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Greetings Oceansouls,
Oceansouls of America is pleased to present our first contest in 7 years!
Whenever the band tours North America for a new album, OSA creates custom shirts for fans to wear at the shows. Demand for a new batch of t-shirts has grown since our popular DPP shirt from '07. We have been waiting for a new tour to make our new t-shirts, so we want to kick off the Imaginaerum North American tour in style with brand-new OSA t-shirts...except this time, we want our fellow Oceansouls to help in the way our new t-shirts will look. We're looking at all you Oceansouls out there with artistic/creative talent who have been looking for an opportunity to design something! This is your fan club, these are your shirts; so take part in helping us design our new shirts, and win some goodies while you're at it!
To welcome the Imaginaerum tour back to North America, our "theme" is called "Enter the Scaretale". So let your imagina(erum)nation run wild...think spooky, creepy, dark and dismal. Think Halloween, ghost stories, etc. (listen to the song "Scaretale" or read the lyrics to really get your creativity flowing!). Your designs can be in either black-and-white or color, whichever you choose. Be sure to incorporate in your design the OSA logo: "Oceansouls of America; The North American Nightwish fan club". The design will be for the front of the shirt only; the back will feature the North American tour dates, as is customary with all of our OSA shirts.
You can get as creative as you'd like, and there are plenty of free programs online such as GIMP, or programs on your computer such as Paint or PhotoShop, where you can create your design. You may also draw by hand and submit a scan of your drawing through the Contact feature on the site. You can use sites such as PicResize.com if your picture is extremely large. If you do not have access to a scanner or cannot use the paint programs online, please send us an e-mail and we will try to assist you. If you need to find particular fonts (such as the Shelley Volante "Nightwish" font), send an e-mail to us and we will help. Once your design is finished, e-mail a .jpg or .gif file to us and we will upload it on the site for all to see!
The rules for entry submission: designs can be scary or eerie, but nothing macabre or violent (i.e., blood and guts). Designs must be tasteful (no gratuitous sex or violence). Designs must be your own original work, or you must have permission to use the imagery/artwork of anything in your design that is not your original creation. You must be a member of the OSA website to join. You can use the "join site" feature on the front page to make a username/password; after the site admins approve you, then you will be a member of the site. When you are ready to submit your design, send an e-mail through the "Contact OSA" tab on the site, your entry will be uploaded to the site. You may also use the Contact feature to ask for help with uploading your design. You can submit up to two (2) designs. Entries can be submitted starting June 1st, and the deadline is July 15th. Any entries submitted after July 15th will not be counted. Photos of the designs will be available on this page, on our forum in the designated topic, and on our Facebook for everyone to view.
How will the winner be decided? Because this is your fan club, so your fellow Oceansouls will take part in helping choose their design by voting for the one they like best! The voting process will begin on July 16th and end on July 31st. You will have three (3) voting options: through the OSA site, through our forum on UltimateMetal in the poll topic designated for the contest, or through our Facebook page. You may have one (1) vote in each area, so you can vote up to three (3) times. We want as many people to vote, so we have more than one option for voting, for those who do not have Facebook or who do not visit our forum. Once the voting process ends on July 31st, the votes will be tallied and the design with the most votes is the clear-cut winner!
Members of the OSA Council (i.e., website coordinators/forum moderators/Facebook staff) cannot participate in the contest, and cannot participate in the voting process except in the instance of a tie, in which case they will only be allowed one (1) vote each via either website/forum/Facebook page.
So what's in store for the winner? Thanks to donations from fellow Oceansouls, as well as our friends at Roadrunner Records, Sonic Cathedral, and Bazillion Points, we have a very nice prize waiting for the creative Oceansoul who comes up with the design for our "Enter the Scaretale" OSA shirts. The winner will receive the following:
*One (1) OSA "Enter the Scaretale" t-shirt designed by you.
*An autographed Imaginaerum CD, signed by all 5 members.
*A copy of the Once Upon a Nightwish book.
*A promo poster of the Once Upon a Nightwish book cover, exclusively from Bazillion Points.
Runner-ups (2nd & 3rd place) will each receive a Sonic Cathedral t-shirt and a special edition Imaginaerum CD. Other entrants will receive a Sonic Cathedral "Sirens" CD for their participation. Once the t-shirts are printed, everyone else will be able to purchase them through our site in plenty of time for the North American tour, so you can wear your OSA shirts at the Nightwish shows and seek out your fellow Oceansouls at the gigs!
Good luck, everyone! Be creative, have fun, and "Enter the Scaretale"...
The OSA Council
*Special thanks to our friends at Roadrunner Records, Sonic Cathedral, and Bazillion Points!
**Extra-special thanks to Taimi for coming up with the "Enter the Scaretale" concept, and to Desi for donating the signed Imaginaerum CD!
Submitted designs become property of the OSA and are not to be used without permission.
guess I'll try again. Yeah, it still wont let me log in, and when I try to reset my password it just shows an error when I click the link. What the heck? 
