And finally, our 1st place winner for 2009….. with an overwhelming 23 (out of 24 points)……
Ian Wagner and his awe-inspiring “Mother Brain & Baby Metroid” pumpkin set! Pretty amazing job, right? Well it’s certainly not surprising as he was our 1st place winner in 2008 as well! (with his impressive Samus pumpkin)
For a second year of impressing the Halolz judges, Ian will be getting another mountain of shirts (and other stuff) from Ninja-Bot!
Congratulations… and congrats to everyone for making our second annual pumpkin carving contest a big success! In fact to thank everyone who entered we will be sending out consolation prizes to everyone who entered this year! Just keep watching your email for more info!
Happy Halloween!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on October 31, 2009 · 11:39 PM
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Mama mia! Add that to the list of things I don’t want to see coming out of my pipes!
Not only is OmeletGood’s “Piranha Plant” (which got 17 points) scary enough to frighten off the neighbors kids, but it brings me back to the classic days of Super Mario Bros! A win-win! And speaking of winning, he won a pile of stuff from Ninja-Bot! Great job!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on October 31, 2009 · 9:48 PM
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OH DEAR GOD NO!! Christ I thought that moon was creepy in Majora’s Mask… but as a pumpkin… oh man it’s far worse!
Picking up 3rd place (with 14 points) is TCC’s “3 days…” (which will forever haunt my nightmares). Congratulations, you’ve ruined my life, and earned a little of everything from Ninja-Bot!
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In 4th place (with 10 points), a pumpkin that even comes with it’s own TF2 update page… the “Candy-spenser” by Kyle Schouville! Who needs health and ammo when you can have DELICIOUS CANDY!
To help embrace the deliciousness, Kyle will be receiving a Falcon Lunch shirt along with some other treats!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on October 31, 2009 · 5:41 PM
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5th place was also a tie (at 8 points each) between Nick Everson’s “Halo: ODST Hell Jumpers” and Arhmend and Juusan’s “Spy Sapping My Sentry!”
Props to Nick for his detailed carving design, and Arhmend/Juusan’s creative use of scene (including sparklers for the sapped sentry!) They’ll both be receiving some awesome stickers and pins!
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Our first winners in a three-way tie for 6th place (at 3 points each) are “Falcon Pumpkin” by Pikamari, “I Have A Rocket Launcher” and “PEELS” by BananaDib, Dr. Falcon and Wasabi!
These three entries did a good job of racking up honorable mention points across all the judges with both Halolz references and carving difficulty! Congrats to these three winners who have won some Ninja-Bot sticker packs!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on October 31, 2009 · 2:17 PM
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Before I start posting our Halloween contest winners, I felt like we should at least go over how the judging worked this year!
This year we had four judges:
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| Shawn Handyside (halolz.com) |
Alyssa Young (redpepperhead.com) |
Scott Ramsoomair (vgcats.com) |
Tina Pratt (paul-reveres.com) |
Each judge was asked to pick their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th favorite entry (in order), along with three “honorable mentions.” Then based on their picks each entry would get a number of points like so:
1st – 6 points
2nd – 5 points
3rd – 4 points
4th – 3 points
5th – 2 points
Honorable Mention – 1 point
Then we tallied up all the points and the pumpkins with the highest scores won! Pretty democratic right? So along with each winner I will be posting the point score the pumpkin got (out of a maximum of 24 points).
And now… on to the winners!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on October 31, 2009 · 1:25 PM
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Hoooooly crap, we got quite a turn out this year! All of these entries have been entered into judging and the results will be posted throughout Halloween day! Keep checking back tomorrow to see which of the following entries pick up some awesome prizes!
Entries in relative top to bottom order:
“Candy-spenser” by Kyle Schouville (includes it’s own website!)
“3 days…” by TCC
“TMNT” by Lee Greene
“Pumpkin-Life 2, Starring Gourdon Freeman” by BenHuff
“Tidus” by Brad Williams
“Achievement: A Pumpkin Carver is You!” by Tex
“Falcon Pumpkin” by Pikamari
“Fawfulanturn” by Casey Lucas
“Heavy is pumpkin!” by LlamaMaster
“Doom II Pumpkin” by UGuardian
“OBJECTION!” by Flake and Zelda
“Gears’o’Pumpkin” by Zoneur
“Princess Peaches Castle” by Sora-Chan
“Nobody Symbol” and “Halo 3” by Mark Sutherland
“Pumpkin Kirby” by Cory
“Locust” by Nick Trite
“The Orange Portal” and “MEDIC!!!” by Lord Carlson
“Moon from Majora’s Mask” by Lekonua
“Spy Sapping My Sentry” (set) by Arhmend and Juusan
“Mother Brain & Baby Metroid” (set) by Ian Wagner
“Triforce Crest” by LadyFiede
“Sandvich” by 1oak
“Pyro’s Logo” by pinecone2654
“Soldier’s Logo” and “Scout’s Logo” by Christian Felts
“TF2: Meet the Pumpkins” (set) by BarrierBoy
“SPAH SAPPIN’ MAH SQUASH” by BonzaiRob
“Piranha Plant” by OmeletGood
“Vault Boy”, “PEELS”, “I Have A Rocket Launcher Your Argument Is Invalid”
and “Moon from Majora’s Mask” by BananaDib, Dr. Falcon and Wasabi
“Halo: ODST Hell Jumpers” by Nick Everson
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on October 31, 2009 · 12:40 AM
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