I don’t think any of your contests are fair.I don’t have the money nor knowledge to use software to make things like this.Seem like every contest you hold it’s for select people.Why can’t you ever have a contest that a person can add their name to a list and you pick one?

You’re talking crap, that’s all. Designing contest means you have to be creative, that’s all, I think that Windows Paint is enough to show your creativity. Writing contests - just try, did you? Do you need ‘the money or knowledge to use software’ to write a few sentences? Naked gnome contest - was it for selected people only as well?

If you are a lazy person, nobody’s willing to give you any awards, and never will, live with that or change your attitude.

Indeed it seems like almost all of the competitions are some form of Image creation or design, like meant for only people with image editing software.  granted they do have a few in game ones which are nice.  There should be more diversity in the content that’s being judged.  I would love to see and audio contest, im sure others would love to see a video contest.  Just putting it out there

Actually, the competitions we run vary greatly. Last month we had a Fan Fiction contest to give away the new WoW books, we’re currently running a Screenshot comp to win an exclusive signed WoW poster, we regularly have level 1 races to give away in-game pets or other items, and we also have design comps, like this one.

It’s also worth mentioning that whichever method we chose, there are always people who complain! If we had an audio or video contest, that would probably rule out more people than one like this. As jwozniak pointed out, all you need is Paint if you want to design the image on your computer. We’re also accepting hand-drawn images, so speciality software isn’t necessary at all.

Having said that, we do like to vary our contests, and we won’t rule out running a competition in future that involves video and/or audio, we’ve done it before and it was a lot of fun

In this case, we feel that the quality of these prizes requires something a bit special.

Print screen doesn’t require any software.  Running through wow as a naked gnome with a ton of other people doesn’t require any software.

I think the contests are varied and encourage people to get involved.  This contest you only require a pencil and paper and access to a scanner. Any site can run a contest to submit a name and many people who don’t care if they win or not will enter because it is so simple.  A contest that requires some thought and effort will only attract people who really want the prize.

Even if you don’t have a full scanner and a digital camera it all works. I’m actually fully stoked about the contest. I really enjoy being creative and making things… so mix creativity and WoWLK… my blood is pumping. Hehehe :D

I also have some good news about future contests… Keep your eyes on the site over the next week, we’ll be announcing something else very cool for those of you who might not be design-inclined

Can i ask something i just finished making a crest but do i need to make a background like in those wallpapers or?

Did anyone say you had to make it on a computer? You could just draw something then sacn it onto your computer then upload it.

Under which Category do we submit our Death Knight crests when uploading?