Rally for the Anime Chara Grand Prix, 2010 Edition
Do you want to win a bunch of useless loot? You do? This is how you do it.
Unlike 2ch’s Saimoe or the International Saimoe League, the by-fan-for-fan Megatokyo Forums Anime Character Grand Prix has a March Madness-style loot pool as part of its allure. Now granted most people play it for fun only; the prizes are not serious business and you get a lot more out of it by seeing the creative campaigns people come up with, being it is a community event and not an all-internet invitational. The loot themselves are just your usual pile of new and used goods: R2 and R1 DVDs, CDs, figures, posters, doujinshi, artbooks, and other trinkets. It is also open to the international members, despite being an American-based operation.
To participate, simply make an account on the MT forums, make familiar of the forum rules, and head over to the AGP sub-forum and read the sticky threads, starting from the “forum rule” one and the “AGP rules” one. Once you figured out what’s going on (and if you have question you can ask by posting in one of the threads), read the bracketology thread and put in your guesses…
Yeah, there is a certain level of inaccessibility due to how involved most of the players are, and the games have been around for a while now (I think the first time we ran this was back in ‘00 or ‘01). But at the same time it would be great if more people would join in. If the loot is incentive, that is fine by me.
I wish I could show you what we had to give away, but it was really just a smorgasbord of random things that are related to anime in some way and I’m too lazy to dig out the pictures. I think I gave away a (new) copy of Nana Mizuki’s The Museum one time, and that was the farthest removed item from being directly an anime…thing that I gave away. Or was it some Masami Okui single? I don’t remember anymore. In years past, generally we give away a minimum of $100 USD worth of things. Certainly beats trying to sell them on my blog or on eBay as far as de-cluttering the house goes!
The loot pool entry period ends this week, so if that’s your thing, it’s time to take your pick as soon as you can.
Trying to find the time to log in!
Like the illustration… source please.
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I source most of my pics nowadays. You can find the link hidden near where the image is placed.
Thanks, that one escaped me originally.
“I think I gave away a (new) copy of Nana Mizuki’s The Museum one time, and that was the farthest removed item from being directly an anime…thing that I gave away.”
And I thank you for that. \o
It was a lot of fun to get to share the crap I used to own too ;)
Sounds fun, and looks like a lot of effort and TLC went into it. Hope the turnout’s big. I’ve got my bracket in, had to make much sacrifice for the sake of realism…
Too bad past years’ AGPs aren’t there any more — though there were a lot of holes as people lost their image hosting or took down their images.
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