's Strike: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge.50]
[Gladiator's Strike: Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge.50]

Villain Grand Prize
1 Billion Infamy
1000 Task Force Merits (50)
[Power:Panacea: Chance for +Hit Points/Endurance.50]
[Gladiator's Strike: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge.50]
[Power:Gladiator's Strike: Chance for Smashing Damage.50]
[Synthetic Ribosome Exposure.50]
[Apocalypse: Chance for Negative Energy Damage.50]
[Apocalypse: Damage/Recharge/Accuracy.50]

Hero Second Place
250 Million Influence
250 Task Force Merits (50)
Luck of the Gambler complete set of 6 (50)

Villain Second Place
250 Million Infamy
250 Task Force Merits (50)
Luck of the Gambler complete set of 6 (50)

Hero Third Place
100 Million Influence
100 Task Force Merits (50)
Luck of the Gambler Def/Global Recharge (50)

Villain Third Place
100 Million Infamy
100 Task Force Merits (50)
Luck of the Gambler Def/Global Recharge (50)

Newbs:
Influence or Infamy depending on winning toon's faction.
1st Prize: 250 Million
2nd Prize: 100 Million
3rd Prize: 30 Million

Best Team/SG
Influence/Infamy ratio and Task Force Merits ratio depends on the faction ratio of the winning team.
1 Billion influence/infamy and 1000 Task Force Merits (50)

Door Prizes
Will be posted later tonight.

Global friends list has been captured as of today. If you are on my global friends list you are no longer allowed to enter the Costume Contest. Dropping me from Global friends past today will have no effect on your eligibility for this contest.

What if I'm on your gfriends list but don't like you?

I'd suppose that you like me even less now.

And you'd be right!

Door Prizes
10 Hamidon Enhancements (5 Villain, 5 Hero)
10 Invention Origin Enhancements (5 Villain, 5 Hero)

All door prizes are to be awarded. Manner of disposition will be left up to Chloe Crimson and whoever she appoints. Partial list is shown below as a teaser, full inventory has been allocated but will only be revealed during the contest.

Villain Door Prizes
[Peroxisome Exposure.50]
[Synthetic Enzyme Exposure.50]
[Synthetic Golgi Exposure.50]
[Armageddon: Chance for Fire Damage.50]
[Devastation: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge.50]
[Fury of the Gladiator: Damage/Endurance/Recharge.50]

Hero Door Prizes
[Nucleolus Exposure.50]
[Synthetic Endoplasm Exposure.50]
[Centriole Exposure.50]
[Gravitational Anchor: Immobilize Duration/Recharge/Accuracy.50]
[Panacea: Healing.50]
[Obliteration: Accuracy/Damage/Recharge.50]

Awesome! And I'm not on your globals either! Wait.. does it matter that I'm part of the staff? >_>

Demmit!

Well good luck to everyone! I can't wait to see what ppl break out, especially for the group contest. And make sure to spelling everything right in your bios! *breaks out dictionary and yard stick*

This is the Estimated Market Value (EMV) of the prizes to be awarded (potentially, since only 1 faction will be awarded the grand prize, 2nd place and 3rd place. Note that all of the door prizes will be given away.

The EMV totals the influence or infamy, task force merits as converted to recipes, and AH estimates for all recipes and enhancements. And yes, the B stands for Billion.

Hero Grand Prize (EMV = 3.3B Influence)

Villain Grand Prize (EMV = 4.8B Infamy)

Hero Second Place (EMV =690M Influence)

Villain Second Place (EMV =860M Infamy)

Hero Third Place (EMV = 325M Influence)

Villain Third Place (EMV = 450M Infamy)

Newbs 380M Inf

Best Team/SG (EMV=2B Inf)

Door Prizes Villains (EMV =460M)

Door Prizes Heroes (EMV=1.52B Influence)

The total amount of prizes that can be awarded are estimated to be valued at 9.6 Billion influece/infamy.

Edit: as an aside, I was surprised at the prize values for heroes and villains. I didn't pick specific IOs or Hamis based on how much they trade for, so the disparity was interesting. The same goes for the door prizes, and strangely enough the hero door prizes kind of balance out the difference in the main costume prize packages.

One more thing about door prizes, everyone who attends will be eligible for a door prize, with the exception of Judges, finalists and contest winners. However, if a door prize is won by any finalists or winners before they are chosen as such, they get to keep the door prize. As stated previously, Chloe's method of choosing who wins/gets what is up to her.

I have no idea whether she has chosen a random draw or a mini game or skills type contest or any combination thereof. Other than what I've just put forth here, her decision is final so if you have any concerns regarding the door prizes, its already out of my hands.

Also, I never intended on this being a 10B inf contest. I just sort of got carried away with the whole deal but I'm sure it will be a lot of fun.

All of the awards have now been passed onto Chloe's Bankers, so with the exception of awarding merits, I'll be a passive observer just like everyone else.

Good luck to everyone who's looking to compete and otherwise participate and thanks to everyone who has given me encouragement and support and helped me promote this little shindig.

Meow!

A note on task force merit rewards:

In order for things to be done in an efficient manner, I'll just set up some ground rules here. This only applies to the winners that receive Task Force Merits as a reward, everyone else can go about their usual business.

1. Not everything has to be spent in one session, although you may elect to do that. I will NOT store any goods for you if you've filled up your inventory. You must take everything I spend as you direct me to. If it's a roll that you don't like, I am passing it on to you regardless. You may delete it if you want, but I won't be doing it. If you fail to take your rewards as I spend them, I will hold them for a maximum of one hour before deleting them.

2. I will only be available to meet in single half-hour blocks per day per winner. You can contact me in game @pumbumbler to arrange the specific times.

3. Please figure out how much you want to spend in each session prior to meeting with me. If you overspend and don't have enough inventory space to keep all of your loot it probably will not be a good use of both our time together. I will keep an accounting of how many merits you have left to spend after each session to keep you updated.

4. All merit rewards will be considered redeemed in full after January 15, 2010, regardless of how many you have left to spend with me.

5. I will have very limited time in-game after the contest on Saturday so I may not be available to give out very many merit rewards that day.

6. Merit rewards will not be transferable to other accounts. I will spend merit rewards as directed by the winning toon's account only and pass the result onto that toon.

I've decided on who Im bringing but my question is :

Is a costume change during the judging permitted ?

Only asking coz the toon im bringing really requires both costumes to be seen for the full overall effect of it.

Just a reminder.

The judges will be judging on 1 costume only, but emotes are allowed when showing your look off, as long as you stay in the same costume! This is to be fair to everyone entering. =)

ta

thanks for clarifying Chloe

I always knew my Pumbumbler look-alike costume would come in handy. I am totally going to win!

Pope

Good luck everyone! Hopefully we'll get a gallery of pics.

I'm so excited! About 3 hours away! Good Luck everyone entering!

The contest is over now. Thanks to everyone who participated in the event, I've never seen so many great costumes in one spot.

Many thanks to Chloe and her band for getting it all going and making everything so easy.

Final result posted soon.