FM5 Community Run Contests - August - Prizes for you and your winners!

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Community Run Contests for August:

Welcome to the Forza Motorsport 5 Community Run Contests Sponsorship signup thread!

Do you have a contest that you would like to hold and want some cool stuff to give away make it more exciting?

Do you not know how to go about setting up a contest?

This is the thread for you.

We recognize that some of the fun of the forums was being able to create your own community contests. We want you to be able to continue with this vital activity on the forums, so we are going to provide some help.

This Turn 10 sponsorship opportunity may be altered, ended or postponed for any reason at any time. Good behavior and fairness among all participants is expected.

Sign up Rules:

  1. Sign up with your Gamertag.
  2. Include a link to your contest thread.
  3. The contest must begin and end in the same calendar month as stated in the title of the contest thread. If it is a long contest, each segment must end within a calendar month. The 27th is the end of the month so we have time to close out the contest and begin again for the next month.
  4. Make a case for why your contest should be sponsored, in your post. We want a few lines about why your contest should be sponsored.
  5. It is your responsibility to get winners to us by the 27th of the current month, this is a strict end date, sponsorship is forfeited if winners are submitted beyond the 27th.
  6. You may have up to three winners listed for your contest. (The person hosting the contest can’t be one of the winners – you are already getting a prize for being a host.)
  7. Prizes will vary each month and will be chosen by the Turn 10 Community Team.
  8. Contest hosts will automatically receive the contest prize for their efforts in hosting a contest. You may have up to 3 hosts that receive prizes for hosting any one contest.
  9. If your contest does not follow these rules it will be disqualified.
  10. By signing up in this thread, you are not guaranteed to get your contest sponsored.
  11. We suggest that you do not say you are sponsored for prizes until you know you are sponsored.
  12. The Turn 10 community team will inform contest hosts of our sponsorship. All decisions of sponsorship are made by the Turn 10 community team.
  13. The Turn 10 Community team is offering prizes as sponsorship. The running of the contest is solely up to the host. (Turn 10 will not be responsible for anything beyond providing prizes to sponsored community contests. If a community contest is selected for sponsorship, running the contest, decisions about winners, submitting winners to the Turn 10 Community Team, and any other details associated with these community contests are the sole responsibility of the community hosts of the contest. These are contests put on by forum members and are the responsibility of said forum members.)
  14. You may only sign up to host one Turn 10 sponsored contest per month.
  15. To gift winners, hosts must submit the winning Gamertags (three maximum). For winners to be featured in game, the host must also submit the name of the file that won with a brief description whether it is a tune, a paint or a photo. (Featuring is not guaranteed, but the Community Team will try to feature some of the winners of community run contests.)

Prizes this month for your top three winners and the host(s) of the contest:
• Winners may get their item featured for a week as a Turn10 select item (if it is a tune or paint contest and is something that can be featured. Featuring is at the discretion of the Turn 10 Community Team and not guaranteed).

• 100,000 credits to each winner and each host(s) (and default prize if one of the other prizes is not specified)
OR, a Halo - Spartan Assault - Ford Mustang (black edition)
OR, a Zoo Tycoon - Ford Fiesta ST

• Your contest may also get a mention in a WIR news article.

Eligible Contest Types:

  1. Paint Contest – either Race Livery or Fantasy Livery
  2. Tuning Contests
  3. Photography Contests
  4. Layer Groups contest
  5. Race Contests
  6. Drift Contests
  7. Something else? Make your argument a good one, and maybe you will convince the Community Team to sponsor it.

Example Contest Submission Post:
Host GT: LV T10
Contest Reasoning: I want my contest to be considered because….
Contest Details: A paint contest with this theme
Contest Dates: (The contest must begin and end in the same calendar month as stated in the title of the contest thread, and before the 25th of the month.) i.e. August 4th to August 18th.
(Note: Wednesday, August 27th will be fine as the last date this month for getting your winners to us.)

List of community hosts that will have the stated prize provided for their Community Run Contest:

Prizes to be Provided for the Following Contests - For August

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Hi Helios,

I’m hosting:

[PHOTOCOMP] Bringing back the competition - Cars+Scenery

Host GT: Morc 57
Contest Reasoning: Like the title says… I want to bring back the community photo competitions. It’s my attempt to revive the action within the media center and eventually encourage other people to create there own competitions.
Contest Details: picture must show a scenery in the background (trees, brick wall, mountains, etc), be creative. It must show the whole car and it must be STOPPED. Open to shots from FM5, FM4, and FH.
Contest Dates: deadline for entries is Wednesday, august 6, 2014 ; voting will run until Monday, august 11.

Hope this works out.

Thx

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Sounds great Morc 57, just drop me an email when it’s all done with the winners and I’ll arrange the prizes :slight_smile:

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Hey Helios,

I am hosting…

[PHOTOCOMP] Newbies to Pros - Scenery, No Cars!

Host GT: mikke121

Contest Reasoning: I would like my contest to be considered because I think everyone should have a chance to shine in the Forza community.

Contest Details: The photo must be focused on the amazing scenery of Forza, with no cars. The contest is open to all Forza games.

Contest Dates:

Entries - 20th August

Voting - 24th August

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Hi Helios,

I’m currently running a Horizon 2 Scavenger Hunt (along with Hugonaajkens99. The rules are that each week we post up 2 clues (1 on Xbox ONE, 1 on Xbox 360) for the community to find.

fingers crossed T10 can sort out some prizes.

GT: Ali O3

Host 1: Ali O3
Host 2: Hugonaajkens99

Link: http://forums.forza.net/turn10_postsm216204_SCAVENGER-HUNT--Community-operated.aspx#post_216204

Reasoning: Scavenger Hunt on Horizon 1 was incredibly fun, not only adding game time but really getting folks involved with the map. I’d love to get it going again on Horizon 2.

It’s a weekly running contest but the prize structure will operate monthly. I’ll award points to the top 5 entries every week and this will become a tally. At the end of the month I’ll work out the top 3 players and PM them to yourself (if this is acceptable) for prizes. That way it should keep interest levels high throughout the month but also limit administrative burden.

As far as I can see this is all the information required by the thread. I know the original thread was for FM5 but the Scavenger Hunt on Horizon 1 was really fun and we’d love to get it back up and running. Just needing some prizes for motivation.

Thanks for the time,

Ali

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Is this opportunity still running?

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Hello Helios,

I don’t know if this is still available (let alone if this applies to FH2 as well) but since the thread isn’t locked I will assume it is.

“Name That Colour!” Contest

Host GT:
Apparently God

Host Thread:
http://forums.forza.net/turn10_postsm254485_Apparently-God--FH2-Forzatography-Gallery---Seeing-Red-Set-and-Contest---18-01-15.aspx#post_254485
The contest is currently being run within my gallery thread to reduce unnecessary threads within the forums. If this ends up being the only factor standing between my contest and sponsorship, I will transfer the contest over to its own thread.

Contest Reasoning:
Recently, I’ve been getting involved in the forums with a photo gallery run by myself in the Forza Horizon 2 Media Centre. In my latest update I was showcasing a Mercedes C63 AMG which I had dolled up with a nice metallic flake red finish. The set was/is receiving positive feedback and, to top it off, my thread/gallery just hit 2,000 views. The online community has been fantastic and I wanted to give back to them so I thought I would hold a contest to name the colour/finish of the Mercedes. I had intended to give away one of my cars with that finish only to discover that I can no longer gift cars in Forza Horizon 2. However, I would still like to follow through with the contest because the online community has been very friendly and welcoming; plus I’ve already received a couple entries.

Contest Details:

  • A one time contest.
  • Suggest a name for the colour of the Mercedes C63 AMG featured in my set.
  • Each entrant is allowed to submit TWO suggestions for the name.
  • The suggestions may be changed throughout the contest but only the latest two suggestions from each entrant will be accepted upon the deadline.
  • The submission deadline will be January 23rd and a winner will be announced on January 25th.
  • The winning entry will be selected by myself and, if I receive enough entries, I will select two runners-up.

Contest Dates:
January 18th (today) to the end of January 23rd. Winning entry (or entries) will be announced on January 25th.

Note:
Would it be possible, in the future, to reintroduce the ability to gift vehicles or money to other players in game? This would allow players to create less formal contests or events and still award prizes in game.

Cheers,
Apparently God