Wanna get in to the beta? Winners Announced!

#0 - July 21, 2010, 9:37 p.m.

The contest ended up being more popular then we expected with over 500 people contributing with their screenshots for a chance to get their hands on a Cataclysm Beta key. After sorting though all the entries and filtering out those that didn’t follow the rules, we narrowed down to about 30 screenshots we choose to go through to the semi-final round and after many hours of discussion between all of us at Warcraft.nu we have finally chosen the lucky 15 winners.

The Winners

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http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2339/sundownu.jpg

The magical sunset of Ashenvale is nothing else then amazing and for this Frexxi earned himself a beta.

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http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/2169/wowscrnshot072210154046.jpg

Quiralyn showed us that Draenei are hot and for this effort we reward him with an even hotter beta key.

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http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/8361/clemxbetaentry.jpg

Clemx sure is a hot dwarf trying to catch herself something rare thru the lava and that she managed with because she caught the rarest catch of them all, the cataclysm beta.

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http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8493/wow2010072500033837.png

Jabaha was having a nice and friendly picnic with his father Thrym when he unfortuantly said something very wrong to upset him, Thrym almost crushed poor Jabaha's little puppy. We felt bad for seeing this happen and had no other choice then to cheer Jabaha up so we gave him a beta key.

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http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2482/wowscrnshot080110004529.jpg

Kilobyte with his raptor entered with lightning striking and made him win his very own beta key and we salute this picture by shooting a beta key to him.

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http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6784/wowscrnshot072910003335.jpg

Zabusa the turtle riding and loving pirate managed to plunder or stash and grab him a beta key, YARRR!

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http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/7843/wowscrnshot072610221433.jpg

None can stay away from an awesome fiesta and we thought that this picture from Aesha had a really nice touch to it, it's a good thing you had a club to hit that piÃ±ata with because in it there was a beta key.

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http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo131/slobbery/WoWScrnShot_112708_164335-1.jpg

Murlocs, oh how we love these creatures and anyone loving them back should get a reward, got thing we got a hold of the flag slobbery was holding because we wrote down his beta key on it.

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http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/5847/wowscrnshot072210195002.jpg

Drakes can be bloody nasty especially the drakes from the black dragonflight, all they do is cause us trouble and destroy our beautiful world thank god for having Panzerwagen to defend us against Deathwing and his minions. As a sign of gratitude we provide him with a beta key.

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http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5752/wowscrnshot072210190601.jpg

The brand new sport of Azeroth, logriding, and getting first place in this season Pharmacy gets the grand price of a beta key.

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http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/540/wowscrnshot072410172434.jpg

Alcaz island must be the harshest place in all of Azeroth with prisons guarded by Nagas and for making his escape VÃ¡nilla gets to relax with his very own beta.

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http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7362/demoinorg2.jpg

Not even Illidan would say that Envy isn't prepared for the destruction Deathwing is brining us; with his monster size metamorphism he scared us into giving him a beta key.

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http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6798/entreh.jpg

Akysha entered with this amazing screenshot of Crystalsong Forest with all its majestic trees and glows and for that we throw a beta key his way.

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http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/4799/wowscrnshot072710195930.jpg

After betraying Sylvanas to join the Lich Kings armies we thought it was a bold move, however with the fall of the Lich King poor ArmÃ©ys was left without anyone to serve so we figured we'll keep him occupied for a while with a beta until he can try to make himself an ally with Deathwing himself.

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http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/8249/wowscrnshot072310030534.jpg

Petrified trees puts terror in everyone who enters Felwood and these huge treants sure are scary, we felt sorry for poor Lardman and decided that he needed to be cheered up so a beta key is given to.

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Honourable Mentions

The following screenshots were among those that made it to the semi-final round or got eliminated because of reasons such as using Photoshop to manipulate the picture or forgetting their character nametag. We at Warcraft.nu felt that it would be a waste not to show people these wonderful screenshots even though they didn’t make it all the way to the final round.

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2236/experiencekhadgarogo.jpg
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/1867/wowscrnshot072210075843.jpg
http://a.imageshack.us/img683/5917/wowscrnshot073110173526.jpg
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/1116/wowscrnshot031508024357.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2494/wowscrnshot072510165942.jpg
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/1867/wowscrnshot072210075843.jpg
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/9531/wowscrnshot072210134601.jpg

This contest showed us that there are many creative players out there. We would like to thank you all for your participation and wish you the best of luck in your coming WoW adventures! If you are interested in joining other contest, following live updates from the Cataclysm Beta and reading WoW news in Swedish then please visit us at Warcraft.nu for all your gaming needs!
Sincerely

/The Warcraft.nu Crew

Vaneras

#43 - July 22, 2010, 12:20 p.m.

Good luck with your contest Slappy :-)

Hope to see some awesome screenshots.

Vaneras

#50 - July 22, 2010, 1:02 p.m.

Q u o t e:

did you not check my awesome screenshot on the first page?!

I did, and it was pretty awesome ;-)

Was your character dancing to a certain old-school 'Right Said Fred' tune when you took that screenshot?

Vaneras

#54 - July 22, 2010, 1:22 p.m.

Q u o t e:

I wish, but I was so happy to find it raining in a major city that I decided to blast out 'It's raining men'.

Not sure if that is better than that certain old-school 'Right Said Fred' tune :-)

Q u o t e:
I must be the prettiest Bloodsail Admiral Warlock ever. That deserves a beta invite in its own right.

Nice try ;-)

Vaneras

#56 - July 22, 2010, 1:57 p.m.

Q u o t e:
On Topic - Awesome idea given the popularity and demand for beta keys. Will surely be a great contest, and would be awesome if you posted the winning screenshots on here! And then we can determine if they are better than Bloodsail Admiral Fred.

Well that is up to Slappy really, it is a contest run by his fansite afterall :-)