2019/2020 New Year's Patreon Campaign Banner Contest!

 Hi everyone,

The new year is about a month away, and it's time to spend time with your friends and family. New Year's is a time when we cherish what we have, reflect on the year just past, and look forward to what's in store in the future!
Thank you again to all of our Patreon supporters for keeping us alive. As mentioned during the 2019 Summer campaign, this winter we will be refilling the AniDB bank account with a new fundraising Patreon post.

The Contest

Users have the chance to contribute their creativity to the Patron post banner! See the results of our 2019 Summer contest here: https://anidb.net/post453768

For this contest, submit a New Year's-themed AniDB anime banner! The winning banner will be featured as our 2019/2020 New Year's Patreon fundraising post banner. The banner should tie in New Year's themes with both anime and AniDB.

What does 'New Year's theme' entail?

A New Year's theme should be something festive and celebratory. The idea behind New Year's is to hold a festival to celebrate the year just past, and welcome the year to come!

Some illustrative examples include:
1. Fireworks / hanabi (example: https://i.imgur.com/998qiVA.jpg)
2. Firecrackers (Asian-flavoured theme)
3. Typical Japanese festival scenes, Japanese New Year's / winter kimono (example: https://i.imgur.com/TAObrAm.jpg and https://i.imgur.com/WAWb7SZ.jpg)
4. Parties (indoors and/or outdoors)
5. Drinking champagne and other alcohol
6. Modern/Western style celebrations, such as a New Year's countdown at Times Square New York, or at Big Ben in London
7. Lingering Christmas themes
Etc. This list is non-exhaustive.

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.

Caption: Winner of the Patreon banner contest: 2019/2020 New Year's

The Rules

1. Anyone can participate, both Patrons and regular users.
2. The submission period will be open from 2019-Nov-25 Monday to 2019-Dec-13 Friday.
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.
   1. Upload your image to one of the whitelisted image hosts. imgur.com is preferred. Whitelisted 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 2019-Dec-14 Saturday to 2019-Dec-22 Sunday. 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 2019-Dec-23 Monday to 2019-Dec-29 Sunday 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 an AniDB anime image that will be used as the banner on our upcoming Patreon fundraising post. The banner should tie in this contest's theme (as described above) with both anime and AniDB.
2. You are allowed to use the AniDB logo in your image, and it is encouraged!
3. Original content is preferred, but not mandatory.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. All images should be submitted in PNG format to comply with Patreon's requirements.
7. For a Patreon post, a 16:9 ratio image would fit best.
8. Images should be high resolution, 1080 x 1920 at minimum.
9. We reserve the right to disqualify images that don't meet minimum quality standards.

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/post456610

CDB-Man and the Staff