All good things must come to an end. The voting has come to an end.

After scores of entries for my writing contest/project and some controversy in the polls, there can ONLY BE ONE WINNER.

Am glad to announce the winner of the Writing Project. But before that, allow me thank everyone who participated and also thanks to those who voted for their favorite bloggers.

And now, without further ado…

Just click below to find out…

 GRAND PRIZE WINNER

Jherskie (205 Votes)
http://jherskie.blogspot.com

Prize:

1 GB USB Flash Drive
1 Limited Edition RWC Team Philippines Jacket (to be confirmed)
1 Limited Edition Ragnarok OST
1 New RO Poring Doll stuffed toy
60 days free banner at www.gmtristan.com

CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNERS (3)

1.  DeSquallie
http://desquallie.blogspot.com

2. Chester Banting
http://chesterbanting.tabulas.com

3. DaveTNova
http://davetnova.blogspot.com

Their Prizes:
1 Level Up shirt (design and specifics to be announced)
1 P350 Level Up Top-Up Card each
Various LU merchandise (to be announced)
1 New RO Poring Doll stuffed toy

Note that there’s a special award for the “Best Writer” category which the finalist will have to vote for it. This will be announced in a separate post once I tally and check it later tonight

I will be e-mailing all the winners with instructions on how to claim your prizes!

Congrats to all winners. Hope to seeya again for the next contest soon.

GM T 

It’s been quite some time since I held my last online contest.  Those sepcifically for the Perfect World beta was quite successful, if I say so myself. Though I previously posted some tips on how to hold your own blog contest, it’s time to put the words into action (yet, again).

This weekend, I’ll be musing over a group writing project which will be open for bloggers. The goal of this project cum contest is to help each other promote our individual blogs, our hobby and the industry as a whole. Basically, it will work this way: each week, I’ll be posting a theme that we can all write about. It will specifically focus on gaming, online and MMORPG experiences. Then, those who wish to participate can simply post back their entries with a linkback to the contest’s home page and then submit it to me.

Every week (hopefully Fridays) I will compiling a list of all those who submitted and be keeping track of those who submitted more than one entry per week. I’ll be posting it here as updates.

NEXT: Prizes

I still don’t have the final list of prizes. But some things racing through my mind would be “donations” from my various Brand Managers. These could be in-game items, special merchandise (limited RWC jacket, anyone?) and maybe even Level Up top-up cards and other things that I could get my hands on. The contest will be running for 6 or 8 weeks and before then, I will be able to update the growing list of prizes at stake. Another prize that we could give is banner space for your blog here and possibly at Waukster.com or even Codamon’s blog. But that’s still in the planning stage.

Note that the prizes won’t be uber-big but the project will hopefully bring back the “link-love” to your blogs and increase your rankings and page hits at the same time. Plus, a group writing project is fun to do and exercises you on writing.

That’s it for now. Like I said, I’ll be finalizing the mechanics and will be posting the official announcement and start of the group writing project next week at the soonest (Monday, Aug 13).

I’d be more than happy to hear any comments, suggestions or recommendations you would have on the matter to make this even better.

Thanks,

GM T