~ Announcing ~
The August 2009
Lucy Chat Banner Contest
Attention Lucy Lawless Fans! Design a Lucy Chat banner for August and you could win a Banner of the Year prize at
the end of the year.
August Theme of the
Month:
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
Friendship Day Quotes by: Anais Nin
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
Friendship Day Quotes by: Walter Winchell
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
Friendship Day Quotes by: Unknown
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
Friendship Day Quotes by: Oscar Wilde
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
Friendship Day Quotes by: John Lennon
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August 2, 2009 is International Friendship Day. In honor of that special day, our Lucy Chat theme
for August will be....
Friendship - Lucy and Her Friend(s)
Entry Rules:
1. Only 2 Lucy Chat banner entries per Talking Xena member per month. Creators of previous Banners of the Month are eligible to
enter again.
2. Banners can be no bigger than 700x250 pixels and no smaller than 500x200 pixels with a file size no larger than 100k bytes.
3. In keeping with the theme of the month, the banner must focus in some way on Lucy as a friend/public images of Lucy with her professional and
personal friend(s). Public images are images from public events or images made public by Lucy or her friends. Images and any additional text used
should not depict or imply anything beyond a close friendship between Lucy & Renee or Lucy and any of her other friends.
4. The images used can be of Lucy pictured with one or more of her friends however Lucy should be the overall main focus of the Lucy Chat banner.
5. The title "Lucy Chat" (without quote marks) must clearly appear somewhere in the banner.
6. Lucy Chat banners cannot contain any images from the XWP or HTLJ TV series.
7. The same banner cannot be entered in more than one Lucy Chat Banner of the Month Contest during the same year.
8. Talking Xena Owner, Administrators, and Moderators are not eligible to enter this contest. Forum hosts and hostesses are welcome to enter.
9. To enter send a PM (Private Message) to Gabsfan with the url where
your banner can be found.
Entry Deadline is Midnight Eastern Daylight Time (New York/Board Time) on Saturday
Evening, July 18, 2009.
Voting:
1. Once the entry period is over all of the banners will be posted in a new thread and voting will start and last until Midnight
EDT on Tuesday evening, July 28.
2. Each entry will be assigned a number and voting will be by number only.
3. Only one vote per TX member will be counted no matter how many TX handle names a member has. New members must have at least 10 TX posts before they are
eligible to post their vote.
4. If there is only one entry submitted for the month, that entry will automatically be the banner of the month and there will be no vote that month.
Banner of the Month Prizes:
The banner earning the most votes will be displayed at the top of the Lucy Chat Forum during August.
Every Lucy Chat Banner of the Month will be automatically entered into the Lucy Chat Banner of the Year Contest in December up to a maximum of 4 entries per
TX member. If the same TX member created more than 4 banners voted Lucy Chat Banner of the Month this year, they get to choose which 4 of their Banner of
the Month banners they want entered into the Banner of the Year Contest. For each Banner of the Month the creator does not choose for a Banner of the Year
entry, the banner(s) created by a different TX member that received 2nd Place that month will be entered into the Banner of the Year Contest in its place.
For example, if Tobias was the creator of 5 banners that were voted Lucy Chat Banner of the Month this year, Tobias would need to choose which 4 out of those 5
banners to be entered into the Lucy Chat Banner of the Year Contest. If Tobias does not choose the banner from November, the banners tied for 2nd Place in
November, created by pmbpro and MHRasmussen, would be automatically entered into the Banner of the Year Contest instead.
Therefore, if a banner is voted into 2nd Place (and possibly 3rd Place if the same TX member created the 1st and 2nd Place banners), it may still have a chance
to be entered into the Lucy Chat Banner of the Year Contest.
Lucy Chat Banner of the Year Contest:
1. In December, TX members will vote for the best Lucy Chat banner of the year from among the TX member created
banners that received top votes in the Banner of the Month contests during the year.
2. The creator of the 1st Place (Gold), 2nd Place (Silver) and 3rd
Place (Bronze) banners will receive a special Best Lucy Chat Banner award avatar designed by our
talented PMBPRO to be displayed under their handle name along with any personal avatar they may already have. In addition, award recipients will be granted
entrance into the TX Prize Vault to pick their Lucy Chat Banner of the Year prize from the Lucy, Renee & XWP
treasures inside.
3. Banner of the Year award recipients must supply their name and full mailing/shipping address so that their prize can be sent to them.
If you have any questions about the contests, please ask!
Show
your devotion to The Flawless One and create a Lucy Chat banner for August!
Don't Forget - Deadline to submit your August Lucy Chat Banner entries is
Midnight EDT (New York/Board Time) on Saturday, July 18, 2009!
, Isn't that she really is best at ? being a friend?
