Writer's Forum Montly Challenge
St. Patrick's Day Challenge theme:

Best Limerick in honor of St. Patrick's Day or the virtues of being Irish (if even for a day).

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Submission Guidelines

Your limerick must be based the challenge theme. Tell us your tale in limerick form. Type directly in the upload box or copy/paste from Notepad (or similar editing program). Copy/Pasting from complex word processing programs, such as MS Word, can change certain characters. If you use MS Word: Copy/Paste from Word into Notepad, then Copy/Paste into the contest upload box. Do not insert html formating According to Merriam-Webster Online a limerick is defined as: Samples of limericks can be found here.

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Image Submission

Before uploading your text: right click on the following images and save to your hard drive. Rename the image: thumb.jpg or main.jpg

Thumbnail: Use this image as your thumbnail image

Full Image: Use this as your Full Image

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Contest Rules:

Challenge Theme - St. Patrick's Day/virtues of being Irish: Only one entry per member - Enter a limerick pertaining to St. Patrick's Day or the virtues of being Irish (if even for a day).
Contest begins Feb. 18 - and - Ends Mar. 13, 2004 at 00:01 Renderosity Server Time. (Entries MUST be timestamped by the contest ending date/time.) All members and moderators can enter - except for Challenge Manager. No sexual or extreme violence - limericks and images must be suitable for all audiences and abide by Renderosity's Terms of Service. Only one limerick per member allowed (this includes member clones - that is, even if you have multiple accounts, only one entry per PERSON). By uploading your limerick you are agreeing that this is your original work. Authors will remain the intellectual property holder of their entries.

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Judging / Voting: The Official Voting Thread Voting will take place in the writer's forum in a special thread after the challenge closes and is open to all Renderosity members. Only votes appearing within the Writer's Forum Thread will be counted! Voting will begin at close of the challenge and will remain open until March 16, 2004 at 23:59 Renderosity time." First place winner picks the theme for the next month, subject to approval with the challenge managers. Announcement of winners will be in the writer's forum as well as on the challenge page.

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Voting Rules The winners will be posted the day after the close of voting. When the Voting Thread is Posted assign points in the following manner:

• 3 points to the best limerick,
  2 points to the next best
  1 point to your third best choice.

First place winner will be the one with the most points. Second and Third place accordingly.

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Artists grant permission to Renderosity for the use of submitted stories/poems/images for an undetermined period of time. This is strictly for posting the image on the front page and within the contest archives. The Artist will remain the intellectual property holder.