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The History

The idea of pumpkins carved in Halo forms was started by Bungie, in 2003. The winning pumpkins were pretty cool. We followed suit in 2004, with the first annual Guilt O' Lantern contest. It was, by most accounts, a success.

The Contest

The rules are basic, and the same as last year: Carve the coolest Halo-related pumpkin you can think of. Please the community, win a prize. Check out the pages above for examples of what's won in the past.

The Prizes

Once again, we have some spectacular prizes, thanks in large part to some amazingly generous fans.

First Prize:

• One Xbox (NTSC, comes with S-type controller, new, or original-style, used but like-new - Xbox can be opened and Map Pack Maps added if winner prefers)
• Tim Dadabo, the voice of 343 Guilty Spark, or Steve Downes, voice of the Master Chief, will record a message of your choice on your home answering machine, in their characters' voices
• $50 Gift Card for EB Games
• One Copy of the Halo 2 Limited Edition
• One Copy of the I Love Bees Commemorative DVD
• One Copy of Halo: First Strike
• Map-Pack magnet
• Halo 2 Stickers
• Added 31 October 2005: Choice of Flag Captured or splode logo tee, courtesy of splode
• "my other vehicle is a Warthog" bumper sticker, courtesy of splode

Second Prize:

• Tim Dadabo, the voice of 343 Guilty Spark, or Steve Downes, voice of the Master Chief, will record a message of your choice on your home answering machine, in their characters' voices (the actor not chosen by the first-place winner will perform this)
• $50 Gift Card for EB Games
• One Copy of the Halo 2 Limited Edition
• One Copy of Halo: First Strike
• One Controller, either S-Type or Original, almost-new
• Map-Pack magnet
• Halo 2 Stickers
• Added 31 October 2005: Choice of Flag Captured or splode logo tee, courtesy of splode
• "my other vehicle is a Warthog" bumper sticker, courtesy of splode

Third Prize:

• $50 Gift Card for EB Games
• One Copy of the Halo 2 Limited Edition
• One Copy of Halo: First Strike
• One Controller, either S-Type or Original, almost-new
• Map-Pack magnet
• Halo 2 Stickers
• Added 31 October 2005: Flag Captured or splode logo tee, courtesy of splode (actual choice decided by first and second place winners - there will be two of one and one of the other, total)
• "my other vehicle is a Warthog" bumper sticker, courtesy of splode

The Rules

1. Your picture must reach HBO HQ by midnight, Eastern time, October 31, 2005.

2. Your picture, if digital, must be at least 640x480 pixels.

3. Your picture cannot be digitally altered. If we even THINK it's digitally altered, we'll toss it. (Yeah, we stole that rule from Bungie. It's a good rule.)

4. Your picture must not have been entered in the 2003 at Bungie.net, the 2004 contest at bungie.org, or sent to us any time before October 1, 2005.

5. To win one of the three main prizes, you must have a mailing address within the continental US or Canada. (Sorry about this one. The box is NTSC Region 1; you couldn't use it with normally-available games in Europe anyway.) There will be, however, a non-North-America prize if we get entries from elsewhere. I hate leaving the rest of the world out.

The Judging

Entries will be judged by the Halo community. Images will be put up in a gallery, starting November 1, and will be accessible for voting for one week. Votes can be cast by anyone with a valid email address (but if we suspect ballot stuffing, we're tossing ALL your votes - again, don't even give us a REASON to suspect you). Winners will be announced sometime after November 9th.

This is a pure popularity contest - make a pumpkin everyone thinks is the coolest, you'll win.

How to Submit Your Entry (or entries):

You have two options for getting your contest entries to us:

1. Upload them to us on the web, using this page.
2. Send us a photo (or a CD, if you must) in the mail (the address is given below)

After you have done one of these two things, you need to send us an e-mail at lantern@bungie.org. Include the following information in your e-mail:

1. Your name (or your online handle if you don't want us to use your name)
2. The e-mail address where we should contact you
3. How you sent your entry to us (was it an upload, or in the mail?)
4. Where we can find your entry -- if it was an upload, give us the filename of the upload. If you sent it in the mail, tell us what the return address on the package is.

Make sure that you include ALL of the information that we ask for. Incomplete entries will be discarded. (All of the information in the email should ALSO be collected via the upload interface... but problems have occurred in the past, we're being thorough.)

If you're sending us a photo or CD, mail it to:

343 Guilt O' Lantern
56 Deerfield Lane
Bethany, CT 06524

Good luck!

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