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Hello All,

Today I am announcing BTC4Free's first competition. The competition has a simple goal, which is to design a banner we can use to advertise our website www.btc4free.com. The banner should be eye catching and informative.

The rules of the competition are as follows:

1. Upon submission of the banner, it is granted full use by BTC4Free.
2. All submissions must be the work on the submitter, or the submitter must have permission of the content creator to submit.
3. All banners must adhere to the following size formats: 728x90, 468x60, 336x280, 300x250, 250x250
234x60, 200x200, 180x150, 160x600, 125x125, 120x600 or 120x240.
4. All entries will be judged by me (TGJJ), and prizes will be awarded as I see fit.
5. Entries deemed to be improper or lacking effort will not be counted as valid.
6. All prizes will be credited to the entrants's BTC4Free account.
7. It is possible for a single users to win 1st, 2nd and 3rd places with 3 different entries.
8. For the prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places to be awarded, there must be a minimum of 10 valid entrants to the competition.
9. The competition will be valid from the 2nd of September to the 16th of September (extend to the 23rd), and may be extended if I deem so.
10. All accounts will be credited within 1 week of the competition ending or sooner.
11. I reserve the rights to change the rules of the competition, including prizes, as and when I see necessary.
12. All edits to the competitions rules and this post will be listed at the bottom of this post, if any.
13. Winners of the competition will be publicly announced on this thread and on www.btc4free.com.
14. All pictures must be submitted in either .jpg, .png or .gif format.
15. All .gif banners must be below 1 MB in files size and not be excessively annoying.
16. All entries must be submitted on this thread and follow the required submission format to be considered valid, which is as follows:


What are the prizes?

1st place will receive a prize of 1 Bitcoin, 2nd 750 mBTC and 3rd 500 mBTC.
All entrants who follow the previously mentioned rules will receive 100 mBTC for their first entry, 50 mBTC for their second and 25 mBTC for every entry after that, up to a maximum of 300 mBTC.
Any entry deemed to be truly astounding by myself will be awarded additional prize money of up to 1 Bitcoin.

What are the catches?

Well apart from the rules, there is only one catch which comes to mind. First of which is that the prizes are credited to your account on www.btc4free.com, meaning that the minimum payout threshold of the website is in force. Please do keep in mind though, while the rules may seem to give me a lot of power, it is very unlikely I will use it.

Help and Tips

Keep the banner short and too the point, nobody will bother reading an advert which is a wall of words. Creativity is key, but don't try and be obscure. The recommended site to host your image on is http://imgur.com/.


If you still have any questions, queries, or concerns, please feel free to shoot away and I will try and get back yo you ASAP.

Edit 1: Allowing .gif files.
Edit 2: Contest has been extended by a week to finish on the 23rd of September.

And the results are in:

First place goes to knightd:

http://www.btc4free.com/banners/bannerb9.png

Second place goes to ivanovic:

http://www.btc4free.com/banners/bannery2.png

Third place goes to trayan

http://www.btc4free.com/banners/bannerb1.gif

Total Rewards Goes as Follows:

knightd: 1.175 BTC
ivanovic: 1 BTC
trayan: 0.725 BTC
Adir: 0.15 BTC
hugapotamus: 0.15 BTC
apov99: 0.15 BTC
AndySmart: 0.15 BTC
kitekatus: 0.1 BTC
JoeyB345: 0.1 BTC

Something like this?
BTC4Free Username: ivanovic
Banner Size Format: 468x60
Image: http://i.imgah.com/i/00012/qr6umt2ytc0q_t.jpg (http://imgah.com/qr6umt2ytc0q/banner_ivanovic.png)
Image URL: http://imgah.com/qr6umt2ytc0q/banner_ivanovic.png
Entry Number: 1

Banner Size Format: 468x60
Image:  http://i.imgah.com/i/00017/ccw4ouvcxq1m_t.jpg (http://imgah.com/ccw4ouvcxq1m/468x60banner.png)
Image URL: http://imgah.com/ccw4ouvcxq1m/468x60banner.png
Entry Number: 2

Banner Size Format: 468x60
Image: http://i.imgah.com/i/00012/ekvte1rsw8y5_t.jpg (http://imgah.com/ekvte1rsw8y5/btc4free468x60.png)
Image URL: http://imgah.com/ekvte1rsw8y5/btc4free468x60.png
Entry Number: 3

Banner Size Format: 300x250
Image: http://i.imgah.com/i/00012/gtsqnw8xa3wj_t.jpg (http://imgah.com/gtsqnw8xa3wj/btc4free300x250.png)
Image URL: http://imgah.com/gtsqnw8xa3wj/btc4free300x250.png
Entry Number: 4

Banner Size Format: 160x600
Image: http://i.imgah.com/i/00012/2apfbjm6dc2l_t.jpg (http://imgah.com/2apfbjm6dc2l/btc4free160x600.png)
Image URL: http://imgah.com/2apfbjm6dc2l/btc4free160x600.png
Entry Number: 5

Banner Size Format: 125x125
Image: https://i.imgur.com/Z9H5u.gif (http://imgur.com/Z9H5u)
Image URL: https://i.imgur.com/Z9H5u.gif
Entry Number: 6

BTC4Free Username: Adir
Banner Size Format: 728x90
Entry Number: 1/2
Image URL: https://i.imgur.com/qzHs6.png?1
Image: https://i.imgur.com/qzHs6.png?1

username: apov99
size:250x250
Image: https://i.imgur.com/IexcZ.gif
Image URL: http://imgur.com/IexcZ
Entry number:1

Yes, that is fine :)


This is nice :)


I am afraid that this ad does not follow the required format, as it is a .gif file. This unfortunately means that I am not counting it as a valid entry, please feel free try again.

BTC4Free Username: Adir
Banner Size Format: 200x200
Entry Number: 2/2
Image URL: https://i.imgur.com/EQuNb.png
Image:
https://i.imgur.com/EQuNb.png

BTC4Free Username: JoeyB345
Banner Size Format: 728x90
https://i.imgur.com/173GQ.png (http://imgur.com/173GQ)

Image URL: http://imgur.com/173GQ
Entry Number: 1

If you like it and think it can be improved in a particular way shoot me any ideas and i can try a thing :P

I have updated the rules to allow .gif files, however your .gif is still invalid as the constant flashing is incredibly annoying.

I have added all the valid banners to the following page - http://www.btc4free.com/banners.php

You need to be logged in to see them.

high, all!  ;D
here is my 1^st entry:

user: trayan
https://i.imgur.com/QUxbX.gif
https://i.imgur.com/fL0YB.jpg

These are good entries, however I can't seem to find you registered on the site http://btc4free.com/. If you would like the chance to win a prize for your entry, you must have a valid account on the site.

Oops! :) My user for btc4free is trayan  :)

BTC4Free Username: hugapotamus
Banner Size Format: 250 x 250
Image: http://imgur.com/5tFUx.jpg
Image URL: http://imgur.com/5tFUx.jpg
Entry Number: 1

BTC4Free Username: hugapotamus
Banner Size Format: 468 x 60
Image: http://imgur.com/jBjwz.jpg
Image URL: http://imgur.com/jBjwz.jpg
Entry Number: 2

Hello :)
Here is my entry.


http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2012/36/1346898152-bc4free-by-noodle.jpg

2^nd entry  :D
btc4free user: trayan
https://i.imgur.com/Z3zyw.gif

3_rd entry
user: trayan
 ;D
https://i.imgur.com/NVBaH.jpg

Hey, you forgot the T. Other than that though, it is good.

I will fix it, if I win ;)

BTC4Free Username: kitekatus
Banner Size Format: 336x280
Image: http://failiem.lv/g/djswvtr?n=1
Image URL: http://failiem.lv/viewer.php?i=lqwjkhd&n=bitcoin.jpg
Entry Number: 1

It is definitely a good entry, but I can't make that promise.

The follow entries have been added:






This entry has currently not been included, but will if the banner is corrected.

All the new banners have been added to the website - http://btc4free.com/banners.php

You need to be logged in to the website to see them.

username: apov99
size:250x250
Image:https://i.imgur.com/DHyg6.gif
Image URL: https://i.imgur.com/DHyg6.gif
Entry number:1

username: apov99
size:120x240
Image:https://i.imgur.com/oDm10.png
Image URL: http://imgur.com/oDm10
Entry number:2

another animated version  ;D  ::)
 :D

user: trayan
https://i.imgur.com/PzcxV.gif

This banners are good, apart from they have the text in the bottom meaning that they are unusable, can you please remove the text and this will count as valid.

Trying again.... :P


username: apov99
size:250x250
Image:https://i.imgur.com/vps6R.gif
Image URL: http://imgur.com/vps6R
Entry number:1

username: apov99
size:120x240
Image:https://i.imgur.com/cjx8q.png
Image URL: http://imgur.com/cjx8q
Entry number:2

Username: knightd
Entry 1
Banner size: 468x60

Image: http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss57/knighty123/btc4free/gif-one.gif
Image URL: http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss57/knighty123/btc4free/gif-one.gif


Entry 2
Banner size: 728x90

Image: http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss57/knighty123/btc4free/btcfreeeee.png
Image URL: http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss57/knighty123/btc4free/btcfreeeee.png


Entry 3
Banner size: 336x280

Image: http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss57/knighty123/asdask.jpg
Image URL: http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss57/knighty123/asdask.jpg

All of the above have been registered as valid entries.

There's only been 8 entrants, so I am going to extend the contest by a week in the hope we reach the 10 minimum I set. If this minimum is not reached, I will just "pretend" that it has and dish out the prizes.

A challenger appears!

BTC4Free Username: AndySmart

Banner Size Format: 468x60
Image: https://i.imgur.com/n2SPa.png
Image URL: https://i.imgur.com/n2SPa.png (https://i.imgur.com/n2SPa.png)
Entry Number: 1

Banner Size Format: 468x60
Image: https://i.imgur.com/4Okht.png
Image URL: https://i.imgur.com/4Okht.png (https://i.imgur.com/4Okht.png)
Entry Number: 2

Just 4 hours left to enter.

Competition is closed. Will post results and credit accounts within the next 48 hours.

Results posted, accounts credited. Competition Over.