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?
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
Filed under: Fan stuff, Contests
Aug 30th 2007 at 6:20PM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dekulink Aug 30th 2007 8:41PM
Niiiice.... too bad I'm lazy :P
Zuty Aug 30th 2007 8:47PM
The prizes use big and long words, They must be good ...
~Zuty
RogueJedi86 Aug 31st 2007 1:06AM
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.
Bluehunter Aug 31st 2007 2:21AM
I can't do this contest if I'm in UK can I?
Christian Stricker Aug 31st 2007 2:31AM
Let me guess: All contestants must be US citizens because we're too lazy to ship elsewhere?
RogueJedi86 Aug 31st 2007 2:42AM
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.
RogueJedi86 Aug 31st 2007 3:26AM
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!
Tridus Aug 31st 2007 6:21AM
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.