In a Nutshell

What is this?
A contest where fans submit halloween-themed, EarthBound-related art, music, writing, etc.
What are the prizes?
Copies of the EB Anthology, Starmen Figurines, Keychains, /EarthBound DVDs, and badges :O
What’s the deadline?
Deadline: Nov 7, 2007 @ 11:59 PM EST (Midnight)

Recent Activity

November 21, 2007:
1 Compart entries
5 Handart entries
2 Writing entries
November 20, 2007:
6 Compart entries
1 Handart entries
1 Writing entries

Categories

Writing
(fanfics, articles, comics, poems...)
Handart
(pencils, pens, markers, paints, sculptures...)
Compart
(3D renders, photoshopped stuff, tablet art, flukes...)
Audioviz
(music, fantography, video, animations, games...)
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Awards

Overall Awards

One First Place and one Runner Up for each of the following will be presented. Each First Place recipient will receive a copy of the EarthBound Anthology. Each Runner Up will receive their choice of a Starman Keychain or /EB DVD.

Skill
For the submitters who ooze raw talent. Example: Kaigetsudo and his Venus and the Zombie Chick or PD_DX0 and his insane Dept. Store Spook.
Labor
For submitters who obviously spent lots of time on their funfest submission(s) (this will NOT be judged on quantity!) Example: Boogey Tent by kota12 or Where's Ness? by Ninten1
Love
For the submitters who got heart. Example: Spam_Man and his Halloween Costume.

Category Awards

One First Place and one Runner Up for each of the following will be presented for each of the four categories. Each First Place recipient will receive a Ghost of Starman figurine. Each Runner Up recipient will receive a Ghost of Starman Badge.

Halloweeniest
For the submissions which give off the best Halloween vibe -- whether it reminds us of Threed, or trick or treating in our local neighborhood, or even if it just scares the crap out of us. Example: Meeellla's Ghost of Starman or Giegue's Saturn Jack-O-Lantern.
Arms Idealer
For the most creative, unusual submissions which stray from the norm or make us go "bwaaaahahah that's awesome". Example: Radiation's Story of a Soldier or GimeC's House of [M3 Spoiler]
Rockin' Ω
For the submissions with the widest variety of awesome. Example: Libra's EarthBound Supremacy II or emilio's Army of Belchness.
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Judging

Criteria

Entries will be judged according to the personal taste of the judges, and based loosely on the guidelines found in the 'Awards' section. If an entry deserves to win first place for half the categories, it will. But, while an entry may be recognized for multiple awards, please note that no submitter may win more than one prize of the same type! For example, a submitter may win an Anthology and a Starman, but he can't win two Anthologies or two Starmen.

In the event that a submitter wins multiple awards, the prizes will 'cascade' - the First Place prize will go to the Runner Up, and the Runner Up prize will be awarded to an Honorable Mention.

Judges

One judge has been assigned to each category. The overall judging will be a collaboration between the judges and any staffers who didn't make an entry in the funfest.

Overall Judges

xfisjmg1
wasabimilkshake

Category Judges

Writing
JamesPicard_007
Audioviz
Fishsticks
Handart
Artemis251
Compart
matilda_caboose
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Prizes

  • EarthBound Anthology

    EarthBound Anthology 3rd Edition w/ 2 DVDs

    That's right, for the first time, the EarthBound Anthology will be made available to the fans. This is the third edition, differentiated from the first two by some minor changes (mostly typographical) and the consolidation of the data discs from 4 to 2. The Anthology is the brainchild of Mr. Jon Kay.

    How To Get: Win First Place in any of the Overall Awards (Skill, Labor, Love).

    3 copies of the Anthology will be given out -- so, if you win one, please note that you'll be required to provide reidman with an address to send the Anthology to, and you might not get it for a few weeks.

  • Starmen.Net Keychain

    Starmen.Net Keychain

    That's right, the keychains have returned, and now's your chance to get one without the $25 donation ;D Note that these are limited edition -- they will never be made again, and after this contest is over, we'll have only a handful left.

    How To Get: Win Runner Up in any of the Overall Awards (Skill, Labor, Love).

    0 - 3 keychains will be given out (winners will have their choice between this and the /EarthBound DVD) -- so, if you win one, please note that you'll be required to provide reidman with an address to send the keychain to, and you might not get it for a few weeks.

  • /EarthBound DVD

    /EarthBound DVD (Season One)

    A collection of hilarious/crazy EarthBound videos in the vein of Mega64, the creation of insane genius Stephen Georg.

    How To Get: Win Runner Up in any of the Overall Awards (Skill, Labor, Love).

    0 - 3 DVDs will be given out (winners will have their choice between this and a keychain) -- so, if you win one, please note that you'll be required to provide xfisjmg1 with an address to send it to, and you might not get it for a few weeks!

  • Ghost of Starman Resin Figurine

    Ghost of Starman Resin Figurine

    A Ghost of Starman figurine (about 1.5" tall), hand-cast in deep blue semi-transparent resin and then hand-painted by Camille Young.

    How To Get: Win First Place in any of the Category Awards (Halloweeniest, Arms Idealer, or Rockin' Ω).

    12 Ghost of Starman figurines will be given out (3 per category) -- so, if you win one, please note that you'll be required to provide reidman with an address to send the Starman to, and you might not get it for a few weeks/months.

  • Ghost of Starman Badge

    Ghost of Starman Badge

    A Ghost of Starman sprite badge (tacked onto your name in the forum)

    How To Get: Win Runner Up in any of the Category Awards (Halloweeniest, Arms Idealer, or Rockin' Ω).

  • Boogey Tent Badge

    Halloween '07 Participation Badge

    A Halloween Funfest decay badge (tacked onto your name in the forum) that will disappear once the Holiday Funfest 2007 starts in early December.

    How To Get: Submit something worthwhile to the funfest! Note that you have to put some effort into your entry -- we won't give you a badge for a haiku you wrote in 5 seconds ;)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Start?
October 7, 2007
End?
November 7, 2007
What is it?
The Funfest is a relatively ancient Starmen.Net tradition dating back to 1999. It's pretty much just a submission-fest. People send halloween-themed EarthBound (or MOTHER) stuff into the site, we post it, sometimes there's breakdancing -- good times are had.
What's the point?
The goal here is to have some fun. Without doing anything at all, you can enjoy checking out some of the great stuff that the creative minds of EarthBound fans come up with. If you want to flex some creative/artistic muscle, then enter something! You can spend 5 minutes on it, or you can spend a month on it.
Requirements
Since this is Starmen.Net's Halloween funfest, there are only two requirements - it should have something to do with MOTHER / EarthBound (or Starmen.Net, at least), and it should have some kind of relation to Halloween or the 'harvest' season of fall -- pumpkins, trick or treating, ghosts, colorful leafs, zombies, haunted mansions, etc. If you need some ideas, you can check out the 2006 Halloween Funfest.

We get pretty much everything - the occasional Fanfic, tons of Fanart, too many Flukes, not nearly enough Fanimations, and once in a while even a Fan Game.
Restrictions
Submissions: You can submit as many entries as you want. But submitting a million entries won't get you anywhere unless at least one of them is very good, so put some thought and effort into it!

There's no limitation to your entry's filesize, but if it's too huge, you probably won't be able to upload it to Starmen.Net without some issues. In that case, you can stick it up on any site (we might recommend Dropsend) and send a PM to xfisjmg1 to tell him where to get it.

Content: Obviously, your entry shouldn't contain anything inappropriate for a site that has young visitors.

Prizes: You can only win one of each type of prize. Please note that we will probably try to spread the prizes out so that only the really ridiculously excellent entrants end up winning more than one prize.
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