GRAPHICS TOURNAMENT 3: ROUNDS AND SCORES

The first challenge of the tournament is to create a cover for a novel of your own creation. Make up a title, author, quotation etc. for a novel (you cannot use a book already published) and create a book cover for it. You can make it very simple, with a small picture and mostly text, or you can incorporate the text into a blend of pictures.

Your graphic must be 450x600 in size, and include the made-up title and author; a quote is optional.

My example:



You will have around two weeks to submit your graphic to Duck the Duck.

Please upload them to a photo host which will not identify you, such as imageshack, tinypic or servimg (not photobucket).

For this first round, ONLY those who do not submit their entries will be eliminated.

GROUPS

Group One
amberg93
OUTxxWITHxxAxxBANG
Jedi_Girl
Rigby Dumbledore
Im_Hermione

Group Two
RhiannonMei
Agatha Black
The5Potters
Snapes_girl
romance lover

Group Three
Raistlin the Wizard
LilyFlower
Severus Snape
Raxacoricofallapatorius
Kendra_McKie
Ellemenae

Group Four
MarieC
running_swift
Puppet_Master
BookMasterJMV
streams of silver
Castledown

Your challenge here is to create two signature sized graphics based around idioms. Idioms are those sayings, such as "absence makes the heart grow fonder" and "kill two birds with one stone".

For ideas, you could visit this site which has hundreds of idioms.

Your graphics must be between 450x150 and 450x200 in size, and contain the text of the idiom.

My examples:





You will have around two weeks to submit your two graphics to Duck the Duck.

Please upload them to a photo host which will not identify you, such as imageshack, tinypic or servimg (not photobucket).

The members with the lowest scores (between 3-5 people depending on scores) will be eliminated after this round.

GROUPS

Group One
amberg93
LilyFlower
Castledown
Severus Snape
Rigby Dumbledore

Group Two
The5Potters
MarieC
Snapes_girl
romance lover
Ellemenae

Group Three
OUTxxWITHxxAxxBANG
RhiannonMei
Agatha Black
streams of silver

Group Four
Puppet_Master
Kendra_McKie
running_swift
Raistlin the Wizard
Jedi_Girl

Round Two: Scores

The second round of the graphics tournament has come to an end. The lowest four scores are being eliminated.

Your scores from each round will add up into the next round.

Votes are multiplied by 10 to obtain the scores which will be transformed into housepoints at elimination

Those in red are eliminated.

LilyFlower: 280
Severus Snape: 260
romance lover: 200
amberg93: 170
Rigby Dumbledore: 160
Snapes_girl: 140
Castledown: 130
MarieC: 130
streams of silver: 130
The5Potters: 120
Ellemenae: 120
Raistlin the Wizard: 90
Agatha Black: 90
OUTxxWITHxxAxxBANG: 70
RhiannonMei: 50

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Puppet_Master: 40
Kendra_McKie: 40
running_swift: 20
Jedi_Girl: 10

For this round, your challenge is to create a blend of a landscape, using three or more separate images.

Your graphic must be 800x600 in size, and be made up of no more or less than three separate images, though the idea is to create a piece that appears to be one image. Text is optional. Please also send me the three images you used to create your landscape.

My example:



Created from: One | Two | Three

You will have around two weeks to submit your graphic to Duck the Duck.

Please upload them to a photo host which will not identify you, such as imageshack, tinypic or servimg (not photobucket).

In your PM, please also include the three original images you used.

The members with the lowest scores (between 3-5 people depending on scores) will be eliminated after this round.

GROUPS

Group One
LilyFlower
Severus Snape
romance lover
amberg93
Rigby Dumbledore

Group Two
Snapes_girl
Castledown
MarieC
streams of silver
The5Potters

Group Three
Ellemanae
Raistlin the Wizard
Agatha Black
OUTxxWITHxxAxxBANG
RhiannonMei

Round Three: Scores

The third round of the graphics tournament has come to an end. Due to low participation in this round, only the lowest two scores are being eliminated.

Your scores from each round will add up into the next round.

Votes are multiplied by 10 to obtain the scores which will be transformed into housepoints at elimination, plus 50 housepoints for sending an entry.

Those in red are eliminated.

Severus Snape: 320
LilyFlower: 280
romance lover: 260
amberg93: 220
Ellemenae: 220
Raistlin the Wizard: 200
streams of silver: 190
Rigby Dumbledore: 160
Snapes_girl: 140
Castledown: 130
MarieC: 130
The5Potters: 120
RhiannonMei: 100

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Agatha Black: 90
OUTxxWITHxxAxxBANG: 70

William Shakespeare's plays have enthralled the world for centuries, and your challenge here is to create two banner graphics based around them. Choose two of the plays listed below for your graphics.

Your graphics must be fanfic banner sized, 700x110, and must contain the title of the play. A quote from the play is optional.

Choose from the plays listed below:

*The Tempest
*The Two Gentlemen of Verona
*Much Ado About Nothing
*A Midsummer Night's Dream
*The Taming of the Shrew
*The Winter's Tale
*Love's Labour's Lost

*Troilus and Cressida
*Romeo and Juliet
*Julius Caesar
*Macbeth
*Hamlet
*King Lear
*Othello
*Antony and Cleopatra

My example:



You will have around two weeks to submit your graphic to Duck the Duck.

Please upload them to a photo host which will not identify you, such as imageshack, tinypic or servimg (not photobucket).

The members with the lowest scores (between 3-5 people depending on scores) will be eliminated after this round.

GROUPS

Group One
Severus Snape: 320
LilyFlower: 280
romance lover: 260
amberg93: 220

Group Two
Ellemenae: 220
Raistlin the Wizard: 200
streams of silver: 190
Rigby Dumbledore: 160
Snapes_girl: 140

Group Three
Castledown: 130
MarieC: 130
The5Potters: 120
RhiannonMei: 100

Round Four: Scores

The fourth round of the graphics tournament has come to an end. Those below the line have been eliminated, and the housepoints earned have been added on.

Your scores from each round will add up into the next round.

Votes are multiplied by 10 to obtain the scores which will be transformed into housepoints at elimination, plus 50 housepoints for sending an entry.

romance lover: 380
Severus Snape: 320
Raistlin the Wizard: 320
streams of silver: 300
LilyFlower: 280
Rigby Dumbledore: 250
amberg93: 220
Ellemenae: 220

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Snapes_girl: 140
Castledown: 130
MarieC: 130
The5Potters: 120
RhiannonMei: 100

Final Round: Villains and Heroes

This challenge requires you to create two graphics based around the theme villains and heroes. One graphic must be based around a villain, and the other a hero. You can choose characters from films, books, tv shows, plays - anything you like.

Your graphics must be 400x400 in size, and contain the name of the character and any other text you feel necessary.

You will have around two weeks to submit your graphics to Duck the Duck.

Please upload them to a photo host which will not identify you, such as imageshack, tinypic or servimg (not photobucket).

This is the final round, after which we shall find out winner!

All participants will be placed in the same group for the voting.

romance lover
Severus Snape
Raistlin the Wizard
streams of silver
LilyFlower
Rigby Dumbledore
amberg93
Ellemenae

Final Round: Scores

The final round of the graphics tournament has come to an end.

Votes are multiplied by 10 to obtain the scores which will be transformed into housepoints, plus 50 housepoints for sending an entry.

romance lover: 480
Raistlin the Wizard: 390
Severus Snape: 380
streams of silver: 380
Rigby Dumbledore: 310
amberg93: 310
Ellemenae: 280
LilyFlower: 280

Graphics Tournament 3: Winner!

And we have the winners!

Well done to romance lover for coming first in this term's graphics tournament. Raistlin the Wizard came second, with Severus Snape and streams of silver tying for third place.

Final point allocations are as follows:

1st Place: romance lover: 480 + 1000 for first place
2nd Place: Raistlin the Wizard: 390 + 700 for second place
3rd Place: Severus Snape: 380 + 500 for third place
3rd Place: streams of silver: 380 + 500 for third place

Rigby Dumbledore: 310
amberg93: 310
Ellemenae: 280
LilyFlower: 280

Well done to all participants throughout the tournament!