Join the StarcraftWire Challenge!

The short of it is: make a small contribution to the community, and win prizes,
or just make one forum post, and win prizes.



We are challenging the StarCraft community as a whole to take a few minutes out of their daily SC-news surfing and do some sort of minor boon to the rest of us fans. The point isn't to ask people to break their backs, but to get LOTS of people to do a little bit each. If you have done something, or start doing it now, chances are pretty big you'll get some sort of goodie! Or you can just say that you don't want to go against the Grain to enter a lottery for more goodies!




Challenge #8: StarCraft Posters
- Until 30th of June 2009
It's very simple: Just go to this thread, and announce that you are a Challenger or part of the Grain. Winning prizes ensues!

Yes, the contest itself really is that simple. The things is of course that Challengers have a bigger chance of winning, as they get extra lottery tickets for contributions, but ff you can't be bothered to read any more, you can just go to the contest thread immediately and say "I'm a Grain" and hopefully end up with a prize of some sort in your letter box a few weeks later!



The Prize
The four prizes for this Challenge are StarCraft Comic Posters (sneak peak). All four winners will each receive a freshly printed poster!

1st Prize: StarCraft Comic Poster
2nd Prize: StarCraft Comic Poster
3rd Prize: StarCraft Comic Poster
4th Prize: StarCraft Comic Poster

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General Challenge Rules

The StarcraftWire Challenge uses a "Lottery Ticket" system to determine winners. Both Grains and Challengers have a chance of getting the Grand Prize, and other prizes, but Challengers generally has a greater chance of winning than Grains. It works like this:

• A Grain gets one Ticket, and a Challenger gets two.
• All entries are put in a list and entries with double tickets are added once for each ticket. The entries are numbered.
• We consult Randomizer, who gives us a list of numbers, who are declared winners.

Please note: If you have won in a previous contest, you are still free to enter new ones. Should you win, you can give the prize to a deserving friend.


In some cases a extra rules might apply:

• Funny Game - In some cases, we apply a "Funny Game" to the contest, to liven the mood up. Good entries will give up to one extra ticket.
• High Profile Prize - If we give away a "High Profile" prize, like a Beta Key or a BlizzCon ticket, we allow Challengers to enter up to three contributions, giving them 4 possible extra tickets.
• Challenger Extra - If it's a low profile prize, We'll sometimes make a separate drawing before the main one, with only challengers.

We first randomly draw 1 lottery ticket from a pool of Challenger and Grain tickets for the BlizzCon 2009 entry, and then 2 more for the posters. If you entered as a Challenger, you will have a greater chance of winning either the BlizzCon ticket as well as a poster. You can only win once per Challenge and we assume you rather would have a higher prize than a lower one.




So, What's a Challenger Then?
Well, since you read this far, you might already be one! A Challenger just goes "against the Grain", and helps his fellow brothers and sisters in the community. If you've contributed in the past months, or started just now, your contributions will make you one of the Challengers! This "Challenge" does not require the contribution to be made in the past or recent, anything goes.

Here are just a few examples of what it could be, but it's not limited to these:

• Making an update on the community StarCraft Wiki.*
• Uploading a few Official shot to the gallery of StarcraftWire*.
• Uploading a fan-art image to the gallery of StarcraftWire you made yourself (or a few of someone else).
• News tipped us on important news updates.*
• Posting a News Item on StarcraftWire.
• Writing an Article on StarcraftWire (preview, guide, column, etc).
• Writing a blog post in the Starcraft W!RE program.
• Actively moderating a forum for a month.*

*Wiki updates can be anything fro ma lore entry, or updating stats on a few unit/building pages. If you use some other wiki besides Wikipedia as source, you still need to re-write the entry in your own words! If you upload a shot, you need to be the first to upload it - no duplicates. News tips must have been credited. We're not looking to add moderators at the moment.

This is all about the community and just a list of examples. If you have any other suggested contribution, just make the statement "I'm a Challenger" and link it, for Leord and the StarcraftWire staff to decide.




How do I prove I'm a Challenger?
When claiming your Challenger rights, just add a link to the source of your contribution! Simple as that.




Terms & Conditions

• You must be of a legal age to enter contests in your country of residence, or have obtain a permission from your parents to enter.
• Duration time for the contest is described for each contest. If nothing else is mentioned, it's from 00:01 GMT the start date to 23:59 GMT on the end date. Daylight saving applies.
• Prizes are what are described for each contest. It varies from Challenge to Challenge. If tax payment is required for a prize, the contestant will pay for these.
• Judging will be done by staff of StarcraftWire, and any appeal is only accepted on their agreement.
• We reserve the right to change a "Challenger" entry into a "Grain".
• Prizes will be delivered by post or other delivery service if it's a physical item, or PM/e-mail if it's a prize able to be transferred electronically.
• If you submit any entries, either as a Challenger, or in a Grain post, you vouch for that you are the original author, and that we can use this submission on our web pages.
• If you won as a Challenger, you can't link that same contribution a second time. However, if you have not won, you're free to link the same contribution again in a future contest.
• Each contribution used as a Challenger is valid for 1 month after submission, unless permission from judges is given.

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Previous Challenges



Challenge #7
Post as Challenger or Grain to win up to two BlizzCon 2009 tickets or StarCraft Comic posters. Challengers have greater chance to win. Grains get one Lottery Ticket and Challengers get two per contribution (up to three). Compulsory Famous Last Words entry. Good Last Words entries can give one extra lottery ticket.

- News Item.
- Forum thread.
- Period: 25th May - 4th June
- Winners:

1st Prize of a BlizzCon Ticket: MysticDragon

2nd Prize of a BlizzCon Ticket: The Raven King

3rd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: 1ThorsHammer

4th Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: axman5055

5th Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: SC2betaisalwayonestepaway

Challenge #6
Post as Challenger or Grain to win a BlizzCon 2009 ticket or StarCraft Comic posters. Challengers have greater chance to win. Grains get one Lottery Ticket and Challengers get two per contribution (up to three). Compulsory Description Game entry. Good Description entries can give one extra lottery ticket.

- News Item.
- Forum thread.
- Period: 19th May - 25th May
- Winners:

1st Prize of a BlizzCon 2009 ticket: Bruce BeefcakeII

2nd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: Epic_Sheep

3rd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: Wr3k

Challenge #5
Post as Challenger or Grain to win StarCraft Comic posters. Challengers can win a signed poster, and have greater chance to win a normal. Grains win normal posters.

- News Item.
- Forum thread.
- Period: 15th Apr - 28th Apr
- Winners:

1st Prize of a Signed StarCraft Comic Poster: bufferzz

2nd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: axman5055

3rd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: Zelkin

4th Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: CanadianEh

Challenge #4
Post as Challenger or Grain to win StarCraft a BlizzCon StarCraft II Beta Key. Challengers get one extra lottery ticket, and can make 3 entries, Grains just one. 2nd-7th prize: posters. Compulsory Pants Game entry. Super-good Pants entry can give extra lottery ticket.

- News Item.
- Forum thread.
- Period: 3rd Apr - 13th Apr
- Winners:

1st Prize of a BlizzCon StarCraft II Beta Key: Orphan

2nd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: VayneRumar

3rd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: CHUNK

4th Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: electricmole

5th Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: TychusFindlay

6th Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: King Ju Ju

7th Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: Sardoth

Challenge #3
Post as Challenger or Grain to win StarCraft Comic posters. Challengers can win a signed poster, and have greater chance to win a normal. Grains win normal posters.

- News Item.
- Forum thread.
- Period: 24th Mar - 1st Apr
- Winners:

1st Prize of a Signed StarCraft Comic Poster: Deep.Thought

2nd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: Arziak

3rd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: Lamarch

4th Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: c0de

Challenge #2
Post as Challenger or Grain to win StarCraft Comic posters. Challengers can win a signed poster, and have greater chance to win a normal. Grains win normal posters.

- News Item.
- Forum thread.
- Period: 9th Mar - 19th Mar
- Winners:

1st Prize of a Signed StarCraft Comic Poster: player_72985

2nd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: Arkham

3rd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: Gantrithor

4th Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: KalleKrakyl

Challenge #1
Post as Challenger or Grain to win StarCraft Comic posters. Challengers can win a signed poster, and have greater chance to win a normal. Grains win normal posters.

- News Item.
- Forum thread.
- Period: 25th Feb - 5th Mar
- Winners:

1st Prize of a Signed StarCraft Comic Poster: MysticDragon

2nd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: Equiliari

3rd Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: SurDrake

4th Prize of a StarCraft Comic Poster: Shayagor

Signed StarCraft Comic Poster Giveaway
Post "I WANT A STARCRAFT POSTER" in a forum thread to win StarCraft Comic posters.

- News Item.
- Forum thread.
- Period: 10th Feb - 23rd Feb
- Winners:

1st Prize of a Signed StarCraft Comic Poster: Gast

2nd Prize of a Signed StarCraft Comic Poster: ChaoticOne

3rd Prize of a Signed StarCraft Comic Poster: Kuangtu

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