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Hi all! I'd like to celebrate the Pokemon Gen 3 remakes by going all-out with an art contest AND a giveaway. Both of these events will have 15 winners each! Prizes include plushies, free art, and multiple chances to win a copy of the upcoming Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire games. Keep reading to learn how to enter!

GIVEAWAY

Available prizes:

• Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire game preorder (1 available)
• Adorable Treecko, Mudkip, or Torchic plushie (1 of each available)
• Super cool drawing by me (1 available - here are some examples of my work)
• Fancypants Kyogre & Groudon pendant keychain (5 available)
• Badass Rayquaza keychain (5 available)

How to enter:

To enter, favorite this journal! That's it! You can also reblog the giveaway's Tumblr post to enter yourself a second time. (No giveaway blogs, please.) If you enter the art contest, your name will be entered in the giveaway an extra three times, for a max of five entries per person.

Winning:

I will randomly pick 15 unique winners. You can't win multiple times in the giveaway, but it is possible to win in the art contest and also win in the giveaway. I will contact you based on the site you won on--so if I picked your username from the Tumblr reblogs, I will send you a Tumblr ask, if I picked your username from the dA post favorites, I will send you a dA note, etc.

The first winner can choose any prize they want (only one game/plushie/keychain per winner), the second winner can pick anything the first-place winner didn't claim, and so on until all 15 have prizes.

ART CONTEST

Available prizes:

• Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire game preorder (2 available!)
• Giant, fuzzy Kyogre plushie (1 available)
• Huggable, fierce Groudon plushie (1 available)
• Super cool drawing by me (1 available - here are some examples of my work)
• Fancypants Kyogre & Groudon pendant keychain (5 available)
• Badass Rayquaza keychain (5 available)

How to enter:

Send your entry/entries to me via deviantART note or email them to me at mewitti@gmail.com, with the subject "ORAS Contest". Include your entry, your username, and the fastest method to get in contact with you if you win.

What to draw:

Your entry should be something that a Hoenn resident or company might make to show off the unique things that Hoenn has to offer to a prospective tourist. For example: a 'postcard' of a famous Hoenn landmark, 'pamphlets' for tours that showcase the native Pokemon, posters advertising Hoenn events, travel photographs of you and your team visiting the region, or anything else you can think of! This is deliberately open-ended, so get creative.

Rules:

• All visual artistic mediums are allowed (traditional, digital, drawings, sculpture, typography, web design, etc)
• You may use official Pokemon artwork in your entries, but otherwise only submit work you created yourself.
• You may submit multiple entries, but only one can win per artist.
• You may collaborate with others, just remember there will be only one prize per winning entry.
• If you enter the art contest, your name will be automatically entered in the giveaway three times! You will not get extra entries in the giveaway if you submit multiple entries for the art contest.

Winning Categories, in order:

• First Place Overall
• Second Place Overall
• Third Place Overall
• Most Creative
• Funniest
• 10 runner-ups

Winners can pick any prize from the available prizes as long as it isn't already taken. First-place winner gets first dibs, second-place can choose anything the first-place winner didn't claim, and so on until everyone's chosen a prize.

The contest ends on November 9 at 11:55pm EST. I will send notifications to the winners within one day. There will be NO extensions, and winners MUST respond with their address/prize preferences within 24 hours or I will pick a different winner. Sorry for the strictness here, but I need to wrap up the contest quickly so that people who choose OR/AS preorders can cancel any existing preorders and non-winners can get their own preorders on time.

OTHER INFO

If you win, you must be willing to share your name and address and soul so I can mail you your prize! Please don't enter this contest/giveaway if you are not willing to give out your address. I can ship to regions outside the US, and you do NOT have to pay any shipping fees no matter where you live.

Prize specifics: 

• OR/AS preorders will be ordered via Amazon.com with release-day delivery, so they should arrive on November 21st for US addresses. You get to choose which game you want. These will be physical cartridges, not digital downloads. If you live outside the US or have a non-US-region 3DS: Please check your 3DS's region and let me know! I should be able to get you the appropriate region game, but I can't guarantee release-day delivery. If you can find the appropriate region game on Amazon or another site that allows online preorders, that would be a huge help. From what I've seen, all OR/AS games will be playable in English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, or Italian. You just need to have the correct region for your 3DS.
• The plushies are official Pokemon Center merchandise that were released this September. This is how big they are!
• The keychains are handmade and will never be available anywhere else! The Kyogre/Groudon keychains are double-sided glass pendants, and the Rayquaza keychains are made from sturdy, sealed shrink-plastic.
• Drawings from me will be delivered digitally in high-resolution PNG format. If you choose to get a drawing from me as a prize, I will draw pretty much anything you want--except for sexual situations, excessive gore, or hateful images. It needs to be PG-ish.

If you are wondering why exactly I am giving away all this expensive stuff, see this post.

If you have any questions at all, please get in touch. Have fun, everyone!