Drunk Hobbit
08-13-2002, 03:17 PM
http://www.mariomilitia.com
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THE PRIZES
First Prize: $59.99 given to you via PayPal or MoneyOrder. The initial plan was to pay for whomever won the top spot’s pre-order of Super Mario Sunshine, but as most of us have probably already ordered it, and I want the contest to run a certain length of time, I’ve decided just to hand out the cash for the game. SO, essentially, you’ll get your copy of SMS paid for, from a certain point of view.
Second Prize: A WaveBird
Third Prize: A Memory Card251
Fourth Prize: A Memory Card59
Fifth Prize: One Month Free Insider (or $4.95 paid via PayPal)
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THE CONTEST
Being as creative, innovative, and funny as possible, go around your neighborhood, city, state, or country getting the word out about Super Mario Sunshine and the Mario Militia. The Militia’s goal is to try and reshape the mindset casual gamers and the gaming public en masse has about Nintendo and it’s products. I’m personally tired of folks thinking Nintendo is only for little kids, and I’m sure many of you are the same. Which is why the Mario Militia was born right here on this board just a few weeks ago.
Go to MarioMilitia.com and view the Propaganda section. See all of those cool posters and logos? Use these as you see fit to get the word out about Super Mario Sunshine, to get people excited about the game, and to hopefully boost sales for Nintendo of their upcoming flagship title. Or you can make your own posters and whatnots to get the word out, as long as they have the url of mariomilitia.com or Nintendo's Official SMS page listed somewhere on the poster. After all, it doesn’t do Nintendo any good if people don’t know what the hell the posters are about. The website has Nintendo’s information about SMS, some photos and videos, and a link to the Official Site.
So what do you do? Well, you’re going to need to take photographs or videos of whatever you decide is funny or interesting enough to get into the contest. Say you decide you want to run around in a pair of Mario Militia Underwear that you’ve made out of stapled together posters from the website. Just get your bud to take a photograph of you running willy-nilly around town, and there’s an entry!
Or, for the less adventurous, more gun-shy of you guys out there, you can simply find an empty wall in your city and post multitudes of Mario Militia Propaganda Posters all over it, and then take a snapshot with your camera! Even easier would be to just put one poster on each telephone pole in your neighborhood, and then take a photograph from a proper vantage point, showing your handy work. Or even handing out posters at your local mall, while being dressed up in your own homemade Mario Costume. Really, whatever you want to do as long as it doesn’t break any laws in your area and doesn’t get you hurt, is fine with me!
The goal is to get creative, have fun, and get the word out about how amazing of a game Super Mario Sunshine really is. We want folks who never thought they’d purchase a Nintendo system or a Mario Game to feel the urge, need, desire, and draw to finally fork over the necessary money to get their hands on the little hairy plumber that could!
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THE RULES
1) You can’t break any laws.
2) Don’t do anything stupid enough to get yourself hurt, as you’re responsible for any stupid acts you may perform – not me
3) Whatever you do must link back to the Mario Militia website and/or Nintendo’s Super Mario Sunshine website. Otherwise, folks don’t know what’s going on.
4) Be creative as possible. The better your actions are, the more likely you are to win one of the 5 prizes available.
5) All entries must be PRIVATE MESSAGED to bleutuna by August 25th, at 8:00pm CST. No entries made at 8:01pm will be allowed.
6 No photos manipulations allowed whatsoever. Taking a photograph of a wall, and then going into Photoshop to put hundreds of posters behind you isn’t going to cut it. I’ll be able to tell, and you’ll be disqualified.
7) Enter as many times as you like.
8) All entries must be clear photographs or videos. If you don’t have a camera, I’m sorry.
9) Once the entries have been received, I will find the top 10 that I find to be the best, and then I’ll make a poll from those. The poll will be anonymous, and this thread will be deleted to keep names a secret. All of my decisions are final. If I mess up, oh well, them’s the breaks. It’s my contest, after all!
10) In the event of a tie, there will be subsequent run-off polls to determine the winner of that particular spot. No awards are given for places 6-10. Sorry.
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This contest is about two things: Getting the word out about Mario Sunshine and Having a lot of fun! If those two things don’t interest you, then this contest may not be the right one for you.
To those that don’t have a camera, but want to enter the contest, go and find someone who does. With school starting up, there has to be someone out there with a camera, and telling them about what you’re doing and how much fun you’re having is a great way to make new friends! Who knows, you could make the best friend of your life, all because of the Mario Militia Giveaway Contest!
If you’d like to submit posters to be included in the contest, just PM them to me, and I’ll review and most likely post them on the site. The best bet is to make them 8.5x11, so that a standard printer can print them out, and so that they are easily photocopied.
The other sections of MarioMilitia.com will be finished within the next few weeks. The goal of the site is to push Nintendo, not just SMS. So eventually I’ll be holding a Star Fox, Metroid, Zelda, and other contests down the road – just like this one.
Let’s get the word out to people that Nintendo is about great games, not about making little toddlers happy!
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THE PRIZES
First Prize: $59.99 given to you via PayPal or MoneyOrder. The initial plan was to pay for whomever won the top spot’s pre-order of Super Mario Sunshine, but as most of us have probably already ordered it, and I want the contest to run a certain length of time, I’ve decided just to hand out the cash for the game. SO, essentially, you’ll get your copy of SMS paid for, from a certain point of view.
Second Prize: A WaveBird
Third Prize: A Memory Card251
Fourth Prize: A Memory Card59
Fifth Prize: One Month Free Insider (or $4.95 paid via PayPal)
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THE CONTEST
Being as creative, innovative, and funny as possible, go around your neighborhood, city, state, or country getting the word out about Super Mario Sunshine and the Mario Militia. The Militia’s goal is to try and reshape the mindset casual gamers and the gaming public en masse has about Nintendo and it’s products. I’m personally tired of folks thinking Nintendo is only for little kids, and I’m sure many of you are the same. Which is why the Mario Militia was born right here on this board just a few weeks ago.
Go to MarioMilitia.com and view the Propaganda section. See all of those cool posters and logos? Use these as you see fit to get the word out about Super Mario Sunshine, to get people excited about the game, and to hopefully boost sales for Nintendo of their upcoming flagship title. Or you can make your own posters and whatnots to get the word out, as long as they have the url of mariomilitia.com or Nintendo's Official SMS page listed somewhere on the poster. After all, it doesn’t do Nintendo any good if people don’t know what the hell the posters are about. The website has Nintendo’s information about SMS, some photos and videos, and a link to the Official Site.
So what do you do? Well, you’re going to need to take photographs or videos of whatever you decide is funny or interesting enough to get into the contest. Say you decide you want to run around in a pair of Mario Militia Underwear that you’ve made out of stapled together posters from the website. Just get your bud to take a photograph of you running willy-nilly around town, and there’s an entry!
Or, for the less adventurous, more gun-shy of you guys out there, you can simply find an empty wall in your city and post multitudes of Mario Militia Propaganda Posters all over it, and then take a snapshot with your camera! Even easier would be to just put one poster on each telephone pole in your neighborhood, and then take a photograph from a proper vantage point, showing your handy work. Or even handing out posters at your local mall, while being dressed up in your own homemade Mario Costume. Really, whatever you want to do as long as it doesn’t break any laws in your area and doesn’t get you hurt, is fine with me!
The goal is to get creative, have fun, and get the word out about how amazing of a game Super Mario Sunshine really is. We want folks who never thought they’d purchase a Nintendo system or a Mario Game to feel the urge, need, desire, and draw to finally fork over the necessary money to get their hands on the little hairy plumber that could!
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THE RULES
1) You can’t break any laws.
2) Don’t do anything stupid enough to get yourself hurt, as you’re responsible for any stupid acts you may perform – not me
3) Whatever you do must link back to the Mario Militia website and/or Nintendo’s Super Mario Sunshine website. Otherwise, folks don’t know what’s going on.
4) Be creative as possible. The better your actions are, the more likely you are to win one of the 5 prizes available.
5) All entries must be PRIVATE MESSAGED to bleutuna by August 25th, at 8:00pm CST. No entries made at 8:01pm will be allowed.
6 No photos manipulations allowed whatsoever. Taking a photograph of a wall, and then going into Photoshop to put hundreds of posters behind you isn’t going to cut it. I’ll be able to tell, and you’ll be disqualified.
7) Enter as many times as you like.
8) All entries must be clear photographs or videos. If you don’t have a camera, I’m sorry.
9) Once the entries have been received, I will find the top 10 that I find to be the best, and then I’ll make a poll from those. The poll will be anonymous, and this thread will be deleted to keep names a secret. All of my decisions are final. If I mess up, oh well, them’s the breaks. It’s my contest, after all!
10) In the event of a tie, there will be subsequent run-off polls to determine the winner of that particular spot. No awards are given for places 6-10. Sorry.
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This contest is about two things: Getting the word out about Mario Sunshine and Having a lot of fun! If those two things don’t interest you, then this contest may not be the right one for you.
To those that don’t have a camera, but want to enter the contest, go and find someone who does. With school starting up, there has to be someone out there with a camera, and telling them about what you’re doing and how much fun you’re having is a great way to make new friends! Who knows, you could make the best friend of your life, all because of the Mario Militia Giveaway Contest!
If you’d like to submit posters to be included in the contest, just PM them to me, and I’ll review and most likely post them on the site. The best bet is to make them 8.5x11, so that a standard printer can print them out, and so that they are easily photocopied.
The other sections of MarioMilitia.com will be finished within the next few weeks. The goal of the site is to push Nintendo, not just SMS. So eventually I’ll be holding a Star Fox, Metroid, Zelda, and other contests down the road – just like this one.
Let’s get the word out to people that Nintendo is about great games, not about making little toddlers happy!