January-March Avatar Contest Winner

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It's that time again! Team Reef Central (Team RC) would like to announce the results for the January thru March Avatar Contest!

Congratulations to our winner Reef Bass, who posted this beautiful photo as their avatar:

Avatar Contest winners receive a full year of Premium Membership as their prize.

The following other members were also nominated for the January thru March 2009 contest. We’d like to thank each of them for their artistic contributions, and comedic relief:

Dyngoe, TheMcs, calli, Cprowler, R.W., tmantaylor18, 8ball 99, Hookup, dalston, hummermaniac88, psteeleb, snorvich, klepto, chasekwe, CeeGee, t5Nitro, schnabbles, GemTangRider, wld1783, DLANDINO and murraycamp.

You can see each of the nominated avatars in the posts that follow in this thread.

 

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These avatars were nominated for the period upto March, 2009. Great Avatars!

These avatars were nominated for the period upto March, 2009. Great Avatars!

Dyngoe

TheMcs

calli

Cprowler

R.W.

tmantaylor18

 

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8ball 99

Hookup

dalston

hummermaniac88

psteeleb

snorvich

klepto

 

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chasekwe

CeeGee

t5Nitro

schnabbles

GemTangRider

wld1783

DLANDINO

murraycamp

 

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So, how do I participate?

It’s easy. In fact, you already do it. Choose a great avatar and make great posts to the discussion forums. Team RC members are already on the look out for candidates for Reef Central and Reefkeeping features like Thread of the Month and Tank of the Month. With this new contest in place, we’ll be prowling for the best avatars as well.

What makes a great avatar?

Most of the avatars nominated by Team RC members for consideration in the first contest were excellent photos of corals, shrimp, crabs, fish and other aquatic life. However, the nominated avatars were not restricted to only the life in our aquariums. Photos of larger marine life were also represented, as were photos, drawings and cartoons of people and beautiful landscapes. Several were simply hilarious. The common thread they shared is that they impressed Team RC members.

From that initial impression, we nominated the avatars into the contest pool and Team RC voted for the best.

And the prizes are?

Fame, bragging rights and a Premium Membership to Reef Central. What’s so great about Premium Membership? Plenty. Premium Members have an expanded capacity to use the Search feature among other things. And starting in 2008 Reef Central will launch several great new features just for Premium Members.

Nominations, how?

If you spot an avatar you love you can send a PM to a Team RC member with a link to the profile of the person with the great avatar. We’ll review it and decide whether or not to nominate it to the next quarterly contest. You’ll know if your avatar was nominated (in the future) to the contest by a PM from Team RC, so you can eagerly await the next round of contest results.

Reef Central members can’t nominate an avatar directly, and won’t be able to vote on the nominated avatars. The contest is sponsored, run and decided by Team RC. It’s our way of recognizing members who make great contributions not only to forum discussions, but also to the scenery here at Reef Central.

Congratulations again to the winner of our current round; Reef Bass!!!!

 

[Rhizo]

Grats man! I dig your Avi

 

[Reef Bass]

Thank you very much all! I am very pleased and honored to have my avatar chosen, particularly with such stiff competition.

Ken

 

[spleify]

Nice job everyone.

Congrats Reef Bass!!

 

[Konadog]

I still laugh every time I see calli's avatar :lol:

 

[g_langley]

Congratulations to all!

I must try harder for something fresh and funny myself :lol:

 

[Dave Harms]

Great avatar!

 

[dalston]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14731280#post14731280 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by g_langley
Congratulations to all!

I must try harder for something fresh and funny myself :lol:

I think your's is awesome!

Most people here are from the US so may not be familiar with the Carlsberg ads but being from Essex myself, I think its very good!

Oh and thanks to whoever nominated me, was a shock to see it as I just stumbled across this!

Congrats Reef Bass!

 

[melev]

Keep choosing your avatars wisely. You never know, and we are always looking.

 

[customcolor]

i change mine about every 3 months for a new entry but never know when. i guess its time again

 

[tmantaylor18]

Lol at mine being nominated. I had no idea.

 

[Henryreef]

Great and Creative avatars everyone :thumbsup:

 

[StonedPlanet]

I agree! Good job on the artwork!

 

[WaterKeeper]

I'm depressed. My avatar has never even gotten an honorable mention.

 

[Reef Bass]

Maybe it's the haircut?

 

[Rjukan]

Congrats reef bass that really is a nice looking avatar. And congrats to the nominees, it's fun to see something like this.