Weekly Costume Contests from The American Legion
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Absinth_Incubus,
Posted on: 2010-07-07 17:38 in Virtue
Bright and Shiny,
American Wonder
12/29 Winners
Grand Prize 100 Million: Ultraviolet Girl
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Vengeful-Wraith
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Lady Masquerade
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Miss Mace
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Red Hornet
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Lunar Maiden
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Valhalla Sentinel
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Electra Shock
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Spectral Haunt
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Alpha-Six
A reminder...next Tuesday's theme is Father Time or Baby New Year and it represents the last regularly scheduled Tuesday night CC that we will be hosting. As a special send off...the grand prize will be 250 Million Influence instead of the usual 100 Million. Other prize amounts will be set based on quantity and quality of contestants; but honorable mentions will be at least 25 million.
Have a great holiday weekend everyone! Just a reminder that our last regularly scheduled Tuesday night TF is themed Father Time or Baby New Year and the Grand Prize has been upped to 250 Million We will still be running weekly costume contests but there will be some changes after next week. Keep an eye on this thread to learn about all the new changes.
Happy New Year!
A reminder about this Tuesday's theme...Father Time or Baby New Year If you are looking for inspiration on a costume; head to the Chalet and run Father Time's mission...and then avoid making your Baby New Year look like that little hobgoblin. 
Our final Tuesday night contest is tonight! Theme is Father Time or Baby New Year!
Grand Prize is 250 Million Influence!
Father Time/Baby New Year Themed Winners
This marks our final regularly scheduled Tuesday night costume contest. As such; we decided to send them off with increased prize amounts. Congratulations to each of our winners.
Grand Prize 250 Million: Grandfather Century
Second Place 125 Million: Grandfather Clok
Third Place 75 Million: Baby Titan
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Rescue Me
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Erudin
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Father Llusion
CHANGE IN COSTUME CONTESTS ANNOUNCEMENT
First of all, I would like to thank all of you that have come out so often to our weekly costume contests. There have been a great many winners since we started these in July of 2010 and a whole lot of great costumes. The fact that people continue to come out to these keeps The American Legion motivated to keep bringing the contests to the server and hopefully give everyone a fair chance to win something.
Beginning next week; we will no longer hold the Tuesday night themed contests. We will be moving these contests to Thursday; following our regularly scheduled Thursday night contests. So we will still be hosting the same number of contests per week; we are just going to condense them into one night. The reason for this is twofold: it frees up a day of the week for any other group or player that may want to host a weekly event and it also frees up our SG members from feeling obligated to come out and judge three nights a week. I would like to go on record publicly here thanking each of the members of the American Legion who have donated their time and influence every week for over a year to make these contests a success.
The way the Thursday night contests will work is simple. Every Thursday at 10 PM Eastern; we will host a non-themed costume contest just as we have done every Thursday since July 2010. There will be a grand prize winner and honorable mentions named. Following the conclusion of that contest; an announcement will be made about the themed contest which will begin no sooner than ten minutes after the first contest but probably more like fifteen minutes. This will give any contestants that were at the first contest a brief interlude to perhaps switch characters to fit the theme; or doctor up a costume so that they can participate in the themed contest. The themed contest grand prize will be greater than the non-themed contest. The usual prize amount for the non-themed contest is 100 Million. The usual themed grand prize will be 150 Million. I will increase these prizes at times based on turnout, quality of contestants, or any other special circumstance. Honorable Mentions will always receive a minimum of 25 Million.
For this week our regular Thursday night contest will be held on Thursday night 10 PM Eastern. The first of our multiple costume contests will be next Thursday, January 12, 2012.
Once again; thank you all for participating in these contests! See you around the City!
Look forward to the new changes.
Bright and Shiny,
American Wonder
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Regarding the section in boldface, does this mean the themes will not be announced ahead of time on the forums? If so, I'm curious why you decided to go this route?
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Originally Posted by Trekkin
The way the Thursday night contests will work is simple. Every Thursday at 10 PM Eastern; we will host a non-themed costume contest just as we have done every Thursday since July 2010. There will be a grand prize winner and honorable mentions named. Following the conclusion of that contest; an announcement will be made about the themed contest which will begin no sooner than ten minutes after the first contest but probably more like fifteen minutes.
This will give any contestants that were at the first contest a brief interlude to perhaps switch characters to fit the theme; or doctor up a costume so that they can participate in the themed contest. The themed contest grand prize will be greater than the non-themed contest. The usual prize amount for the non-themed contest is 100 Million. The usual themed grand prize will be 150 Million. I will increase these prizes at times based on turnout, quality of contestants, or any other special circumstance. Honorable Mentions will always receive a minimum of 25 Million. |
(Sometimes, I wish there could be a Dev thumbs up button for quality posts, because you pretty much nailed it.) -- Ghost Falcon
Themes will still be announced a week in advance. But someone may have a costume that fits the theme on a different character. Or they may need to go to the tailor to load a costume. Or if the theme is simple enough; which some are; it gives those that did not check the forum ahead of time a chance to compete.
OK, gotcha. I thought it would be kind of odd to annouce the theme with only a few minutes notice. Glad to see I was misunderstanding.
(Sometimes, I wish there could be a Dev thumbs up button for quality posts, because you pretty much nailed it.) -- Ghost Falcon
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
OK, gotcha. I thought it would be kind of odd to annouce the theme with only a few minutes notice. Glad to see I was misunderstanding.
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Originally Posted by Stars_and_Stripe
I am sorry that you did not agree with the winner of the CC. I am aware that a few people didn't. We cast our votes secretly, and the person with the most votes wins. Legion ( or host) only votes to break a tie. That's how we have done these for over a year and a half. Sometimes everyone agrees with the winner, sometimes they don't. It happens.
As far as the other question goes, we have had a rule in place for much longer than we have been doing the CC's, at minimum of 4 years (cause that's how long I've been in the group) At our events (excluding sg and coalition events) our members are not allowed to participate. Even on an alt. If one of our members needs influence, there are much simpler ways of giving it to them. If they want recognition for a great costume, we hold sg only CC's . For the very reason we do not allow them to compete in the weekly CCs. We run a fair contest the best way we know how. There isn't debate over the contestants between all or even a select few of the members and its not decided by just one particular person's opinion. On large turnout nights, especially when (like last night) there are a ton of great costumes, the votes tend to be spread out more. So some nights, one vote can make a difference. I am sorry that you or anyone else was not happy with the results. To that I can only say,better luck next week. If you choose not to participate any further, I am sorry that you have come to that conclusion. |
Thank you AW for a non-venomous explanation. I'm glad the first impression was incorrect and have deleted my prior comments from this thread...again thank you.
Our costume contest is coming up in about an hour and a half. No theme tonight...next week begins our revised weekly contests with the traditional and themed contests both on Thursday January 12!
1/5 Winners
Grand Prize 100 Million: Spring Jaw
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Windwolf
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Turkey Madness
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Jennifer Knight
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Kabuki Rios
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Free Star
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Just Another Catgirl
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Phantomish
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Archmage Emmah
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Ms Winter
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Xeden
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Purrturb
Honorable Mention 25 Million: La Jinn the Mystical
Our next blueside costume contests are next Thursday January 12 starting at 10 PM Eastern.
At 10 we will hold our non-themed contest.
Following this contest there will be a brief break for anyone needing to switch costumes or alts to match our theme. The theme for the second contest is Blue and White
To qualify for the theme your costume must consist of only blue and white colors. This does not count skin or hair color which may vary. There can be only shades of blue and white on the costume itself however. Any questions about the theme please feel free to ask here or ingame.
Bright and Shiny,
American Wonder
Bright and Shiny,
American Wonder
Just a reminder everyone...starting this week there will be no more Tuesday night Costume Contests hosted by The American Legion. We are moving our themed contests to Thursday; the same night as the general costume contest. So this Thursday! One night; two contests! The themed contest grand prize has also been increased to 150 Million influence.
Following the non-themed contest there will be a brief break for anyone needing to switch costumes or alts to match the theme of contest number 2. The theme for the second contest is Blue and White
To qualify for the theme your costume must consist of only blue and white colors. This does not count skin or hair color which may vary. There can be only shades of blue and white on the costume itself however. Any questions about the theme please feel free to ask here or ingame.
Costume contest night is tomorrow! First contest at 10 PM Eastern--bring your best or favorite costume! Following that is our themed contest! This week's theme is blue and white so make sure you have a secondary costume ready so that you can compete in both contests!
The first of our Thursday night dual contests is tonight starting at 10 PM Eastern in Atlas!
A few more hours to go.
One night; two contests!
We will start with a General CC, and follow that with the themed CC. The theme for the second contest is Blue and White, and the Grand prize for the themed one is increased to 150 mil. Grand Prize for the General CC is 100 mil.
Bright and Shiny,
American Wonder
1/12 General (no theme) Contest Winners
Grand Prize 100 Million: Commisar Reznik
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Kimmee
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Heavy Metal Valkyrie
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Xeden
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Psikosis
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Moxutez
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Puma Salvaje
Honorable Mention 25 Million: CyberSeer
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Djinn Jinny
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Silvestria
Honorable Mention 25 Million: Yoshimi Battles
And the themed Blue and White Contest is about to begin!
Next Tuesday January 3, 2012 our theme will be Father Time or Baby New Year
Next Tuesday will also be the final Tuesday night costume contest hosted by The American Legion. Please return to this forum next week for complete details on the upcoming changes to the weekly costume contests held by The American Legion.