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 #42 Saturday, December 20, 2008 2:39 AM
I'd just like to add... after all is said and done and upon some reflection, I am happy to have just been able to compete here.
I extend my warmest appreciation to all competitors, winners and those who may not even have come close.
At the end of the day.. we are all on this planet together and most of us... perhaps far more fortunate than many others
I always try to appreciate what I have and don't dwell long on what I don't. Lastly, to Craig, your a winner in my book mate.
Thanks to everyone and Merry Christmas 
Reply #43 Saturday, December 20, 2008 3:37 AM
yay, well done to everybody who participated and a special warm congrats to the winners, keep up the good work!!!
Happy Holidays
Reply #44 Saturday, December 20, 2008 6:24 AM
Congrats to all the winners 
Team MaxStyles Top of The World 
Reply #45 Saturday, December 20, 2008 7:49 AM
Congratulations to the medal winners! Thank you to alll who entered for you have made the rest of us in the community 'winners' in that we are the recipients of your artistic talent and hours of work you put into your entries. We get to download and utilize all without any of the hard work! Know that it is all sooooo appreciated Happy holidays!
Reply #46 Saturday, December 20, 2008 7:55 AM
sorry guyz .... was out for many days ............
first of all Many Congratz to all SkinDex Biscuits for getting some great results here .....
and Many congratz to MaxStyles guyz aswell .... for their excellent first place ..... ( a bit disappointed for not seeing Aroche on Podium ..... but u will be happy for your team .... )
congratz to TMB, ChaNinja, MrPaul, Tiggz and John too .....
thanxx
Reply #47 Saturday, December 20, 2008 9:13 AM
Yup, a lot of very good work here! VERY talented artists and great submissions. Congratulations to all! RAD
Reply #50 Saturday, December 20, 2008 8:03 PM
ChaNinja, 2nd and 3rd? That's double special and deserved, and I use TheMasterBaron's Life of Europa as my go-to dream.
Judges aren't too shabby either. Thank you for your work, artful stuff.
Reply #52 Sunday, December 21, 2008 3:21 AM
Congratulations to all winners... it was a great contest full of mastery and creativity... thank you all for letting our desktops shine!
Reply #53 Monday, December 22, 2008 11:06 PM
Gratz to all who even entered!! All these submissions were great and they all showed a lot of hard work and talent! Thank you to all you ppl who skin so selflessly.
Reply #54 Friday, December 26, 2008 4:35 PM
Congrats to all of the prize winners.
Also...It was an honor to participate.
Reply #56 Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:12 AM
Congratulations to the winners and all who entered. Everyone's work was fabulous and greatly appreciated.
A very big thank you for sharing your talents! 
Reply #57 Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:09 AM
。。。the best overall icon is Plastic Fantastic. Why????
It's commonly
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Reply #41 Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:09 AM
Congrats to winners! Well done everyone!
Special congrats to Tiggz and John, Go Maxstyles!