Factions Guild Emblem Contest Winners

During the months of March and April 2006, we offered another opportunity for gamers to play an active role in enhancing the Guild Wars world. In celebration of the new game—Guild Wars Factions—player were invited to design and submit their favorite concept for a new guild emblem.

The Factions Guild Emblem Contest drew entries from around the world—from four continents and more than a thousand fans. The art was as distinctive as the players themselves, with images based on nature, on combat, on cultural themes, and on just about everything in between. A few entries were so excellent it was impossible to sort out the best of a certain type. In those cases, we submitted two, or even three, similar images to the judges. All winning entries will form the inspiration or the core concept from which the Art Team will work as they create the actual guild image. (You can see examples of this process—the original art and the finished emblem—in the winners page from our first Guild Emblem Contest.)

The final emblems will be incorporated into the game within the next few months, and will then be available to all Guild Wars players. We will update this page when the final art is available, so you can see the new guild emblems!

WINNERS

Name	Location	Original
Jun-Yan You Love N Pain Akshay "Ararthos The Deadly" Singh	Taiwan Canada Canada
Manv The Apocalypse Philip Severson	USA USA
Crimson Stigmata Desmond Tang Benjamin "Lunatic" Sironi	USA Canada France
Bethor Rizon	USA
C H A O S	USA
Kyrara Roitare	Italy
Lawrence Hawkins	USA
Lindo David	France
Massimo "Il Profano" Nastasi	Italy
Nadejda Neklioudova	Australia
Pierron "Zepot Kay" Nicolas	France
Christian Crittendon	Germany

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Shang Zhi (Jake) Vanessa Martin	New Zealand France
Dark Hikari	USA
Kelly "Lady Sweetling" T.	USA
Shawn Schober	USA
Mark Jordan	Slovenia
Ryan "Morangen Dromere" Hamilton Xakarus Alldredge Dmitry Sharkov	USA USA USA
Trevor Yopp	USA

Winners will receive their prizes soon, and will be given an extra bonus gift, as well: The first two pins in the Guild Wars Season One Skill Pin series! All Honorable Mention recipients will receive the two skill pins, as well.

And as a special "thank you" to the more than one thousand Guild Wars fans who participated in this contest, we will be sending a skill pin to 25 of those who entered, selected randomly. Their names and locations are as follows:

The contest rules for the Factions Guild Emblem Contest can be found on this page.