Tamriel Rebuilt Team Wins Contest!

Post by **Haplo** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:22 am

GameFlood, a division of TurboSquid, recently held a $25,000 total contest with several captions. ($3,000 cash & prizes to 1st place of each caption)

Tamriel Rebuilt entered the caption of 'best RPG mod' with our Map 1 mod and won! The mod not only garnered twice the points as the second place mod (Oblivion's Natural Environments by Max_Tael), but was also chosen as best by the judging panel!

A cash prize & Logitech keyboard worth a total of $3000 was awarded to the TR Team, and we are happy to announce that it will ALL go to our wonderful webmaster, garfield! For almost half a decade, he has provided a server and websites for Tamriel Rebuilt and its members free of charge, and we're glad to be able to pay him back a hundredfold!

Hopefully we can bend his arm a little and call the money and keyboard an incentive for upgrading our forums to phpBB3 and/or updating our website. (which you all know is in a very dire need of help!)

More on that later. For now we celebrate and thank the hundreds of people who have helped TR get to where it is today. Feel left out? Want to work with an award-winning, solid, structured yet creative and fluid team? Come on and join the party! With mods for both Morrowind and Oblivion, we've got something for everyone!

Stay tuned for more news on the home front.

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:49 am

Thats awesome news. A lot of us modders have put years into the Morrowind project. The recognition is nice, and I'm glad to hear that we're finally able to show our appreciation for Garfield's help.

Upsilon · Post by **Upsilon** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:06 am

That's most cool indeed. Well done Garfield, well done TR!

theviking · Post by **theviking** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:46 am

Very nice! It shows that we have teh quantity and most of all teh quality.

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:54 am

Woohoo! Go us

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:05 am

heh... wow... the award winning Tamriel Rebuilt Mod...

bmscout208 · Post by **bmscout208** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:55 am

wooho W00T go TR all you modders are awesome!

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:26 am

Fuck yes!

Post by **ko2fan** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:50 am

I'd like to thank everyone on the TR team, it was a great accomplishment, and a very generous gift.

I will get started on upgrading to phpBB3 soon

If it helps, the money will ensure continued advertising-free hosting for many years to come

--
garfield

Theo · Post by **Theo** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:25 am

Great news!

Hope there will be other similar competitions because map 2 will put map 1 to shame.

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:55 am

Very, very cool.

Post by **Swiftoak** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:40 pm

Awesome work guys!

I think there will be more contests in the future. And Theo's right, Map 2 will put Map 1 to shame..

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:26 pm

I stand corrected!

Well, here's the thing. are we really only going to spend it on site up keep? Surely even half the money is more than enough for that? But I dont want to start an arguement again- it's all uo to Garfield.

Post by **Haplo** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:12 pm

Well of course Garfield can do with the winnings what he wants; they're just an 'incentive' as I mentioned. He could spend it all on a big shiny rock for his wife or invest it otherwise if he wants

Magelord648 · Post by **Magelord648** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:41 pm

Congratulations to everyone who has put work into map one. How long until Map two comes out? We need more awards. By the time we finish Map 6 Garfield is gonna be loaded.

fanfas · Post by **fanfas** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:44 pm

Nice PR to us, and cool thing about the money going to Garfield... is more then fare, because s mentioned TR as alwyas been running for free on his server and more importantly WITHOUT ADS... thank god for that or should i say thanks Garfield

blackbird · Post by **blackbird** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:47 pm

Very nice.

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:23 pm

Yeah- do we have a little badge we can put on our homepage like the TES homepage? "winner of the prestigious gamebryo Best RPG mod award?"

Upsilon · Post by **Upsilon** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:24 pm

That'd be amazing if someone could do that!

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:31 pm

oh, oh! Also can we officaly change our name to "The award winning mod: Tamriel Rebuilt"?

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:47 pm

Macar wrote:Yeah- do we have a little badge we can put on our homepage like the TES homepage? "winner of the prestigious gamebryo Best RPG mod award?"

GameFlood, not Gamebryo.
http://www.gameflood.com/Index.cfm/Mod/Contest/stgAct/ContestLanding

TES trusted all the RPG spots because of the four winners in the RPG categories, two are for Morrowind and two are for Oblivion. I expected to see some NWN stuff, too.

Upsilon · Post by **Upsilon** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:08 pm

[img]http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/368/badgesk4.png[/img]

kebra · Post by **kebra** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:09 pm

Just great.

Could it be possible to send this news to a maximum of the modders and detailers of Map1? Some of us must have keep some contact.

Welcome back? Gez.

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:13 pm

TO THE ESF!

adamantum · Post by **adamantum** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:44 pm

Hell yeah, you're the best! We're the best!

Xui'al · Post by **Xui'al** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:05 am

garfield wrote: If it helps, the money will ensure continued advertising-free hosting for many years to come

The money?! The money?!?! Who cares about the money? You got a free keyboard!

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:57 am

Upsilon wrote:[img]http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/368/badgesk4.png[/img]

Will we put it up, next to the TAMRIEL REBUILT on the top of the site? I think it will make it look a lot more attractive

Post by **ko2fan** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:22 pm

Xui'al wrote: The money?! The money?!?! Who cares about the money? You got a free keyboard!

Apparently I lose 30% to tax, does that mean I only get 70% of a keyboard?

--
garfield

Elfane · Post by **Elfane** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:27 pm

Hurray for us, that is some serios PR and a huge feather in the hat.

garfield wrote:quote]
Apparently I lose 30% to tax, does that mean I only get 70% of a keyboard?

Youp, they will chop of the numpad, left ctrl button, backspace, caps lock and F3-F7.

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:59 pm

Excitement. Awesomeness. Fucking great. And I'm really glad that Garf takes the cash, he's more than worth it.

GO TEAM!!!

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:20 am

please dont tell me you counted them and did the math...

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:09 am

Macar wrote:please dont tell me you counted them and did the math...

He didn't. A standard keyboard has at least 102 keys (usually 105 with the "Windows keys"), what he listed makes up for less than 30 keys. :p

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:54 am

perhaps its a shiny multimedia keyboard? (with at least 10 extra keys that most people never use...)

at any rate, congrats guys

every single one of you. The work that has been put into the project is phenomenal and everyone of you great modders deserves to have those 3k. I too would like to extend a special thanks to all the by-gone modders of my childhood (and before). Without you we would not have all that we have today, and you helped to build the foundation upon which we now stand. Granted, much has changed since those early days of Tamriel Rebuilt, but without that at times troubled childhood we would have nothing. Tamriel Rebuilt has changed hundreds -- if no thousands -- of lives , may it change many more!!!

love,
Lady Nerevar

~I'll be back in 3 days~

Post by **Haplo** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:18 pm

Three? The hell! You said you'd be back today, damnit!

Nanu · Post by **Nanu** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:15 am

Yeah, she's a girl. What'd you expect?

Psyborg · Post by **Psyborg** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:13 am

Awesome, great job guys. Always cool to get recognition, and cool hard cash isn't anything to be ashamed of either!

Xinill · Post by **Xinill** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:25 pm

Yay, great news!

aro101 · Post by **aro101** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:45 pm

Xinill, silly you, resize your avatar

And welcome to the TR, haha.

Nalin · Post by **Nalin** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:45 pm

Gez wrote:
Macar wrote:please dont tell me you counted them and did the math...
He didn't. A standard keyboard has at least 102 keys (usually 105 with the "Windows keys"), what he listed makes up for less than 30 keys. :p

I've missed your "preciseness" Gez - good to see you back (I've been around pretty much the whole time since my last spate of activity - checking every now and again - but i've been too busy to really mod and post updates...real life).

IAMTHEEMPEROR · Post by **IAMTHEEMPEROR** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:48 am

Congrats, TR!

I'd say that is an award well deserved. Now you can brag about the award no other mod has.