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Find out who the big winners were in Torn's latest round of Easter Community Events!
Torn's Community Event judges have finally put down their crack pipes and finished their review of our Easter competitions. The winners of the Lucky Dip are yet to be drawn, but those who placed highly in the baking, singing, and drawing events can now be revealed.
EASTER DESKTOP COMPETITION
Kern was awarded first prize in the Easter Desktop Competition, a contest that asked players to create a Torn-themed desktop background. There were many great pieces of art entered into this event, but many of them failed to fit the brief, either because they were too busy to be used as a desktop background, or they were simply a bunch of stock images plopped together.
Kern's was neither of these things, with their incredible cyberpunk-style entry impressing the judges with its detail, level of sophistication, and the uniform tone that allows it to function as a suitable screen backdrop.
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Second place was a tough call for the judges, who were locked into a three-daygrease-wrestle discussion over who should receive the silver position. In the end, SVD_NL was awarded the runner-up prize for their whimsical depiction of the Easter Bunny wallowing in a field of eggs. Both judges liked this entry, but there were concerns that the piece was "too silly" to place in the top three. Eventually, such fears were put to one side, and SVD_NL's easter tribute to the famous Windows XP background was rewarded with a bunch of digital stuff.
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In third place was Fluffy-Kitten, who made the cut after the previous second-placed player was disqualified for using too much stock work. Fluffy-Kitten's image wasn't particularly suitable as a desktop background, hence its original omission from the shortlist. However, as a piece of art, this was certainly one of the better entries, and it deserves its place in the top three.
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In addition to the top three, the judges have decided to award two Donator Packs to a selection of 20 additional players whose work will be posted in the Freebies section of the Newspaper. These players will be chosen and their prizes sent later this week. If you can't be bothered to wait to access these desktop backgrounds officially, you can simply download them from the competition's Community Events thread.
EASTER BUNNY SINGSONG
The Easter Bunny Singsong was a brand new competition where entrants were asked to record a 30-second children's rhyme about the Easter Bunny. Music and sound effects were optional but not required, with the focus being on the lyrics and singing ability of those who took part. The winner was Anomalousman, whose Torn Easter Bunny Theme made fantastic use of a duet with what we presume to be a very high-pitched little boy... or a woman.
Torn Easter Bunny Theme
April's here, happiest time of year
I'll hide eggs for you find some cheer
Can you show me the back door
Before this gets to level four? (three!)
Excited faces looking in each new place
At first, I thought those grins were just so sweet
But they find my eggs and then
You'll find me gunned down left in the street
Lilo's Easter Bunny SingSong! was a very, very close second behind Anomalousman's entry, with the judges split until the very end on who should be crowned the winner. Overall, while we enjoyed the authentic nature of the duet performed by these youngsters, we felt that the winning entry was just a little more polished than this one, which began rather haphazardly. Children, eh? Do they ever stop disappointing?
Easter Bunny SingSong!
Have you heard of the Easter Bunny?
Forced to live his life all rough
Even though he's only seven
Torn treats'em like he's all grown up.
Don't forget your serotonin
'Cause he'll club you then bust your legs
You better not attack!
He'll send you on your back,
Then kill you with a bunch of eggs!
Our third-place entry came from _TB, whose name cannot possibly be short for tuberculosis given his exquisite voice. _TB's lyrics and guitar work were good, but the reassuring tones he can produce with his mouth made us want to hear him read us a lovely bedtime story. Listen to this song and tell me he wouldn't sound out of place telling us about the looming financial crisis on BBC Radio 4.
Easter Bunny Won't Come Out To Play
Easter Bunny won't come out to play
See your friends in Torn today
We'll take all of your eggs from you
Weve got many fine things to do
We'll gas and stab and shoot and slice him
Poison, set him on fire until he's done in
The poor bloodied rodent crawls away
He'll be back in Torn someday.
EDIBLE EASTER SCENE
The Edible Easter Scene competition gave us theworst fewest entries out of all of the contests run this Easter, hence its placement at the bottom of the pile when it comes to choosing from the prize pool. It's not that your culinary efforts were terrible, it's just that there weren't many good ones, because so many were terrible. And weird. And sometimes kinda sexy. And quite often just your dinner - albeit a delicious looking dinner.
The judges wanted to see an Easter scene, so while there were a great many beautifully designed cakes and biscuits on display, the winners were mostly chosen for their relevance to the brief. As such, we awarded first place to Ragtag_Slyboots, whose depiction of Torn Central Hospital in the aftermath of a Dirty Bomb strike was amusing, well made, and highly detailed.
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Second place went to Anemoon for their Aardman-esque recreation of Torn's Community Manager bogie in the traditional medium of fondant. This entry admittedly consists of a very small scene, but the quality of the icing work coupled with the delicious-looking cake and a small tribute to our Ukrainian friends helped this one over the line into second place. You can inbox us and complain if you want, but we absolutely won't be reading it.
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Our third-place entry was provided by Fluffy-Kitten, whose colourful attempt at creating the dark lord M'aol (formerly known as Cthulhu) out of salad impressed the judges with its creativity. Fluffy's entry was a little chaotic in places, but he more than made up for that with the vivid, surreal manner in which he used cous-cous, raw fish, and whatever the f**k that pink sludge is. If I were to guess, I'd say dragonfruit shampoo.
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And he even showed us the after picture too.
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Thank you to everyone who entered our community events, and commiserations to those who failed to place. The prizes for this event will be paid out shortly. Our next round of Community Events will be announced in due course.
EASTER DESKTOP COMPETITION
Kern was awarded first prize in the Easter Desktop Competition, a contest that asked players to create a Torn-themed desktop background. There were many great pieces of art entered into this event, but many of them failed to fit the brief, either because they were too busy to be used as a desktop background, or they were simply a bunch of stock images plopped together.
Kern's was neither of these things, with their incredible cyberpunk-style entry impressing the judges with its detail, level of sophistication, and the uniform tone that allows it to function as a suitable screen backdrop.
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Second place was a tough call for the judges, who were locked into a three-day
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In third place was Fluffy-Kitten, who made the cut after the previous second-placed player was disqualified for using too much stock work. Fluffy-Kitten's image wasn't particularly suitable as a desktop background, hence its original omission from the shortlist. However, as a piece of art, this was certainly one of the better entries, and it deserves its place in the top three.
Larger Link
In addition to the top three, the judges have decided to award two Donator Packs to a selection of 20 additional players whose work will be posted in the Freebies section of the Newspaper. These players will be chosen and their prizes sent later this week. If you can't be bothered to wait to access these desktop backgrounds officially, you can simply download them from the competition's Community Events thread.
EASTER BUNNY SINGSONG
The Easter Bunny Singsong was a brand new competition where entrants were asked to record a 30-second children's rhyme about the Easter Bunny. Music and sound effects were optional but not required, with the focus being on the lyrics and singing ability of those who took part. The winner was Anomalousman, whose Torn Easter Bunny Theme made fantastic use of a duet with what we presume to be a very high-pitched little boy... or a woman.
Torn Easter Bunny Theme
April's here, happiest time of year
I'll hide eggs for you find some cheer
Can you show me the back door
Before this gets to level four? (three!)
Excited faces looking in each new place
At first, I thought those grins were just so sweet
But they find my eggs and then
You'll find me gunned down left in the street
Lilo's Easter Bunny SingSong! was a very, very close second behind Anomalousman's entry, with the judges split until the very end on who should be crowned the winner. Overall, while we enjoyed the authentic nature of the duet performed by these youngsters, we felt that the winning entry was just a little more polished than this one, which began rather haphazardly. Children, eh? Do they ever stop disappointing?
Easter Bunny SingSong!
Have you heard of the Easter Bunny?
Forced to live his life all rough
Even though he's only seven
Torn treats'em like he's all grown up.
Don't forget your serotonin
'Cause he'll club you then bust your legs
You better not attack!
He'll send you on your back,
Then kill you with a bunch of eggs!
Our third-place entry came from _TB, whose name cannot possibly be short for tuberculosis given his exquisite voice. _TB's lyrics and guitar work were good, but the reassuring tones he can produce with his mouth made us want to hear him read us a lovely bedtime story. Listen to this song and tell me he wouldn't sound out of place telling us about the looming financial crisis on BBC Radio 4.
Easter Bunny Won't Come Out To Play
Easter Bunny won't come out to play
See your friends in Torn today
We'll take all of your eggs from you
Weve got many fine things to do
We'll gas and stab and shoot and slice him
Poison, set him on fire until he's done in
The poor bloodied rodent crawls away
He'll be back in Torn someday.
EDIBLE EASTER SCENE
The Edible Easter Scene competition gave us the
The judges wanted to see an Easter scene, so while there were a great many beautifully designed cakes and biscuits on display, the winners were mostly chosen for their relevance to the brief. As such, we awarded first place to Ragtag_Slyboots, whose depiction of Torn Central Hospital in the aftermath of a Dirty Bomb strike was amusing, well made, and highly detailed.
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Second place went to Anemoon for their Aardman-esque recreation of Torn's Community Manager bogie in the traditional medium of fondant. This entry admittedly consists of a very small scene, but the quality of the icing work coupled with the delicious-looking cake and a small tribute to our Ukrainian friends helped this one over the line into second place. You can inbox us and complain if you want, but we absolutely won't be reading it.
Larger Link
Our third-place entry was provided by Fluffy-Kitten, whose colourful attempt at creating the dark lord M'aol (formerly known as Cthulhu) out of salad impressed the judges with its creativity. Fluffy's entry was a little chaotic in places, but he more than made up for that with the vivid, surreal manner in which he used cous-cous, raw fish, and whatever the f**k that pink sludge is. If I were to guess, I'd say dragonfruit shampoo.
Larger Link
And he even showed us the after picture too.
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Thank you to everyone who entered our community events, and commiserations to those who failed to place. The prizes for this event will be paid out shortly. Our next round of Community Events will be announced in due course.
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