Life after DX11?
Posted 42 months ago

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And the winners are:
Comic Strip Category winners:

1st Place: DrKio "What would Alyx benefit from DX11?"

2nd Place: camb198 Life After DX11 TF2 Comic

3rd Place: Couchetard My C9 characters life after DX11

4th Place: Mister_L "Sam and Max in "Her Majesty's Peaks"

5th Place: TheBadBoy 2nd Comic Entry, DirectX 11 Changing Lives

Video Category Winners:

1st Place: jarrodthome Inaugural Episode of "Life After DirectX 11

2nd Place: Swatt Life After DirectX 11 with Team Fortress 2

3rd Place: Nycodemus A Rare Interview

4th Place: kalabajster Life after DX11 category for the contest MW2

5th Place: p4l1ndr0m3p4l1ndr0m3's DX11 Entry

Update December 4,2009 - We've added a couple of Phenom II X4 965 CPU's to the prize list to spice things up a bit.

Update December 1, 2009 - Remember the theme when preparing your entries. "How will DX11 affect your life," real or imagined.

Just in time for the holidays, we've partnered with AMD, Sapphire and Powercolor to give away some awesome hardware.

Here's what you can win:

Video Category
1st Place: Sapphire HD 5870
2nd Place: Sapphire HD 5770
3rd Place: AMD Phenom II X4 965 CPU
4th Place: Wolfenstein Key
5th Place: T-Shirt and Ruby-Rom

Comic Strip Category
1st Place: Powercolor HD 5870
2nd Place: Powercolor HD 5770
3rd Place: AMD Phenom II X4 965 CPU
4th Place: Dragon Age Key
5th Place: T-Shirt and Ruby-Rom

Here's how you can win it.
Video Category: Create an entertaining video and post it here. Any form of video is acceptable, including Machinima and video skits.
Comic Strip Category: Create a series of screen shots from your favorite game and add fun and humorous tag lines, and post them here.

Theme
How will Direct X 11 change your life (from the point of view of your favorite video game character).

Scoring
You'll be scored by creativity as determined by the FiringSquad editors and AMD staff, user scoring, user comments, and page of views. Earlier entries will generate more page view points than late entries. More points will be awarded based on how well your entry addresses the theme.

Deadlines
Contest opens today, November 24th, 2009.
All entries must be submitted by December 15th.
Winners will be announced on December 17th.
Prizes will be shipped December 18th, just in time for Santa Claus.

Rules and Regulations (unnecessary evil)
Rules and Regulations
1. You must be 16 years or older to participate.
2. You must be a resident of the planet earth and have a valid mailing address that does not require hand courier delivery.
3. No plagiarism of any kind. If you copy you will be disqualified and publicly humiliated.
4. Participants are required to post their work here in the FiringSquad Matrix, in the "Life After DX11" cluster in order for it to be eligible to win.
5. The winners will be picked from all eligible entries that arrive by midnight December 15th, 2009.
6. Winners will be chosen by FiringSquad and AMD only. This is not a democracy, and if you lose or are disqualified because we don’t like the way you spell, then tough beans.
7. You may submit as many entries as you like in one or both categories, but you may only win one prize.
8. Only one registered FiringSquad user per person.
9. FiringSquad, AMD, Sapphire, and Powercolor will do everything in their power to ensure a speedy delivery of all of the prizes. Winners are not allowed to complain if it takes more than 30 days to process.
10. FiringSquad reserves the right to refuse entry into the competition, and any entrant found cheating, plagiarizing, or generally following un-sportsmanlike behavior will be instantly disqualified.
11. You enter this competition is at your own risk. FiringSquad, AMD, Sapphire, and Powercolor do not accept any responsibility if you injure yourself or have any monetary loss as a result of your participation in this contest.
12. No responsibility will be taken for lost entries.
13. In the event of any dispute, the judges' decision is final.
14. These rules may change at any time and you must accept these changes.
15. By submitting your first entry, you have confirmed your acceptance of these 15 terms and conditions.
16. All terms and conditions of the FiringSquad Matrix apply. If you haven't read them, here they are: http://www.firingsquad.com/matrix/terms.asp