Anuxinamoon has won AionSource.com's Grand Contest's Members' Choice Award for freakin' excellent artistry. His submission was a dual-screen wallpaper based off of Aion concept art. Check out his submission, and the other contestants' too, in
this thread. The results of the poll are also there. Anuxinamoon won with a grand total of 50 votes.
So Aux,
what game do you want? Keep in mind that the
Tabula Rasa CEs are probably going to become worth something in the future, heheh, what with the game
shutting down forever in Feburary and all.
As for the rest of
you winners, I've finally chosen the Fanvideo finalist. Now I will choose the grand prize and first prize winners out of all of you, like I originally stated in the thread
announcing the contest. You can also review the prizes there.
Choosing the
Fanvideo winner was the most difficult task for me. There were a lot of good entries that, when taken together, formed a well-rounded approach and view of Aion and it's differnt types of fans.
Omgwhathappened's entry, for instance, was a comparison between WoW and Aion, used the Jeopardy theme, and also used some pretty heavy metal to get its point across: that Aion is awesome (metal) compared to the aging WoW (Jeopardy) and some of its fans are kinda edgy (what, no wai). Unfortunately, these same properties make it a video I can't choose as the winner. This may sound like betrayal coming from me, but is WoW really as boring as Jeopardy? Is Aion entirely populated by metalheads? Probably not. I'm not saying Omg's entry was horrible, I'm just saying it's a bit too niche and may only appeal to a few people.
Also, every time I saw a watermark or logo from another website I mentally did a flip. I understand that some video is just too awesome to leave out, even if it has a watermark, but it kinda defeats the purpose of the contest: to advertise Aion and AionSource.com. Lots of entries had these leftover watermarks, but the few that didn't made a better impression on me.
Like I was saying, choosing the Fanvideo finalist was one of the hardest decisions I've had to make (I sure as hell took me a lot longer than choosing the other finalists), but in the end I didn't settle for the
fan-favorite video by knite16 (a ton of effort and love went into that one, but it was a bit too long and more fit to be a trailer than an ad) or even
Saken's HQ entry (which I liked very much, but it used a little bit too much hyperbole to be believable to the Aion-uninitiated). No, I chose an entry that actually focused both a bit on the game and a bit on AionSource.com:
Gadorian's entry (LQ Youtube version available in the Members' Choice Award thread) is the
Fanvideo contest winner (finalist)! It helped that his entry was only 30 seconds long and was extremely polished, among other things. Congratulations, Gad!
Thanks to everyone who spent their valuable time to make something for this contest. I watched all your entries at least three times and I could tell you all like Aion very much. I wish I could give out more prizes, but I simply cannot without bankrupting my stash for future contests. And, yes, there will be more contests in the near future.
Now the circle is complete and I can start thinking about who the grand and first prize winners are. Phew. The practice of giving stuff away is a genuine art, my friends.