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"EXTRA EXTRA GAMEADAY PRIZE - FEBRUARY BANNERS"

Blimey, that was a task and a half. Well done to all who entered, the standard of banners has gone up significantly since the last competition, so I look forward to the next one (as long as I don't have to judge it).

It was a tough decision to pick winning entries, but we narrowed it down to 3. You'll notice that the winning banners are quite simple and effective, fancy stuff is all well and good but when you've only got 15k to play with, you need to sacrifice it sometimes. Okay, enough waffle, the winners are...

Funkygamer for his Comanche Banner
Gabbo for his GetDotted Banner (fifth from top)
Natbuc for his Monsters Inc Banner (blue)

You all win the DVD of your choice from our database, up to the value of £25 - congratulations! Special mention must got to all the people who submitted loads and loads of banners and didn't win, sorry about that! And I apologise for ending the competition slightly early, I wanted to get it finished for the weekend for you.

Cheers
Ali

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Completed Banners:

Funky Gamer - Click here
Er-no - Click here
Edgy - Click here
Gabbo - Click here
Natbuc - 1, 2 and 3
Rainier Wolfcastle - Click here
Lodge (or Darkness_2k, one of you) - Click here
Joe Dark - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
(May need www inserted into link)
PinkPig - Click here
cooldogs - Click here
1/2pint - Click here
messiah_4_ever - Click here
chris_uk - Click here
Rickoss - Click Here
Darkness_2k - Click here
Shaneo - 1 and 2
Doughnut Monster - Click here
No.2 - Click here
Oxide - 1, 2
dFox - Click here
Agent Smith - 1 and 2
cookie monster - 1 and 2
TomUK - Click here
Rakuga - Click here
Mr. Nice Guy - Your page didn't work, sorry
Dr. Duck - Click here
Force of Nature - Your page didn't work, sorry
Weird Kid - Click here
Dav1d - 1, 2

Some Geocities links may need a www inserted to make them work, it's an eternal mystery to me. I'm judging this as we speak.



Ali - please organise this.

1 banner used = FAD prize
2 banners used = GAD prize

Give url's and Ali will make them into hyperlinks in this thread.

Rule 1

Banners must be commercially inspired for the purpose of generating income and profit to Special Reserve or Freeola. i.e. Please do not design banners for UKcheats, Gameaday, Winacar etc. Design banners for SR Membership, Maxx, products we sell, Get Dotted, Freeola, Ram, PC parts - anything which is a source of income to us.

Rule 2

Banners must be under 15k, Indexed gif, 468 x 60 pixels. You can submit RGB gifs but better if they are "indexed" as they will apparently come up smaller.

Thanks in advance. Good Luck.

er-no here, hold up till midnight Ali, I still have a couple I need to upload.

Thanks.
er-no :)

BTW, I clicked report this post in the hope that I could tell you that hone of the above links are working due to a lack if "http://" in the link....

Sorry, diddn't see the comp until the last minute, but I've managed to cobble a few together.

Here they are:

http://www.geocities.com/paulossainz/banners/home.htm

Slave.

Here's the adress of all my banners.
Just incase you missed them.

http://www.geocities.com/cheatser2/doughnut_monsters_hompage.html? 1014987801160

Woaha, didn't that month go fast? Well, my final entries are here:-

http://www.funkygamer.com/banners.htm

I was going to squeeze a few more in there before tonight, but it doesn't seem worth it if the deadline has been brought forward.. (how many people are still working on banners right now without having read Mr. Snugglys' post??)

Good luck to everyone, there are some great banners out there.

Change of plan I'm afraid, we're closing this one a bit early. If you get your entries in before 12pm then they'll be valid, but I'll try and judge this today.

Goodun Er-No

Edgy wrote:
> Hey, thanks for the tips.

I knew that GBA one had won last time around, but
> you never know, if SR still like that one you could be in for a chance
> :)

I'll try and think of some funny phrases overnight, still got just over 24
> hours to post my entries :)

I have a couple more swamming around in my head.

I will change that GBA one completely but with the same originer-noal idea. :)

Hey, thanks for the tips.

I knew that GBA one had won last time around, but you never know, if SR still like that one you could be in for a chance :)

I'll try and think of some funny phrases overnight, still got just over 24 hours to post my entries :)

Edgy wrote:
> I recognise that top GBA one from somewhere before :)

Nice banners, bit
> repetative with the ram though :)

What's your opinion on mine?

I really liked the RAM idea, so I tried five different ones to cover what I wanted to try and show... then SR can pick the one they want... my favorite is the still RAM one with all the rams in the background. I spent ages on the Resident Evil one with the image/same with the Smash Bros one as well.. (tweaking and stuff).

That GBA top one has been changed, and SR said it was successful first time around.

AND WHO WOULDN'T CLICK ON THE BRITNEY ONE?

lol

Yours are nice mate, some are original... however, I tend to want to try something that has NEVER been tried before, maybe think up a phrase 'Ram With You?' or something :)