Year 29 recap LIMERICK contest - biggggg prizes (maybe)!
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:43 am
I've just finished my first full season on the SIM...so it's time to celebrate with a break contest! Introducing - The year 29 SIM limerick contest!
First prize: 5,000 GPs, and of course the envy of all your fellow simsters
Second prize: 3,000 GPs
UPDATE!!!!! Lots more Game point prizes thanks to Jeb! So, some honorable mention special categories coming up!!!
plus honorable mention and booby prizes as I think of them or people donate them. I'm thinking, best tearjerker (even if it's like pulling out a nose hair), worst use of rhyme, best limerick in the 'All About Em' category, etc. Ideas for honorable mention categories and prizes welcome too. I don't have much in sim of value, but I will throw in custom articles for Year 30 to plug yourself, you stallion, mare or an upcoming auction, and anything else I can think of. As offers roll in I will post new prizes and categories here.
Here are the rules:
Write a limerick (keep it cleanish) commemorating something or someone from Year 29 - It could be a horse, a race, a person, a mistake you made, even a forum thread. Be serious, emotional, funny, whatever you like.
Post your entry or entries here. I don't care how many times you enter. This is done is the spirit of encouraging the literary genius hiding in the Sim.
On April 30, at 12 noon Pacific time, entries will close and a 24 hour voting window will open. Votes by PM to me please in any and all categories. Winner will be announced at 6pm pacific May 1st, just when everyone is playing around with the new features and getting ready for races to open.
Winning will be by popular vote, but I don't want to know of any bribes, extortion, or other unethical vote garnishing practices *fingers in ears* LaLala.
Okay, go to it. If you want to nominate a HM category and/or a prize, please PM me and I will update the post with your offers. Fell free to 'sponsor' a category and shamelessly name it after your barn, your stallion, even your cat if you want.
Let the rhyming begin!!!!
edited already because I'm a numpty. Dates corrected. edited again with more GP prizes!!!
PRIZES!!!!
1st prize: 5,000 GP
2nd prize: 3,000 GP
3rd prize: 2,000 GP
Honorable mentions:
Bet 'All About Em' limerick about the Steward: 2,000 GP
Best limerick from a newbie about being a newbie: a 2 year old sprinter from my barn. You pick dirt or grass, filly or colt, and I'll pick something for you. I don't have much but they aren't bad.
Best limerick about mixed breed racing: a mixed breed CAH of your choosing
Most tragic use of rhyme: custom article by me, you choose the topic (a bio of you, your stallion, favorite sim horse, a race preview or report, and I'll research it for you, and I'll write it in rhyme too if you want).
Random prize: custom poem for mother's day that you can give to your mommy.
get your entries in...and remember, winners are by popular vote, so watch this weekend for voting to open!
First prize: 5,000 GPs, and of course the envy of all your fellow simsters
Second prize: 3,000 GPs
UPDATE!!!!! Lots more Game point prizes thanks to Jeb! So, some honorable mention special categories coming up!!!
plus honorable mention and booby prizes as I think of them or people donate them. I'm thinking, best tearjerker (even if it's like pulling out a nose hair), worst use of rhyme, best limerick in the 'All About Em' category, etc. Ideas for honorable mention categories and prizes welcome too. I don't have much in sim of value, but I will throw in custom articles for Year 30 to plug yourself, you stallion, mare or an upcoming auction, and anything else I can think of. As offers roll in I will post new prizes and categories here.
Here are the rules:
Write a limerick (keep it cleanish) commemorating something or someone from Year 29 - It could be a horse, a race, a person, a mistake you made, even a forum thread. Be serious, emotional, funny, whatever you like.
Post your entry or entries here. I don't care how many times you enter. This is done is the spirit of encouraging the literary genius hiding in the Sim.
On April 30, at 12 noon Pacific time, entries will close and a 24 hour voting window will open. Votes by PM to me please in any and all categories. Winner will be announced at 6pm pacific May 1st, just when everyone is playing around with the new features and getting ready for races to open.
Winning will be by popular vote, but I don't want to know of any bribes, extortion, or other unethical vote garnishing practices *fingers in ears* LaLala.
Okay, go to it. If you want to nominate a HM category and/or a prize, please PM me and I will update the post with your offers. Fell free to 'sponsor' a category and shamelessly name it after your barn, your stallion, even your cat if you want.
Let the rhyming begin!!!!
edited already because I'm a numpty. Dates corrected. edited again with more GP prizes!!!
PRIZES!!!!
1st prize: 5,000 GP
2nd prize: 3,000 GP
3rd prize: 2,000 GP
Honorable mentions:
Bet 'All About Em' limerick about the Steward: 2,000 GP
Best limerick from a newbie about being a newbie: a 2 year old sprinter from my barn. You pick dirt or grass, filly or colt, and I'll pick something for you. I don't have much but they aren't bad.
Best limerick about mixed breed racing: a mixed breed CAH of your choosing
Most tragic use of rhyme: custom article by me, you choose the topic (a bio of you, your stallion, favorite sim horse, a race preview or report, and I'll research it for you, and I'll write it in rhyme too if you want).
Random prize: custom poem for mother's day that you can give to your mommy.
get your entries in...and remember, winners are by popular vote, so watch this weekend for voting to open!