One Ring Awards!

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:55 am

[h2]One Ring Awards[/h2]

The management of The One Ring is excited to announce the start of a regular series of competitions for our members. Each season we will be holding the One Ring Awards; a number of competitions for beginners and experts alike. There will be the following categories:

[h3]Competition Categories[/h3]

Best Painted Miniature
Best Sculpture/Conversion
Best Terrain Piece
Best Diorama
Best Scenario/House Rules
Most Promising Painter
Most Promising Sculptor/Converter
Most Promising Terrain Maker
Most Promising Dioramist
Most Promising Gaming Guru

The competition will be opened for entries on the 1st of December and close on the 31st of December. Judging will be held in January and the winners announced during that month. Competitions will be held every three months. More information will be released closer to the dates, such as prizes and competition rules etc., but in the meantime get painting and building!

A huge thanks go to Potenza, Azog, and Nygyll of Wyvernhole for enthusiastically arranging this, and also to Tagron, Bob Bickels and (especially) Ring for their ideas and input.

(oh, the prizes are still being sorted out at the moment, but definately 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will earn gold coins towards their ranks. And there will be some blister packs and more for some of the categories too - more details to come)

BanJo · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:50 pm

Yey! Great news for the site and community! Can't wait to participate!

Torstein

fatty-bolger · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:02 pm

yes i cant wait, got to get painting right know

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:10 pm

Can we enter multiple categories, i.e., a mini, a sculpt or conversion, a diorama, a terrain piece - one of each apiece?

And for the most promising, it does not mean that the one who makes the most promises wins? ... (listens to all the groans worldwide, Attila the Pun strikes again)

Peregrin Took · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:00 pm

Great! I can't wait for more details and the awards.

MacGothmog · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:42 pm

Oooooh!!!

Sounds great!
Very good excuse to clean my backlog a bit more.

/me goes check his models to enter the competitions.

Great news!

Middle-Earth Maniac · **Joined:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:39 pm **Posts:** 1

Im new here i just joined today, but that sounds very cool :sauron:

Guest · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:23 pm

What a cool idea, just the sought of thing to give people something to look forward to and also something to aim for.

Treebeard · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:37 pm

Sounds really good to me, I'll be entering a category or two, depends how my free time works out.

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:00 am

@Dorthonion - that was the worst attempt at humour since, since,... since the last time you posted!

And yes, you can enter multiple categories. But not as a Novice as well as an Expert obviously.

And a special 'Ego-maniac' award goes for the person that wins all five categories with a single diorama/terrain piece/sculpting/paint job entry (and a scenario to go with it, naturally) - just kidding!

Turin Turumbar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:14 am

How do we enter our pieces of work??

Sounds good though

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:13 am

The competition starts in December and there will be a number of new galleries opened then that will let you enter your pictures. So you can start painting now and you'll have a month or so to finish everything off before entries will be accepted.

Good luck everyone.

Gothmog Rulez! · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:50 am

maybe there should be like youngbloods for under 15s because it would be un fair if they eneterd the best painted mini catergory

Turin Turumbar · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:46 am

Good idea cos I'm Under 15 and I haven't got a chance in hell against some of the guys

Nygyll of Wyvernhole · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:01 am

Thats why we have the promising category. It allows those guys who are not Hall of fame style painters (yet) to have a go and try to win something. The judges do have the right to move items if we think that they have been submitted to the wrong category. Therefore you will not see the likes of Olofer, Peregrin Took, Tobold and others in the Promising painters competition.
Have a go you may suprise yourselves.

And good luck.

And please note all bribes will be gratfully accepted (won't actually get you anything but we accept them anyway)

Tagron · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:13 pm

can the people who helped with the commitee enter? Or am i just going to have to spectate? Cause id like to enter atleast one, but i understand if i cant

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:38 pm

@Tagron, at this stage (at least until the final version of the rules are published), the answer is 'yes, you can enter'.

Chineselegolas · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:31 am

Hmm... I like winning stuff, but can't paint, so I like the idea of the scenario/House rule catagory, and the Gaming Guru

Great way to include all aspects of the hobby
cheers to the team

Now... to start planning my scenario

Gothmog Rulez! · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:45 am

im just thinking…

will you put us in catergories or will we decide?

im just thinking in case any really good painters(tagron tobold olofer etc.) decide to enter "Most promising painter"

Nygyll of Wyvernhole · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:51 am

Final rules have not been decided yet, but you will choose your own category. If the likes of Tobold does put themselves into Promising Painter they will be moved by us

or even disqualified :twisted:

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