UPDATE: Since there were no eligible reviews submitted or entered in this contest ahead of the May 15, 2011 date, the deadline for entry has been extended. This post has been revised to reflect a May 31, 2011 deadline with voting to follow and conclude on June 14th (to avoid conflicting with E3). If there are no eligible entries by that time, then the contest will officially conclude with no winner selected.
I've decided to run a new contest to test this community's interest in future contests. This one won't have any judges, just a prize. That prize is a brand new, factory-sealed retail copy of Dragon Quest VI for the Nintendo DS that I happen to have lying around. Below are the rules of eligibility.
1) To win the game, you need to have a mailing address in the United States. If you live outside the US and want to participate, that's fine, but you will need to specify the US address of a friend to collect the prize on your behalf.
2) You must submit a new review for a role-playing game on the Nintendo DS. Minor rewrites of reviews for games that have appeared previously on this site are ineligible. Part of the goal of this contest is to drum up new content for the site, naturally.
3) Anyone with a registered HonestGamers account--including site staff members, if they choose to participate--is eligible. I'm giving away my own extra copy of the game and staff members work hard. Since you ultimately get to decide who wins, I am happy to have those hard-working staff members be eligible!
Once you have written and submitted your review, it will go through the usual submission process. Assuming that it is approved, you must then post a link to that new, approved review in this thread so that everyone knows that it is eligible. On or around May 31st, I will stop accepting new submissions and will either use this thread or a new one to accept votes from the community. At that point, all registered users can vote for their favorite review out of those eligible. The review with the most votes wins and I will send the winner the game. Voting will conclude on June 14th or shortly thereafter.
I'd like to see good activity for this contest. I'd like to be able to justify running more of them in the future, perhaps with more significant prizes and/or wider eligibility. If you're interested in seeing that happen, make sure that you get your friends to participate in the submission and voting processes. Thanks!
I've decided to run a new contest to test this community's interest in future contests. This one won't have any judges, just a prize. That prize is a brand new, factory-sealed retail copy of Dragon Quest VI for the Nintendo DS that I happen to have lying around. Below are the rules of eligibility.
1) To win the game, you need to have a mailing address in the United States. If you live outside the US and want to participate, that's fine, but you will need to specify the US address of a friend to collect the prize on your behalf.
2) You must submit a new review for a role-playing game on the Nintendo DS. Minor rewrites of reviews for games that have appeared previously on this site are ineligible. Part of the goal of this contest is to drum up new content for the site, naturally.
3) Anyone with a registered HonestGamers account--including site staff members, if they choose to participate--is eligible. I'm giving away my own extra copy of the game and staff members work hard. Since you ultimately get to decide who wins, I am happy to have those hard-working staff members be eligible!
Once you have written and submitted your review, it will go through the usual submission process. Assuming that it is approved, you must then post a link to that new, approved review in this thread so that everyone knows that it is eligible. On or around May 31st, I will stop accepting new submissions and will either use this thread or a new one to accept votes from the community. At that point, all registered users can vote for their favorite review out of those eligible. The review with the most votes wins and I will send the winner the game. Voting will conclude on June 14th or shortly thereafter.
I'd like to see good activity for this contest. I'd like to be able to justify running more of them in the future, perhaps with more significant prizes and/or wider eligibility. If you're interested in seeing that happen, make sure that you get your friends to participate in the submission and voting processes. Thanks!
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy on reality
"What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." - Shigeru Miyamoto on secret doors to another world
"What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." - Shigeru Miyamoto on secret doors to another world
