Gingerbread House Competition

Gingerbread Competition Timeline

• 14 December 2007- Competition announced in Yavn Speaks
• 17 December 2007- Registration Details announced in Events and Item Info
• 17 December 2007 at 4:00pm PST- Registration begins
• 18 December 2007- 2000 player limit has already been reached, VMK continues to clarify details
• 25 December 2007- Midnight- All Gingerbread Houses and Holiday Rooms are to be completed
• 26 December 2007- Judging begins
• 13 January 2008- Judging ends
• 16 January 2008- Winners Announced
• 17 January 2008- Prize Clarification

Gingerbread Contest Announcement

In the 14 December 2007 update of Yavn Speaks, it was announced that that VMK would be holding a Gingerbread House & Holiday Room Competition.

From 14 December 2007

Gingerbread Holiday Room Building Competition

Those Gingerbread pieces are pretty sweet huh? I get hungry just building with them! Which brings me to an event you're going to be super excited to hear about – the first ever VMK Gingerbread House & Holiday Room Competition!

We're baking up an awesome Gingerbread Building Competition!

Here's your chance to show the Kingdom just how much holiday spirit you've got! We'll have full details for the competition in Event & Item Info section here on the Newsletter page soon, so be sure to check that out. But play those games for credits and stock up on Gingerbread pieces, you're gonna need them!

Gingerbread Contest Registration and Details

On 17 December 2007, more information regarding the contest was provided in the Event and Item Info section of the Newsletter. It was announced that Registration was to begin at 4:00 P.M. PST on the same day (Monday, 17 December 2007). Only the first 2000 people who properly registered would be accepted. When the allowed number of spots had been reached, the option to enter the contest via Contact Us was removed. Roughly 8 hours after registration started the maximum number of entrants had already been reached.

From 17 December 2007

VMK Gingerbread House & Holiday Room Competition!

Here's your chance to show the Kingdom just how much holiday spirit you've got!

Build your best Gingerbread House or Holiday Room using the Holiday and Gingerbread pieces. Use a winter theme or any theme (Holiday Jungle Cruise, anyone?), but you must use Gingerbread and Holiday pieces in your room.

This is an individual room competition. You must submit your registration following our guidelines below:

1. The room MUST BE NAMED in the following way: "Gingerbread House (your player name)"

2. When you register ONLY PROVIDE your player name and the name of the room you are entering in the competition.

3. Gingerbread Houses/Rooms will be judged by the following categories:

-Best Theme
-Most Creative
-Best Overall (this includes both most creative and best theme)

There will be 10 First Prize winners and 1 Grand Prize winner from each category.

Registration opens today, Monday December 17th at 4:00 P.M. PST. Only the first 2000 players that register (and do so following the guidelines) will be accepted.

When registration opens, you will find the VMK Gingerbread Competition Registration option in the 'Contact Us' menu. 'Contact Us' is located at the bottom of any vmk.com webpage.

When you register please make sure that you enter a valid email address that can receive messages from us. Registration will close when we have received 2000 player entries, the registration option will be removed from the 'Contact Us' menu. We will reply to the players that qualified during open registration.

Again, only the first 2000 players that follow the registration guidelines and enter the contest when registration is open will be judged.

Your Gingerbread house/holiday room must be completed by midnight December 25th.

Judging will begin on Wednesday, December 26th and end Sunday, January 13th. Winners will be announced on Monday the 14th of January. A Room Judging Flag will be placed in your room once your room has been judged.

While it is not required, VMK encourages you to keep your room open during the event so other players can enjoy what you have created. Prizes for the event will be announced after registrations have been closed.

Begin planning your Gingerbread Holiday treat today!

From 18 December 2007

Thanks to the players that registered for the Gingerbread House Building Competition! Details on judging and finalist coming soon!'

From 18 December 2007-Update

Build your best Gingerbread House or Holiday Room using VMK's Holiday and Gingerbread pieces. Use a winter theme or any theme (Holiday Jungle Cruise, anyone?), but you must use Gingerbread and Holiday pieces in your room.

This is an individual room competition. You must submit your registration following our guidelines below:

1. The room MUST BE NAMED in the following way: "Gingerbread House (your player name)"

2. When you register ONLY PROVIDE your player name and the name of the room you are entering in the competition.

PLEASE NOTE: If your name does not fit in the room title "Gingerbread House", please make sure you have your room titled "Gingerbread House," your room, provided you follow the other guidelines, will be judged.

3. Gingerbread Houses/Rooms will be judged by the following categories:

- Best Theme
- Most Creative
- Best Overall (this includes both most creative and best theme)

Your Gingerbread house/holiday room must be completed by midnight December 25th.

There will be 10 First Prize winners and 1 Grand Prize winner from each category.

Registration for this event is now closed. Again, only players that register following our guidelines exactly will be judged.

Judging will begin on Wednesday, December 26th and end Sunday, January 13th. Winners will be announced on Monday the 14th of January. A Purple Room Judging Flag will be placed in your room once your room has been judged.

While it is not required, VMK encourages you to keep your room open during the event so other players can enjoy what you have created. Prizes for the event will be announced in a future edition of Yavn Speaks and the Event Info section of the VMK Newsletter.

Gingerbread Contest Confirmation Email

To those who registered properly before the 2000 player limit was reached, a confirmational email was sent.

Email

Hello and thank you for registering for the..

VMK Build Your Own Gingerbread House Room Competition.

As a reminder here are the rules:

- This will be an individual room competition.
- The room MUST BE NAMED ?Gingerbread House ?
- When you register please ONLY PROVIDE your player name and the name of the room you are entering.
- The 3 categories we will be judging on will be:
---Best theme
---Most creative
---Best overall ride experience
There will be 10 winners and 1 Grand Prize winner from each category.

Registration will be open Monday December 17th, at some point in the afternoon (pst) we will only be accepting the first 2000 players who register properly. You will find the registration option in the Contact Us tool located at the bottom of any VMK webpage.

REMEMBER: It is VERY important that the email address you used to register for this competition is an one that can receive messages from us.

When the number of entries reaches 2000 players, we will remove the option to register from the Contact Us tool. A reply confirming registration will be sent to all successfully registered players.

Once again ONLY players that register exactly as instructed to will be judged.

Judging will take place between Wednesday December 26th and Sunday January 13th. There is no set order the judging will take place in. So to be on the safe side make sure to have your room completed before December 26th. You never know when you might be judged.

While it is not necessary to keep your room open to be judged, we hope you will be able to keep it open during the event weekend so other Players can enjoy what you have created. The way you will know you have been judged is that a Room Judging Flag Purple will be placed in your room.

Prizes will be announced after registrations have been closed.

Once again ONLY players that register exactly as instructed to will be judged.

Thank you,

--

VMK Player Support
http://www.vmk.com

Yavn Speaks Update

Yavn provides updates and some speak peeks.

From 31 December 2007

Something's Cooking in the Kingdom!

Thanks to all of you that registered for the Gingerbread House/Holiday Room competition, this was our biggest room building event ever! Now our judges begin the long and difficult process of judging those rooms!

Remember once your Gingerbread House/Room is judged a Purple Judging Flag will be placed in your room.

I've already seen some pretty amazing stuff, so I can't wait to see what our judging panel actually selects! If you participated in the competition please leave your rooms open to other players so they can see what you've created. We'll have a round up of some of the rooms we've seen so far in the next Yavn Speaks along with the prize info.

Well that's all for now, gotta run and get ready for the Magical New Year Party tonight - be sure to stop by and celebrate with us!

See you soon, -Yavn

From 11 January 2008

What's Cooking in VMK?

Gingerbread! And our Host have been hard at work judging the Gingerbread Competition and will be working into the weekend finishing the judging. So if your room hasn't been judged yet, don't worry it will be.

I must say, you guys cooked up some amazing rooms! Myself and the rest of the VMK staff have been really impressed with what you did with those pieces! Speaking of that, I promised you a peek at some of the rooms that made it into the competition, so let's take a few now.

Remember the contest was a Gingerbread House/Holiday Room Building Competition so that's why you'll see more than just gingerbread houses here – let's take a look at some of those rooms:

FleacircusAcrobat built this nifty house, at first glance it looks simple but check out those awnings and multi-leveled roof work!

What's a holiday without Mickey Mouse? JJfan made this awesome one out of Gumdrops and candy pieces. Ummm, gumdrops.

Several of you built trains with the gingerbread pieces, now that's a great idea! Here's one that was submitted by Engineer! All aboard!

Finally, check out Pluto! Not only did he get a lollipop, but Santa brought him a nice bone too! Nice work jungle-cruse.

These are just a few of the rooms submitted. I wish I could show them all to you but space and time simple doesn't allow me to do that. For everyone that submitted, thanks so much for participating – you did a great job!

Hopefully the judging will stay on track over the weekend and we'll announce the winners next week. So stay tuned&

Gingerbread Contest Results

From 16 January 2008

And the Winner is...

We baked up the pieces and you used them to build some incredible Gingerbread Houses & Holiday Rooms!

Our judges had the very difficult job of picking the winners and are now ready to announce the results – but before we do that, we just want to say "Great Job!" to EVERYONE that entered the competition. Thanks for participating!

And now the winners for the first ever VMK Gingerbread House & Holiday Room Building Competition:

BEST THEME

Grand Prize Winner: SweetsInferno
Holiday Mine Train

All aboard the VMK Holiday Mine Train Express for a ride through the Old West! A unique theme and great execution. The player obviously spent some time (and thought) on the construction of the mine (see those jewels sparkling on the inside?) and rocky cliffs.

Runner Up:

CaptainNemo - Holiday Tower of Terror ChloiePooh - The Drive In Conscious - Lighthouse deWild - A Very Tiki Christmas

illusionistic - The Holiday Express

KeepSwimingDory - Nemo's Underwater Christmas Mystify_Me - Pirate's Holiday Percius - Haunted Mansion Game Lobby Holiday redsfan - Hansel & Gretel Holiday TheLillie - Gingerbread Island

MOST CREATIVE

Grand PrizeWinner: Musicalpianogirl
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

You've heard the song, now read Musicalpianogirl's Photo Album story book and find out what happened – but from Rudolph's point of view!

Runner Up:

AlexKZ - Sweet Treats

Crustopher - Gingerbread Town

Engineer - Holiday Train goldenpop - Up on the Rooftop GPDOT - Pluto Waits for Santa

jjfan - Gingerbread Mickey

Jungle-Cruse - Pluto's Holiday LittleToni - The Christmas Cannon Ride retromagic - Prince Phillip VS. Maleficent See.low - Santa's Caught in Chimney

BEST OVERALL

Grand Prize Winner: QueenCat_says
Disneyland Candy Castle

This Gingerbread version of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle got our vote for Best Overall. A beautiful candy copy of the Disney Park icon, this complex castle is extremely well designed.

Runner Up:

AceFighterPilot - Holiday Lodge

Avalanchefan - Gingerbread House

Capn.Kewl - Gingerbread Neighborhood Captain-Heather - Blizzard Beach Holiday CoolPirateAngel - Gingerbread Mansion

FleaCircusAcrobat - Gingerbread Villa

Just_Jim - Waterfront Cottage

MamaCita - Gingerbread Castle mryellowjcket - Gingerbread House patti - Holiday in the Big Easy

Congratulations again to everyone who participated and to our winners, enjoy your prizes!

PRIZES

Grand Prizes Winners:
5 Star Confetti Magic
Haunted Mansion Holiday Room
Skull Rock Holiday Room
30,000 Credits

30 Runner Ups (10 Winners in Each Category):
Skull Rock Holiday Room
7,500 Credits

*All VMK Gingerbread Competition finalist (Grand Prize and Runner-Up winners) receive the Participation Awards.

Participation Awards: Blue Winter Jacket – Non Tradable
Blue Winter Beanie – Non Tradable
Expedition Everest Boots
Top 10 Pin
Set of 4 Orange Gumdrop Chairs

Thanks again to everyone who participated!

Update 17 January 2008

Addition of honorable mentions and prize clarification.

HONORABLE MENTION

This contest was one of our toughest ever from a judging standpoint, as there were many, many great rooms. These players won't recieve a Grand, Runner Up or Participation Prize, but they do deserve recognition.

Mistey's giant Gingerbread man was just one of the many great rooms that didn't make the finals.

• Aengus
• Apple-PieForever
• CallMeBella
• Captain-Blue-Maxx
• CardShark
• Deziner
• IGotMyBlackBelt
• ImjustBeeNme
• KangaforLife
• LittleBelle
• LittleLara
• Mistey
• MaidenDizznee
• retrogal
• starshinebelle
• sugarbebe
• TeaCupSpin
• Wisdomtooth
• YankeesWin
• YoHoYoHoJoe

Congratulations again to everyone who participated and to our winners, enjoy your prizes! (All prizes will be awarded by 1PM P.S.T. on 1/18/08.)

PRIZES

Grand Prizes Winners:
5 Star Confetti Magic
Haunted Mansion Holiday Room
Skull Rock Holiday Room
30,000 Credits

30 Runner Ups (10 Winners in Each Category):
Skull Rock Holiday Room
7,500 Credits

*All VMK Gingerbread Competition finalist (Grand Prize and Runner-Up winners ONLY) receive the Participation Awards.

Grand Prize & Runner Up
Participation Awards:
Blue Winter Jacket – Non Tradable
Blue Winter Beanie – Non Tradable
Expedition Everest Boots
Top 10 Pin
Set of 4 Orange Gumdrop Chairs

For those of you that didn't win, we didn't forget about you, as a token of our appreciation for your hard work, ALL the players that submitted a room for the competition will receive this prize:

The Donald Suprise Gift!

Congratulations to everyone that won and thanks again to all for entering!

Update 18 January 2008

Addition of gender specific colors for the Winter Jacket and Winter Beanie prizes with males getting the Red version and females getting the Pink version.

PRIZES

Grand Prizes Winners:
5 Star Confetti Magic
Haunted Mansion Holiday Room
Skull Rock Holiday Room
30,000 Credits

30 Runner Ups (10 Winners in Each Category):
Skull Rock Holiday Room
7,500 Credits

*All VMK Gingerbread Competition finalist (Grand Prize and Runner-Up winners ONLY) receive the Participation Awards.

Grand Prize & Runner Up
Participation Awards:
Top 10 Pin
Set of 4 Orange Gumdrop Chairs
Expedition Everest Boots
Red/Pink Winter Jacket* – Non Tradable
Red/Pink Winter Beanie* – Non Tradable

*These items are gender specific – boys will get the Red version, while girls will receive the Pink version.

For those of you that didn't win, we didn't forget about you, as a token of our appreciation for your hard work, ALL the players that submitted a room for the competition will receive this prize:

The Donald Suprise Gift!

Congratulations to everyone that won and thanks again to all for entering!

Gingerbread Contest Issues

Many players found that they were unable to name their rooms the way VMK had requested (as Gingerbread House ) due to the limited amount of characters allowed in room titles. These players were instructed to name their entries Gingerbread House. Staff then went around and renamed these rooms with the proper title.