Wintersday Art Contest (2007)

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What says holiday like a new hat? Wintersday may feature the Snowball Arena, special item drops, new NPCs, a peppy holiday score, and a dozen other seasonal elements, but at the end of the day, the party lasts for but a few days, and the hat is forever.

We're thrilled to let you know that this year, the Guild Wars Art Team is going to use a fan-created concept as a basis for their design of the Grenth Wintersday helm. This means that when the yearly Wintersday battles take place between Dwayna and Grenth, the hat that Grenth gifts to players may be based on your design!

To enter the contest, simply send us a drawing, sketch, or printed image of an original new hat design that has both a Grenth and a Wintersday theme. Consider the hats of yesteryear: the Great Horns of Grenth, the Jester's Cap, and the first Wintersday helm—the classic Horns of Grenth—for inspiration. Then, come up with your own unique design and send it in! The prize? A wonderful gift package from our partners at Ideazon, makers of the new Guild Wars ZBoard. In addition, five other contestants will receive Ideazon prizes, and fifteen others will receive an in-game miniature!

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Prizes

Prizes: Six (6) contestants will have their creation presented on the Guild Wars website and will receive one of the prizes below. (The total estimated retail value of all prizes will not exceed $700.) The prizes are as follows:

• Grand Prize Winner (1 awarded): One Antec Nine Hundred - Ultimate Gamer Case; one Zboard Gaming Keyboard by Ideazon; Ideazon Guild Wars Keyset; one Ideazon FragMat Mouse Pad; one Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse; one Ideazon GH-100 Gaming Headset; Access code for a Miniature Kanaxai (Approximate total retail value of package: $295.00 US.)

• 2nd Place (1 awarded): One Zboard Gaming Keyboard by Ideazon; Ideazon Guild Wars Keyset; one Ideazon FragMat Mouse Pad; one Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse; one Ideazon GH-100 Gaming Headset; Access code for a Miniature Vizu (Approximate total retail value of package: $145.00 US.)

• 3rd Place (1 awarded): one Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse; Access code for a Miniature Island Guardian. (Approximate total retail value of package: $85 US.)

• 4th-6th Place (3 awarded): Four random Guild Wars Series 1 Skills Pins; plus an access key (randomly selected) to acquire one of the following in-game miniatures: Miniature Longhair Yeti. (Approximate total retail value of each package: $40 US.)

• Finalists (15 awarded): Players choice of a Miniature Destroyer, Miniature Asura, or Miniature Grawl. (No retail value.)

Prize winners

Placing	Original Artwork Submitter
Grand Prize	Nian
Second Place	The Gnome Goddess
Third Place	Mamath
Fourth Place (Honorable Mention)	Mike Nash
Fifth Place (Honorable Mention)	Vulron
Sixth Place (Honorable Mention)	Si Morris

Finalists
Anthony De Greef	Buddy Cunningham	Diana Birsan
Fox Tide	Javic Dune	Julia Peters
Kho Eraph	Kieran Bramm	Lisa Lemke
Mikko Piirto	Morgana Le Fae	Noom
Seer Skogul	Shinobi Saosin	Xydria Nostratus

External links

• Contest Winners
• Official rules and conditions

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