Tyrannis Planetary Interaction Winners Announcement

Like any good miner looking out for some exotic and pricey minerals in his Covetor, I recently had the difficult tasks of reading through no less than 31 entries to the Tyrannis Planetary Interaction Contest. As always, the EVE Blogging Community did not disappoint. The entries were varied in their content, their approach, their opinion. Some were descriptive, some speculative, some bloggers approached the contest through fiction, other with lists and bullets.
All in all, narrowing it down to just 5 entries was a monumental effort, one which saw me scratching my head for some time, having to drop a few more great entries in order to choose the winners. In the end, the 5 entries below, were as varied in their approach and argumentation as one would expect from a healthy, organic and dynamic blogging community such as EVE Online has. Thanks to all who partook in this contest, and congratulations to the following 5 winners who will receive a PLEX, courtesy of CCP:

•  I am Keith Neilson: Thus Always to Tyrants
• Eve Illectrocuted: It's Not Just About Planets You Know
• .5 or Higher!: Abyssus in Terra
• The hydrostatic capsule: Let the Gods be Gods!'
• No War Too Small…: Planetary Interaction: Nothing Personal, It’s Just Business

As for the lucky winner who will get to interview a CCP Dev during one of The Drone Bay podcast, the honour goes to Cailais of  The hydrostatic capsule who wrote the Let the Gods be Gods! entry. Congratulations again are in order!

To all 5 winners, in order to ensure that I'll in touch with the right individuals, I ask that you write a new post in which you mention that you've won the contest, in which you will provide me with an email to reach you at. I'll then confirm your prize through email, at the address you'll have provided.

Tonight We Make Landfall! - Tyrannis Contest Participants

With the deadline to the Tyrannis Contest fast approaching (it's the 10th, midnight!), I thought it would be a good idea to start listing the participants so that both you and I could start reading and picking some favorites so far. So here they are:

1. One Shot Blog: Tyrannis, by Iamien
2. Tastes Like Chicken: Tyrannis: A Planetary Interaction Contest, by Kaarbaak
3. The Hydrostatic Capsule: Let the Gods be Gods, by Cailais
4. Starfleet Comms: Can I Have a VAT Receipt Please?, by Max Torps
5. Aggressive Logistics: Tyrannis, by Khan
6. A Barrel Roll: Planetary Infraction, by Alathus Christensen
7. Loaded Barrels: Five Thousand Stars, Devil Knows How Many Planets, by Brutus Septimius
8. No War Too Small...: Planetary Interaction: Nothing Personal, It’s Just Business, by Kail Joric
9. CrazyKinux's Guest Blog: My thoughts on Tyrannis, Contest Entry, by Cyric Kilbright
10. Pocket Pairs & Pod Pilots: Planetary Interactive Possibilities, by Diametrix
11. Garhead: "The Fall", by Garhead
12. Guns Ablaze: I'm a Lumberjack and I’m OK, by Jager
13. EVE Tyranus: A grind blend, by Ed
14. Vissios Altacras Presents: Tyrannis, Planetary Interaction and what (I hope) it means for EVE, by Vissios
15. Void Burn: Tyrannis Impact Prognosis, by Miroven
16. Unstable Terrain: Eve Online Planetary Interation Predictions, by Trent
17. Mike Azariah: Land Rush, by Mike Azariah
18. Pod On The Run: About Tyrannis, Expectations of an underskilled Jack of all Trades, by LoRDa
19. Musings of a Casual Industrialist: Planetary Interaction: What does it mean offworld?, by Igor Epocci
20. Ashireka's Adventures In EVE: Tyrannis Impact, by Ashireka
21. I am Keith Neilson: Thus Always to Tyrants, by Mandrill 
22. No War Too Small...: Planetary Interaction, by Video Game
23. A Merry Life and A Short One: Sic Semper Tyrannis, by Hallen Turrek
24. Khopa Ascetic: Delusions of Tyranny, by Mathew Melnon
25. A Sebiestor Scholar: Zargyl's Tyrannis, by Zargyl
26. A Mule in EVE: Ripples of Tyrannis, by Manasi
27. EVE Illectrocuted: It's Not Just About Planets You Know, by Illectro
28. .5 or Higher!: Abyssus in Terra, by David E. Talvoces
29. EnerlaNet: EVE Online Tyrannis, by Enerla
30. Nestor the Chronicled: Here A World, The A World, by Nestor
31. CrazyKinux's Guest Blog: Tyrannis: a Planetary Interaction Contest, by Trimutius III

If you want to help promote your entry and get it read and commented, be sure to reply to this EVE Forum thread - with a link to your entry, just like Igor Epocci did!

Tyrannis: a Planetary Interaction Contest - Win a PLEX and a CCP Dev Interview!

Back in early August of 2009, I ran a contest based on "Planetary Control" where I asked you how you saw planetary interaction being implemented within EVE, how it should be approached and what possibilities this would open up to the capsuleers.

Remember, back then DUST 514 was barely a hint and a rumor which some of us had had a glimpse of at Fanfest 2008. The contest had a great turn out with over 15 participants. The winner of the event, @Xiphos83 (yes that's the same guy who had the idea for the Wallpaper contest) got a chance to interview CCP Hammerhead during a special edition of MicroWarpCast. The interview was a success and at lot of fun to put together.

Fast forward to today and Tyrannis, CCP's Planetary Interaction expansion is less than 2 months away. With all the creative juices in full swing within the EVE Blogging Community, this was the right time to focus all this energy once more! And so, I'm pleased to announced another Planetary Interaction Contest!

EVE Online Action Wallpaper Competition - The Judging begins!

After the Scenic Wallpaper submissions, here then are the 16 Action entries to the EVE Online Wallpaper Competition. Good luck to all participants!

1. Arukemos
2. Epegi Givo
3. Perseus Kallistratos
4. Archase
5. Zach 101
6. Brandoe Chung
7. Manasi
8. Rixx Javix
9. Lahlana
10. Opiboble Inte
11. Mal Iss
12. Quintrala
13. Riyusone Haro
14. Korleena
15. Che Biko

Now since our sponsors were so generous with their donations, I'm happy to announce that each category will have 3 winners: 1st place getting 500 Million ISK, 2nd place 200 Million ISK and 3rd place 50 Million ISK! The judging will be done over the next 3 days days and all 6 winners will be announced by end of day on Friday April 2nd.

EVE Online Scenic Wallpaper Competition - The Judging begins!

When we launched the EVE Wallpaper Competition I never expected such a great turnout and so many amazing screenshots to grace our desktops. And though it took a bit more work to put together the listings and make sure all the submissions were in and all the little details, I've gotta say it was worth it. Here below are the listing for all the Scenic entries. This subset of the Wallpaper Contest Set can be accessed on this Flickr Scenic set.

1. Cozmik R5
2. Tom Dreyfus
3. Zanthar Eos
4. Epegi Givo
5. Lance Fighter
6. Zargyl
7. Opiboble Inte
8. Mal Iss
9. Manasi
10. Che Biko
11. Ibo Tpmp
12. Cle Demaari
13. Charlotte Munt
14. Velocity Prime
15. Beowolf Schaefer
16. Korleena

Now since our sponsors were so generous with their donations, I'm happy to announce that each category will have 3 winners: 1st place getting 500 Million ISK, 2nd place 200 Million ISK and 3rd place 50 Million ISK! The judging will be done over the next 3 days days and all 6 winners will be announced by end of day on Friday April 2nd.

EVE Online Wallpaper Competition - Billions of ISKs at stake!

This is a guest post by Xiphos83 from A Misguided Adventurer. You can follow him @Xiphos83.

The EVE Online universe is a captivating and awe inspiring world to view. Wonderfully detailed ships, planets, and effects grace our screens and create a canvas of color rivaling many of the other MMOs out there. The changes CCP Games has made to the environment over the years have simply been stunning and it's time to do justice to this graphical wonder.

I, @Xiphos83 (formerly of A Misguided Adventurer) am teaming up with CrazyKinux to give away some always in demand ISKies and encourage capsuleers out there to put their creative caps on, take some screenshots and build wallpapers that we can grace our gaming machines with.

RULES:

• The entry fees will be a measly 10 million ISKs to be transferred to the in-game character "CrazyKinux". Only those who have deposited their participation fees will be eligible for the draw.
• The contest will require that you create a wallpaper of a minimum size of 1280 x 1024 in one of two categories from screenshots taken within EVE Online - Action or Scenic.
• Themes: Action (being war, mining ops, ratting, etc) and Scenic (planets, stations orbiting moons, etc).
• All images incorporated in the wallpapers must be from EVE. Whichever way you decide to incorporate your screenshots into the wallpaper is up to you, as long as you stick to the Scenic or Action theme.
• You may submit one (1) wallpaper to each categories, but no more.
• The judges will be Brendan of Massively, CrazyKinux, and Xiphos83.
• Submissions will be gathered on one of CK's Flickr Set, where size, date of submission and artist will be mentioned (and linked back to whenever possible)
• Contest ends on March 26th, 11:59 PM EDT.

Now comes the juicy part.

The entry fee will be a measly 10 million ISKs and the winners will split the pot! Additionally, CrazyKinux will donate 15 million ISKs to the pot and I, Xiphos83, will be donating 100 million ISKs. So even if we have 1 person apply, there's 175 million up for grabs. That's a few new ships with fittings to boot.

How to Submit:

1) Drop a comment on the post, with URL, character name. Or on this EVE Forum thread.

2) Transfer the 10 million ISK to my character "CrazyKinux"

3) Once you see your screenshot on my Flickr Set, you know your submission has been received and approved!

Additional Donators:

• Crovan - 50 million ISKs
• Krispy Dingo - 50 million ISKs
• AnMiTh - 1 Billion ISKs (!!!!!) and a Free year of Lonetrek Hosting Coupon

You will have 14 days to submit your entries to CrazyKinux, so get out there, fire up your Velator of Doom, and start snapping photos!

Remember, the more participants, the bigger the prizes will be!

Good luck to you all!

[UPDATE: After much back and forth with the #tweetfleet and in view of your comments, we've decided to ask for a minimum size wallpaper (1280x1024). This way, almost everyone can partake in the competition and no one is left out!]

[EVE Forum Thread Link - CK's Flickr Set - CK's Facebook Fan Page Album]