Hey every­one. Our con­test wrapped up today with just under 90 votes. Our win­ners are Justin and Liam. I will be e-mailing both of you the codes for your Adventurer’s Packs soon.

As promised, I also have an addi­tional prize for a ran­dom con­test par­tic­i­pant that didn’t win an Adventurer’s Pack. That per­son is Chad, who coin­ci­den­tally would have been in third place for our vot­ing. Things work out in mys­te­ri­ous ways.

Chad will be e-mailed a code for 60 days of play­time in LOTRO.

Thanks to every­one for entering!

In addi­tion to the three win­ners cho­sen by MMeOw, two more will be cho­sen by our read­ers through a poll. View all four­teen shots and sub­mit a vote on what you like best. I encour­age peo­ple to let oth­ers know about this so we get a nice sam­pling! The two sub­mis­sions with the high­est amount of votes by 12PM CST on Jan­u­ary 8^th will be awarded an Adventurer’s Pack. The poll closes auto­mat­i­cally at that time, so please be sure to vote before then.

Here are the four­teen you may choose between:

The poll is on the top of the side­bar for easy access on any page.

Hi every­one. I hope you all had a great hol­i­day. I’ve kind of been out of com­mis­sion, but I’m finally start­ing to feel better.

Any­way, our LOTRO Screen­shot Con­test has offi­cially ended. I’ve reached out to some of the MMeOw staff for opin­ions and have nar­rowed down our two groups of winners.

By nature, con­tests like this never are as pop­u­lar as ones that require a com­ment or a friend­ship on a social net­work. Even so, I received a lot more screens than I was antic­i­pat­ing. I was happy to see that. Every shot we got was good, in my opin­ion. It was hard to nar­row things down, but we tried our best (not just based upon “beauty”, but dif­fi­culty, com­po­si­tion, etc.). Please don’t be offended if you’re not in one of our final groups!

Here are three win­ners as cho­sen by MMeOw:

Bob’s shot of Weath­er­top at dusk. I’m sure we all take a lot of shots of this land­mark, but Bob did it at just the right time.

Chris’s shot of a bat­tle in progress. If you’ve tried to grab a shot of an enemy at a cer­tain point in its ani­ma­tion sequence, you know how hard is to get it just right. Chris did a nice job here.

Miriam’s shot of Lothlo­rien. Lothlo­rien always looks pretty, but Mirmam’s com­po­si­tion in this shot really enhances the effect.

Con­grats to all three of you. I’ll be e-mailing you shortly with your Adventurer’s Pack code. Just log into your Tur­bine account and apply the code!

In order to keep things a bit more “fair”, we also a group that every­one can vote on. Out of the dozens we received, these have been nar­rowed down to shots sub­mit­ted by four­teen sep­a­rate peo­ple. I will be post­ing some­thing sep­a­rate about this shortly, so stay tuned!

Don’t for­get, our con­test for one of five Adventurer’s Packs ends on Decem­ber 31^st at noon CST. Read all the details here: http://​mmeow​.net/​2​0​0​9​/​1​2​/​l​o​t​r​o​-​s​c​r​e​e​n​s​h​o​t​-​c​o​n​t​e​s​t​-​w​i​n-1 – 5-adventurers-packs/Conte or here: http://​mmeow​.net/​t​w​2​464. We’ve got­ten quite a few entries so far, but your chances to win are still very good!

I hope every­one is enjoy­ing the hol­i­day sea­son. Have a good New Year’s. We’ll be back with reg­u­lar post­ing once the hol­i­days (and more impor­tantly for me, the sick sea­son) slow down.