Deputy 26 Final Contest Winners
Posted by Anthony E. Zuiker on
Mar 19, 2010
Deputy 26ers,
One of the best things I’ve learned about the Internet is from Howard Schmidt, the White House Cyber-Czar, who I’m going to be meeting with next week. He told me that everything you put on the Internet is permanent. One, big, permanent record.
This has been a long time coming; the Deputy 26 contest has come to and end. I had a vision this would be a fun experience for the community; individual users coming together to work in teams on something fun and creative, and working harmoniously with other teams to create a vast pool of user-generated content. Now many people and groups worked hard and produced some great stuff, and some let the competition aspect get the best of them. There will always be people looking to ruin things for others, and that seems to be the case here.
This is not a place for haters; I don’t want that attitude or behavior here. So we’re going to continue cleaning house until all the negativity and hate is gone for good. I am instituting a zero tolerance policy. If you attack another user, you’re gone. If you’re only posting angry, hateful, rude comments, you’re gone. I don’t need a reason to kick you out, so consider yourself warned. And if necessary, in the case of personal threats, we will pass on your information to the proper authorities.
Now that the Deputy 26 contest is over, we’re going to move the focus of the site back to the book series. You may see changes to the design as we prepare to launch Book 2. For those of you still coming every day and contributing, thank you for hanging in. We still have some amazing things in store for you, and we appreciate your loyalty and passion for Level 26.
On to the winners:
Congratulations to Dark Wanderers for winning the final Deputy 26 contest. They put together a great little story, written well, engaging and I thought they did a really great job.
However, we have to give our biggest congratulations to team Big Yellow Sqweegels for winning the entire Deputy 26 contest. Per the prize package, Big Yellow Hero and another person of her choice will be flown out to Los Angeles during production of the book two cyber-bridges.
Here are the final standings:
Deputy 26 Final Contest Winners:
1st (25 points): Dark Wanderers
2nd (22.5 points): Angels of Mercy
3rd (20 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
4th (17.5 points): Dark Addicts
5th (15 points): Z Spirits
Here are the final standings:
1st (182.5 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
2nd (167.5 points): Dark Addicts
3rd (100 points): Almighty Sqweegels
4th (97.5 points): Z Spirits
5th (95 points): The Prodigal Saints
6th (85 points): Dark Wanderers
7th (67.5 points): PsychoKillersUnite1
8th (60 points): Babes of Darkness
9th (45 points): Angels of Mercy
10th (40 points): Drop Kill Murphys
11th (25 points): Team Splat!
12th (20 points): Espys26ers
Zuiker
One of the best things I’ve learned about the Internet is from Howard Schmidt, the White House Cyber-Czar, who I’m going to be meeting with next week. He told me that everything you put on the Internet is permanent. One, big, permanent record.
This has been a long time coming; the Deputy 26 contest has come to and end. I had a vision this would be a fun experience for the community; individual users coming together to work in teams on something fun and creative, and working harmoniously with other teams to create a vast pool of user-generated content. Now many people and groups worked hard and produced some great stuff, and some let the competition aspect get the best of them. There will always be people looking to ruin things for others, and that seems to be the case here.
This is not a place for haters; I don’t want that attitude or behavior here. So we’re going to continue cleaning house until all the negativity and hate is gone for good. I am instituting a zero tolerance policy. If you attack another user, you’re gone. If you’re only posting angry, hateful, rude comments, you’re gone. I don’t need a reason to kick you out, so consider yourself warned. And if necessary, in the case of personal threats, we will pass on your information to the proper authorities.
Now that the Deputy 26 contest is over, we’re going to move the focus of the site back to the book series. You may see changes to the design as we prepare to launch Book 2. For those of you still coming every day and contributing, thank you for hanging in. We still have some amazing things in store for you, and we appreciate your loyalty and passion for Level 26.
On to the winners:
Congratulations to Dark Wanderers for winning the final Deputy 26 contest. They put together a great little story, written well, engaging and I thought they did a really great job.
However, we have to give our biggest congratulations to team Big Yellow Sqweegels for winning the entire Deputy 26 contest. Per the prize package, Big Yellow Hero and another person of her choice will be flown out to Los Angeles during production of the book two cyber-bridges.
Here are the final standings:
Deputy 26 Final Contest Winners:
1st (25 points): Dark Wanderers
2nd (22.5 points): Angels of Mercy
3rd (20 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
4th (17.5 points): Dark Addicts
5th (15 points): Z Spirits
Here are the final standings:
1st (182.5 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
2nd (167.5 points): Dark Addicts
3rd (100 points): Almighty Sqweegels
4th (97.5 points): Z Spirits
5th (95 points): The Prodigal Saints
6th (85 points): Dark Wanderers
7th (67.5 points): PsychoKillersUnite1
8th (60 points): Babes of Darkness
9th (45 points): Angels of Mercy
10th (40 points): Drop Kill Murphys
11th (25 points): Team Splat!
12th (20 points): Espys26ers
Zuiker
A Deputy 26 Farewell
Posted by Anthony E. Zuiker on
Mar 5, 2010
When you've completed your story, post the cards and paragraph in a blog on your profile and flag it as "cool". We want to make sure that everyone's submission is counted, so if you're having trouble posting, please let Site Admin Jason know.
I will personally be reading all the entries over the next couple weeks and we’ll have a winner for you soon.
What’s at stake? A trip for the winning deputy and a +1 of their choosing to Los Angeles during production of the cyber-bridges for Dark Prophecy, Book 2 in the Level 26 series. We will provide coach flights from one airport (thus, if your plus one is flying from another place, they’ll have to pay the difference), a hotel room and make every effort to visually put you in the cyber-bridges.
We’ve had our ups and downs during the Deputy 26 process but overall I couldn’t have been more pleased. I’ve watched this site grow from a handful of members to over 61,000 users on the site. The book is available all over the world in several different languages and we are eagerly beginning prep for Dark Prophecy’s release this fall.
Even though the teams will be dissolved that doesn’t mean that you, the Deputies, aren’t still an important part of the site and the building of this community. I still want you guys to be vocal, to get the word out, to help those having trouble on the site. This is YOUR community. You are the early adopters. You are the ones who will help us get to 100,000 members, to get to books four, five and six, to cement the Digi-novel into the hearts and minds of not only the United States but the world!
Our mandate, from here until October 14th and beyond, is to sell as many books as possible. We want to be a New York Times Bestseller. But we don’t want to just be #18, right? We want to be #1! We need to sell 15,000 copies, so let’s spread the word: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, whatever you can do.
Thanks for everything, Deputies. Can’t wait to see what you’ve got for me.
Zuiker
Deputy 26: Final Contest
Posted by Anthony E. Zuiker on
Feb 19, 2010
Well, here we are, three months later, looking at our final Deputy 26 contest. We’ve had nine great contests so far with all of you doing a great job. We’ve had our ups and downs but those that have stayed on and continued submitting have helped build our community from 35 at Comic-Con last July to almost 55,000 today.
The Deputy 26 challenge was always designed to be a fun, engaging, interesting challenge that would help get the word out about this book that you all love so much. We wanted you guys to create teams that had their own identity, their own members, and then throw contests at you, all in good fun.
As a reminder, the winner and a +1 of their choosing will be flown out to Los Angeles during the shooting of the cyber-bridges for Book 2. We will provide coach flights from one airport (thus, if your plus one is flying from another place, they’ll have to pay the difference), a hotel room and make every effort to visually put you in the cyber-bridges.*
Now, the final Deputy 26 challenge:
We’ve provided you guys with 13 Tarot cards in our Final Deputy Challenge Album. Click the link to view and download the images. These cards will be heavily featured in the narrative for Book 2.
I want you guys to take five cards of your choosing and turn them into a storyline with Steve Dark chasing a killer with a proficiency in Tarot. The Tarot cards can factor into the story any way you choose. This story line does NOT have to be Black Sqweegel centric.
You must tell this story by providing the card and writing a paragraph (no more than 5-7 sentences) for each card.
I will personally read all the submissions. Whoever creates the best, most engaging storyline in my opinion will determine the Top 7 winners.
Since this is our last contest, I would encourage ALL of the Deputies to participate. Any negativity or bashing of the winners will result in immediate termination from the site. This is it, guys. Let’s end this competition with everyone having a really positive experience.
When you've completed your story, post the cards and paragraph in a blog on your profile and flag it as "cool". We want to make sure that everyone's submission is counted, so if you're having trouble posting, please let Site Admin Jason know.
The deadline for this contest is Friday, March 5, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST.
Now, I’ve always encouraged, without hesitation, members of the site to submit their own ideas for the book series and said that I would take those into consideration. There is a possibility that what you guys submit could resemble what we’re working on for Book 2. As such, I’m required to include the following disclaimer:
Be advised that any content, feedback, comments, ideas, suggestions and/or materials (collectively, the “Materials”) posted or uploaded by you to this website shall be done so without the reservation of any rights or further control over the Materials or the Materials’ use by you and you specifically authorize this website and its owners, affiliates, licensees and assigns to use such Materials in whole or in part, throughout the universe, in perpetuity in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, free and clear of any and all claims for royalties, residuals, or other compensation. By posting and/or uploading any such Materials, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to the foregoing. Please see the Terms of Use for further details.
Once the final winners are determined we’ll dissolve the Deputy 26 teams and go back to being a place where individuals can discuss Level 26. However, we’ll keep all of your submissions up for the time being.
I want to thank everyone who participated from week to week. I really believe you’ve helped this site grow beyond my expectations and it’s been a lot of fun coming up with challenges for you from week to week.
Zuiker
* A walk-on roll is typically a NON-SPEAKING part, usually in the capacity as an extra. We cannot guarantee that a walk-on will appear in the final version of the cyber-bridges.
Sqweegel’s Office Pool Winners
Posted by Anthony E. Zuiker on
Feb 11, 2010
Who Dat?
Well, Deputies, here are the current standings for the Deputy26 contest. To calculate the scores we used a slightly altered system from the one that Fiction Addiction thought up. For doing all that hard and complex work, I’m giving Fiction a Gold Sqweegel Award. The system FA worked out was extremely fair, and yet made things super close.
So, here you go, the Deputy 26 and Community winners for the Sqweegel Office Pool Contest:
Community Winners:
Gold Sqweegel: Mimi
Silver Sqweegel: Tourist
Bronze Sqweegel: Vikingkid82, 7Hippiechick, Jay Martin
Runners Up: Mikus, Deonie Jensen
Deputy 26 Football Pool Contest Winners:
A special congrats to Chris Cassady who managed to predict the final Super Bowl score EXACTLY.
1st (25 points): PsychoKillersUnite1
2nd (22.5 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
3rd (20 points): The Prodigal Saints
4th (17.5 points): Almighty Sqweegels
5th (15 points): Dark Addicts
6th (12.5 points): Z Spirits
7th (10 points): Kingi’s Vegan Vampire Uber Lounge
Here is the ‘Dirty Dozen’ Deputy 26 Leader Board:
1st (162.5 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
2nd (150 points): Dark Addicts
3rd (128 points): Kingi’s Vegan Vampire Uber Lounge
4th (100 points): Almighty Sqweegels
5th (95 points): The Prodigal Saints
6th (82.5 points): Z Spirits
7th (67.5 points): PsychoKillersUnite1
8th (60 points): Babes of Darkness
8th (60 points): Dark Wanderers
10th (40 points): Drop Kill Murphys
11th (25 points): Team Splat
12th (22.5 points): Angels of Mercy
Zuiker
Tarot Card Contest Winners
Posted by Anthony E. Zuiker on
Jan 26, 2010
Level 26ers,
We had a great response to both contests the past two weeks. I was finally able to sit down and look through the Tarot Card entries and I think everyone did a great job. However, as always, I was only able to choose the Top 7. Those are listed below, along with the community winners and the current Dirty Dozen Leader Board.
However, before we get to that, I know a lot of you are wondering about the last contest and the fact that we still don’t know who won the football pool, and won’t, until the Super Bowl two weeks from now. So, here’s how this is going to work, without giving anything away:
We won’t be judging the final contest until AFTER the Super Bowl. So, we’ll know who won the Sqweegel Football Pool BEFORE the final contest is over.
As I said, the final contest results won’t be in my hands, they’ll be in yours. We know there are rumors about teams planning to pad their votes by creating fake accounts. Know this: If you do that you will be disqualified. We have ways of knowing who is creating the accounts and we will be monitoring the situation. If I feel like I can’t trust the community to be fair, I will simply judge the final week myself. Let’s keep it fun, guys!
Now, on to the winners:
Community Tarot Card Winners:
Gold Sqweegel: 11
Silver Sqweegel: Jason Hall
Bronze Sqweegel: DWS Doll Creator
Deputy 26 Tarot Card Contest Winners:
1st (25 points): Kingi’s Vegan Vampire Uber Lounge
2nd (22.5 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
3rd (20 points): Dark Addicts
4th (17.5 points): Z Spirits
5th (15 points): Drop Kill Murphys
6th (12.5 points): Babes of Darkness
7th (10 points): PsychoKillersUnite1
Here is the ‘Dirty Dozen’ Deputy 26 Leader Board:
1st (140 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
2nd (135 points): Dark Addicts
3rd (118 points): Kingi’s Vegan Vampire Uber Lounge
4th (82.5 points): Almighty Sqweegels
5th (75 points): The Prodigal Saints
6th (70 points): Z Spirits
7th (60 points): Dark Wanderers
7th (60 points): Babes of Darkness
9th (42.5 points): PsychoKillersUnite1
10th (40 points): Drop Kill Murphys
11th (25 points): Team Splat
12th (22.5 points): Angels of Mercy
Zuiker
We had a great response to both contests the past two weeks. I was finally able to sit down and look through the Tarot Card entries and I think everyone did a great job. However, as always, I was only able to choose the Top 7. Those are listed below, along with the community winners and the current Dirty Dozen Leader Board.
However, before we get to that, I know a lot of you are wondering about the last contest and the fact that we still don’t know who won the football pool, and won’t, until the Super Bowl two weeks from now. So, here’s how this is going to work, without giving anything away:
We won’t be judging the final contest until AFTER the Super Bowl. So, we’ll know who won the Sqweegel Football Pool BEFORE the final contest is over.
As I said, the final contest results won’t be in my hands, they’ll be in yours. We know there are rumors about teams planning to pad their votes by creating fake accounts. Know this: If you do that you will be disqualified. We have ways of knowing who is creating the accounts and we will be monitoring the situation. If I feel like I can’t trust the community to be fair, I will simply judge the final week myself. Let’s keep it fun, guys!
Now, on to the winners:
Community Tarot Card Winners:
Gold Sqweegel: 11
Silver Sqweegel: Jason Hall
Bronze Sqweegel: DWS Doll Creator
Deputy 26 Tarot Card Contest Winners:
1st (25 points): Kingi’s Vegan Vampire Uber Lounge
2nd (22.5 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
3rd (20 points): Dark Addicts
4th (17.5 points): Z Spirits
5th (15 points): Drop Kill Murphys
6th (12.5 points): Babes of Darkness
7th (10 points): PsychoKillersUnite1
Here is the ‘Dirty Dozen’ Deputy 26 Leader Board:
1st (140 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
2nd (135 points): Dark Addicts
3rd (118 points): Kingi’s Vegan Vampire Uber Lounge
4th (82.5 points): Almighty Sqweegels
5th (75 points): The Prodigal Saints
6th (70 points): Z Spirits
7th (60 points): Dark Wanderers
7th (60 points): Babes of Darkness
9th (42.5 points): PsychoKillersUnite1
10th (40 points): Drop Kill Murphys
11th (25 points): Team Splat
12th (22.5 points): Angels of Mercy
Zuiker
Sqweegel’s Office Pool Contest
Posted by Anthony E. Zuiker on
Jan 22, 2010
No, we’re not talking about a pool of blood. We’re talking about a good old fashion football pool. You probably don’t know this but Sqweegel is a huge football fan. Growing up, Sqweegel wanted nothing more than to play Varsity football. As a kid, he would watch the football games from the stands and picture himself in the ol’ blue and gold.
Considering his flexibility, he thought he would be a great elusive runner since he could probably contort himself out of any tackle. And finally, his opportunity came. He tried out for running back. In the end however, even his flexibility couldn’t put him over the top, and he was denied the coveted Varsity spot. It was probably because Sqweegel was the weird, flexible kid in the corner. (And it might have had something do with Sqweegel’s insistence on wearing a full-body white latex suit.) Sqweegel was left hurt and vengeful, thus beginning his entry into evil.
So here’s the contest for both the Deputies and the Community:
Submit the winner of the two NFL Conference Championship Games this weekend and provide the final scores to each game. The submission that is closest to what actually happened is the winner.
You must also provide your predictions AND the final score for the Super Bowl.
Here are the games this weekend:
Sunday, 1/24, 12:00 PM on CBS: Indianapolis Colts vs. N.Y. Jets
Sunday, 1/24, 3:30 PM on FOX: Minnesota Vikings vs. New Orleans Saints
Here’s an example submission:
Colts – 31
Jets – 7
Vikings – 24
Saints – 21
Super Bowl:
Colts – 27
Vikings – 14
Deputies: You must submit your predictions and scores by Saturday, 1/23 at 11:59 PM EST. Type them up in a blog and flag it as “cool.”
Community: Post your predictions and scores in the comment thread below. If you’re worried about other people copying you just go ahead and wait until the last minute and then post.
Deputies will have the Top 7 chosen and respective points awarded. The community will receive Sqweegel Awards.
We'll be announcing the winners of the Tarot Card caption contest early next week.
Deputies, let’s see if we can’t get everyone involved on this one! After this, we only have one more contest and so you know, the final judging will be left in the hands of the community.
Zuiker
Considering his flexibility, he thought he would be a great elusive runner since he could probably contort himself out of any tackle. And finally, his opportunity came. He tried out for running back. In the end however, even his flexibility couldn’t put him over the top, and he was denied the coveted Varsity spot. It was probably because Sqweegel was the weird, flexible kid in the corner. (And it might have had something do with Sqweegel’s insistence on wearing a full-body white latex suit.) Sqweegel was left hurt and vengeful, thus beginning his entry into evil.
So here’s the contest for both the Deputies and the Community:
Submit the winner of the two NFL Conference Championship Games this weekend and provide the final scores to each game. The submission that is closest to what actually happened is the winner.
You must also provide your predictions AND the final score for the Super Bowl.
Here are the games this weekend:
Sunday, 1/24, 12:00 PM on CBS: Indianapolis Colts vs. N.Y. Jets
Sunday, 1/24, 3:30 PM on FOX: Minnesota Vikings vs. New Orleans Saints
Here’s an example submission:
Colts – 31
Jets – 7
Vikings – 24
Saints – 21
Super Bowl:
Colts – 27
Vikings – 14
Deputies: You must submit your predictions and scores by Saturday, 1/23 at 11:59 PM EST. Type them up in a blog and flag it as “cool.”
Community: Post your predictions and scores in the comment thread below. If you’re worried about other people copying you just go ahead and wait until the last minute and then post.
Deputies will have the Top 7 chosen and respective points awarded. The community will receive Sqweegel Awards.
We'll be announcing the winners of the Tarot Card caption contest early next week.
Deputies, let’s see if we can’t get everyone involved on this one! After this, we only have one more contest and so you know, the final judging will be left in the hands of the community.
Zuiker
Welcome Back and New Contest!
Posted by Anthony E. Zuiker on
Jan 15, 2010
Level 26ers,
First of all, Happy New Year and here’s to a great 2010 at Level26.com. I hope you all enjoyed your holiday, had fun with families or friends, didn’t get stuck in any airports or bad weather, and are looking forward to a great New Year. Let’s put 2009 behind us and make 2010 one for the books!
Now, as most of you know, we’re gearing up to start work on Book Two. And [SPOILER ALERT] the next installment in the Level 26 series will encompass the spirit of Tarot Cards, so, this week’s contest for both the Deputies and the Community, will be to choose your favorite Tarot card from the Tarot Card Album and write a caption for it.
As always, only one submission per Deputy team or community member.
Deputies: Post your Tarot card of choice and your caption in a blog and flag it as “cool.”
Community: Post the Tarot card of choice and your caption in the comments section of this post.
The deadline for this contest will be Wednesday, January 20th at 11:59 PM EST.
For the Deputy contest I will choose the Top 7 and Sqweegel Awards will be handed out for the community contest.
Best of luck to everyone and I’m happy to have everyone back as we head towards the Deputy contest finish line!
Also, we have the winners of the “Sqweegel Sightings” contest below. Only three more weeks until we find out who will be coming to LA!
Deputy 26 Sqweegel Sightings Winners:
1st (25 points): Dark Addicts
2nd (22.5 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
3rd (20 points): The Prodigal Saints
4th (17.5 points): Dark Wanderers
5th (15 points): Z Spirits
6th (12.5 points): Angels of Mercy
Here is the ‘Dirty Dozen’ Deputy 26 Leader Board:
1st (117.5 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
2nd (115 points): Dark Addicts
3rd (92.5 points): Kingi’s Vegan Vampire Uber Lounge
4th (82.5 points): Almighty Sqweegels
5th (75 points): The Prodigal Saints
6th (60 points): Dark Wanderers
7th (52.5 points): Z Spirits
8th (47.5 points): Babes of Darkness
9th (32.5 points): PsychoKillersUnite1
10th (25 points): Team Splat
10th (25 points): Drop Kill Murphys
12th (22.5 points): Angels of Mercy
Zuiker
First of all, Happy New Year and here’s to a great 2010 at Level26.com. I hope you all enjoyed your holiday, had fun with families or friends, didn’t get stuck in any airports or bad weather, and are looking forward to a great New Year. Let’s put 2009 behind us and make 2010 one for the books!
Now, as most of you know, we’re gearing up to start work on Book Two. And [SPOILER ALERT] the next installment in the Level 26 series will encompass the spirit of Tarot Cards, so, this week’s contest for both the Deputies and the Community, will be to choose your favorite Tarot card from the Tarot Card Album and write a caption for it.
As always, only one submission per Deputy team or community member.
Deputies: Post your Tarot card of choice and your caption in a blog and flag it as “cool.”
Community: Post the Tarot card of choice and your caption in the comments section of this post.
The deadline for this contest will be Wednesday, January 20th at 11:59 PM EST.
For the Deputy contest I will choose the Top 7 and Sqweegel Awards will be handed out for the community contest.
Best of luck to everyone and I’m happy to have everyone back as we head towards the Deputy contest finish line!
Also, we have the winners of the “Sqweegel Sightings” contest below. Only three more weeks until we find out who will be coming to LA!
Deputy 26 Sqweegel Sightings Winners:
1st (25 points): Dark Addicts
2nd (22.5 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
3rd (20 points): The Prodigal Saints
4th (17.5 points): Dark Wanderers
5th (15 points): Z Spirits
6th (12.5 points): Angels of Mercy
Here is the ‘Dirty Dozen’ Deputy 26 Leader Board:
1st (117.5 points): Big Yellow Sqweegels
2nd (115 points): Dark Addicts
3rd (92.5 points): Kingi’s Vegan Vampire Uber Lounge
4th (82.5 points): Almighty Sqweegels
5th (75 points): The Prodigal Saints
6th (60 points): Dark Wanderers
7th (52.5 points): Z Spirits
8th (47.5 points): Babes of Darkness
9th (32.5 points): PsychoKillersUnite1
10th (25 points): Team Splat
10th (25 points): Drop Kill Murphys
12th (22.5 points): Angels of Mercy
Zuiker
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