Welcome to The Forgotten Lair's first competition!

Participants are to create one 520x180 Anime or JPop or JRock or Japanese Pop Culture related banner which can ultimately end up in The Forgotten Lair's actual banner rotation on the main site. Along with having TFL Design's thousands of visitors viewing your banner in the rotation, winners will also receive Artbook Scans, Anime Original Soundtracks, Banner of Recognition from Phoenix and to the ultimate winner, Highlighting of YOUR WEBSITE on TFL for two weeks. Excited? Read the rules below.


COMPETITION RULES

- You must be a member of this forum.
- One banner per participant.
- The banner must be 520px wide and 180px high.
- The banner has to be Japanese Music/Pop Culture related. (JPop, JRock, Anime, Pocky, etc...)
- The banner must contain the words "The Forgotten Lair" and "version XIII" on it. (Please do not leave a signature.)


COMPETITION JUDGING

- You must be a member of this forum.
- A poll will be put up for anonymous voting.
- Everyone on this forum will have a chance to vote once all the entries are in.
- Participants MAY vote and can vote for their own.


In the end Phoenix will determine the First, Second, Third Place Winners and Runner Ups. Basically I will choose what banners make it to MY SITE'S banner rotation... (Yes this is a dictatorship.) Does this mean forum member votes have no persuasive power whatsoever? Perhaps. Why bother with voting? Because it gives people hope...


COMPETITION PRIZES
All prizes are sent via the internet. Artbooks are scanned and OST's/Albums are rips. Please buy the albums when you get the chance.

First Place :
- Your Banner is placed in TFL Design's Banner Rotation.
- Banner of Recognition designed by Phoenix.
- Two Artbooks or Two OST's/Albums or An Artbook and An OST/Album from Phoenix's personal collection.
- If applicable, your website advertised on my site for TWO WEEKS on my site's HIGHLIGHT section. (If you don't have a website, you may choose another OST/Album or Artbook.)

Second Place :
- Your Banner is placed in TFL Design's Banner Rotation.
- Banner of Recognition designed by Phoenix.
- Two Artbooks or Two OST's/Albums or An Artbook and An OST/Album from Phoenix's personal collection.

Third Place :
- Your Banner is placed in TFL Design's Banner Rotation.
- Banner of Recognition designed by Phoenix.
- One Artbook or One OST/Album from Phoenix's personal collection.

Runner Ups :
- Your Banner is placed in TFL Design's Banner Rotation.
- Banner of Recognition designed by Phoenix.

So excluding the Banner being up and the Banner from me, First place gets 3 prizes, Second gets 2 and Third gets 1 from my personal stash.



AVAILABLE PRIZES

Artbooks :
Angel Sanctuary
CLAMP - Chobits ~Your Eyes Only
CARNELIAN Collection
Disgaea Character Collection
Gundam Wings Memories 2 ~legend of forever~
Hyung-Tae Kim - OXIDE
Hyung-Tae Kim - OXIDE II ~Carta Numinous
Nakajima Atsuko - Tsuya (Get Backers and more)
Stripping Instrumentality Project (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
The After (Cowboy Bebop)
Chen Shu Fen
Chen Shu Fen Red
RANGE Murata - Futurhythm
Kazuya Minekura - Salty Dog I

OSTs / Albums:
(miss)understood by Ayumi Hamasaki
Gundam SEED DESTINY Original Soundtrack III
Gundam SEED DESTINY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK I
[Single] The Brilliant Green - Ash Like Snow
Abingdon Boys School - Blade Chord
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children OST
Ayumi Hamasaki - GUILTY
Ayumi Hamasaki - Secret
Death Note Anime Soundtrack
Fate Stay Night OST
Ishikawa Chiaki - [Uninstall ]
T.M. Revoluion - Coordinate
Trinity Blood OST
UVERworld - Timeless





This Competition Will End June 1st at 11 PM EST. Voting will commence shortly after and will last for 2 WEEKS.


HOW TO ENTER

- Join this forum.
- PM (Private Message) your submission TO ME (Phoenix) through this forum.
- I will save the image on my own server/computer.
- Submit your entry before June 1st at 11 PM EST.
- Winners will be notified via forum PM.



PLEASE invite as many people as you know who would be interested to join this forum to join this competition! You can participate by voting or creating a banner and even meet new people on this wacky forum! PLUS there are PRIZES!!!


Link This Competition:

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Wow, sounds cool. Good thing I'm going on break... Time to practice

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Your myspace bulletin reminded me of the site..
(missed ya, phoenixxxx)

..i like the idea.
..i may give the whole banner thing a go.

i highely doubt i'll win..but..whatever.
xD

I think we're gonna have a whole lot of people who come here just for the competition, and don't do anything else...

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Theie loss I suppose. After a while Phoenix could do a clean sweep to get rid of inactive people if this happens. If it bothers her enough to bother...

Nah, this event promotes the forums and hopefully they'll see what they were missing LOL. I have a lot of visitors that come on a daily basis that didn't join this forum. Just another medium of communicating. ^__^

Coolio! PM your submissions when you're done and you have PLENTY of time so take it easy. ^_______^

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Time... tiMe... So little time...

Maybe I'll be able to get my inspiration back with this >=)

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This baby is over a month long... LOL Giving PLENTY of time to the people that need it. ^__^

You all have till June 1st.

I rather think it's long, but I'm sure the wait is worth it... Hope you guys like the prizes I'm offering.

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Yay, can't wait to join. Thanks for informing me Phoenix!! I'll definately give it a shot.

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Haha, considering I've never done anything on the computer like this...a month might not be enough. But I might give it a try. Don't know if I'll actually get anything done in time to actually enter though.

Nya~ I'd love to enter! But is this open to people from all countries, or just America?

Since when has anything from TFL Design been exclusive to Americans? XD

Only the rules above apply (that you're a member of this forum) and so you MAY ENTER! ^___________^

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Yay! ^^ I just wanted to check =D DeviantART competitions are always American-exclusive x.x

Is it because the prizes don't want to be shipped abroad? ^__^ Everything is via email.

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I think with deviantart being as big as it is it has to do with legal crap as well, but we don't have to worry about that here!