Christmas 2018 Patreon Campaign Banner Contest!

Hi everyone,

December is coming, and it's time to give the gift of anime! Everyone at AniDB thanks all of our Patreon supporters for keeping us alive. It is amazing to see how many of you are supporting us, spreading out the burden over many people.
We last posted back in April 2018, so we will be doing a fundraising Patreon post this December 2018 to coincide with Christmas.

The Contest

With that said, we thought to make this a fun activity. We would like to give users a chance to contribute their creativity by starting a contest for the Christmas Patreon post banner! In our February 2018 Valentine's Day Patreon post, worf created a Valentines-themed AniDB anime banner.

This time around, we are asking YOU to submit a Christmas-themed AniDB anime banner! The winning banner will be featured as our Dec 2018 Patreon fundraising post banner. The banner should tie in Christmas with both anime and AniDB.

The Prize

1. The winner will have their banner and username (unless you choose to remain anonymous) featured publicly on our next Patreon fundraising post.
2. The winner will also receive a Creative Content badge on their userpage.

The Rules

1. Anyone can participate, both Patrons and regular users.
2. The submission period will be open from 2018-Nov-21 to 2018-Dec-10.
3. Each user may submit, at most, 1 picture per day.
4. To enter your submission, simply reply to the AniDB forum thread with your picture: https://anidb.net/post446234 
   1. Upload your image to one of the whitelisted image hosts: abload.de, tinypic.com, flickr.com, imgsafe.org, imgur.com, ipfs.pics, photobucket.com, picload.org, postimage.org, puu.sh
   2. Embed your image in your reply using the image tags.
   3. If you wish to make an anonymous submission, send an AniDB forum PM to CDB-Man instead.
5. The voting period will be from 2018-Dec-10 to 2018-Dec-16. You may vote on as many images as you like.
6. If we suspect vote stuffing, then the staff will take this into consideration when looking at the results, and discard entries if needed.
7. In the unlikely event of a tie, a runoff vote will be held from 2018-Dec-17 to 2018-Dec-20 for all images coming first place in the original vote. Each user will only get 1 vote in the runoff.
8. In the even-more unlikely event of a tie in the runoff vote, the AniDB staff will decide the winner.

Image Requirements

1. Submit a Christmas-themed AniDB anime image that will be used as the banner on our Dec 2018 Patreon fundraising post. The banner should tie in Christmas with both anime and AniDB.
2. You are allowed to use the AniDB logo in your image, and it is encouraged!
3. Since the images will be posted on our public Patreon page, all images must be family-friendly, for all ages.
   1. 18+ / adult images will not be accepted.
   2. For borderline / ecchi images, the staff (mainly CDB-Man) will have sole discretion to accept or reject the submission. Note: we will lean on the more conservative side.
4. You are allowed to sign your image with your name (and optionally, your AniDB user ID). Please have the signature in the bottom-right corner.
5. All images should be submitted as a PNG to comply with Patreon's requirements.
6. For a Patreon post, either a 4:3 ratio or 16:9 ratio image would fit best.

Good Luck And Have Fun!

We are looking forward to your participation. Let the artistic creativity of our anime fans run wild!

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

This post on AniDB: https://anidb.net/post446234

CDB-Man and the Staff