For the past few weeks we've been running a little contest, mostly just for fun, for icon artists to come up with a handful of St. Patrick's Day themed icons for the desktop. The rules were they had to cover the 5 major desktop icons, be submitted to the Misc Icon gallery by March 17th and have a preview image posted to the contest forum thread.
We ended up with five qualifying entries competing for 3 prizes (1 year WinCustomize subscriptions).
To decide the winners, our moderator team cast their votes on their top 3 favorites. Additionally, we ran a short poll this week asking for the users to vote on their favorite as well. Typically, when we run a contest, the views of the moderators and judges vary to some extent from results of public voting. This time however, the results for both judge voting and public voting were identical. The top three in both sets were spot-on the same, with the 4th place in user voting being a tie.
Here are the results:
1st Place - Po'Smedley
2nd Place - RPGFX
3rd Place - gh33da
Congrats to all of our winners!
The follow-up poll question is:
Should we run similar mini-contests in the future?
UPDATE: Po'Smedley has decided to give away his winnings from the icon contest! Check out his thread here on how you might get the 1 year WC sub (and a bonus premium suite).