phpBBHacks.com Idol: The Winners Have Been Selected!

[Patrick]

phpBBHacks.com phpBB 3 Hacks and Styles Idol: Winners Selected!
With Big Prizes Sponsored By...
Chitika, W3 Markup, SitePoint and Others (See Below)

Thank you for visiting phpBBHacks.com.

We have reached the conclusion of phpBBHacks.com Idol. For full rules, details on the tournament format and other information, please check out the initial announcement. Before I announce the winners, I'd like to say a few things.

phpBBHacks.com Idol was an idea that we had to encourage phpBB 3 hack and style development. It was also created as a means to reward two lucky authors with some great prizes. In doing so, we realized that we could not reward most authors that participated and I hoped that they would take it well and wish their fellow authors luck. For the most part, I have not been disappointed and I appreciate the good spirit that has been shown.

Thank you to not only all of the authors who participated, but also every author who has ever submitted a download to phpBBHacks.com. One of the special things about this site is the relationship that we have with authors and I appreciate what every author does to help others and the work that they put in to their hacks, styles and other downloads. If you participated and didn't win, thanks for coming out. I hope that the competition gave you some excitement, some energy and some pleasure. It's about the journey as much as the result and I hope that everyone has enjoyed the journey to conclusion.

I'd like to thank everyone who has otherwise supported the competition and everyone who voted. This is phpBBHacks.com Idol and it was important that the members of phpBBHacks.com decided the winners. They did. We worked hard to keep the competition honest and we managed to do so. We hit a bump or two in the road, but overall, for the size of the competition, it went really smoothly. I appreciated your patience when we hit the bumps, though.

To our four finalists - Elglobo, lefty74, Abble CoSa NoStrA and Morgyanne - congratulations on reaching the final round. This, in itself, is an awesome thing and I hope you enjoy and appreciate it for what it is. People voted you through 3 rounds because they wanted you to win and that's a touching sentiment, in and of itself.

Without further ado, here are our two winners. I hope that you will join me in congratulating them.

Our phpBBHacks.com phpBB 3 Hacks Idol is...

Elglobo
(advanced over lefty74, 7-6)

Our phpBBHacks.com phpBB 3 Styles Idol is...

Abble CoSa NoStrA
(advanced over Morgyanne, 11-3)

Congratulations to Elglobo and Abble CoSa NoStrA!

Before I say what they've won, for fun, here are the final brackets for the tournament format:

Elglobo wins the phpBBHacks.com phpBB 3 Hacks Idol Grand Prize Package

From Chitika:



Your Choice of One of the Following:

Xbox 360 with 20 GB Hard Drive ($349.99 on Amazon.com)

PlayStation 3 40 GB ($399.99)

Asus Eee PC 4G Surf (Pure White) (7" Screen, 800 MHz Intel Celeron Processor, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB Hard Drive, Linux Preloaded) ($344.99)

Archos 605 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player ($375.64)

Apple iPod Touch (16 GB) ($379.00)

Amazon Kindle ($359.99)

From SitePoint:

"The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks" (Second Edition) by Ben Balbo, Davey Shafik, Harry Fuecks, Ligaya Turmelle and Matthew Weier O'Phinney ($26.37)

"The Ultimate CSS Reference" by Tommy Olsson and Paul O’Brien ($29.67)

"The Art & Science of JavaScript: Inspirational, Cutting-Edge JavaScript From the World's Best" by Cameron Adams, James Edwards, Christian Heilmann, Michael Mahemoff, Ara Pehlivanian, Dan Webb and Simon Willison ($26.37)

"The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks" by Scott Allen, Jeff Atwood, Jon Galloway, Wyatt Barnett and Phil Haack ($26.37)

$100 Worth of Credits in the SitePoint Marketplace

2 eBooks of the Your Choice From the SitePoint Library ($59.90)

From the Blog World & New Media Expo:

1 Full Access Pass to the Blog World & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 20 and 21 ($300.00)

This covers the conference pass, only. You will be responsible for travel and accommodations.

From AMACOM:

"Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards" by Patrick O'Keefe ($16.32)

"Go Google: 20 Ways to Reach More Customers and Build Revenue with Google Business Tools" by Greg Holden ($12.19)

"Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing" by Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper ($16.47)

From O'Reilly:

"MySQL in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference" (Second Edition) by Russell Dyer ($23.09)

"Ajax: The Definitive Guide" by Anthony T. Holdener III ($31.49)

"Essential SQLAlchemy: Mapping Python to Databases" by Rick Copeland ($23.09)

From Apress:

"Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress" by Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little and Jared W. Smith (Your Choice of Physical or eBook) ($31.49)

"Pro PHP: Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and More" by Kevin McArthur (Your Choice of Physical or eBook) ($31.49)

From Packt:

"Building Online Communities with phpBB: A Practical Guide to Creating and Maintaining Your Own Online Discussion Forums with the Free, Open Source phpBB Bulletin Board Package" by Stoyan Stefanov, Jeremy Rogers and Mike Lothar ($35.99)

"Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.11 for Effective MySQL Management: Increase Your MySQL Productivity and Control by Discovering the Real Power of phpMyAdmin 2.11" by Marc Delisle ($25.19)

Hacks Idol Grand Prize Total: Up to $1,215.48

Abble CoSa NoStrA wins the phpBBHacks.com phpBB 3 Styles Idol Grand Prize Package

From W3 Markup:



Your Choice of One of the Following:

Xbox 360 with 20 GB Hard Drive ($349.99 on Amazon.com)

PlayStation 3 40 GB ($399.99)

Asus Eee PC 4G Surf (Pure White) (7" Screen, 800 MHz Intel Celeron Processor, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB Hard Drive, Linux Preloaded) ($344.99)

Archos 605 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player ($375.64)

Apple iPod Touch (16 GB) ($379.00)

Amazon Kindle ($359.99)

From SitePoint:

"The Ultimate CSS Reference" by Tommy Olsson and Paul O’Brien ($29.67)

"The Principles of Beautiful Web Design: Design Beautiful Web Sites Using This Simple Step-by-Step Guide" by Jason Beaird ($26.37)

"The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks" (Second Edition) by Rachel Andrew ($26.37)

"The Art & Science of CSS: Create Inspirational Standards-Based Web Designs" by Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith and Jonathan Snook ($26.37)

$100 Worth of Credits in the SitePoint Marketplace

2 eBooks of the Your Choice From the SitePoint Library ($59.90)

From the Blog World & New Media Expo:

1 Full Access Pass to the Blog World & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 20 and 21 ($300.00)

This covers the conference pass, only. You will be responsible for travel and accommodations.

From AMACOM:

"Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards" by Patrick O'Keefe ($16.32)

"Go Google: 20 Ways to Reach More Customers and Build Revenue with Google Business Tools" by Greg Holden ($12.19)

"Managing Brand You: 7 Steps to Creating Your Most Successful Self" by Jerry S. Wilson and Ira Blumenthal ($14.93)

From O'Reilly:

"Photoshop CS3 Accelerated" by Blues Kim ($16.49)

"Photoshop CS3 RAW: Transform Your RAW Images Into Works of Art" by Mikkel Aaland ($23.09)

"Google Apps: The Missing Manual" by Nancy Cooper ($26.39)

From Apress:

"Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress" by Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little and Jared W. Smith (Your Choice of Physical or eBook) ($31.49)

"Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional" by W. Jason Gilmore (Your Choice of Physical or eBook) ($31.01)

From Packt:

"Building Online Communities with phpBB: A Practical Guide to Creating and Maintaining Your Own Online Discussion Forums with the Free, Open Source phpBB Bulletin Board Package" by Stoyan Stefanov, Jeremy Rogers and Mike Lothar ($35.99)

"Mobile Web Development: Building Mobile Websites, SMS and MMS Messaging, Mobile Payments, and Automated Voice Call Systems with XHTML MP, WCSS, and Mobile AJAX" by Nirav Mehta ($44.99)

Styles Idol Grand Prize Total: Up to $1,221.56

This thread is for announcing the winners of phpBBHacks.com Idol and congratulating them. If you have any feedback in the form of ideas for alterations, changes or additions for future iterations of phpBBHacks.com Idol, please contact me via private message or e-mail to ensure that it receives the proper consideration. Please do not post these suggestions on the thread. We want to keep the focus on the winners and the result of the competition. I appreciate it.

A big thank you to Chitika, W3 Markup, SitePoint, Blog World & New Media Expo, AMACOM, O'Reilly, Apress and Packt for agreeing to sponsor this event.

Thank you to everyone who was involved and who helped to make this event as meaningful and enjoyable as it was. I appreciate all of the interest in the competition and, once again, congratulations to our winners.

Sincerely,

Patrick
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[abble CoSa NoStrA]

oh my god
i just wake up and i see this result, i'm very happy and pround and i want to thank in first all people who voted for me.
I thank too all authors, a victory is beautiful when competition is hard and it was the case on this tournament.

Special thanks to Patrick for this big organisation, thanks to all sponsors for prizes!!!

the anecdote :
Soul City is a style i didn't want to keep for competition.
I choosed Coffee Time and Poker Olympus but a confusion with adress mail let the random choice doing the job and choose for me.
LOL

Thanks again to all people who voted for me
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please excuse for the faults, that is translated by google

[Mighty Gorgon]

Congratulations to the winners!

[Tanner]

Congratulations to the winners!

Everyone did a nice job on their styles and hacks.

-Tanner
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[Nadia P.]

Glad to see two of my colleagues win the contest idol Congratulations !
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Nadia P.

[Jester-fr]

@Jospin : "I'm seeing the reality of the votes and I'm retiring from the net and styles making..."



Well done abble and well done Elglobo.

Thanks for those who have supported and voted for me.

I will win the next contest


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[Théonaute]

Congratuliations to winners !

It was a very nice competitions.
Thanks to Patrick for organising this tournament.
I hope there will be another competitions like this one in the future !
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[Jester-fr]

Hope so because I will win this time

Thanks Patrick !

PS : Theo... black listed... don't forget black listed
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phpBB-fr.com - Graph'Team leader

[Patrick]

Good stuff.

Thanks for all of the replies and kind words.
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[Elglobo]

Olla, I am very happy to win this hack tournament !
Never, I thought to win in front of Lefty.

The proof, the results are almost similar.
It was going to be a close call.

I would like to congratulate Patrick for organisation of this tournament and of course give thanks to all peoples who voted for me and encouraged me.

Thanks to all again
Elglobo.