Contests & Challenges: Present & Upcoming

With the active community regaining much of its former strength, sponsored contests have begun again, starting with the [ECTOs] Zero-Pay Giveaway #001 contest to raffle off some DoA Gems. It's FREE TO ENTER for eligible participants, so have a look and enter if you can:

[ECTOs] Zero-Pay Giveaway #001 Contest Page


...BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
Sometime over the coming week, [ECTOs] Zero-Pay Giveaway #002 will begin as well, this time to raffle off an entire stack of Superb Charr Carvings among other things. It should commence before Zero-Pay Giveaway #001 has ended, so there will be some overlap there. Not a concern, as that giveaway will also be free to enter.


...BUT WAIT, THERE'S EVEN MORE... WITH MORE PAYOFF!
After both of the planned Zero-Pay Giveaways are finished, we will have our first [ECTOs] ECTO Buy-In Jackpot contest of 2010, which costs ectos to enter, but the payoff is HUGE for the multiple winners. For those new to the community who are unfamiliar with how our [ECTOs] ECTO Buy-In Jackpots work, head over to our Sponsored Contests & Challenges forum and read up on some of the previous ones.


CHALLENGES ARE ON THEIR WAY AS WELL!
Sometime over the next couple of weeks, once I finalize exactly how I'm going to handle it (and I may converse with a few community members on our voice server/forums to decide the best course of action), we'll be having our first-ever [ECTOs] Cumulative Mission Time Attack Challenge. We've had a Guild Wars Time Attack for individual missions/areas/etc. within the ECTOs Community for quite some time now. (See the Guild Wars Time Attack thread in our Trophy Case forum) Our Cumulative Mission Time Attack Challenges will consist of multiple missions whose completion times are added together for a lump-sum Challenge Total which will then be judged as compared to all the other submitted Challenge Totals.

Stay tuned for more details.


ANYONE ELSE WANT TO TAKE THE REINS?
Note that these are only the Sponsored Contests & Challenges that I have personally planned for the ECTOs Community. Anyone with the creativity, savvy, and poise to handle all facets of the Contest/Challenge process (takes a LOT of work!) is more than welcome to devise and hold their own. If you have an idea that you need some help taking a little further, feel free to discuss it in-game, on our voice server, or in the forums with the rest of us. Together, we could get your idea off of the ground!


As always, thanks for supporting the greater ECTOS Community.

As planned, [ECTOs] Zero-Pay Giveaway #002 is now open for entry!

[ECTOs] Zero-Pay Giveaway #002 Contest Page


The drawing for ZPG #002 will take place in the middle of next week. The Sunday following that will be the beginning of our first [ECTOs] ECTO Buy-In Jackpot of 2010. After the first 2010 ECTO Buy-In Jackpot contest ends, I'm going to try and get the [ECTOs] Cumulative Mission Time Attack Challenge going. There are no immediate plans for a ZPG #003. I'm thinking that yet another ECTO Buy-In Jackpot contest (#2 of 2010) before then would be a better idea. ZPGs are easy to set up and maintain (they are just giveaways, after all), so the next one could happen at pretty much any time.



As noted, these are only the contests & challenges I personally have planned for the ECTOs Community. Others are more than welcome to have their own contests & challenges in parallel to any of these occurrences.