Gurubashi Screenshot Contest - Total Rip Off

#0 - Nov. 10, 2006, 9:44 p.m.
Blizzard Post
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/contests/bigfoot/index.xml

"Participants should submit shots displaying the widespread carnage they’ve wrought, the havoc they’ve mercilessly unleashed on the masses, the piles of enemies who’ve fallen before them -- anything that shows the world that they are without a doubt Azeroth’s most destructive force."

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/contests/bigfoot/winners.html#honorable

Look at the Grand Prize Winner.

So, a Human Priest got $1,000 for REZZING A RANDOM DEAD NIGHT ELF IN STORMWIND? Oh yeah, THAT'S WIDESPREAD CARNAGE ALRIGHT!

If that's not sad enough, check out the people who won lesser prizes.

- A random lowbie Troll who is in front of Thrall with a random naked gnome corpse in the screenshot.

- A random dude who killed 10 chickens.

- Some jackasses on the Public Test Realm who ran over to the Gurubashi Arena (since it always has corpses in it), stood outside it, took a screenshot and won.

- A RANDOM ORC /FLEXING. NOTHING ELSE, JUST /FLEX.

Yeah, those guys are "Azeroth's most destructive forces" alright.

You got to be joking Blizzard/Bigfoot. It's nice of you to let us know you either have the worst judges on the face of the Earth or that you just randomly chose the winners out of a hat draw. Compare these pictures.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/contests/bigfoot/images/ss1.jpg - Grand Prize Contest Winner
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5128/acenter1ss6.jpg - My friends' and mine submission

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/contests/bigfoot/images/ss2.jpg - 2nd Prize Contest Winner
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2807/choice4qo4.jpg - My friends' and mine submIssion

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/contests/bigfoot/images/ss13.jpg - Contest's Honorable Mention
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/6743/afronthdjp4.jpg - Yet another one of ours'.

My pics aren't that good, wasn't expecting to win, but compared to the ones that won.. come on.. they won with crappy pictures that also broke the rules of not taking the screenshot at the Gurubashi Arena.

I'm usually of good sportsmanship, but to lose to these pathetic screenshots is just ridiculous. Your/Bigfoot's judging abilities are worse than the quality of these screenshots, and if I had the information necessary to send letters of condolence to the mothers of the judges for having to give birth to them, I would

Thanks Blizz, ur #1! Just like the Grand Prize screenshot!
#223 - Dec. 29, 2006, 4:57 a.m.
Blizzard Post
No, it doesn't. Thread necromancy is a dangerous art.

The contest was judged within the guidelines of the rules and the winners were chosen at our discretion. I can only apologize to those that felt the screenshots chosen were less deserving than others.