Contest: Avatar Mixx Up.
Tags: avatar, Contest
Inspired by the article “7 Reasons Why You’ll Click on Everything I Post” by Brian Wallace and the comments generated from the Mixx post here, I thought it would be interesting to hold a contest of Mixx avatars and see what the community thinks.
The contest isn’t a one avatar to rule them all, instead it will be broken down into several categories.
The categories are:
- Most Memorable
- Best Custom Design
- Best Self Picture
- Most Creative
- Funniest
- Most Serious
- Cutest not my idea
Of course cGt2099, joefowler3, and Bdog2g can’t be nominated, but we can nominate.
Post a comment with your vote in each category and on Tuesday January 15, 2008 check back to see if your name is next to one of the categories. If you can only think of one avatar, that’s cool, just post the name of the avatar and the category for which you think is best.
Remember, this is all in good fun and perhaps will help others (especially new people) to choose a proper avatar from themselves.
** Update **
According to Chris McGill (THE MIXX GUY):
“Hey- schwag is coming in- we will offer winners some quality Mixx wear- details to come!”
blog.mixx.com/2008/01/08/mixxingbowl-avatar-competition
So there’s a little more incentive to play along.
28 Comments, Comment or Ping
JoeFowler3
I nominate Honest_Ape for best self picture, oh wait that’s a beaver…Seriously Mark Carras for best self picture, because that aint a mustache it is his sideburns growing so close together!
Jan 8th, 2008
honest ape
Damn you, Joe! How could you turn on me that way? And it’s not a beaver, it’s an otter!
As for Mark, well, I find his new avatar pretty intimidating. Scary, even. I can tell he’s looking at me, waiting to crush my geek ass under his heavy metal boot of pain.
Jan 8th, 2008
rwp
what about cutest? or is that too girly?
Jan 8th, 2008
MixxingBowl Admin
@rwp
I can’t get my fingers to type “Cutest”, but I’ll try.
Jan 8th, 2008
Mixx Kerry
I nominate shelflife for cutest. that’s one cute puppy!
Jan 8th, 2008
Mixx Kerry
Oh! Can I nominate my avatar? That’s my son that we use for our “napping” and “upgrade” pages
sorry, proud mom moment.
don’t know what category he’d be in. he’s cute, funny, memorable, sort of a self-picture since he kinda looks lik me
Jan 8th, 2008
Matt Brian (m4tt)
I quite like Syxle’s avatar (most memorable maybe). Tamar’s is quite good also.
Oh and of course, mine rocks
Jan 8th, 2008
JoeFowler3
Method Man for best custom Design!
Jan 8th, 2008
Jansie Blom
Most Memorable
TunisianGuy
Best Custom Design
markdykeman
Best Self Picture
zoapy
Most Creative
charbarred
Funniest
captaindigger
Most Serious
billhartzer
Cutest not my idea
veniceCA
Jan 8th, 2008
Tanny
Most Memorable – DoshDosh
Best Self Picture – CameronLow
Funniest – captaindigger
Most Serious – billhartzer
Cutest – Mine this is my sweet dog
Jan 8th, 2008
inghamb87
I nominate my self for the best picture, jus’ because I’m a vain b*****d!!
Jan 8th, 2008
Rob D
Most Memorable – robdiana (yes, shameless self-promotion. who can forget the geek with the football floating near his head?)
Best Custom Design – Zabiatsu
Best Self Picture – diffeeonline, don’t know him, so it might not be him
Most Creative – webaddict
Funniest – captaindigger
Most Serious – Tali
Cutest – tplahav
Jan 8th, 2008
Jon B
Most Creative – MethodMan
Cutest – lillilee.email
Most Serious – MarkCarras
Funniest – captaindigger
Jan 8th, 2008
MikeonTV
Shouldn’t there be a ‘Nicest silhouette with power lines behind it’ category?
Jan 8th, 2008
honest ape
The “not my idea” after cutest made my day. Too funny, yo.
Jan 8th, 2008
honest ape
Okay, I changed my avatar and am now competing for best self picture – how can you not vote for a picture of 7 year-old me??
As for the rest, looks like I need to check out a bunch of avatars…
Jan 8th, 2008
Julie (calinazaret)
# Most Memorable- honest ape
# Best Custom Design- Ziabatsu
# Best Self Picture- Calinazaret (yes, I’m shameless. But that’s me in my menchi hat and everyone loves that hat)
# Most Creative-
# Funniest-
# Most Serious- Mark Carras
# Cutest- taplav
Jan 8th, 2008
Amy Nguyen
After reading this, I changed my avatar to my cat, the cutest cat in the known universe. (It’s not against the rules to change your avatar now, is it?)
Anyhow, here are my picks:
Most Memorable: DoshDosh
Best Custom Design: MarkDykeman
Best Self Picture: honest ape
Most Creative: Electrix
Funniest: vernacular_ninja
Most Serious: I want to say honest ape again, just because of the look on his face
Cutest: amypwnsnoobs (you just can’t argue with sleeping cat)
Also, if anyone is nominating themselves, could they link their Mixx page as the website in the comments? I want to see your avatars, but to save some time for all of us, it would be great if we could just click on your name. (or I could just stop being lazy and type it in, but ehn.)
Jan 8th, 2008
honest ape
What can I say? I was a serious boy. Didn’t make the transition to adulthood that way.
Jan 8th, 2008
Arno Nel
i vote for arno nel:
http://www.mixx.com/users/arno.nel
def the cutest.
Jan 8th, 2008
ptamaro
It would be helpful if the avatars and/or user profiles could be seen in the comments — that might ’stir’ things up a bit more…
Jan 9th, 2008
confi dential
Best Custom Design
kxhoopshooter gets my vote. He says on his website it represents his initials and stuff.
Jan 9th, 2008
vernacular_ninja
Best Custom Design- Ziabatsu
Cutest – I’ll decline to comment on this one
Most Creative- KrazyKorean
Jan 9th, 2008
honest ape
This was harder than I thought. There are a lot of great ones out there.
Most Memorable (and terror inducing) – markcarras
Best Custom Design – hotfuzz
Best Self Picture – viola
Most Creative – bukowsky
Funniest – vernacular_ninja
Most Serious – honest_ape – that’s right, I voted for me – booyah!
Cutest – jogepari
Here are some more categories I came up with for no particular reason….
most effective use of boobs – bdog2g2g
most likely to eat your skin – joefowler3
most likely to probe your anus – cgt2099
best avatar likely drawn by a 5 year old – robdiana
best use of a hat – calinazaret
Jan 10th, 2008
rwp
cutest-tplahav
funniest- dimmerswitch
most creative- sloppyjoe
most memorable- tunisianguy
best custom design- trex
best self picture- calinazarat
most serious-septom
Jan 14th, 2008
Bdog2g2
Most Memorable: DoshDosh
Best Custom Design: Zaibatsu
Best Self Picture: MarkCarras
Most Creative: MethodMan
Funniest: vernacular_ninja
Most Serious: honest_ape
Jan 14th, 2008