Our first winners in a three-way tie for 6th place (at 3 points each) are “Falcon Pumpkin” by Pikamari, “I Have A Rocket Launcher” and “PEELS” by BananaDib, Dr. Falcon and Wasabi!
These three entries did a good job of racking up honorable mention points across all the judges with both Halolz references and carving difficulty! Congrats to these three winners who have won some Ninja-Bot sticker packs!
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Well it took me a while to get them all sorted (also I was busy giving out candy to kids all evening and dressing my daughter up in a bee suit…) but here are the entries we received for the 2008 Pumpkin Carving Contest! Considering the short notice I gave everyone for this first year of doing it, I think the results were awesome! In fact, I thought they were so awesome that I’ve decided that all the entrants will be getting “Honorable Mention” status (which means a prize)! As for the first, second and third place winners… I’ll announce them in the next three posts!
But for now, here’s a listing of the creators of these fine pumpkins, from top to bottom!
Legend of Zelda Emblem
By BananaDib and Dr. Falcon
The Smashing Pumpkin
By rocker23220
Toon Link
By BananaDib and Dr. Falcon
TF2 Engineer Patch
By BananaDib and Dr. Falcon
Hiiiiii!!!!! (Kirby)
By Christian Felts
Hey, Listen!
By Matthew Terrell
(Template by Scott Ramsoomair)
Castle Crasher (Painted)
By Akuma Kurai
(Template by Scott Ramsoomair)
SO… I HERD U LIEK MUDKIPS?
By Paulrus
Samus
By Ian Wagner
Luigi
By PikaNoob
Master Chief
By 7he Red
Castle Crashers Green Knight
By Hariku
(Template by Scott Ramsoomair)
You Will DIE
By FiercerDeity
Can’t Let You Carve That…
By Brandon Blakey
Hollow
By Lekonua
Red Ring of DEATH!
By BananaDib and Dr. Falcon
Master Chief
By Jeremy McClellan
The Song of Time
By BananaDib and Dr. Falcon
Congrats again to everyone who entered! And stay tuned for the announcement of the big winners!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on November 1, 2008 · 1:33 AM
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Yes, I know… waaay past Halloween. Still I couldn’t resist posting this crazy set of pumpkin carvings by Ian Fisher, who won Blizzard’s contest this year! I mean it’s even complete with pumpkin gut creep!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on November 15, 2010 · 4:28 AM
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And finally, our 1st place winner for 2009….. with an overwhelming 23 (out of 24 points)……
Ian Wagner and his awe-inspiring “Mother Brain & Baby Metroid” pumpkin set! Pretty amazing job, right? Well it’s certainly not surprising as he was our 1st place winner in 2008 as well! (with his impressive Samus pumpkin)
For a second year of impressing the Halolz judges, Ian will be getting another mountain of shirts (and other stuff) from Ninja-Bot!
Congratulations… and congrats to everyone for making our second annual pumpkin carving contest a big success! In fact to thank everyone who entered we will be sending out consolation prizes to everyone who entered this year! Just keep watching your email for more info!
Happy Halloween!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on October 31, 2009 · 11:39 PM
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Hey! I’ll be hanging out at another anime convention this weekend… which ironically is named Another Anime Convention! It’s in Nashua, New Hampshire… so if you’re nearby this is a fun convention worth checking out! Last year I made it to the final round of the Smash Bros Melee tournament with Mr. Game & Watch, which was like, the greatest Smash Bros moment of my life… so hopefully this year I’ll have time to play again!
Also congrats to Loirnus who won my Halo 3 LE Gamerpics/Theme auction! To everyone else… YOU SHOULD HAVE TRIED HARDER
Oh and with two weeks until Halloween I’m working up a little contest for the site. All I will say for now is, start thinking up some good video game related pumpkin carving ideas!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on October 17, 2008 · 2:28 AM
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And finally our grand prize for most creative pumpkin goes to Nick Everson for his Halo: Reach Haunted Helmet! Not only is it a great design, but it looks awesome when it’s on fire! I guess that particular haunted helmet belongs to someone at Bungie?
Our runners-up prizes for most creative go to Nick and Molly for their uniquely lit Pacman and Ghosts, and Daniel Potvin for The Original Ghost Pump-kemon that features everyone’s three favorite original ghost Pokémon (and a creatively painted Pokeball!) Well done, and congrats again to everyone for making this a fantastic 3rd Halloween carving contest!
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Our grand prize for most humorous pumpkin goes to ChimpoDelFuego for “The Orange Spy” (possibly one of the simplest winning designs we’ve ever seen!) and I was told we would be carving pumpkin!, a pumpkinized version of Gentleman Heavy (complete with top hat and monocle!)
Our humorous runners-up include GengarKing’s PumpKoffin’ (a Koffing with an awesome face is good, but adding a “poison gas attack” makes it great!), and suicid3clutch’s Old Snake takes out an Enemy Soldier for it’s stealthy kill pose! Congrats guys!
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The entries are in! Behold this year’s crop of video game themed pumpkins!
#1 – The Original Ghost Pump-kemon by Daniel Potvin
#2 – This is Halloween! by Tom Palmen
#3 – Homeworld by ceemdee
#4 – Sonic/Knuckles Pumpkin by LeeFlippinGreene
#5 – The Cake Is A Lie by Cubetony Licciardi
#6 – inb4 “who?” by TCC
#7 – Blue Knight by Kryfus
#8 – Gengar by CornballCoder
#9 – Pumpkin-Trap by Tom Palmen
#10 – Beyond Good & Evil by ceemdee
#11 – In Disguise Zoom by David Roy
#12 – I was told we would be carving pumkin! by ChimpoDelFuego
#13 – Prinny by kitamoo
#14 – King Boo by Sussi
#15 – Syndicate by ceemdee
#16 – Day of the Tentacle by ceemdee
#17 – Slimer by Sussi
#18 – Kirby’s Epic Yarn: Pumpkin “Patch” by BBeast
#19 – Spy Carvin My Pumpkin? NOPE by Tabetha Morango
#20 – Red Dead Redemption by ceemdee
#21 – Duskull by Ashley Randall
#22 – Hitman by ceemdee
#23 – GLaDOS Cake Core and Curiosity Core by LadyFiede
#24 – PumpKoffin’ (Pumpkin Koffing) by GengarKing
#25 – Creeper by ceemdee
#26 – Mr. Bubbles by Gene Cole
#27 – The Cake is a Lie… The Pumpkin is not. by Aaron “Ace” Hinds
#28 – Reaper and Reapette by Sussi
#29 – Pacman and Ghosts by Nick and Molly
#30 – Halo: Reach Haunted Helmet by Nick Everson
#31 – Fox McCloud by A Random Person
#32 – Old Snake takes out an Enemy Soldier by suicid3clutch
#33 – Max Payne 2 by ceemdee
#34 – Pokéball by ChimpoDelFuego
#35 – Oddworld by ceemdee
#36 – The Isshu starters, all dressed up for Halloween! by Bridgette Rockette
#37 – No King Rules Forever by Artais
#38 – The Orange Spy by ChimpoDelFuego
#39 – DeathSpank by ceemdee
#40 – Castle Crashers Animal Orb Rammy by Nick
#41 – Dungeon Keeper by ceemdee
#42 – Costume Quest by ceemdee
#43 – Guybrush by ceemdee
Man, what a great turn out this year! I tip my hat and monocle to all of you folks who sent in these awesome entries! And don’t forget, be sure to keep checking back during the course of today (Halloween day) as we announce this year’s winners! Stay tuned!
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