Wowhead screenshot contest

Posted Aug 30th 2007 6:20PM by Eliah Hecht
Filed under: Fan stuff, Contests

My long-time personal favorite WoW database site, Wowhead, is having another one of their contests: "The Lost Screenshots." This time, all you have to do is submit screenshots for NPCs, items, or other things that don't have one already. The winners will be the three people who submit approved screenshots for the greatest number of entries. Win what, you ask?

First prize – Acer 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
Second prize – BFG GeForce 7900 GS Video Card
Third prize – Logitech MX518 Optical Gaming Mouse

That's some fairly serious prizes. Note that dressing room and model viewer screenshots are disallowed. There are a few other tips and rules for the contest on Wowhead's contest page. I'm pretty excited about this one; it sounds like a lot of fun hunting down things and taking photos of them. (But then again, I loved Pokémon Snap, too.) The contest started at 12:01 AM EST yesterday, and runs until 11:59 PM EST on Tuesday, September 11. So get snapping!

[image via this excellent Dark Legacy comic]

Tags: contests, database, fansites, wowhead

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

8-30-2007 @ 8:41PM

dekulink said...

Niiiice.... too bad I'm lazy :P

8-30-2007 @ 8:47PM

Zuty said...

The prizes use big and long words, They must be good ...

~Zuty

8-31-2007 @ 1:06AM

RogueJedi86 said...

Apparently it's a big hit already. They normally get a few hundred shots a day. The first day they got 4500 screenshot submissions. Really nice. Good idea to help fill out their database.

8-31-2007 @ 2:21AM

Bluehunter said...

I can't do this contest if I'm in UK can I?

8-31-2007 @ 2:31AM

Christian Stricker said...

Let me guess: All contestants must be US citizens because we're too lazy to ship elsewhere?

8-31-2007 @ 2:42AM

RogueJedi86 said...

Canada too. But the limitation is only to anywhere Amazon ships. Presumably because they'll send the prize to you via amazon.

Doubt anyone can join up now and win. Some people are pretty fierced, with hundreds, even thousands submitted already.

8-31-2007 @ 3:26AM

RogueJedi86 said...

Lemme rephrase that. It can be hard to win, but it's by no means not impossible. We have until 9/11 to do it. Me? I'm hoping for second place, since I need a video card more than a monitor, but that still means I gotta try. Try looking for NPCs in more obscure zones. Always need more screenshots of NPCs in level 60 raid dungeons in Azeroth, and pretty much every other dungeon in the game! And most zones!

Yay WoWHead!

8-31-2007 @ 6:21AM

Tridus said...

Its actually more complicated then shipping, guys. Canada has different laws governing contests then the US does (and Quebec's rules are different then English Canada's again).

It costs money for a small American outfit to learn what those laws are in order to open it up to Canada. Its the same for any other country in the world.

Yes it sucks, but its not a matter of not wanting to pay UPS.

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