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Welcome to the second week of Tempmas!

While the staff is still voting to elect winners for week 1 (announcement to be made before the 25th), it's time to start our second competition right now. Here it is!

Tempmas week 2: a photography contest! The rules are:

• Take a picture of your Christmas tree, or your Christmas or New Year decorations (or other current festivities)
• The picture must somehow feature Tempy, our mascot, and a mention to the year 2017 (to make sure your picture is not taken from past events).
• Tempy and the mention to the year 2017 must be real, not digitally added to the picture. It can come in any form: a printout that you hold in your hand while taking the picture, an actual decoration on the tree, a Tempy cookie -- the purpose of these 2 elements (Tempy & 2017) is just so you can prove the photo was taken for this competition and not stolen from somewhere else.
• In order for this contest to be fair for a greater number of people, the photo cannot be digitally enhanced via Photoshop or any other software. If we allowed it, y'all Photoshop mastas would add super cool effects to make the photo better looking. The only thing we will allow is, well, cropping, resizing, or rotating the image, obviously.
• Post your photo in this thread to enter
• No animations, videos, etc. Only JPG pictures will be allowed
• Enter before December 31st at 11:59AM UTC
• The winner will be designated through a staff vote, results will be announced before New Year's Eve

And what will these winners be getting this year? Let's find out!!

Prize #1: a brand new New Nintendo 2DS XL bundle delivered to your doorstep!

Prizes #2 and #3: a brand new Bittboy console, generously donated by Bittboy themselves!
What is a Bittboy? Click here to find out

Prizes #4 to #15: a coupon for a digital game download, generously offered by @NicoAICP. The full list of games that you will be able to pick from can be found below. If you win the 4th prize, you get to pick first. If you win the 5th prize, you get to pick second. And so on. (Reminder: this list will be reduced from 29 to 23 games once the winners from the first competition pick their choice).

Spoiler

A Land Fit For Heroes
A Room Beyond
Aerial Destruction
BEEP
BalanCity
BitMaster
CENTAURI SECTOR
Dots Extreme
Dwarflings
Frantic Freighter
Goosebumps
Grid Autosport + Season Pass
Hidden Mysteries Civil War
Hidden Mysteries Titanic
Huntsman the Orphanage
Lost Civilization
Mainlining
Riaaf the Spider
SAVE THE NINJA CLAN
SUPREME LEAGUE OF PATRIOTS ISSUE 1
SWEATSHOP
Sleeping Valley
Star Vikings Forever
StratoBash
THE PASTURE
THREE DEAD ZED
The Uncertain
Ticks Tales
UNBOX

Special thanks to our sponsor Bittboy for providing two units this week.

They are offering all our members a 20% discount at their online store, just use the code xmas20. The discount coupon is valid until December 31st. Isn't that nice?

And many thanks to NicoAICP for donating the game coupons!

 

[Costello]

You may ask: how do you get to win? based on what criteria will the judges vote?
The answer is: this is of course a very subjective vote. If the judge likes your photo they will vote for it.
There's nothing more to it.

 

[Meteor7]

Ah, this one I may just enter. I have a few photos from a while back that I liked quite a bit, but they're of nature and perhaps won't tickle many people's fancies here. I also have terrible artistic sense in general, so I'd say my chances to win are slim to none, but I'm looking forward to seeing everyone else's submissions. As for my Christmas tree, I may just be able to spruce it up to look nice for a photograph.

 

[VinsCool]

Dang that's pretty nice.
I cannot enter this one though, since I never built a tree in my apartment.

Good luck to everyone entering! Can't wait to see all your amazing pictures!

 

[Lycan911]

Aww, I left my Tempy cushion from Tempmas 2015 back in Serbia before moving to Germany, it would've made for an awesome shot with the Christmas tree

 

[SirNapkin1334]

I want a N2DSXL. It'll mean I'll be able to use those $100 I've saved up so far for it for something else. I'll definitely post mine. Is it still possible to get Tempy merch, delivered before this contest ends?

 

[astrangeone]

Darn it. No tree this year...

Good luck to all entrants!

 

[Costello]

entries allowed until December 26th at 11:59AM UTC.

 

[kuwanger]

Is it cheating if you make a Christmas tree out of plastic blocks?

 

[Pomegrenade]

.

 

[Issac]

Since not everyone has a Christmas tree, whether it's for economical, religious or cultural reasons, I think a "fake substitute" tree should be allowed. Be creative

 

[BlueFox gui]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
i want to participate just to get this 2DS ;-;
but i don't have a christmas tree T-T

 

[r1vver]

Is it cheating if you make a Christmas tree out of plastic blocks?

Black blocks are forming handgun?

 

[SirNapkin1334]

When it's early morning and you misread it as Pornography Contest....

 

[VinsCool]

When it's early morning and you misread it as Pornography Contest....

That was actually a legitimate mistake.
There is a porn section in here, strictly reserved to elite members. Their contest was indeed a pornographic photo one.

 

[SirNapkin1334]

That was actually a legitimate mistake.
There is a porn section in here, strictly reserved to elite members. Their contest was indeed a pornographic photo one.

Seriously? What do you mean by 'elite?' Do you mean staff? Or, GBATemp Legends? Either way that's hilarious.

 

[BlueFox gui]

That was actually a legitimate mistake.
There is a porn section in here, strictly reserved to elite members. Their contest was indeed a pornographic photo one.

prove it
send pics >: (

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Spoiler

Hello yes as you can see it is definitely 2017 in this picture, as noted by my top of the line laptop and the latest GBATemp URL being used for my proof with the latest Tempy on the latest Internet Explorer.

 

[r1vver]

heh, Toshiba. In Touch With Tomorrow. =)

 

[MrCatFace]

Damn, I want the 2DS XL, but Im Jewish...

Fuck trees!