[Ryna]

The votes for the 5th Anniversary Fan Artist Contest have been tabulated and the winners determined. Fortunately there were no ties, so there was a unique winner for each place in each category. So without further ado, here are the winners:

Anything Goes:
1. TeeBee - Idola Rico
2. azjazo - Grants & Megid
3. AzureBlaze - JetPlatinum Sculpture

Humorous Art:
1. azjazo - Rico Can Wait
2. ForcefulFlare - PSU Comic
3. TheOneHero - Contest Comic 1

Rappy Party!:
1. azjazo - Rappy Cosplay
2. Outrider - Rappy Party
3. Scrub - O RPY?

Phantasy Star Universe:
1. astuarlen - Karen (1)
2. bluelikekurt - Maya Shidow
3. Jared_T - Karen (2)

Media:
1. LockemanX - Mr. Wonderful
2. Scott_Kuda - Baking with Dragoon
3. KodiaX987 - Anything Real

Humorous Short Story:
1. ajenteks - Humorous Short Story (1)
2. DezoPenguin - Play What You're Dealt
3. TheOneHero - Short Story (2)

To refresh everyone on what the prizes were, here is the list:

First Place
Custom Avatar
Gold Trophy
50 entries into contest drawing

Second Place
Silver Trophy
25 entries into contest drawing

Third Place
Bronze Trophy
10 entries into contest drawing

To Everyone that Placed:
Don't worry, your additional red boxes will be entered into the main 5th Anniversary Red Box event before the drawing happens. If you placed in multiple categories, your entry totals will be added up. For example, TheOneHero will receive 20 red box entries since he placed 3rd in the Humorous Art and Humorous Short Story sections.

To the First Place Winners:
When choosing your custom avatar, make sure it is less than or equal to 64 x 64 pixels. If the avatar does not have any transparency in it, add a one pixel-wide black border around it. The avatar can be saved in gif or jpeg format. Once you've found an avatar you like, send it to me via PM. I'll review it to make sure it doesn't violate forum rules and it will then be added. Even though azjazo placed first in two categories, only one custom avatar will be handed out to him since it would be kind of hard to give him two...

To TheOneHero and azjazo:
I do not know whether only a single trophy will be displayed below your avatar or if multiple trophies will be shown. It just depends on how Tomeeboy chooses to implement that feature.

I would like to thank everyone that participated in the contest. There were several outstanding entries. Your participation helped to make this a very successful contest. PSO-World.com hopes to be able to hold more contests in the future. Be sure to stick around to see who the winner of the main contest is. We hope to have that drawing sometime later this week.

[Sayara]

Who called the anything goes winner

Congratulations winners!

[Dhylec]

Congratulations to all contest winners!
This part is not about luck, but about skills. The next part, though, is all about luck, so.. Good luck. ;]

[Stan]

Congratz to you all! you did a great job!

(Azaj gets two custom avatars )

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[TheOneHero]

Congrats everyone!

Scrub- I totally told you you'd beat me!

[Neith]

Congratulations to the winners, the majority of the entries were really nice.

Now I'm just waiting for some random person with 1 Red Box to win the pre-order

[Saiffy]

YA RPY

Congratulations to the winners ;3

[Kei-Kusaragi]

These are all great drawings! Congrats to authors of those drawings!

[astuarlen]

Congratulations!
> Everybody
Oodles of good entries all around. Gotta love that "O RPY?"

And a big thank you to the mods for hosting this contest--and getting everything done in a timely manner. Thumbs up!

Woot for me, too. Ryna, avatars should be PS/O/U-related, I assume? Or does anything appropriate go?

[Maridia]

Congrats to everyone, though the winner of Anything Goes wouldn't have been my first choice. <_<

Ast, who knew you could make art like that? I sure didn't. Awesome. YOU JUST GET BETTER AND BETTER EVERYDAY, BABE!

Oh, and.. YA RPY