Guild Wars Wintersday 2008 Art Contest

"The temperature is dropping and the calendar is down to its last few pages, which means the year-end holidays are upon us—and that means it's time for the annual Guild Wars® Wintersday Art Contest. If you've ever wanted to creatively combine your holiday spirit with your love of Guild Wars, this is your golden opportunity.

To participate, put your imagination and your artistic talents to work by crafting a piece of seasonal art with a holiday tone and a Guild Wars theme. Any and all ideas are welcome: draft an invitation to the Wintersday Festival, create a poster celebrating the event, or assemble a holiday collage with images of Guild Wars characters. Whatever you choose to create, in whatever medium, don't miss this chance to share your artistic gifts and spread some seasonal joy!"

I already entered, good luck everyone.

I plan on entering, but I don't get how the grand prize is worth $450. The graphics card is a good 3 years old, you can buy it for $50 on newegg....and the mouse sold for $50 ish as well. The 5 pieces of art is worth $350???

Limited edition signed prints from big name artists can fetch thousands to tens of thousands of dollars. So yeah, I'd say 5 signed prints from game concept artists could very well be worth $350, if not more.

I just saw last years entry by Benjamin Chavigner and I laughed my pants off!

I absolutely LOVE it!

If you think an HD 3650 is 3 years old, you are living in cloud cuckoo land.

they better not have the player design a hat thing again, i had so many ideas i put on forums last year
ill give this one ago this year, why not

Another contest where there no ingame mini pet reward, guess anet has decided the prices should continue to climb in the stratosphere, cares about the economy my ass.

Because Oni are supposed to be cheap, that way people will be happy when they recieve one as a prize? And real prizes are bad??

No hat design? No mini reward? Bah, humbug.
Good luck to those who enter, though.

Well in previous years you would get real prizes + a minipet access code.
It is beyond easy for ANet to create a minipet and alot of people do like the option of winning a minipet.
Last year, 1 Kanaxai, 1 Vizu, 1 I.G. 3 Yeti's and 15 asura's/grawls/destroyer pets were awarded. Those amounts just don't influence the economy.

Eh, got my hopes up for a design-a-hat contest. Not too excited about this one now since I really don't know what to enter, but I guess I'll try to enter. I like the prizes though.

Im not the best at Art and designing, but I might aswell enter, not harm in it. But just what to do....

lol! I want that dervish armor NOW NOW NAO!
I might enter it myself i tend to draw Xmas like pics anyway

wtf Rhode Island cant enter and Canadians have answer math question?

Thanks again Anet for this one.

As always I'm excluded because I happen to live in good ol' Quebec...

Oh well, hope to see some good entries out there...

It has nothing to do with ArenaNet theonetheonlybruce, it's the laws of the state/country/province. Though it would be highly amusing if Anet made up some random qualifications to enter.....

And once again I'm pretty surer they completely forgot to even CHECK if Australian law allows us to enter and totally ignored us....AGAIN!

This is brought up in pretty much every contest online. A.net has to limit things based on state/county law.

Canada has this rule where people can't win things via random lottery as its a form of gambling. All Canadian contests as such have to be a "game of skill." Company's just get around that requirement by having the contests winners answer a "skill based" question, usually a simple math question like "what does 1 + 1 equal." They will then award the prize, irrigardless of whether or not you got the question right, since attempting to answer the question is a "skill based" endeavor. Although, since this particular contest is actually a contest where things are judged (ie, drawing things is definately skill based), it doesn't even really apply, some lawyer is just including the math problem just to be on the safe side.

Needs better prizes. Good luck to those who enter, though, as well as continued thanks to Anet for making an event.