The Righteous Return of the Greatest Competition Ever

Rocky · **Posted:** October 15th, 2009, 6:17 pm

Alert! Alert! Very exciting news coming your way! After a very long time, RuneVillage's favorite signature competition is back. For a while now we, the Signature of the Week judges, have been contemplating how best to revamp the SoTW in a way that would help rekindle the passion of competition, and we have decided that in order to do so, we had to turn that W upside down. Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to introduce you to the Signature of the Month competition.

From now on, the newly refurbished Signature of the Month competition will run from the 15th of every month to the 10th of the next month, with about week in between for the judges to contemplate the radically beautiful entries submitted over the three previous weeks.

For those wondering how we plan on keeping a SoTM global up all the time, fret not. We have decided that having such a global up all the time would be rather silly, and that instead we will have the topic set up as an announcement in General Pictures from the 15th to the 3rd, and then as a global from the 3rd to the 10th so that people know to get their entries in.

For those wondering, here are a couple of links that might be helpful in getting familiar with the new SoTM competition. First, Steely Mallon has graciously compiled a list of websites that may be helpful in learning about graphic design programs, tutorials in the various programs, and other such tidbits of useful information that can be found here. Second, everyone planning on entering a SoTM should familiarize themselves with the rules of the competition, which can be found in all SotM topics. You wouldn't want to enter a beautiful piece of work just to have it turned away because the filesize was too large. And third, the Winner's Thread, which catalogs all the previous winners of SoTM and SoTW competitions, can be found here.

Finally, we would like to thank you for being so patient in waiting for the return of this spectacular competition. We know many mourned the loss of the SoTW back in 2008, so we're all quite excited to see how this new and improved SoTM plays out.

Signature of the Month #1!

Jackstick and Rocky Martin
SoTM Managers

Whydidijoin · **Posted:** October 16th, 2009, 1:52 pm

Yay! Best competition ever. :^_^:

Best of luck everyone!

Nish · **Posted:** October 16th, 2009, 4:13 pm

I'm joining, this will be fun to finally participate in because I was always just a viewer.

Animal · **Posted:** October 16th, 2009, 5:51 pm

I'm gonna try and probably won't win. :laugh:

Ventrue · **Posted:** October 17th, 2009, 1:33 pm

Meh, it's all a popularity contest in my opinion. I won't even bother with it.

Nish · **Posted:** October 17th, 2009, 3:51 pm

Ghoultrue wrote:

Meh, it's all a popularity contest in my opinion. I won't even bother with it.

I highly doubt this is true..

Jackstick · **Posted:** October 17th, 2009, 3:56 pm

Noen wrote:

Ghoultrue wrote:

Meh, it's all a popularity contest in my opinion. I won't even bother with it.

I highly doubt this is true..

Yeah, it's not. :?:

Wouldn't hurt to enter anyway, Ventrue. I'm sure you have plenty of nice sigs lying around.

Faz · **Posted:** October 20th, 2009, 2:10 am

Ghoultrue wrote:

Meh, it's all a popularity contest in my opinion. I won't even bother with it.

New judges pal

Erica · January 23, 2008, 4:35

*sits down for the show*

Hey hows it going? ^_^ good to see that its back finnaly

Whydidijoin · **Posted:** October 20th, 2009, 8:49 am

Faz wrote:

Ghoultrue wrote:

Meh, it's all a popularity contest in my opinion. I won't even bother with it.

New judges pal

And for the record, it was never a popularity contest. Some judges occasionally voted for creativity and humour ahead of pure skill (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), and that pushed what you may call arguable placings into 2nd and 3rd place on rare occasions. But even if you disagree with the way it was voted on, the least of reasons was a popularity contest.

In fact, one of the main reasons a same group of people placed so often was because of people like you saying "Oh, I won't win.. I'm not good enough/I don't like the way it's voted/whatever". They didn't enter, and they never won. And that small group of people who were dedicated and entered every week didn't have nearly the competition that they could have had, and they were able to place on a more consistent basis.

Faz · **Posted:** October 20th, 2009, 9:11 am

Whydidijoin wrote:

And that small group of people who were dedicated and entered every week didn't have nearly the competition that they could have had, and they were able to place on a more consistent basis.

And the sigs we made weren't half bad either

Whydidijoin · **Posted:** October 20th, 2009, 11:38 am

Faz wrote:

And the sigs we made weren't half bad either

Haha, definitely! :^_^:

I can't even imagine the work that went into some of them, and they no doubt would have done well regardless of the number of people.

I'm merely saying to the people doubting their chances; the only time you have no chance of winning is when you don't enter at all.

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