Comicvine's Winter Contest!!!

The Comic Vine winter contest is on. We're giving away one Eric So, limited edition Hellboy figurine (valued at $150 dollars) to the user who can create the single best character or Team page by midnight January 2nd as voted on by the Comic Vine staff.

1. The "best page" is the one the comic vine staff (myself, Red LAMP & G-Man) decide is the best. It will be judged on completeness of all pages for that character or team (meaning, friends, enemies, trivia...etc). It will not be judged on any info at the volume or issue level attached to those characters (though added info at that level won't hurt). Submissions will also be judged on grammer and formatting.

2. To enter in the contest, simply reply to this thread and call out the character or team you'd like to attempt to take on and enter in the contest. You can claim up to 3 pages (which can be a mix of chars and teams, or all teams or all chars). First come, first serve.

3. You can only claim a character or team you either have the highest point total for currently, or a page that currently has less then 30 points attached to its highest contributor. This means that your previous work done before this post will count as long as you meet this rule.

4. While others can still contribute to the pages you've taken on, priority will be given to your submissions and if the staff notices any sabotage, that user will be instantly disqualified from the contest.

5. If any descriptive textual content on your pages is found to be plagerized (marvel, wikipedia) you're instantly disqualified.

6. You must list all 3 of your page choices in your first post. You can not change your choices later or trade with other users.

This is a pretty rare figurine (only 999 were made) and stands a full 10 inches in height! It comes fully boxed and with a certificate of authentication.

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Just a heads up, we're planning on trying to get at least one new contest going every two weeks as soon as the new year begins. The prizes will almost always be figurines and/or comic minis.
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I'll take Cassandra Sandsmark, Spider-Girl, and The Ray.

This is awesome!

Does work already done count?

I'll take Booster Gold, Martian Manhunter, and Blue Beetle.

Edited Rule #3 to make it clear your previous work will count as long as you meet the highest contributer / 30 point rule.

Man, I'm really pumped about this. Awesome idea guys.

Ebony Bishop says:

"G-Man says:

"And let me say again, please please please do not copy off of wiki or marvel.com or somewhere. Make it your own description. Own it...and you could win Hellboy."

Can we use it for reference, and reword it to our own? Just to cover periods we may have missed, in order to make it complete? I'm a whiz at rewording.

A whiz I tell you!

(Geez, Wednesday mornings are good for coffee highs!)"

Use your third grade book report skills.

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Ebony Bishop says:

"Captain Cascader says:

"Ebony Bishop says:

"G-Man says:

"And let me say again, please please please do not copy off of wiki or marvel.com or somewhere. Make it your own description. Own it...and you could win Hellboy."

Can we use it for reference, and reword it to our own? Just to cover periods we may have missed, in order to make it complete? I'm a whiz at rewording.

A whiz I tell you!

(Geez, Wednesday mornings are good for coffee highs!)"

Use your third grade book report skills.

" />http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=plagiarism

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Yeah, there's a really thin line between "research" and "plagiarism". I'm talking about using the mentioned sites as source material, as the only other way to get the information is to remember every major facet from every comic they've been in.

There's only so many ways to say: "Bruce Wayne's parents were killed during a mugging." You're just finding new ways to say that.

But I hadn't planned on getting THAT close to the other sites entries. Just using them to remind myself of some of the more important moments of the character's lives I might have forgotten.

"

That's perfectly acceptable.

I think Parallax might actually have to be combined with Hal Jordan/GL

Agreed. Although, I did volunteer to re-organize all the GL stuff after the contest, if somebody decides they want to do Hal/Parallax/whatever for their entry, then someone needs to unspecify the "Green Lantern" page from Hal, and just make it a concept or something before that happens, as to avoid confusion.

Think I'll I claim Wildsiderz (team)!

Bumping this up as there are still a couple days left! I've seen some pretty wicked pages already.

K, just 10 more minutes left, then I'm gonna close subs for pages in contention till noon tomorrow when we'll announce the winner. It's gonna be really close I think.

Ok, after my current sub gets accepted, then I just have one more to make.

Yes, don't worry about stuff that's our fault.

Drumroll please....

And the winner is... well actually the winners are... ScoodleDaddle for Booster Gold and Buckshot for Mr. Majestic. Both enteries were amazing and it was simply too hard for us to pick between Scoodle and Buckshot's awesome pages. Not only that, both continued to contribute to other parts of the site filling in chunks of the site while the contest was up.

This turned out better then we could have hoped and so we figured it wouldn't be a big deal to just send out two hellboy's instead of one! Scoodle and Buckshot, please PM me with a mailing address and we'll get the prizes out to you as quickly as possible.

Other great pages included valinorbob for Beta Ray Bill and Raif for Wiccan. Valinorbob should get a special note for introducing the image box styles early on that everyone else seems to have adopted.

In any case, congrats to the winners. For everyone else we'll be announcing a new contest by next week so that everyone else gets a shot. If you have any ideas for one, please post below. Thanks for everyone who entered.

Haha, yeah dude. That thing saved me, and is probably going to be instrumental in making pages look better and more cohesive.

Some very nice work there. I didn't even know about that image tag. Hmmmm.... A lot to live up to for those of use just getting started!

Congratulations to the winners. The pages are awesome! I didn't even get round to editing my entry... Too many alcopops over the Christmas period left me inebriated :P