What do you mean Halloween is in three days? That… can’t be right. I mean, surely I would have posted information about our annual Halolzween Pumpkin Carving Contest far sooner than that! Wait I didn’t? Fffffffffffffffff (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Oh wait, no… this was totally intentional! For this is The Fourth Annual SPEED RUN Halolzween Pumpkin Carving Contest! Yes! This totally intentional contest will test your skills in last minute pumpkin video game pumpkin carving! Are you up to the challenge? Probably not but lets do it anyway!
So what are the rules this year? Same as last year for the most part… take pics of your totally original, made yourself video game themed pumpkin carving, send it in to our special contest email halolzween[at]halolz.com, then sit back and let the Level Up Studios themed prizes roll in! Well okay it’s a little more complicated than that, be sure to check out all the rules below.
Prizes this year will be awarded a little differently than last year (last year things got super confusing between all the categories and places). This year we will be awarding one “grand prize” to an entry in each of the following catagories:
• Most Creative (the most interesting, original or unusual entry)
• Most Detailed (the most artistic, complex, or technically difficult entry)
• Most Humorous (lolololol)
One winner from each of these categories will receive $100 in Level Up Studios store credit!
Then after that we will award an undetermined number of runners up an “Honorable Mention” prize of one Level Up Studios t-shirt or poster of their choice! The number of runners up chosen will be entirely dependent on the number of entries received in this lightning round contest!
Then finally all other entrants will receive a mystery “participant” prize just for entering! Because everyone deserves a prize on Halloween, right?
And now for the most important part of all… the official submission rules:
How to enter:
Step 1: Create an amazing video game themed Halloween pumpkin. Carve it, paint it… there is really no limit to what you can do, as long as there’s a pumpkin in there somewhere! (Other fruits and vegetables are permissible as entries if used creatively)
Step 2: Hand write or print out a sign that says “Halolz.com” to place next to the entry for at least one of the photos that you send in (so that we know that your entry is original and not taken from somewhere off the web). If you don’t do this your entry will be invalid!
Step 3: Take at least one digital photo (however the more the better, and usually at least one with lights on and on with lights off is a good idea) and email it to halolzween[at]halolz.com. Be sure to include: a name for your pumpkin, your real name or nickname that you want shown with your entry on the site and your mailing address for any prizes you might win!
Step 4: All entries must be received by midnight EST on Oct 30th. (Winners will be announced on the 31st).
Additional rules and tips:
• If you send in multiple photos of your work we will post the ones we think look best.
• All entries MUST have at least one photo showing a Halolz.com sign to prevent cheating. There are many video game pumpkin pictures already out there on the internet and if you do not follow this rule we have to assume the pumpkin is not your own work.
• Entries that use a pre-made carving template (like the ones Scott gives out every year) will be accepted, but the odds of you actually winning anything will be extremely low and you will not be eligible for a participation prize!
• Non-video game themed pumpkins will be accepted into the gallery but they are ineligible to win grand prizes.
• You may enter as many pumpkins as you want!
I think that covers all the rules! Good luck!
[An important side note, I have to admit that we had mixed results with fulfilling prizes to winners last year. Of course I am entirely to blame for that, we had A LOT of prize winners, we launched our brand new store around that time, and honestly several contest prize winners fell through the cracks. I have the full winners list here, so if you are one of the people who did not receive a prize from 2010, please email us at the halolzween[at]halolz.com email and we will resolve all outstanding prizes and get you some bonus gifts as well! Thanks!]
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on October 29, 2011 · 12:39 AM
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Email your video game related LOLZ to and if it's good we'll post it!
Did you know the site has over 2,500 video game themed lolz? 
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posting at the last second on a family holiday? shaun your such a troll
Hey cool, my pumpkin from last year is in the contest logo! Hope my pumpkins do good this year too :D
I was wondering when this would show up. I was afraid it wasn't gonna happen this year. Hope to see some good stuff.
Naw, if he was a true troll, he'd say stuff like "first" or post a nonsensical link to TVTropes.
Expecting a lot of pony pumpkins…
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Ah but those aren't video game related so they won't be eligible to win.
If i knew how to carve pumpkins, i'd make Gordon Freeman holding a crowbar high in the air with the light of the pumpkin shining behind him in glory. Please someone make this.
ART WHY CAN I NO DO YOU?
Fred added this since it's a "speed run" contest:
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Unless they cross over it.
No Mario?
I call hax.
If I knew how to carve pumpkins, I would be making Portal sentry gun with red glow…
Someone do one with Shawn flipping a table and you'll probably win.
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If you hadn't mentioned it, they probably wouldn't have cared.
DAMN! THIS IS MEZMORISING!
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I don't think I can stop watching these freaks run…
Probably because there is too much art in the world for one human to do alone… IT TAKES AN ARMY!
Wahoo! Pony Pumpkins! It's apparent to me that that is not in fact a facepalm. Picard is reaching up to wipe away tears of joy.
Why is Wolverine all the way back there? Everyone is all side by side but Wolvie is at least three treadmills away from Samus.
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Not sure to +1 because it's true…or -1 for encouraging them.
Everyone on this website seems to
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on the subject of ponies. I'm no longer a hater of ponies, but I'm definitely sick of them.
If I knew how to carve pumpkins, I'd carve that and give it to you for such an incredible idea.
I'm so PUMPKIN up for this contest.
Wait no that is a sucky pun.
Because he's…
*sunglasses*
a lone WOLFerene.
Honestly, I've never seen the show, nor do I intend to, so I can't give an unbiased opinion on the whole pony thing, but I think things could have gone better with this subject here on Halolz, if only 3-out-of-4 of the pony submissions here weren't THE SAME JOKE with different deliveries.
I feel like I should be bringing the most interesting man into this conversation, but I already tried that, and it didn't work out well. In short, I now owe a foreign government some billions o' dollars now. So here's an improvised TMIMITW:
I DON'T ALWAYS CARVE PUMPKINS
BUT WHEN I DO, THEY ALWAYS LOOK TERRIBLE
Edit: Wow, I just realized I said "I now owe money now." The Department of Redundancy Department just fined me another billion just n--oh, they're good…
Emergency pumpkin ho!
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…wait a minute
Ah… the hater paradox, they complain so much that they end up invoking even more of what they complain about… or maybe they are secret fans deliberately trying to make this happen so they can see more of them?…..
…………….
…You know what? Screw this.
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Relevant
Don't you mean…..PUN….KIN!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA………
oh god look at where we are today.
* mesmerizing
What you don't see is Red buying an exercise bicycle with a coupon, then riding it across the gym.
That thief is sitting there…
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But now the idea is no longer original, so they won't!
He's mesmerized. You can't expect him to spell correctly.
That is a different type of emergency vegetable, more commonly used to replace meat products.
One of the oldest species of troll.
same here, i saw some of the show, its generic, but people act like its the second coming
oh, and the ponies look like little girls. so thats just wrong and creepy.
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I wonder if you realize that is what half of Halolz is about…
repeating the same joke but with different games.
The progress this world is making on working with things, nothing is original anymore.
uuuggggggghhhhhh, that image
YOU
ME
GRASSY FIELD
MIDNIGHT
BRING YOUR SWORD
Can someone do one of some of the many fine gentlemen of Halolz?
I can't carve for s--t
But that will never happen…
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Well…Umm…
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Darn…
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I hate that!
Isn't sucky pun a tad redundant?
Great!
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We will settle this like men!
rel="nofollow">If it was this it would be creepy. It isn't though. Most people I see just think ponies are the comeback of cartoons, I for one am a fan of the show, but the idiotic fanfics and moronic "DEFEND TO DEATH" fans just annoy me.
People have their opinions, you do not kill someone's opinion.
Me fail englush? Thats unpossible!
that link…wtf?
but really? the comeback of cartoons. that's almost offensive to me with how it just ignores everything already great out there.
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There appears to be a video of Fluttershy saying quite the same thing as Mr Takei
A general win all-round then.
And his name would be Shawn if he was such a troll…
waitasecond…
EGHETHGENONONO- shhhhhh!
Don't encourage it!
pony pumpkin is about 20% cooler then all other pumpkins
sorry, where I live, halloween has been stolen…