CONTEST

The Daily Death Contest

Yes, we are having a contest and no, the prizes don't include Half-life, buuut...., just look below to see what we are giving away..

Prizes:
  • 1 STB Velocity 128 Video Card. --KS
  • 1 Cyrix 233MMX processor w/ motherboard --KS
  • Cyrix T-Shirts (Unknown amount) --KS
  • Logitech Joysticks (Unknown kind and amount) --KS
  • 1 Maxi Sound Game Theater 64 Sound Card --CM
KS = Donated by Kevin Spross
CM = Donated by Chris McLeory

Okay, here's the deal. There will be two contests. First we thought about doing a logo contest, but that's been killed past the point of death. I needed a story for the monsters page, so I thought that that might be good. But we needed more, and we wanted you all to work for this stuff, so we needed more contests. So then I thought we could do an Internet scavenger hunt, Mike liked it, so why not.
Bottom line: Two contests with unique prizes to each.

Contest Details:
1) Story: Half-life will be known for it's in-depth plot. So your job is to give plot writing your best shot. BE CREATIVE, humor is optional, but {hint}I like humor{/hint}. Pictures are also optional but only in order to enhance the story. I don't want a picture book or people with $500 grafix package competing with people with Paint Shop Pro shareware. Even just screenshots will do. Try to introduce all the characters released and use the info that goes with them. For the characters not described yet (Mr.Friendly, bat-like thingies) just make something up. Both Mike, I (Dann) and maybe someone else, will be judging these.
Best of Luck :)

Prizes:

2) Scavanger Hunt: We will give you hints and some general direction about where to go and you must collect as many URL's as possible. Click here for the directions. Some may be way too strange to find, so just try as hard as you can. Each URL has a certain point value, so harder ones are worth more. There are also bonus key words worth a few points. Most points wins of course.

Prizes:

Other Rules and Stuff:

  • You may enter either contest but are only elegible to win one.
  • There are three way to submit data
    1. E-mail both Mike, and I (dannman@frag.com & mike@frag.com)
    2. If you don't have e-mail, submit everything below.
    3. If you want to added pix, and find it easier to make an HTML page give us the URL, or e-mail a ZIP file containing a fully functioning page.

The date has yet to be decided but start now.

©1997-1999 by Dann Thombs and Frag.com. Actually I don't have it copyrighted, but frag.com has these lawyer guys who are all like 'yo, frag.com owns this stuff' so like don't go taking it, or they lawyers will get all wu-tang on you, nad then the voice dubbings will be all messed up and no one likes that. Um..I like made the design and I'm going to plug my site now, so go here and view the madness that insues. There's like some weird cartoons and some irc stats and logs. The logs are pretty funny because people act so stupid while they're online, and never realize that it's all being recorded and then posted on my website. Like one time this canadian got drunk and couldn't even spell right. Like worse than normal, and it was just so funny but I don't want to promote alcohol or anything, cause that makes you weird and stuff. Oh yeah, I showed this dude a picture of bostonchick from qcon, and he like kicked me out of the chat channel, but I guess he had a right, she was mad nasty annnnd she was drinking beer, so you see what that does to you. Oh and another time we were thinking of names for half-life 2, and I said Half-life: Won authorization failed, and I felt proud of me cause people liked it cause it's like so true and stuff. But I haven't had a problem with WON yet, which is good, since I don't want to be blocked from multiplayer games because someone else did't want to shell out the $50 to buy the game. That would be totally bad. But I have heard about people not being able to get one because their WON number got taken. But maybe they're lying, but they try to get mine, and I'm like 'no way dude' but they keep trying and ask why not and I have to put my foot down and say 'I can't' and stuff, but cie la swedish and they say. Silly swedish. Oh and channel #half-life is evil so like don't go there, cause the people are bad, and ban people for any reason, so go to #valve on the undernet cause I'm there, and just say 'hey dann' and I'll say 'hey there' or 'sup' or something but you'll want to make sure I'm there first cause if I'm not I won't be able to say anything, but I think you're smart and will be able to figure it out and stuff. Hmmm, guess that's it, bye....