Asrai.org Welcome Competition

Post by **Yak** » 27 Nov 2006, 17:58

Well as you may have noticed, the site is going through a lot of changes. One of the changes has been that our welcome passage on our home page has been, er, 'misplaced'.

As such we are running a competition for one of you to write a new welcome message for the homepage of the site. It should be at most 150 words long, and should not only welcome people to the site, explaining what we do and what you can expect to find here, but also touch on the background of the woodelves.

Closing date for this is 2 weeks, so the 11th December. That should give you plenty of time to get your creative juices going.

Post your questions/entries here.

The winner gets a shiny prize...

Post by **Naggie** » 27 Nov 2006, 18:03

Make that the 17th of December. After the 17th, I will have much more free time to fiddle with that sort of things.

Nagathi
The Spirit Keeper

Post by **Ecalsneerg** » 27 Nov 2006, 21:06

Welcome to Asrai.org...
The biggest, most active Wood Elf site on the internet, this forum is dedicated to bring you the best tactics, army lists and general cool stuff an Asrai could ever need.
From their forest, the Wood Elves wage an unending war against Orcs, Beastmen and other foul creatures. Humble archers to crone-like Dryads, ferocious Wild Riders to mighty Treemen, the denizens of Athel Loren will fight to the last to protect their home. With our help, you can help them prevail. Prepare to enter... Asrai.org!

Post by **Schmeag** » 27 Nov 2006, 21:15

Well as you may have noticed, the site is going through a lot of changes. One of the changes has been that our welcome passage on our home page has been, er, 'misplaced'.

You guys used to change it quite often.

Post by **Naggie** » 27 Nov 2006, 21:18

Schmeag wrote:
Well as you may have noticed, the site is going through a lot of changes. One of the changes has been that our welcome passage on our home page has been, er, 'misplaced'.
You guys used to change it quite often.

Three times over 18 months...

Nagathi
The Spirit Keeper

Post by **Schmeag** » 27 Nov 2006, 21:20

That's odd... I've only been here for almost three months and it's seemed to me that you've changed it more than that...

How many entries per person?

Post by **Naggie** » 27 Nov 2006, 21:32

I'd say one, but you are free to change your entry until the last minute. However, this is Yak's competition, so he's the one to call.

Nagathi
The Spirit Keeper

Post by **Schmeag** » 27 Nov 2006, 21:36

When you say 17 December, do you mean 11:59PM or 12AM? Similarly what does this translate to in GMT?

Post by **Naggie** » 27 Nov 2006, 21:38

I'll have to say my time (GMT+1). So before it turns to the 18th of December

Not that I can't be flexible

Nagathi
The Spirit Keeper

Post by **Schmeag** » 27 Nov 2006, 21:45

Is it more preferable that we PM them?

Post by **Yak** » 28 Nov 2006, 09:43

Up to you. You can PM them to me, and then we'll have a vote on it in the staff forum. Or you can post them here if you prefer.

And yes, you may edit your entry right up to the point of judging.

Post by **Yak** » 04 Dec 2006, 13:20

With 13 days left, we only have 2 entries so far. The competition is still open, and we would like to recieve your entries.

As stated before, the winner gets a shiny prize.

Post by **Schmeag** » 05 Dec 2006, 06:39

How shiny is that prize?

Yak wrote:what we do and what you can expect to find here

What exactly is the difference between the two?

Post by **Naggie** » 05 Dec 2006, 13:47

The definite prize has not yet been decided, but a custom title is included.

What we do: Discuss, tune lists, write articles.
What you can find: A warm community, lots of good advice, and hopefully a new home online.

Nagathi
The Spirit Keeper

Post by **Schmeag** » 05 Dec 2006, 14:40

They seem to overlap somewhat...

Post by **Naggie** » 05 Dec 2006, 14:43

They sure do. Write whatever you want. It's up to the staff to judge you in the end

Nagathi
The Spirit Keeper

Post by **Schmeag** » 05 Dec 2006, 14:59

By that, I take that the entries are going to go through a poll of some sort?

Post by **Naggie** » 05 Dec 2006, 17:42

Something along those lines. It culd be an real poll in the staff forum, or a simple discussion over MSN... It'll depend.

Nagathi
The Spirit Keeper

Post by **Yak** » 10 Dec 2006, 10:07

One week left for you budding authors to submit your entries.

Post by **Yak** » 12 Dec 2006, 17:11

Hurry hurry hurry people. Only 5 days left...

Post by **Naggie** » 17 Dec 2006, 15:38

The deadline is today. If you want to participate, send your text to nagathi@gmail.com asap.

Nagathi
The Spirit Keeper

Post by **Ecalsneerg** » 17 Dec 2006, 21:49

Nagathi wrote:The deadline is today. If you want to participate, send your text to nagathi@gmail.com asap.

Nagathi
The Spirit Keeper

I'm assuming my earlier post stil counts as an entry?

Post by **Naggie** » 17 Dec 2006, 21:57

It does. If you want, you can submit a new one, but you got only 2 hours to write it.

Nagathi
The Spirit Keeper

Post by **Tethlis** » 18 Dec 2006, 02:17

I trust Yak still has my entry from a couple of weeks ago. I meant to rewrite it, but that deadline took me by surprise...

Post by **Naggie** » 18 Dec 2006, 02:26

To clear all doubts: We have three entires. Escal, Tethlis and Schmeag's.
The result will be announced on Sunday morning (possibly Monday evening/night)

Nagathi
The Spirit Keeper