Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24101790-20140922024436

Welcome to the wiki costume contest announcement post!

After talking with DubiousDugong, we’ve decided to start a little project for October to allow some of the more creative and artistic users to submit their costumes/cosplays from their favorite horror/sci-fi movies, literature, t.v. shows. At the end of submissions, a select few will be announced winners and could have their submissions entered into the Nightmare Fuel section and gain bragging rights/renown.

Let’s start with the rules first: (Hooray???)


 * Costumes from creepypasta-based characters (Like Jeff the Killer, Laughing Jack, Slenderman, and others) will not be part of the contest as if they are allowed, the contest will be swamped with too many photos of them that it would be impossible to differentiate between them and appropriately select a winner.


 * Submissions must be your own. No looking up photos that you didn’t make and submitting them. I’m not going to ask for proof or authenticity or anything like that, just putting you all to an honor code.


 * No store-bought costumes, you can buy items and make-up to accentuate your design; just not a store-bought costume that requires zero effort.


 * No sabotaging or removing other people’s submissions from the submission page. (That one should be fairly obvious.)

So what does that leave for you? You can use this as an opportunity to show off your skillz (I hear that’s how you kids write it.) and dress up as your favorite literary or cinematic monster/murderer/maniac.

Here are the time constraints. We will start accepting submissions October 18th, 2014 and we will close the submissions November 1st, 2014. Depending on how many submissions we have, the judges could be done in a few days or a week.

Onto the judges: we will need to elect some people to select five or ten costumes and from there we can possible do a poll or leave it up to the judges. We can decide later on how to approach the judging process.

I’m making this post early so you all have time to plan. I will be entering the contest as well. (I will be excluding myself from the judging however for the sake of impartiality.) Feel free to comment below if you have some suggestions, want to nominate a judge, or just have some unanswered questions. Best of luck to you all. 