phpBBHacks.com Idol: Vote For Your Favorites in Round 2!

[Patrick]

phpBBHacks.com phpBB 3 Hacks and Styles Idol: Voting Round 2
With Big Prizes Sponsored By...
Chitika, W3 Markup, SitePoint and Others (See Below)

Thank you for visiting phpBBHacks.com.

We are now entering the second round of voting in phpBBHacks.com Idol. In round 1, you selected 16 different winners (see below), allowing them to advance to the next round. Thank you to everyone who voted. Through these voting rounds, you, the members of phpBBHacks.com, will decide the two authors who we will present with the awesome prize packages described below.

Super Short Version: Vote for your favorites in the polls listed below. The winners will move on to the next round of voting. Voting for this round will be closed on July 28 at 8 PM ET. Please do not post your votes in this or any thread. Here are the polls:

Hacks Idol:

primehalo (Ken F. Innes IV) vs. Elglobo
Théonaute (Romain K.) vs. Elglobo
eviL3 vs. lefty74
eviL3 vs. primehalo (Ken F. Innes IV)

Styles Idol:

Abble CoSa NoStrA vs. Daniel Exe
Abble CoSa NoStrA vs. Jester
Mighty Gorgon vs. Morgyanne
Mighty Gorgon vs. Raimon

Longer Version: The first round of voting in the phpBBHacks.com Idol competition has completed. You, the members of phpBBHacks.com, have selected 16 different winners and those hacks/styles and individuals have moved on to the next round. The second round of voting is now open and you can vote in poll threads listed above.

Thank you to everyone who voted during the first round. Congratulations to everyone who has advanced. To those that did not, I know this is disappointing, but I appreciate your participation and the contributions that you have made. With this in mind, here are the results of round 1:

Hacks Idol:

primehalo (Ken F. Innes IV) advanced over ~HG~, 11-5
Elglobo advanced over Elglobo, 9-7
Romain Kowalski advanced over lefty74, 9-8
Elglobo advanced over Martin "Kamahl" Litvaj, 10-6
eviL3 advanced over Chico Gois, 17-4
lefty74 advanced over lefty74, 11-4
eviL3 advanced over Romain Kowalski, 11-6
primehalo (Ken F. Innes IV) advanced over Vladimir Sokolov, 13-4

Styles Idol:

Abble CoSa NoStrA advanced over Daniel Exe, 8-4
Daniel Exe advanced over Matti1991, 7-4
Abble CoSa NoStrA advanced over Matti1991, 9-4
Jester advanced over Andrea Di Mchele, 8-5
Mighty Gorgon advanced over Christian Bullock, 7-6
Morgyanne advanced over Morgyanne, 8-2
Mighty Gorgon advanced over topdown, 7-5
Raimon advanced over Jonathan Dumaine, 8-5

You are welcome to vote in as many or few polls as you would like, but we encourage you to vote in as many as you are comfortable. The more valid votes - the better. Who you vote for is up to you. You can vote for the download that you think is more useful, you can vote for who you want to win or you can vote based on some other metric of your choosing. In order to vote, you must have registered on our forums by July 16, 2008. Any votes made by those registered on July 17 or later will be removed.

Voting for this round will be closed on July 28 at 8 PM ET. Please do not post your votes in this or any thread.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me via private message or patrick@phpbbhacks.com. Please do not post a reply on the poll threads.

As a reminder for any authors who remain in the tournament, please do not attempt to artificially inflate our vote totals in any way. This includes but is not limited to trading votes, encouraging people to vote indiscriminately (publicly or privately), mass mailing/posting and any other behavior that could lead to results being artificially skewed. You are welcome to mention on your own site or elsewhere that you are nominated, but please do not encourage anyone to engage in any devious practices or inflate our voting totals in an unnatural way. Individuals found to be participating in any of these activities will be disqualified from winning either prize and will be completely removed from the tournament.

With that out of the way, good luck to everyone!

For full rules, details on the tournament format and other information, please check out the initial announcement.

For fun, here are the current brackets for the tournament format:

Once again, here are the great prize packages that we will be giving to our two winners:

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

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

Finally

Primarily, this thread is for announcing the information contained in this post, for wishing people luck, congratulating winners and asking for questions about the competition as it is now. If you have any feedback in the form of ideas for alterations, changes or additions in the current or 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 competition and the current participants and winners. I appreciate it.

I realize that this competition created some excitement as far as creating phpBB 3 hacks and styles and submitting them to our database and I'm very happy about that. But, most downloads in our database were submitted without their being any prizes at stake and that will continue to be the case, I'm sure. Though we are only able to reward two authors (and I am delighted to be able to do so), I greatly appreciate every author who has contributed to the phpBB community through phpBBHacks.com. Thank you.

Once again, good luck to everyone who remains in the tournament! I can't wait to award the prizes.

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 for reading and for your interest in the competition. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Sincerely,

Patrick
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[abble CoSa NoStrA]

vote done
thanks for vote and good luck all
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please excuse for the faults, that is translated by google

[Nadia P.]

I voted!
Congratulations to all those who have reach the second round.
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Nadia P.

[Mighty Gorgon]

Good luck!
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Luca

[Mighty Gorgon]

Patrick I hope you won't mind if I link here the screenshots to all styles still in the tournament.

I have taken them from phpbb3styles.net.

I hope also styles authors agree to publish these in the voting topics so to help people in choosing their vote.

By clicking on each image you will see a bigger one.



Soul City (Abble CoSa NoStrA) VS DarkFantasy (Daniel Exe)

VS



Coffee Time Olympus (Abble CoSa NoStrA) VS PS3 (Jester)

VS



Black Pearl (Mighty Gorgon) VS L_Antre (Morgyanne)

VS



Milky Way Red (Mighty Gorgon) VS FIsubice2 (Raimon)

VS
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Luca

[Daniel St. Jules]

Also, may I suggest reducing the available time for voting in the polls? 4 days seems a bit unnecessary, especially when there's already been an average of 15 votes per poll within the first 24 hours, which is comparable to the total votes when the previous round was open for 4 days. It just seems to me that most would probably want to see this competition progress a bit quicker, as I'm sure all are eager to see the results. Again, this is but a suggestion, but I hope that you'll consider it. ^^
-Daniel St. Jules
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My phpBB styles: GuildWarsAlliance, DarkFantasy, 610nm, twilightBB
My Sites: Gamexe.net, TheBrawl.net
I'm also known as Daniel Exe in the phpBB community

[Patrick]

Thanks for the replies.

Luca,

I don't mind those being posted in the thread as you have, but there should not be any replies in the actual voting threads themselves. I appreciate it.

Daniel,

Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it and will definitely keep it in mind. It's a balance that I work to maintain between wanting to keep things moving and also allowing people enough time to vote. 1-2 days isn't enough and really, 4 isn't even that much. But, I think it's a decent number in between. No number will be perfect, of course. But, again, I'll keep your thoughts in mind.

Thanks.

As an aside, from this point forward, if anyone has any further feedback as far as ideas you have for alterations, additions or changes for the current or future iterations, please contact me directly via private message or e-mail so that it can be properly considered. I welcome your thoughts.

As we want to keep the focus on the competition and the current winners and participants, this thread is for things like wishing people luck, congratulating people and/or asking questions about the competition as it is now.

I appreciate it.

Thanks,

Patrick
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[~HG~]

It is a shame really that more people were not involved in sending in hacks and styles though what we have here is a pretty good indication that there are some great hacks and styles for phpBB3 out there at the moment.

Quite a few of the hacks that are entered in this competition I already use and find them very handy to have.

Well done to everyone who has progressed through to the second round and I now look forward to seeing the results from the third round of voting.

I must say, I have enjoyed watching the progress of this little competition and so congratulations to Patrick for being able to set it up the way he has ... well done Patrick.
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~HG~

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[Jester-fr]

Good luck to all



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[Daniel St. Jules]

Ah, I might as well get my words in this topic too.
Good luck to all authors.
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My phpBB styles: GuildWarsAlliance, DarkFantasy, 610nm, twilightBB
My Sites: Gamexe.net, TheBrawl.net
I'm also known as Daniel Exe in the phpBB community