Design-a-Weapon (2007)

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Players love new and special items, and we love including players in the creation of those items! We'd like to invite you to participate in our Guild Wars Design-A-Weapon Contest, where you have an opportunity to submit your vision of a cool new weapon and to possibly see it become a permanent part of Guild Wars.

We are looking for creative and appealing new designs for all sorts of weapons: swords, axes, bows, hammers, spears, rods, wands, scythes, staves, and daggers. Not to be forgotten are the shields and focus items that are also used in combat. You may draw your design inspiration from any of the regions: Tyria, Cantha, or Elona.

To enter the contest, simply send us a drawing, sketch, or printed image of an original new weapon, shield, or focus item and submit it to us for judging. The prize? Up to twenty of the best designs will be placed permanently into the Guild Wars world, and the designers of these weapons will win website recognition and Guild Wars goodies, too!

— Official page

The Design-a-Weapon (2007) contest ran in the Spring of 2007 to design concept art for weapons that would be included in the release of Guild Wars Eye of the North. There were over one thousand entries with a hundred and seven winners, seventeen of which were implemented in-game.

The concept for the Glacial Blade

Prizes

Winners: Each of the eleven winners received their choice of a copy of Guild Wars Nightfall (standard edition) signed by the Guild Wars Development Team or a full set of Guild Wars Skill Pin Set #1 or a PvP Unlock Pack. In addition, each winner will receive a Guild Wars Nightfall t-shirt and a code for a Guild Wars character slot, if character slots are available in their location.

Honorable Mentions: Each of the seventeen honorable mention recipients received A Guild Wars Nightfall t-shirt, a Guild Wars character slot, and two random Guild Wars Skill Pins.

Finalists: Each of the seventy-nine Finalists received two random Skill Pins.

Winners

Weapon designed	Original Artwork Submitter	Country
Celestial Compass	Anthony Lopes	United States of America
Eaglecrest Axe	Caroline Coronel	United States of America
Draconic Scythe Draconic Scythe (unique)	Li Li	China
Frog Scepter	Zane Bryan	United States of America
Glacial Blade	Andre Roux	United States of America
Bone Dragon Staff	Rebecca Sinclair	Canada
Dryad Bow	Marcus Lamprecht	Germany
Storm Daggers	Ben Chaney	United States of America
Archaic Maul	Kura Jorma	Finland
Ceremonial Spear Ceremonial Spear (unique)	Michael Chang	United States of America
Demonic Aegis	Deivis Slavinskas	United Kingdom

Honorable mentions

Weapon designed	Original Artwork and Submitter Name	Country
	Fengzhijun	China
Emerald Blade	Findur Calenardhon	Germany
	Maho Rit	France
	Jesus Garcia Menendez	Spain
	Metra	Japan
	Tony Hoei	United States of America
	Venus Aridia	France
	Apache Queen Raven	United States of America
Draconic Aegis	Jesus Galan Coronado	Spain
	Shannon Novak	New Zealand
	Todd Harry	United States of America
	Camaban Von Myrtana	Germany
	Prizren Brespapaj	Switzerland
Serpentine Reaver	Alexander (Minze) Thümler	Germany
Rose Focus	Lucy Bell1	Australia
	Landon Carroll1	United States of America
	Nymph of Meliai1	United Kingdom

¹These three entries were similar enough to be combined as one design.

Finalists

Submitter	Country	Submitter	Country	Submitter	Country
Aaron Dietrich	United States of America	actionjack	United States of America	André Scollick	Germany
Andrew Everitt	England	Aps	France	Ayashi no Ceress	France
Basonim Scoslett	Germany	Casey Withers	United States of America	Cason	Germany
Christian Chapelle	France	Christian Jahn	Austria	Chuker Sokhara	France
Cyriel Breissen	Netherlands	Dennis Kelley	United States of America	Dracia Anderson	Germany
Edgar Holzem	Germany	Emanuel Schütz	Germany	Esa Melune	Germany
Fire Salamander	Belgium	Flower Power	France	Frédéric Miquel	France
Gao Mingming Yang	United States of America	Gunner Matz	Germany	Hao Cai	China
I Tay Trefenwyd I	Switzerland	Its Harvest Time	United States of America	リール	Japan
Jason Bishop	United States of America	Jennifer Hunt	United States of America	Jesus Garcia Fernandez	Spain
Jianhao Hoo	China	Julien Rousseau	France	Kii Mii	France
Lamees Ghaznawi	United States of America	Lucyma Dudo	Poland	Madat World	United States of America
Magorian the Black	Italy	Marc-Till Wildan	Germany	Marie Angel	France
Mark Allison	Germany	Marko Cvetkovic	Serbia	Martina Heinonen	Sweden
Mauro Mazzerelli	Italy	Nadia Morales Perez	Spain	Nastassja Benesch	Austria
Patrizia Crimi	Italy	Ping Xu	China	Pitch Saralamba	Australia
Rebecca "BeXoR" Irwin	Australia	Rebein Alexander	Germany	Rising Black Sun	Germany
Robin Molde	England	Roland Opatz	Germany	Ross Kasher	United States of America
Sebastien Guichard	France	Sergio Santillana Cabanillas	Spain	Stady One	Germany
Starr The Insane	United States of America	Stephanie Winkler	Germany	Sun Lifeng	China
Suria Lightbringer	Hungary	Susann Vollrath	Netherlands	Thomas Klieber	Germany
Thomas Mason	England	Tzu Guo Tin	France	Velvet Valour	United Kingdom
Vir Gin Jui	Germany	Wang Cheng	China	Willi Vetsch	Switzerland
Wilwariu Aeressea	Spain	Wu Fan	China	Xaek I	Spain
Xander Delano	Canada	Xiaohui Xing	China	Xx Eluch Nekro xX	Germany
Yanbin Liu	China	Yao Yu Zhong	China	Yupeng Ding	China
Zhiwei Fan	China

Special recognition

Weapon designed	Submitter	Country
Darksteel Longbow	Marko Cvetkovic	Serbia
Hourglass Staff	Bora Vergili	Turkey

Related articles

• Design-a-Weapon (2005)

Notes

• Marcus Lamprecht's name was incorrectly stated as "Marcus Camprechf".

External links

• Contest Winners
• Official rules and conditions
• Official details for the Eye of the North Prerelease Bonus Pack

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