Fun and Games: Odds & Ends: Contests

Winners Announced
Results have been tabulated in the Banner Challenge. Congratulations to those who placed, and congratulations to everyone that submitted their work, they were all wonderful and I'm sure it was very difficult for everyone to pick one to vote for.






Voting Open
Voting is now closed in the Banner Challenge. Voting will remain open until September 15. Vote for your favorite banner today. Many thanks to gotchemistry.com for hosting this for us.

Banner Challenge
Make a banner for the website. The only qualifications is that it has to be 550x163 (if it's not that size it throws off the links around the banner) and it has to say on it somewhere, www.graveshiftcsi.com Other than that, the sky is the limit. Please send your banner to: contest@graveshiftcsi.com" There is no limit to the number of banners you can make.

All submissions should be in by August 4 with voting to begin soon after. And if I can figure out how, the banner with the highest vote will be placed on the livejournal page (provided logistics) Also all banners have the possibility of being put into the banner rotation for the website.
Delayed Results
The server was down back in December when the Christmas Fic Contest actually ended so I couldn't load the favorites, and then I completely forgot. Below is the list of the 3 favorite Christmas fic. Many thanks to all who voted and submitted entries:

1st place: The Wall by Tracy
2nd place: Kissing Under The Mistletoe by Dana
3rd place: Santa Baby by Anne
Voting Open
Voting is open in the Christmas Fic Awards. Voting will remain open until December 23, so grab a hot chocolate and sit back and read some wonderful stories. The winners will be announced Christmas Eve.
Congratulations
The Christmas Icon contest has now ended. Many thanks to everyone that has participated. To view all the icons and find out who the designers were, go over to the photo album and look on the icons pages. LiveJournal Icons:

by Angela

AIM Icons: (Jaclyn had the only submission)

by Jaclyn

Voting Open

Voting is now open in our second icon contest! Please go to Voting page to vote for your favorite G/C Christmas icon. Thanks to everyone that participated.

Nominations open
Nominations are now open for the first ever GraveshiftCSI Christmas fic contest.
  • All stories nominated must me located on either www.graveshiftcsi.com, or sent to the graveshiftcsi mailing list.
  • Any rating is accepted.
  • Nominations will be accepted until Midnight, Eastern on December 14 and voting will start shortly after that.
  • All stories must be Christmas fics, or those relating to the December holidays. Any fics that dont fit into that category will not be listed on the voting form.
  • Please restrain from nominating yourself. Contests such as this are supposed to be fun, and it's never fun when people feel the need to cheat.
  • If you need help looking for Christmas fics, there have been a lot posted in the December challenges in the last few years. Visit the fishboard to see the current challenge and the closed challenges to see a list of fics posted in the past.


  • Icon Contest #2
    The Christmas Contest

    After a fairly successful first contest (thanks to everyone that participated), I'm going to try another icon contest. For this contest, the icon must be Christmas/holiday themed. It must have either Gil/Cath, Gil, or Cath in it.

    Livejournal icons need to be no more than 100x100 and under 40K. AIM icons need to be no more than 50x50 and under 7k. Any type of icon is fine; animation, blends... It is your responsibility to make sure the icon works properly before submitting.

    You can submit two icons in each category (AIM and LiveJournal). Please send submissions too: icons@graveshiftcsi.com And I know it's tempting, but please don't post icons anywhere else until after the contest has ended, this is a blind vote contest. Meaning no names will be on the icons in the voting stage, people will simply vote for their favorite icon. Once the contest has ended and the winners have been announced, then all icons, with names will be posted to the photo album at photos.graveshiftcsi.com

    Submissions must be in by November 30 at midnight, Eastern. Voting will start shortly after that and will end on December 10. Winners will be announced on December 11. (This way people can actually use the icons during the season.) :-)

    Congratulations
    Our first icon contest has ended. Many thanks to everyone that has participated. There were many wonderful icons submitted. Below are the icons that received the most votes:

    LiveJournal Icons, there was a three way tie:
       
    by Angela                   by Jaclyn                   by Angela

    AIM Icons:

    by Nhmystix

    Voting Open

    Voting is now open in our first icon contest! Thanks to everyone that participated.

    Icon Contest #1

    After much deliberation and discussion as to how to actually complete this, graveshiftcsi.com is announcing our first Icon contest. There are two categories in the contest, one is for LiveJournal Icons and the other for AIM icons.

    The icon must come from the episode "Cross Jurisdictions". If you need images from this episode you can borrow them from www.graveshiftcsi.com in the episode ratings section under 'Fun and Games' but the contest is not limited to those pictures, you can use caps from other sources if desired.

    Livejournal icons need to be 100x100 and under 40K. AIM icons need to be 50x50 and under 7k. Any type of icon is fine; animation, blends... It is your responsibility to make sure the icon works properly before submitting.

    You can submit two icons in each category (AIM and LiveJournal). Please send submissions too: icons@graveshiftcsi.com And I know it's tempting, but please don't post icons anywhere else until after the contest has ended, this is a blind vote contest. Meaning no names will be on the icons in the voting stage, people will simply vote for their favorite icon. Once the contest has ended and the winners have been announce, then all icons, with names will be posted to the photo album at photos.graveshiftcsi.com

    Submissions must be in by October 14 at midnight, Eastern. Voting will start shortly after that and will end on October 23. Winners will be announced on October 24.

    Have fun, and good luck!

    And if this seems to be something people like, I'll try and turn this into a monthly/bimonthly event.