Vanguard Avatar
Contest
Win a Vanguard
Pre-Order!
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Sony Online
Entertainment and
Sigil Games Online will release the pre-order package for their
upcoming MMOG, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, in mid-December. The retail
pre-order package includes such goodies as a beta invitation and early
access to Vanguard. Get the complete scoop
href="http://vanguard.tentonhammer.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=929">right
here.
And now you could win your pre-order ($49.99 retail value) just by
putting your image manipulation skills to work. You don't even have to
be an artistic genius. All we're asking is that you design a few 80 X
80 pixel avatars to create an avatar gallery for our new
vBulletin-powered
href="http://forums.tentonhammer.com/forumdisplay.php?f=38">forums.
Don't have the time or patience to create a whole avatar gallery? No
problem! You can enter our mini-contest and participate in the
People's Choice avatar award, in which you'll win a forum
title
of your choice. Here are the official guidelines.
Pre-Order Contest
|
href="#FORUM_MINI_CONTEST_-_PEOPLES_CHOICE">Forum Mini
Contest |
href="#IMAGE_RESOURCES">Image Resources
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style="font-weight: bold;"> style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">PRE-ORDER CONTEST GUIDELINES
- The entrant must design a complete avatar gallery featuring
art images from Vanguard. The
gallery must contain a total of twelve (12) avatars which meet the
following criteria:
- All avatars must be 80 X 80 pixels
- Animations are acceptable, but the image must not
exceed 19.5kb file size. - Avatars may contain any images from Vanguard
screenshots or
official concept art. You may also use images from the Vanguard fansite
kit. You may also use your own original artwork. - Avatars may not contain copyrighted art.
- If you use images of the races of Vanguard, try to use
a balance of male and female images.
- Save your avatars as .gif or .jpeg images.
- Attach your entries to one email (if possible). (See "HOW
TO ENTER" below.)
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">OFFICIAL id="st" name="st">CONTEST class="st" id="st" name="st">RULES
1. HOW TO ENTER THE id="st" name="st">CONTEST:
Entries to the Vanguard
Ten Ton Hammer Avatar Art Contest
id="st" name="st">may be submitted
between November 1 and November 30, 2006. To submit your entry:
(a) Email file
attachments to Shayalyn
before midnight Eastern standard time on November 30, 2006. Please
place AVATAR CONTEST ENTRY in the subject header of your email. Attach
all entries to one email. (A second email may be used if necessary.
Please place "Email 1 of 2," "2 of 2," etc. in the subject header of
your email for multiple pages.)
(b)
Include the following information in the body of your email message:
Full Name; age; primary email address; alternate email address (if
any).
Entries will be deemed to be made by the authorized account
holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of the entry. Master
Games International, Inc. is not responsible for entries not received
due to difficulty accessing the Internet, service outages or delays,
computer difficulties or any reason whatever, whether within or beyond
the control of Master Games International, Inc. or its agents or
employees.
Entrants may submit multiple entries by repeating the
above-described process. Due to the volume of entries, Master Games
International, Inc. may not acknowledge receipt of entries, and
entrants should not expect such acknowledgment.
2. ELIGIBILITY:
(a) The
class="st" id="st" name="st">contest
is open only to residents of the United States or Canada. The
class="st" id="st" name="st">contest
is open only to adults 18 years of age or older.
(b) Master
Games International, Inc. employees, its affiliated advertising/public
relations agencies, participating sponsors/promotional partners, and
the members of their immediate families are ineligible to enter or win.
3. SELECTING THE WINNER:
Between December 2 and December 8, 2006, a panel of judges,
appointed by Master Games International, Inc. in its sole discretion,
will select ONE winner. Entries will be judged on quality, style and
originality. Decisions of Master Games International, Inc.
with respect to the contest
are final and not subject to appeal. The winner will be contacted
by e-mail by a Master Games International, Inc. representative
on or around December 8, 2006. If the first winner cannot be located
within 1 week, a substitute winner will be selected by repeating the
original selection process. The name of the winners will be posted at
Vanguard Ten Ton Hammer during the week of December 10, 2006.
4. PRIZE:
The 1st place winner will receive a pre-order of Vanguard:
Saga of Heroes ($49.99 retail value).
5. CONDITIONS:
(a) No
purchase necessary.
(b) The
class="st" id="st" name="st">contest
is void where prohibited or where restricted by U.S., international,
federal, state or local law.
(c) Entrants
are required to provide truthful information. Master Games
International, Inc. will reject and delete any entry (on-site,
Internet, or mail-in) that it discovers to be false or fraudulent or to
contain any incorrect statement.
(d)
class="st" id="st" name="st">Contest
entries become property of Master Games International, Inc. and will
not be returned.
(e) Entrants
declare that the entry is submitted by them and not by a third person
on their behalf.
(f) Master
Games International, Inc. will be permitted to use the entry without
further notice or approval of the
name="st">contest winner.
(g) No
royalties are payable to the
name="st">contest winner for Master Games
International, Inc.'s use of the entry(if any) and no further
consideration will be provided to the
id="st" name="st">contest winner (other
than prizes).
(h) Entrants
in the contest,
the winner and their guests agree to have their names, voices, or
likeness used in any advertising or broadcasting material relating to
this contest,
without additional financial or other compensation, and will sign a
publicity release to that effect.
name="st">Contest winner may be required to
sign a liability/publicity release prior to acceptance of the prize.
Pursuant to the liability/publicity release, the winner will agree to
hold Master Games International, Inc., its affiliated companies and
officers, shareholders, directors, employees, agents and
representatives of each of them harmless against any and all claims or
liability arising directly or indirectly from the prize or
participation in the
name="st">contest.
(i) Master
Games International, Inc. is not responsible for technical, hardware,
software or telephone failures of any kind, loss or delay of mail, lost
or unavailable network connections, fraud or incomplete, garbled or
delayed computer transmissions, whether caused by the sponsors, users
or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized
in the promotion or by any technical or human error which may occur in
the processing of submission which may damage a user's system or limit
an entrant's ability to participate in the
id="st" name="st">contest. Master Games
International, Inc. reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to
disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry
process or with the operation of the
name="st">contest.
(j) Any and
all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected
with this contest,
or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to
any form of class action, and exclusively by arbitration. Any and all
claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket
costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this
class="st" id="st" name="st">contest,
but in no event attorney's fees.
(k) Master
Games International, Inc. reserves the right, in its sole discretion,
but shall in no event be obligated, to cancel, terminate or suspend
part or all of this contest
should viruses, bugs, non-authorized human intervention, loss by any
cause of mailed-in entry forms or other causes corrupt or impair the
administration, security, fairness or proper play of the
class="st" id="st" name="st">contest
or for any other reason.
(l) Master
Games International, Inc. reserves the right to make changes to the
class="st" id="st" name="st">rules
of the contest,
including the substitution of a prize or prizes of equal or greater
value, which will become effective upon announcement and Master Games
International, Inc. shall incur no liability with respect to such
changes.
(m) Failure to
comply with the contest
rules
may result in an entrant's disqualification at the sole discretion of
Master Games International, Inc.
(n)
The Vanguard
Ten Ton Hammer Avatar Art Contest
id="st" name="st">shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, U.S.A.
Entrants in the contest,
the winners and their guests agree irrevocably to conform to the
non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of such State and hereby waive
all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens.
6. COPY OF OFFICIAL id="st" name="st">CONTEST class="st" id="st" name="st">RULES:
Copies of the official
name="st">contest
id="st" name="st">rules are available
upon request by email to
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]
or by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:
TenTonHammer.Com
866 River Trail
Pipe Creek, Texas
USA 78063
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style="font-weight: bold;">
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">FORUM MINI CONTEST -
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AVATAR
- The entrant may design one avatar for entry in the mini
contest.
Only one entry per person, please. Entries must meet the following
criteria:
- All avatars must be 80 X 80 pixels
- Animations are acceptable, but the image must not
exceed 19.5kb file size. - Avatars may contain any
images from Vanguard screenshots or official concept art. You may also
use images from the Vanguard fansite kit. You may also use your own
original artwork. - Avatars may not contain copyrighted art.
- Save your avatar as a .gif or .jpeg image.
- Host your entry somewhere on the Internet. Both
href="http://www.imageshack.us">ImageShack and
href="http://photobucket.com">PhotoBucket offer
free image hosting. Copy the URL of your image so that you can post it
in our forum. - Post your image on
href="http://forums.tentonhammer.com/showthread.php?t=435">THIS
THREAD in our Vanguard forum. - You must be 13 or older to enter.
- Entries must be posted by midnight Eastern standard time on
November 30, 2006.
Judging
- Entries will be posted by Vanguard Ten Ton Hammer staff on
a special voting thread on the official forum. - Judging will take place by popular vote (forum poll)
between December 1 and December 7, 2006. - Winner(s) will be announced December 8, 2006.
- Winner(s) of the popular vote will receive a custom forum
title of their choice.
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style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;">IMAGE
RESOURCES
-
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
href="http://forums.tentonhammer.com/showthread.php?t=373">Race
pictures -
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
href="http://vanguard.tentonhammer.com/modules.php?set_albumName=album04&op=modload&name=Gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php">Vanguard
Ten Ton Hammer screenshot gallery -
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
href="http://vanguard.tentonhammer.com/modules.php?set_albumName=vtth-screenshots&op=modload&name=Gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php">Vanguard
Ten Ton Hammer exclusive screenshots -
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href="http://vanguardsoh.com/screenshots.php">Official
Vanguard art -
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
href="http://vanguardsoh.com/Vanguard_Fan_Site_Kit.zip">Official
fansite kit
To read the latest guides, news, and features you can visit our Vanguard: Saga of Heroes Game Page.
