The GUI Olympics begins MONDAY
Friday, February 27, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
This Monday, the GUI Olympics 2004 will begin. It's a contest to see who can create the world's best visual styles, icons, and Winamp 5 skins. Sponsors include Stardock, Nullsoft, ATI, nVidia, and others. Microsoft is also providing prizes to the contest. In total, over $10,000 (closer to $15,000) in cash and prizes will be given out including ATI video cards, an Xbox, tons of software and probably some surprises.
You will be able to enter skins individually or as part of a team. The top teams will get a big bonus prize. Anyone can form a team and there are no restrictions on the size of team (though obviously the bigger the team, the bigger the split in the prize money). You could have a Team MyfavoriteWebsite or a Team "l33t". It's up to whoever starts the team (on Monday there will be a mechanism on www.guiolympics.com to create your own team).
The rules are fairly straight forward. You have to enter submissions that are NEW. They can't be things that already exist. They also have to be in WindowBlinds visual style format. But if you've ever made a .msstyles visual style, it's pretty easy to make a WindowBlinds one and SkinStudio can convert a .msstyles file to WindowBlinds visual style format. And then from there add the missing features to make it competitive.
The contest begins on March 1 but JUDGING won't begin until April 5 so you'll have over a month to actually put together your stuff. And judging goes on during the entire month so you may potentially have nearly 2 months depending on what events you're concentrating on.
Here is the schedule of events:
April 5: Most minimalist visual style, Most creative Winamp skin, Most original icon package
April 8: Best Power user visual style, Most useable Winamp skin
April 12: Most usable visual style, Best power user Winamp skin, Best "themed" (icons go together the best) icon package
April 15: Most creative visual style
April 19: Best themed* visual style*, Best themed* Winamp skin, Best pseudo-OS icon package
April 22: Best Pseudo-OS visual style
April 26: Best overall visual style, Best overall Winamp skin, Best overall icon package
April 27: Top Team/Individual: WindowBlinds, Top Team/Individual: Winamp, Top Team/Individual: Icons
April 29: User's Choice: Best visual style, User's Choice: Best Winamp skin: User's Choice: Best icon package
*themed skin as in the whole skin keeps to a particular theme.
16 Events. Over $10,000 in cash and prizes. Anyone can enter.
The judges will be admins/employees from Stardock, Neowin, deviantART, and Nullsoft.
So there you have it. WB visual styles, icon packages, and Winamp 5. For $10k to $15k in cash and prizes spread among 16 main events.
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Reply #83 Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:48 PM
(No, I don't care if he really said it or not, I'm blaming the quote on him because he is dead and he can't do anything about it.)
bakerstreet does a little dance, making large pointing gestures toward his elegantly coiffed head.
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Reply #87 Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:51 PM
Jesh: Why don't you calm yourself down. I don't know who did whatever to you in your past to make you so defensive and insecure but we are not your adversaries.
Perhaps when you get back and re-read this thread you will see that you are over-reacting to the extreme. I doubt anyone is going to tell you to leave because no one wants you to leave. They just want you to stop trivializing something most people around here and in our community do think is a good thing.
And speaking for myself, I just wish you would quit assuming everyone is attacking you. Especially given how acidly you react to other people.
Reply #88 Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:54 PM
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Reply #90 Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:56 PM
@ neophil78We're trying to have an argument here dammit.
To write in bold, put your text between a tag and a tag (without the spaces).
To write an 'emote' (the red text), start a line with / m e (again, without the spaces).
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grayhaze waves his faux gold medal around
Reply #97 Saturday, February 28, 2004 1:00 PM
Jesh, please don't remove the skins, you are making people happy with them, haven't you seen the download count? Are you going to them because some people are giving you negative comments?
So please stop this topic and if you decide to continue (witch will probably be the case ) ) Please keep it clean.
*Cough* Family site *Cough*
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grayhaze whistles innocently to himself and goes back to working on his GAN-... er... GUI Olympics entry.
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Reply #81 Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:47 PM
I'll check when i get back.
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