GUI Champs 2008 : Final Winners!
Friday, December 19, 2008 by Zoomba | Discussion: GUI Championships News
Good Morning!
For the last 3 months skinners from around the globe have been uploading their best icons, skins and animated wallpapers to compete for the top honors in the Windows skinning world and for a pool of prizes that includes high-end ATI graphics cards, software from Corel, TechSmith and Stardock. Oh, and of course a Wacom Cintiq 12WX! We also have some cash to hand out to our best teams, and some awesome medals for all of our winners!
Today is all about our winners. In a moment I’ll go through the Best Overall medalists, then the top overall teams, and then our top three skinners from the 2008 GUI Championships! Some time in the new year, I’ll be posting some analysis and wrap up information.
Without any further delay, the final winners from the 2008 GUI Championships!
Best Overall Dreams
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1st Place (5 Points) |
2nd Place(3 Points) |
3rd Place (2 Points) |
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Honorable Mention: Brahmand - Gateway to the Infinite by flyersfan
Best Overall Icons
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1st Place (5 Points) |
2nd Place(3 Points) |
3rd Place (2 Points) |
Honorable Mention: Plain Truth by Willouye
Best Overall WindowBlinds Skins
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1st Place (5 Points) |
2nd Place(3 Points) |
3rd Place (2 Points) |
Honorable Mention: Dream Loricae by bingxueling
Top Teams
This is based on the total number of points earned by team members in all the judged/voted events.
1st Place (30 Points) – Team MaxStyles
2nd Place (18 Points) - SkinDex
3rd Place (15 Points) - Iconfans
Top Overall Skinners of the 2008 GUI Championships!
Winners are determined first by total number of points earned in all judged/voted events. In the event of a point tie, the rules state that the winner is determined by contest organizers (myself, Angie & Brad).
1st Place (17 Points) – ChaNinja
2nd Place (13 Points) - TheMasterBaron
3rd Place (13 Points) - Tiggz
In this case, the tie was broken by the diversity of entries. TheMasterBaron had a total of 7 entries, many of which were finalists in the Dream events and showed a stronger overall effort in this year’s event.
Final Note:
Congratulations to all of our winners! You’ve all shown what great things can be done in Windows skinning and that you’re true masters of your trade. In recognition of this, on behalf of WinCustomize, I am promoting all winners of this year’s event to the rank of Master Skinner. We want each and every one of you to become more integrated members of the skinning community, where we can see and appreciate your work all-year-round, not just every two years when a new GUIC rolls around.
I will contact each of you with details on this and formally invite you to become regular members of WinCustomize.
All prizes will be sorted out after January 5th, 2009. Stardock’s offices close this afternoon for the Holidays and will not reopen until after the new year. I will be emailing each contest winner with information on how to receive your prizes. Remember, once you receive the email, you have 14 business days to respond. Please do so. In 2006 we had several winners who vanished after the competition and never responded to any attempts to contact them. You don’t want to pass up on any of these prizes!
Again, congratulations to all of our winners.
To everyone in the community who helped make this year’s event a success, thank you!
I’ll be back in the new year with the contest wrap-up.
Happy Holidays!
-Mike
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Reply #3 Friday, December 19, 2008 11:16 AM
Congrats to everyone involved. I guess I'll have to wait a couple years for a medal. 
Reply #4 Friday, December 19, 2008 11:26 AM
I couldn´t be more happy with the overall icons and wb , I think the results were very fair! 
COngrats to the 3 overall skinners, the best ones won, that was perfect! 
Reply #5 Friday, December 19, 2008 11:38 AM
Couldn't agree more with what has been said here and on other posts throughout the GUIC. Congratulations to all the winners.
We also need to congratulate all of the remining skinners who participated in the GUIC but didn't not win. Without all of them entering there would have been not GUIC. 
If you think the judges had an easy time, go back through the gallery, even knowing the winners and see if you could have been a judge.
One last reminder, spend the rest of this year downloading the skins from the GUIC. What a fantastic way for new members of the community to start building thier own skins liabrary to use in customizing thier desktops. 
Reply #7 Friday, December 19, 2008 11:39 AM
Congratulations Matt... You deserve it mate, proud of ya
I myself am just content to have been beaten by a better windowblind.
Congrats to everyone else also.
Go MaxStyles! 
Reply #8 Friday, December 19, 2008 11:44 AM
Congratulations to everyone and especially the winners. Job well done.
Reply #9 Friday, December 19, 2008 11:58 AM
Btw.. SD...The US won the medal count not China, im not.. in Albania.
Reply #11 Friday, December 19, 2008 12:07 PM
Congratulations to all the winners, fantastic talent. Proper Job.
Reply #12 Friday, December 19, 2008 12:10 PM
THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR VOTES IN THE OVERALL CATEGORY!
And congrats to everyone!
Reply #15 Friday, December 19, 2008 12:16 PM
w00t! Go Team MaxStyles! Congratulations to all the winners and all the folks that entered items into this years contest.
Reply #18 Friday, December 19, 2008 12:57 PM
Congrats to all!!!
43 WindowBlinds
84 Iconpackages
32 Dreams
I think we all won.
Thanks to all.
Reply #19 Friday, December 19, 2008 1:23 PM
Whoooooeeeee, Whoooooeeeeee, Whooooeeeeeee Ha Ha Ha thats all I can say for the moment, this was one of the most exciting events I have been a part of in years, I would like to thank all of Wincustomise and Stardock for that....but man oh man, the winners, you all deserve gold in my book, you entered some bloody awesome art, congratulations to all involved in the winning of medals, and as for Freearea by Dreamxis, Dreamxis you entered a champion skin and left a champion skinner, well done my friend, bloody well done....well thats all my excitement for the next two years gone Ha ha...sorry for the long drivel speech, but i had to get it out of my system...congrats and a very Merry Christmas to you all, thanks for giving me one of the best competitions around, cheers folks....The Thug 
..Ha Ha Ha 
Reply #20 Friday, December 19, 2008 1:56 PM
This year brought some awesome! skins... congratulations too all !!!
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Reply #1 Friday, December 19, 2008 11:10 AM
Congratulations to all that took part in the GUIC. A job well done and a great display of skinning talent.