Star Legends Halloween Haiku Contest!

[n00b13st]

One question though - how does one give plat to another without their password?

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Need to cooldown and recharge your rage battery from killing so many space pirates, angry aliens, and short circuiting robots? Dying to unleash the inner poet within you? Well here's your opportunity!

Welcome to the first annual Star Legends Halloween Haiku Contest! If you're interested in participating please read on for the rules, how to submit your entry, and potential prizes up for grabs. The Star Legends Halloween Haiku Contest is pretty simple. First and foremost, what exactly is a haiku?




Examples:
Those crazed Commandos
Always charging into tank
SPLAT No Engineer

My Operative
Destroyer of aliens
Likes to eat candy!

See? Not too hard: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables on 3 unrhymed lines.



The Rules

1) You must abide by the Spacetime Studios Terms of Service.

2) You must be registered on the Spacetime Studios Forums to participate. All entries will be posted in this thread.

3) Only one entry per account. Each person is allowed to submit two haikus but they must be included within the same post.

4) The haiku should be about Star Legends. It also should be themed around Halloween (Death, Ghosts, Candy, etc.) The tone you set is up to you, comedic, sad, angry, etc. Have fun with it and be creative!

5) Keep the haikus clean please, this contest is intended for the whole community, the young and the elderly =D

6) The contest deadline is Monday, October 31st at Midnight EST




How To Submit Your Entry

Please include your main IGN name
(Optional) If you'd like to represent your guild, please post it under your IGN. Will be for possible winning purposes. (Ex: Congratulations to "IGN" of "guild" for taking Xth place.)

HAIKU #1

HAIKU #2

Example:
Rodvik
Knights of Cydonia (Optional)

Those crazed Commandos
Always charging into tank
SPLAT No Engineer

My Operative
Destroyer of aliens
Likes to eat candy



The Prizes

First Place: 55,000 credits and 40 Platinum

Second Place: 35,000 credits and 30 Platinum

Third Place: 25,000 credits and 20 Platinum

Fourth Place: 15,000 credits and 10 Platinum




That's about it! Be sure to have your entries posted before 11:59 EST on Monday, October 31st. Once all entries are in the judges will pick their four favorites. Results may take up to a week prior to the contest ending to be determined. I and the other possible judges unfortunately have to work..lol


Thanks! And may the best poet win!
-Rodvik


Judges: Myself, CanonicalKoi, Ebalere

P.S. - I am funding this competition with my own credits. If anyone is kind enough to donate to the competition please private message me on the forums or reach me in game. The prize amount is subject to change (go up) if I get a reasonable amount of donations. If a vanity is donated it will be added as the first place prize and the first place credit winnings will be reduced to increase the 2nd through 4th place finisher prizes.



EDIT: Prizes Updated: Thank You to the STS Dev Team for their grateful donation!
EDIT: Prizes Updated: Thank You to CanonicalKoi for their grateful donation!
EDIT: Prizes Updated: Thank You to Ebalere for their grateful donation!


EDIT: Added Judges

[Zaltiar]

One question though - how does one give plat to another without their password?

Devs will transfer plat, no need for password transfers or such

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

[Rodvik]

Excellent, I love it! For those willing to do the reading, there is a slightly stricter form of Haiku that is based on something (don't recall, I'll edit if I find it soon) a bit stricter than syllables. A bit like how some syllables "feel" larger than others...I think using that form should result in Haiku that just flows better and hopefully will be rewarded. I'll be submitting mine somewhere between "last moment" (a la Kahlua's idea, which I feel, of not giving up your ideas too soon) and "right now" - somewhere in the middle so that if it is liked it has a chance to be noticed.

Again, I love the idea.

There are numerous ways to write Haiku's but the 5-7-5 pattern with only 17 syllables was typically the English standard for haiku. For this competition I require you to write with the 5-7-5 flow. It is why I announced it in the original post as:

hai·ku ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hk) n. pl. haiku, also hai·kus

A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons. A poem written in this form.

Granted I didn't want to make the competition too complicated to enter and to judge with other forms of haiku so I chose the basic one that most people are familiar with.

So please when writing your haikus use the format I have asked.


Also for your comment of being noticed you won't have to worry about that, ALL the haikus will get attention. The way I plan on doing the judging will be bias/favortism free, submitters names and guilds will be replaced with a # and they will not be included on the haiku compilation sheet so the judging sheet will just be a sheet of xxx amount of haikus and numbers that correspond back to the owner of that haiku that only I will have, so everyone will get a fair chance at winning the competition..=)

One question though - how does one give plat to another without their password?

Like Zaltiar said I will give the results to one of the Devs and he will adjust the winners account accordingly.

[martin.montera1]

IGN: KRUTARIC

<SPARKLING PWNIES>

The blackstar under attack
plenty of alliens to kill
but I shouldn't die

Gaurdian in numa
Bot in sloucho
Now who in shipyard

[Deathslayer72]

Xganicusx
V for vendetta

#1
Candy commando
You delicious running man
RUN or be eatten

#2
Jack o commando
Carving up your enemies
Show your deadly skill!

Thosr are mine thank you

[Slant]

Uh I am going to participate soon, dont need the plat, def need the credits ... the 5-7-5 format is a little on the strict side considering haiku can be 17 syllables or fewer, but im going to stick to the format of 5-7-5 in my entry... and um... about the season thing, it neednt be overtly to do with seasons, more like a slight reference to changes in nature, or even just natural forces is an essential ingredient in haiku, but the competition has to do with Halloween so the contest is about seasons to begin with... ok now im gonna get down to righting em. And thanks for this great contest.

[Handsofmyvodka]

I agree with owz
Writing haikus is hard,wait
Is this a haiku?
Lol!

[Diaxos]

Oooh cool! Are they having a contest like this in PL? I could really use the Platinum. I'm new to SL, just getting use to it. I'm still semi-new to PL as well. My name is Diaxos in both games, so add me in either :3

[Cascade]

Haiku 1
Ghosts and Ghouls oh my!
Halloween is coming soon!
Be prepared for death!

Haiku 2
An orange droid would rock!
Handing out orange antennas.
We can hunt him now!

Haiku 3
What's that in the hull?
A ghost or a space pirate?
We will find out soon!

Hope you enjoy!

[Kahlua]

Boy howdy do I love me some poetry

[Jasonm]

Jasonm
Area 51


Dynastar whats wrong.
Send an assassinfor me.
After all I did.


Cycorp miner there.
Hoping for a suvivor.
No shes dead.

[Tvis]

IGN: Tvis

Haiku 1
Engis splice candy
Commandos smash the pumpkins
Ops rattle the bones

Haiku 2
Space pirates scaring
Slouch-O productions chanting
Vular insects creep

[Magecreater]

IGN-Magecreater

HAIKU #1
SL is stirring,
Everyone is saving plat,
You just know its here.

HAIKU #2
Scary things to come,
Oh yea halloween is here,
But in outer space?

[CanonicalKoi]

Halloween haikus
Falling like leaves from above
Owie! That one hurt!

Nice haikus, guys! Keep 'em coming!

[forbidjon]

Add Content

[Necrobane]

Trick or treating the Director...

Director! Spare some candy?
For no-one will join my dungeon group,
OW! That was mean!

[Rodvik]

Alot of great entries! Keep them coming! Judging is going to be tough! Lol.

Please make sure youre using the 5, 7, 5 format! Thanks!

[handinpocket]

Mofinga [representin' Dark Legion]

2 entries for the competition:

guardian knocks door.
my door. trick or treat him? nah.
killed him. vaniteeeeee

a trick for a pink.
treats for the vain. sweet x-rays,
the icing on cake.

must admit had no idea what a haiku was until this competition. i had fun drafting them ... nice one Rodvik, kudos for coming up with the idea.

_________________

and one with an image just for fun ...

space make u vomit?
stay away from shipyards, and
stop eating pumpkin.

[Ghastly]

Hmm, I'll try my best...

Haven't really been active last couple days but I'll try my best.

#1
this war is brutal
What's the point of the fighting.
Will it ever end?

Btw I think thats true about the real world too.

#2
We fight for blackstar.
I don't care how long it takes.
Truly, we will win.

[DJSKRILLEX]

entry#1

A bright orange haze
jackolantern vanity
is around my face

entry#2
Cool Halloween stuff
scary costumes and candy
whats better than this