I <3 SC intra-forum contest

[BirdofPrey]

Since The official I <3 SC contests are rather limited in their audience and eligability I have started an intra-forum contest of the same sort. This one however will be open to all registered members of this forum.

The rules are simple:
Create a picture with the Blizzard I <3 SC image that is creative and unique.
Must be a jpeg in 1024x768 2MB or less.
It has to have one of the I <3 SC images clearly visable or it will not be counted.

The winning entry will be submitted by Joneagle_X into the official contest and if it wins there you will get the shirt. In addition he has offered a Blizzard T-Shirt as well to the winner.
Further prizes will be offerd once the shop is back and I know who has what but for now its a mystery box.


The deadline is April 25 noon PDT and there will be a vote from then till the 28th midnight PDT. The deadline is critical as late entries won't make it into the official contest. (PDT is GMT -7 hours)
To submit your entry PM or email(address in profile) it to me as an attachment please do not post it here.


Here are the images you need to use
Print-ready .pdf (8½" x 11") (http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/contests/ilovesc/files/ilovesc-pdf.zip)
High resolution .png (3696 x 1600) (http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/contests/ilovesc/files/ilovesc-hires.zip)
High resolution .psd (http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/contests/ilovesc/files/ilovesc-psd.zip)


Good Luck
Have Fun

[Joneagle_X]

UPDATE ON THIS COMPETITION!

StarCraft2Forum.org has been authorized as an official submission hub for the competition.

Please submit your I <3 SC photos to my e-mail address jtietz@starcraft2forum.org by April 26th and I will make sure they are submitted to Blizzard!

All members who submit in this way WILL be eligible for the Blizzard prizes!!!!!

We need 100 submissions, so get cracking!

Remember, 100 submissions by April 26th in my e-mail inbox! Thank you!

Each unique submission (don't give your photo to anyone else or send it in to Blizzard) will receive an automatic 1,000 minerals. Any that win prizes will receive another 5,000 MINERALS!!

Remember, unique, and 100, to my e-mail! Good luck!

[Meee]

Can we give you more than one?

[kuvasz]

Hey, all countries eligible? I like the sound of that.
*starts planning teh plan*

[Joneagle_X]

Yes, submit as many as you want as long as they're unique! Do not submit them to another site or to Blizzard!

[EonMaster]

hmm....since my outlook doesnt like to work (i can get emails but not send them) since I have some information missing, would I be able to send it to you in a PM instead?

[Joneagle_X]

Yes, PM will work.

[-LT-]

Make a yahoo account.
Must I be on the photo?

[BirdofPrey]

Wait wait wait. I live in AZ will I still be eligable for this?

[Joneagle_X]

Everyone is eligible if they do it through the forum because the prizes will be assigned to the site and I will distribute them accordingly. :D

[LxMike]

I gonna take a picture of the logo with my wood cruisio tank hehe :D

[EonMaster]

hmm...I wonder if pokemon styled ones would work. If not, I have other alternatives.

[furrer]

I think I have a pretty good idea, but my skills probably cracks it up...
Imagine:
Starcraft 2 Forum:
We <3 Starcraft

[furrer]

Bump
Can any of the mods or sc2forum send me the image we use (PM)?

[LordKerwyn]

The links are in the very first post.

[furrer]

Im talking about the forum logo, if I may use that... "The image we use" should have been "the logo we use" sorry.

[Joneagle_X]

Please e-mail me, furrer, and I'd be glad to get that to you. :D

[Joneagle_X]

*BUMP* Start submitting, people!

I'm doing my pics tomorrow!

[marcusrodrigues]

Sooooo, I submited 2 images, I hope more people are working on these, I want to see the 100 goal achieved ;-)

[Joneagle_X]

Okay! The first submissions by Marcus are now up!

You can check them out and post your own for approval here:

http://www.starcraft2forum.org/index.php?categoryid=3&p17_sectionid=10

Make sure to e-mail me or PM me notifying me if you have submitted! You can also e-mail me your images if you would like me to submit them in the contest.

Also, you guys had better start submitting photos.

I'm bumping the submission reward to 2,000 minerals. 2,000!!! Marcus just earned himself 4,000 minerals when they return.

[kuvasz]

Is there a cap on the resolution of the image?

[EonMaster]

I'm working on a few.

Wow, Marcus is good!! There is no way I'm going to make anything that intricate, partly due to the fact that I don't know how to work everything on my program yet.

[marcusrodrigues]

Thz for the compliments on my work, I expect a lot of you guys submiting yours as well! It would be nice if we could achieve our goal of 100 submissions... ;)

[EonMaster]

Is there a reason photobucket resizes images? My pics went from 1024x768 to 665x510...
EDIT: it has a 65% in the top corner, so does that mean that it's only 65% the size of what it truely is?

I PM'd mine in. You can see them in the link Jon provided.
Not sure if I'll do more, depends on how schoolwork is.

[LxMike]

when is the deadline, I suposse to get my pic soon , but my cellphone camera is only 2MP...

[EonMaster]

deadline is the 25th noon, and no extensions will be possible.

[Joneagle_X]

You can submit up until the 28th of April, but you will only be eligible for the Blizzard contest if you submit by the 26th.

[ItzaHexGor]

Will we be able to view everyone's submissions afterwards? If so I'd like to award the creators of my favourite two submissions a Zergling each, as both a motivation to submit and a motivation to make the submissions look as good as possible.
Just quickly, who do we email or PM submissions to? BirdofPrey or Joneagle_X?

[BirdofPrey]

PM them to Jon

Tell ya what for extra prizes at the end of the contest nominate your favorites and the most nominated can go to a vote for prizes

How does that sound?

[ItzaHexGor]

Well I was just going to do it on a personal level, giving the creators of my favourite two a Zergling each, but I'd be happy to donate both Zerglings as prizes at the end of the contest.

[kuvasz]

Is there a cap on the resolution of the image?
Reading is your friend :D

Is there a minimum resolution though? But if it's 1024 at most then I suppose 500x500 is still applicable(?).

I'm working on 3 pieces right now and I have a 4th idea coming. Let's hope we get 100 submissions :)

[BirdofPrey]

From the wording and the fact its going to be a mosaic I am going to say make it EXACTLY those dimentions.

[Joneagle_X]

Where Are My Submissions?!?!?!!?!?!

[BirdofPrey]

You'll have to ask somone with artistic skill

[Joneagle_X]

Who said you need artistic skill?

Get a damn camera, take a pic of yourself holding the sign. It can just be you in your room, just do SOMETHING!

I want those 50 submissions, and I want them NOW!

[kuvasz]

From the wording and the fact its going to be a mosaic I am going to say make it EXACTLY those dimentions.
There is no way I can make them exactly 1024x768. It'll be pain enough to resize the pics to that small size, but one of my pieces is 4k by 2k for example so the ratio doesn't match. I assume that can only be 1024x512, huh? -.-

[BirdofPrey]

Crop the edges off

[kuvasz]

I need the ratio to preserve the layout -.- Meh I'd hate to add black stripes just to make the ratio fit 1024x768.

Jon, can you confirm the size requirement?

[Joneagle_X]

Just make sure you have at LEAST that resolution.

Blizzard will take care of the rest. :D

[EonMaster]

Plus problems like this would be avioded if you size your image canvas before starting. It definately makes my life easier.

[kuvasz]

That works if you start from scratch, but I'm after realistic photo edits, and I'd like to preserve the original as much as possible.

Since that is the minimum resolution, I'm down to 2 submissions :D

[-LT-]

So the images need to be exactly 1024x768?
I sent you mine, Jon. But if they must be 1024x768 I'll resend the corrected image.

[LxMike]

emailed

[Joneagle_X]

I still need a bunch of submissions....

Keep them coming! We need 50 minimum and we're barely at 10.

[-LT-]

Jon, please answer my question...

[Joneagle_X]

The images do NOT need to be EXACTLY that resolution. They need to be at LEAST that resolution but smaller than the maximum file size. :P

[-LT-]

I resent you my entries. Can you open them? Are they good enough for the competition?

[Joneagle_X]

Great entries, LT, that brings us up to about 15.

We still need entries badly!

50 entries minimum. Let's move it people, less than a week left!!!

[kuvasz]

Most of those are exactly the same idea... but I guess it helps bring the numbers up.

I'll try to figure out how to print the stuff on several sheets to make 1 large one... does anyone have any clue?

[marcusrodrigues]

C'mon, how many users do we have in this forum? Can't everyone post at least 1 pic each?

[Joneagle_X]

Yeah, no kidding!

New entries have been posted in the gallery! Check them out!

Thank you to -|LT|- and Marcus. :D

[EonMaster]

I plan to do some more this weekend since there arent any big school things to study for.

I wonder if making a pokemon style one would look cool......

[Major Willy]

Our printer is running low on cyan ink.

So it's more pink than anything. But I think that will add to the humor of my picture. I don't look so hot right now, so I'll make my picture and send it to you tomorrow.

[Joneagle_X]

Yay! I knew you guys wouldn't leave me hanging.

Only 30 more to go!

[Meee]

I have one pic I'll consider making but I won't be able to access it till monday

And I have absolutely no ideas for anything else -.-

[-LT-]

I'll make some more!

[johnnyxp64]

hi there just submited mine, to your mail

when you say 30 more you mean pictures or person's submitions?

i made this really fast, i can't think of something else now..i will make more better this week.
hope you like it :P

[-LT-]

That's too small...

[Joneagle_X]

I need 32 more images.

I don't really want too many from the same person. So LT's are great, but I would like 50 submissions, maximum of 5 from each person.

So... we need more!!!

[johnnyxp64]

That's too small...

no the one i send via e-mail its just under the limit 1024*768 this here its a small i dont want to make the post too heavy ;)

[Major Willy]

I was just messing around in Paint with invert and played with the picture properties. Colours used for the Starcraftish border were taken from here. Oh zing.

E-mailing it to you now Jon.

[kuvasz]

[...] To submit your entry PM or email(address in profile) it to me as an attachment please do not post it here. [...]
I think that's to prevent outsiders stealing our submissions so it's in your best interest to not post it here.

[Major Willy]

Oh jeez. How did I miss that?

Thanks for the edit Kerwyn.

[-LT-]

OK It's nice BTW :)

[johnnyxp64]

tnx just send a new one this is really funny :P

nothing special but you can say its C&C girl vs SC girl :P

hope will be uploaded

p.s LT yours seems to be from a vilage - island in Greece.....where the picture was taken from?

[KuraiKozo]

i submitted mine and was trying to draw one, but the draw ones fails X_X

[Fenix]

Do to Kurai's needling, I slapped one together. I don't take time on it cause the end result is still crappy, and that's sad. I LOL'd when I grabbed the source though, I had to do it.

Now wherez mah minralz!?

[Major Willy]

U Git None Minralz Ntil U Mien Foar Feesh.

[KuraiKozo]

omg i understood that xD
and thanks phoe <3

[-LT-]

p.s LT yours seems to be from a vilage - island in Greece.....where the picture was taken from?

They are all from Croatia. :cool:
How do you know they're mine?

[kuvasz]

Because they were put up after you posted that you resent them. There were other clues as well.

[KuraiKozo]

where sih they so i can look at them? @_@

[kuvasz]

Here (http://www.starcraft2forum.org/index.php?categoryid=3&p17_sectionid=10).

[johnnyxp64]

They are all from Croatia. :cool:
How do you know they're mine?

it says submited by: :D

[kuvasz]

I sent two of my edits. If I can get the logo printed then I might be able to do 3 more while posing somewhere :D

[KuraiKozo]

thanks kuvasz =3

[BirdofPrey]

I have to get cracking on mine.

BTW My Hotmail acount is my spam catcher so I don't check it very often. Its better to send things to my Gmail account *coughLTcough*

BTW LT what does the T stand for?

[-LT-]

My last name...
How do you know what is L for?

[KuraiKozo]

Lucas?

[-LT-]

Kinda... Almost Lucas.

[Gasmaskguy]

Can I say it? :D

[KuraiKozo]

he didn't answer, so yes xD

[Gasmaskguy]

Well, he did give a pretty good hint about it, to everybody that didn't knew.

It's Luka. :)

[KuraiKozo]

Ah, that's a cool name =3

[-LT-]

Thanks! How did you guess?

[BirdofPrey]

My last name...
How do you know what is L for?

I <3 SC
From: Luka T. (email address)
Sent:Wed 4/16/08 3:37 PM
To: ghostbirdofprey@hotmail.com
Thats why

[KuraiKozo]

xD LOL

[LxMike]

I am pretty proud of my crusio tanks picture, it's original at least

http://www.starcraft2forum.org/index.php?categoryid=3&p17_sectionid=10&p17_imageid=402

[KuraiKozo]

it's pretty =3
mine way the collage one, one of the newest ones ^_^

[-LT-]

Thats why
But I didn't send him any emails...

[BirdofPrey]

So your entry to the contest sent itself then?

[ItzaHexGor]

*The X-Files music starts to play*

By the way I've added and sent two more images. How many are we up to?

[-LT-]

I didn't send Gasmaskguy (http://www.starcraft2forum.org/forums/member.php?u=1126) any emails.

[BirdofPrey]

Hmm

Word travels well around here.
Ask Kurai

[johnnyxp64]

an other one thats bigger :P

http://synapse.gr/downloads/scspace.jpg

[KuraiKozo]

ask me what? XD

[Joneagle_X]

Great job guys! We now have 45 entries! Woo hoo!

Keep them coming if you would like!

Thanks.

Also, guys if you have not yet submitted to Blizzard and are eligible for their competition, please enter yourselves to save on shipping costs should you win.

However, if you feel you are not eligible and would like me to submit your entry for you, please notify me by e-mail.

Just say, "I want you to submit for me!"

Thanks!!!

[kuvasz]

So is there a cap on the number of submissions per person or not?

[LordKerwyn]

Nope. There is no cap as far as I know.

[SOGEKING]

To participate for Belgium, I must enter the French Blizzard website. Only ONE participation for the contest is acceptable (same name, same address).

I don't know if I must just send ONE picture. I already sent 4 !

If we don't obey to their (French) rules, we will not be eligible



So please Jon eagle, send my pics to the US Blizzard contest. I don't want to risk to be disqualified because of a silly rule. Even the last one I sent to you, where I stand with Darth Vador

[kuvasz]

Nope. There is no cap as far as I know.
Jon said in an earlier post that the maximum number is 5, but people have been submitting more than that, that's why I'm asking.

[Joneagle_X]

There's no "cap" for submissions through us.

Just let me know if you want them submitted.

Samir, I will submit five of yours for you.

[LxMike]

yeah , can someone submit this picture for me , I rest at Quebec..

http://www.starcraft2forum.org/index.php?categoryid=3&p17_sectionid=10&p17_imageid=422

[johnnyxp64]

so did we made it? i mean the comp is over today right?

[marcusrodrigues]

looks like we need 3 more images!

[kuvasz]

I sent my last entry two days ago, on the 23rd, but it's not been uploaded to the gallery yet.

[marcusrodrigues]

I sent 2 more just to ensure we reach 50 submissions ;)

[SOGEKING]

Today is the last day. We have a couple of hours to post the last pics

I did enough

[Joneagle_X]

We've reached 50! Thanks everyone!

I submitted the photos for people who asked me to submit yesterday. We had 18 submissions total.

Thanks everyone!

[Meee]

I thought it ended like two days ago?
I feel cheated T_T

[Joneagle_X]

The due date for our competition was the 26th so that I had some time to submit. ;)

[EonMaster]

I did 3 total. I would have done more, but I just never got around to doing them.

[LxMike]

so what's up with the competition now ?

[Joneagle_X]

It's over! Thanks for participating. Everyone will be rewarded up to 5 submissions when the mineral system is implemented again. :P

[EonMaster]

ah, so you could only get rewarded for the first 5. I was wondering how you would keep someone from trying to make 10 of them to get an easy 20K minerals and become rish.

[KuraiKozo]

*lazy* i only did one and that was with prodding xD

[SOGEKING]

The most important thing was to participate, no ?
....

Well show me the minerals .... :)

[Major Willy]

I did one that I liked. Imma look at it again.

*Goes off to raid My Pictures folder*

[SOGEKING]

Good news

Blizzard Entertainment responded to my mail I sent them about the contest. I mean I sent a pic of me in front of the Atomium (in Brussels) and now Blizzard said I am among the winners. :D

I am .... very glad !

[-LT-]

That's great! Congratulations!

[BBoy-Kuro]

wish i was here earlier to submit mine ... B-Boy's FTW

http://www.sc2gg.com/images/ILoveSC.jpg

[marcusrodrigues]

Sooo.... whats up with the contest? Shouldn't we have the results already?

[Joneagle_X]

Yeah, we should actually but there aren't any official results as of yet and I haven't heard anything on the shirts....

I'll let you guys know as soon as I hear anything!

[SOGEKING]

Yeah, got my T-Shirt one week ago ! :D

Sorry, didn't come to post cause I got no connexion for one week :(

Well I got a black t-shirt with "I love SC" on it. UPS sent it to me. It is a XL size, but I am a medium, no possibility to ask for a M size :( Well, i am glad anyway. :)

Made in Honduras, a famous brand with fruits as logo.

[LxMike]

nice, any word on the group entries ?

[karlo]

its over????? its over????
we cant any more submit???

[Joneagle_X]

Still haven't heard anything on any winners from the SC2Forums.org pool.

Samir is the only one so far.

[marcusrodrigues]

The results are in Blizzard's site. And I am a winner through the Forum :-D
What did I win again? :P