DP Pumpkin Carving Contest - Winner announced on page 5!! [Archive] - Page 2

Vigilante

10-31-2004, 12:08 AM

I'm finally finished and about to get my pics emailed. Oy.... 3 days with this thing. I didn't use a knife, I used a cuticle remover. I figured out how to overclock a pumpkin.... flashing led's! But it sucks trying to time it just right to see the lights while snapping off a picture.... I took like 50 pics! I'm too tired... I'm spent! :beaten:

qbertandernie

10-31-2004, 01:09 AM

minell be in tomorrow...
i have no artistic ability, but gave it the ol' 'college try'

Emily

10-31-2004, 01:15 AM

Damn!! I hope I still have a shot. @_@
@_@

Chunky

10-31-2004, 12:27 PM

sorry between everything going on IRL and stuff, i didn't get a chance to do my Katamari pumpkin. oh well.

classicb

10-31-2004, 04:10 PM

sorry between everything going on IRL and stuff, i didn't get a chance to do my Katamari pumpkin. oh well.

I'm sure somebody did Katamari pumpkin given its popularity on these boards

qbertandernie

10-31-2004, 07:47 PM

alright, photos sent....

we(my girlfriend and i) had a lot of fun, it doesnt even matter if i win anymore..although id still like to!

great contest, keep it up!

Queen Of The Felines

10-31-2004, 08:00 PM

Would Dean Altamirano please send me a PM with your DP board name? Thanks!

Kristine

GamblinMonkey

10-31-2004, 08:34 PM

Well, after procrastinating about it for a week and making a pumpkin for the Blizzard Pumpkin Carving Contest (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/contests/pumpkin-contest/04-winners.shtml) and not winning, I finally made my pumpkin for this contest. I don't know if I'll win anything here either, but I had lots of fun making both of them, and I like them.

Lord007

10-31-2004, 09:06 PM

pics sent :)

Queen Of The Felines

11-01-2004, 01:10 AM

Alrighty, no more submissions! LET THE VOTING BEGIN! :D

The link to all the pictures is below. All you have to do is pick ONE pumpkin and e-mail it to me at kathara@sbcglobal.net. Please include the entry number and name of the pumpkin you have chosen along with your DP username. (In order to help prevent cheating, you MUST be a registered member. If I get an entry without a user ID included, the vote WILL NOT COUNT.)

Why must you include your username? Well, like I mentioned earlier, everyone who votes will have their names tossed into a hat and one of you will win a package of goodies. Nowhere near as good as what the pumpkin winner will receive, but still not too shabby. :)

You may only vote ONCE and only for ONE pumpkin, and please do NOT try to cheat by creating multiple new user IDs and/or e-mail addresses, ok? And no, you're not allowed to vote for yourself. ;)

Voting ends on Friday, November 5th at 11:59pm central time. And now...

THE PUMPKINS! (http://www.gee-min-ee.com/pumpkincontest.htm)

Kristine

tholly

11-01-2004, 01:58 AM

wow...those were some nice pumpkins, amazing job everyone....too bad i wasnt artistic, or i would have entered...maybe i can win a prize for voting

MarkMan

11-01-2004, 04:08 AM

AMAZING PUMPKINS!

Sniderman

11-01-2004, 05:52 AM

Oh, and if I may make a suggestion?

Until voting ends this Friday, please keep the editorializing and pimping to a minimum.

- Do not post which ones you think "rocks" or "sucks."
- Do not identify which one is yours, if you have an entry.
- Do not try to sway folks to vote for a specific punkin.

We've already got one U.S. voting event that - I assume - will go down the crapper this week. Let's keep THIS voting event on the up-and-up without any asshattery.

Good luck everyone. There are some AWESOME entries. And I'll tell you which ones I think "rocks" sometime this Saturday.

Crush Crawfish

11-01-2004, 03:30 PM

Good god those are some awesome pumpkins!!! I voted for my favorite, and I can't wait to see who wins. I sure hope I win the drawing. Free stuff rocks!!!

Emily

11-01-2004, 04:51 PM

I hope you have this contest again next year! Im gonna make 10 pumpkins next year.
Good luck and cool pumpkins to everyone who entered!

Emily

11-01-2004, 04:52 PM

Asshattery.... :D

izret101

11-01-2004, 05:02 PM

WOW X_x some of those are so amazing. I am really 2 or 3 of them though. I am determined to vote so i will burn the images into my brain until i find a fault that makes me hate one of them. LOL

thehistorian

11-01-2004, 05:05 PM

I just sent mine in. I almost cut my hand off carving the thing. No carving kit for me just a really dull knife.

Me too ... and then my wife came home and told me I used one of her "good knives". I never understood that; why do I only get to use the bad stuff?

I take carving the pumpkin seriously. I have gathered a set of tools over the years that work perfectly for me. They also seem to work well for fancy-pantsy food decorations around the "other" holidays. I can't believe she made a watermelon basket with my tools.... @_@ radish roses :angry: apple swans :eek 2:

GamblinMonkey

11-01-2004, 05:38 PM

Wow, those are some really nice pumpkins everyone. I thought it would be easy to decide, but I'd be proud to have any of them on my doorstep. Nice work, folks!

qbertandernie

11-01-2004, 05:58 PM

are you guys going to list how many votes each got after its over?

im just curious to see if ill get any...

izret101

11-01-2004, 06:37 PM

are you guys going to list how many votes each got after its over?

im just curious to see if ill get any...

tell me you will also say who made what pumkins too.
Some of those were just so good... was there a runer up prize? There probably should have been with the awesominity of some of those.

classicb

11-01-2004, 06:49 PM

this was a really fun contest and I probably woudn't have carved a pumpkin this year if it wasn't for this contest. my apartment actually looked festive for once. :)

now that its over I wish I would have done more.

Dahne

11-01-2004, 09:10 PM

Holy hell! Those are damned impressive. My vote's in, but it was hard to choose between the ones that were hilarious and the ones with just plain amazing artistic talent. Two catagories next year? :D

Nesmaster

11-01-2004, 10:23 PM

Awsome pumpkins! it was very hard to pick one... but i managed :) Good Luck to everyone ;)

NESaholic

11-02-2004, 06:40 PM

Wow that were some great pumpkins, some very creative people here, i liked the resident evil zombie very much and also the pac man field, awesome stuff.Ofcourse there were more good ones, nice job everyone!

qbertandernie

11-02-2004, 10:05 PM

is that considered 'asshattery'?

dsullo

11-02-2004, 10:05 PM

Great Contest Kristine. Thanks for putting it together. Good luck to all that entered the contest there are some really talented and demented DP members out there.

SamuraiSmurfette

11-02-2004, 11:44 PM

next year, perhaps a costume contest? :)

classicb

11-02-2004, 11:52 PM

next year, perhaps a costume contest? :)

until next year

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44773

Jasoco

11-03-2004, 04:53 PM

Where do we vote? I can't tell because Links in this forum have no distinguishing marks to separate them from regular text, so I assume I missed the link. I wanna vote.

dreams

11-03-2004, 05:00 PM

Where do we vote? I can't tell because Links in this forum have no distinguishing marks to separate them from regular text, so I assume I missed the link. I wanna vote.

The pumpkins can be found here:

http://www.gee-min-ee.com/pumpkincontest.htm

Instructions for voting are on that page.

Raedon

11-03-2004, 09:46 PM

dang.. Glad I didn't send in my Pumpkin.. "Pong Dot"

Emily

11-05-2004, 12:23 AM

When will the winners be announced? @_@

Emily

11-05-2004, 12:23 AM

winner i mean

Queen Of The Felines

11-05-2004, 01:25 AM

Saturday evening, probably. Or earlier, depending when I get a chance to get online.

Kristine

SamuraiSmurfette

11-05-2004, 10:20 PM

/me crosses fingers...and toes...and eyes...

pixelsnpolygons

11-06-2004, 06:06 AM

Sadly I never even had time to start one. Those are amazing though... I mean, oh my god those are awesome. Voting is going to be tough.

punkoffgirl

11-06-2004, 09:49 AM

Sadly I never even had time to start one. Those are amazing though... I mean, oh my god those are awesome. Voting is going to be tough.

The contest ran for three weeks; you must be very busy indeed. The voting closed last night at midnight, I believe.

Queen Of The Felines

11-06-2004, 05:11 PM

Alrighty folks...

41 pumpkins.

55 votes.

And the winner, with a whopping NINE votes, is...

#16 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night!

Gamegirl79, you are the winner! :bday: :cheers: :dance:

Oh, and Aussie2b? You're a winner too! You were randomly chosen to win QOF's Mysterious Box of Stuff! :bday: :cheers: :dance:

Congrats you two, please PM me your addresses and I'll send out your stuff within the next week or two. :)

Below is a list of who did what pumpkin:

1 - POG
2 - Emily
3 - Swlovinist
4 - neuropolitque
5 - SKVermin
6 - potatobob
7 - sniderman
8 - sniderman
9 - SamuraiSmurfette
10 - SamuraiSmurfette
11 - Pantechnicon
12 - Markman
13 - dsullo
14 - swlovinist
15 - Acidic Pain
16 - gamegirl79
17 - Daria
18 - skvermin
19 - goodwill hunter
20 - ehall
21 - nz17
22 - acidic pain
23 - daria
24 - ehall
25 - classicb
26 - aussie2b
27 - vigilante
28 - afgiant
29 - atariboy
30 - bigdaddychester
31 - flack
32 - thehistorian
33 - ehall
34 - qbertandernie
35 - qbertandernie
36 - twiddlebrat
37 - gamblin monkey
38 - lord007
39 - lord007
40 - Brusko
41 - chicnstu

If anybody wants to know the amount of votes they got just send me a PM. Thanks to all who participated, and I hope everybody had fun. Just WAIT until what I have planned for next year! :evil: :D

Kristine

Flack

11-06-2004, 05:51 PM

Congratulations not only to the winners, but EVERYBODY who entered! Not only did you help out your online community, but you also shared a little bit of retro gaming with every single person who saw your pumpkin!

I thought for sure my Dreamcast pumpkin had a chance until I saw all those other entries. Nice job everyone! Does anyone want to share a story of how they made their pumpkin, or any problems they encountered?

It turns out pumpkins aren't as hollow as I had remembered. I had a hell of a time cramming a dreamcast inside the larger one, and there was no way I could get my little flat screen monitor to fit in the smaller one. I ended up cutting the top off the top pumpkin, to hide the height of the monitor inside the top of the bottom pumpkin. I left a game running in it when we went to trick or treat, so people coming up to the house could see it in the window.

digitalpress

11-06-2004, 05:56 PM

Congrats to ya Jacquelina!

Nice job all around, everyone. The amount of talent around here is simply amazing.

Aussie2B

11-06-2004, 06:35 PM

Yay! I knew my pumpkin had no chance of winning, but I'm very surprised that I won the random drawing. :) Congratulations Gamegirl79 for the super-spiffy Castlevania pumpkin, and congratulations to everyone else who is far more creative and talented than I am, haha. :P Looks like the Digital Press gals take this one. ;)

Aussie2B

11-06-2004, 06:43 PM

I thought for sure my Dreamcast pumpkin had a chance until I saw all those other entries. Nice job everyone! Does anyone want to share a story of how they made their pumpkin, or any problems they encountered?

It turns out pumpkins aren't as hollow as I had remembered. I had a hell of a time cramming a dreamcast inside the larger one, and there was no way I could get my little flat screen monitor to fit in the smaller one. I ended up cutting the top off the top pumpkin, to hide the height of the monitor inside the top of the bottom pumpkin. I left a game running in it when we went to trick or treat, so people coming up to the house could see it in the window.

Hehe, I would've loved to see the looks of confusion on their faces.

There's nothing too interesting behind the creation of my Neo Geo logo pumpkin, but yes, that is me holding it in front of my face like an idiot. :P And if anyone is wondering why my face can be seen through the other side, it's because the other face of the logo (the "smiley face") is carved into the other side.

qbertandernie

11-06-2004, 08:31 PM

congrats gamegirl!

just so you know, my girlfriend signed on solely to vote(and to enter), though she never did. if she had, youd have won with 10 votes! :)

my stuff wasnt too fantastic, but i had a lot of fun making the katamri pumpkin. the orginal plan was to make it big enough to hold a ps2 and the game case(as well as my cat), but i quickly found out that the stuff wasnt really tight enough to support much weight. after i cut all the strings that held the items on my girlfriend carved a diabolical smiling pumpkin...with strings and nails sticking out of his head...

the nintendo entertainment pumpkin was reversed and a proper jack o lantern carved in it....

#36 pacman with ghosties? ended up on the porch as, well, pacman and ghosties...my girlfriend made that one...like the tie in with the username?

anyway, nice effort by everyone!

gamegirl79

11-06-2004, 10:24 PM

Woohoo! I can't believe I won....there were so many other great pumpkins!! Thanks QOF for having this contest!!! :D

Sniderman

11-07-2004, 08:04 AM

Wow. Great entries and a great time! I was planning to do a Resident Evil "leering zombie" punkin, and the DP contest rolled around just as I was designing it. When I finished and lit it, I thought I'd have a chance at the prize -

Until the others arrived. x_x

Anywa, I had a great time. Halloween is my favorite holiday and this year I wanted to carve punkins as a part of it. THis contest gave me that chance, so I thank Kris and Joe for holding it. Looking forward to next year's!

P.S. Two punkins I was planning to do, but ran outta time:
1. The Jack-O-Tari 2600. Was going to cram a TV into big punkin, a 2600 jr into a small, flat punkin, and a joystick into a gourd. Then was gonna take a photo of the set-up running "HAlloween." RAn out of time to do so. (Besides, the Dreamcast punkins would've pounded my idea.

2. "Pong-O-Lanterns"- Was gonna get 5 punkins. CArve a flat POng paddle on two, carve the "ball" on one, and carve two blocky scores on the last two. Was gonna set up some utility shelves in my yard; place the Pong elements where they fit; then string up Christmas lights to identify the screen area and net down the center. At night, it should've looked just like a POng screen. BAiled on the idea because of the time it would've taken, the amount of work to clean/carve 5 punkins, and the minimal reaction a "Pong" set-up would've gotten.

Wait'll next year. :evil: Seriously, I had a great time. And these punkins should be archieved on the DP site in a photos album. Cool stuff.

Pantechnicon

11-07-2004, 10:07 AM

It was my son's idea to do entry #11 for King Boom Boo and Knuckles. It was an amateurish job compared to some of these others but we still had a ball working on it.

I wanted to do a second entry similar to Sniderman's idea using a 2600 Jr. I would have called mine the "Atari 3100" (you know, for the 31st...) and had it running Haunted House. Woulda been cool. Didn't have enough spare time, but there's always next yeat.

Congrats to everybody who entered. Nice work.

The_EniGma

11-07-2004, 02:20 PM

Well done to people who won that box loosk sweett... :( shame i wasnt here on hallowean

punkoffgirl

11-07-2004, 11:41 PM

Well, I knew mine wouldn't win, once all these terrific entries started rolling in, but I have to say, I was evil and held out hope for a while that no one else would enter and I'd win by default *lol*

Fantastic job on the pumpkins, everyone! Congrats to the winners!

Edit: And I just realized that I forgot to even vote!