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In the future, what kinds of contests would you like to see me put on? And remembering that I have to pay for these, what would you think would be some cool prizes?

Some examples of prizes I've given away:

• Comic series
• Games
• Gift cards
• Swag from the store I have to update or move

I've got some bigger prizes on the horizon like the Wii and maybe some more surprises, but these will be special circumstances.

I'm just running out of ideas. I'll be posting the June contest information today as I won't have time (I fear) this weekend and next Tuesday will be nuts here at work. And I still don't know what the prize will be. Ame has a free copy of HL2 to give out but I don't know how many people don't already own that so it will need to be a special addition to whatever the prize is.

Do we still have Halforums thongs?

Mod privileges for a day! :biggrin:

Porno.

Hylian said:

Mod privileges for a day! :biggrin:

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Oh yeah... WHERE'S MY BANHAMMER DAVE

Feel the power coursing through you? Do you? DO YOU?!?

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I'd like to see contests that don't rely specifically on sports knowledge or writing ability. All we've had for the last several months are sports pools, haiku contests, and twitter contests. I'm not a sports fan nor a writer, really, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

BRANCH OUT A BIT JEEZ

To what?

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And to expound on that...I have no control as to when the sports ones can be as we are beholden to their schedules.

Also true.

I dunno man, art contests? Video? Music? Photoshop? Comic? ...Math?!

I'm just spitballin' here.

Gusto said:

I dunno man, art contests? Video? Music? Photoshop? Comic? ...Math?!

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Art: Been done. Hardly any entries.
Video: Done it. NO entries.
Music: Hmm. Maybe a video of you singing a song? But how many do you think will join?
Photoshop: Look at the contest calendar again, young one.
Comic: That has potential.
Math: That one would be a tricky one. I'd have to make it so hard that only a few would get it. And how would that last more than a day?

See my dilemma? I use what works because finding new stuff that works is fucking HARD!!

Being 2 cool 4 school!

ooooo poker tournament in the gameroom.

Dave;390841][QUOTE=Gusto said:

I dunno man, art contests? Video? Music? Photoshop? Comic? ...Math?!

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Art: Been done. Hardly any entries.
Video: Done it. NO entries.
Music: Hmm. Maybe a video of you singing a song? But how many do you think will join?
Photoshop: Look at the contest calendar again, young one.
Comic: That has potential.
Math: That one would be a tricky one. I'd have to make it so hard that only a few would get it. And how would that last more than a day?

See my dilemma? I use what works because finding new stuff that works is fucking HARD!![/QUOTE]

Yeah I get it, I just don't wanna see us get stuck in a rut.

Oh shit!

I forgot all about that! I hadn't been doing tournaments in the arcade because I found out you can cheat games with a third party program. But a month-long poker tourney? Brilliant!

There was a video contest?

Let's do that again. I MIGHT KNOW SOMETHING TO SUBMIT *evil laugh*

It was one to make an intentionally bad video. i don't remember the topic. Nobody did anything.

HALFORUMS THEMED CREATIVE COOKING CONTEST :O

Wherein contestants transform a forumite, meme, thread, or concept into a culinary creation, judged by creativity, technique, and speculated deliciousness.

Like the dickerdoodles?

We could do that.

Dave said:

Like the dickerdoodles?

We could do that.

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Basically!

I already have a couple ideas and we have several forumites who are prolific chefs.

As for a contest idea

http://www.halforums.com/forum/show...om-Crap-Thread&p=390439&viewfull=1#post390439

August - Acronym Contest! I'll give a bunch of letters. You tell what they stand for. Prize: CIVILIZATION V!!!
September - Old Jokes. No, not jokes which are old. Old jokes about Dave. What classes did he teach or what was his Thesis paper? Prize to be determined.

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Which one would you get rid of? I'm leaning towards removal of the Old Joke Contest. Move the Acronyms to September and have the August contest be cooking. Or maybe ditch them both and have September be Poker Month.

So...no porno?

I say get rid of old jokes. We do it all the time anyway and most of 'em are pretty lame. Hard to base a whole month around, plus I don't want you slitting your wrists.

Shannow said:

So...no porno?

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What could I possibly send you that you can't get on the internet for free?

Besides pictures of your mom.

Shannow said:

So...no porno?

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as a contest or as a prize?

Forumite on forumite action?

I think you should let others help co sponsor prizes. *cough*

As for prizes, I'm sure there's a way you could get signed editions of a certain line of 3PP roleplaying game books...

Xiaofang Nuren said:

I think you should let others help co sponsor prizes. *cough*

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Someone had me give them my address once as they said they had an unopened/unused iPhone they were going to give me to give as a prize. It never showed. But since my address is common knowledge anyway I didn't care.

I'm not above having help with prizes. I have to justify it to the wife if I spend too much. But having monthly prizes of $100 - 200 would be unrealistic.

I like the writing contests, I just haven't found the time to participate. The fact is, no matter what the contest is - writing, singing, sport trivia, video, amateur pornography - only a few people are going to participate in it, and someone's going to gripe about it favoring people with talent.

Null said:

someone's going to gripe about it favoring people with talent

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That's why I run them instead of being in them.

Gusto said:

HALFORUMS THEMED CREATIVE COOKING CONTEST :O

Wherein contestants transform a forumite, meme, thread, or concept into a culinary creation, judged by creativity, technique, and speculated deliciousness.

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Omigod YES!

Check out August on the list.

*GLEE*

You're the best forumdad ever!

I have the best idea.

That video game is MIIIINE.

Presentation? Blast! My food tastes great, but generally looks a bit sloppy.

^Same here. I'll have to work extra hard.

Gusto, you are going down like a drunk chick on prom night, my friend!

/smack talk

Yeah well... OH YEAH?

:humph:

...YEAH!

WE'll chat though, I wanna tell you my idea.

And I'm pretty sure you won't BETRAY ME.

Gusto said:

WE'll chat though, I wanna tell you my idea.

And I'm pretty sure you won't BETRAY ME.

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Never. :tape: I'll be on AIM after work!

Heck yes.

I just told Seej my cooking contest idea and she was so impressed, she all but dropped out of the race.

It's awesome! It's awesome and I love it! I really have to work hard now...

Hmm, most of my cooking focuses on taste and not looks.

Overnight UPS, maybe?

I keep wondering if we could do some sort of cosplay bounty contest. Figure out some awesome characters that haven't been seen in the Good Cosplay threads, and then have a contest to see who can make the best costume of one of them. That's a pretty steep task, though, and I'm not sure we get enough cosplayers (nor am I sure what kind of prize they'd want. I'd be willing to donate some money towards it, though). I've also though about having the bounty just be for a photo, but that doesn't seem quite right, either.

A cooking contest, you say?

Sure, I'll give it a go.

Now I have this picture in my head of an "Iron Chef" parody where Gusto, Cajun, and Ranger rise out from the ground while epic music plays and Dave is standing there in eccentric clothing waiting to reveal today's secret ingrediant.

Cheesy1 said:

Now I have this picture in my head of an "Iron Chef" parody where Gusto, Cajun, and Ranger rise out from the ground while epic music plays and Dave is standing there in eccentric clothing waiting to reveal today's secret ingrediant.

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Someone draw this now!!!

A la CUISINE!

And you can commission mangler to draw that for $10.

Allez, Allez!

Cajungal said:

Allez, Allez!

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D'oh, French fail.

Go, go!

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Used respectfully, of course.

Cajungal;391127][QUOTE=Cheesy1 said:

Now I have this picture in my head of an "Iron Chef" parody where Gusto, Cajun, and Ranger rise out from the ground while epic music plays and Dave is standing there in eccentric clothing waiting to reveal today's secret ingrediant.

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Someone draw this now!!![/QUOTE]

I wasn't able to draw a picture of the Chefs, but I did find a photo of our illustrious Chairman:

I've been thinking about the Truth and Dare thread.

How about you have Dare contest? You just collect a bunch of wacky dares and randomly assign them to people who want to participate in the contest.

Who ever completes their dare in the best, most fantastic way possible by the end of the month gets the prize.