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Win a Wii with Opera Wiidgets

By Thomas Ford. Wednesday, 13. December 2006, 17:08:00

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It's time for another competition to keep all you widget developers occupied over the holidays. And since the best prize this holiday season is a Nintendo Wii, wii're giving you a chance to win one.:headbang:

But that's only the grand prize. We're also giving away a Nintendo DS Lite:yes: and a total of eight Opera goodie bags, stuffed with a bunch of Opera t-shirts, pins, pens, stickers, etc.

So how does this competition work? It's simple. We're looking for the best widgets uploaded during the next month. Every three days, Opera will select the best widget from the widgets submitted during the days prior to the selection.

Make Your Voice Heard

We're adding another dimension this time, though. Since widgets are made by the community, the community should also decide the winners of the big prizes. To determine the winner of our grand prize and our second prize, the community will vote on their favorite from a list of five finalists chosen by Opera for their code quality, usability, aesthetic quality, innovation and download numbers.

Besides voting, you can also make your voice heard by being a community reviewer.

Community Reviewers

Once Opera select the 5 finalists, the community is invited to review the widgets on their blogs. A reviewer can then submit a link to their reviews of the five widgets. Once we accept the reviews, we will link to them on the Opera Widgets blog. To be a community reviewer, you must review all five widgets. We reserve the right to accept or reject any review.

Worthy Widgets

Goodie Bag winners will be selected by Opera after our Web applications team evaluates code quality, usability, aesthetic quality, innovation. Opera will then select five finalists from ALL widgets submitted during the competition period. DS Lite and Wii winners will be selected from those five finalists by a community vote. The polling feature is designed to protect against bots or other poll manipulations.

Timeline of Prizes

  • December 18th: Goodie bag day!
  • December 21st: Goodie bag day!
  • December 25th: Goodie bag day!
  • December 28th: Goodie bag day!
  • January 1st: Goodie bag day!
  • January 4th: Goodie bag day!
  • January 8th: Goodie bag day!
  • January 11th: Goodie bag day!

To be included in the judging for each goodie bag, you must submit before midnight your time the evening BEFORE.

Submission for this competition stops at midnight (also your time) on Thursday, 11th of January. We will announce the finalists in the running to win a Wii on January 16th in order to allow our community reviewers time to adequately prepare their reviews.

January 22nd: Polls open for the whole community

January 26th: Polls close at midnight your time on January 22nd

January 29th: The winners of the Nintendo Wii and DS Lite are revealed

Good luck to everyone who enters, reviews or votes in this competition!

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Comments

Eddie_Lopez 13. December 2006, 17:55

The Community Review idea is a *GREAT* idea for this competition... it would be nice to have the reviews (in some capacity) in conjunction with the competition. It will really help to drum up competition.

Maybe have a competition for reviews :smile: The top reviewers (who would review widgets throughout the competition) can get spotlighted reviews or something when the 5 finalists roll around.

...well, whatever the logistics would be, I think it would be better to encourage the community to write about what's going on *during* the competition to drum up more interest.

dantesoft 13. December 2006, 19:34

Is 15-17 December the first widget submission period ?

thomas.ford 13. December 2006, 22:34

Eddie_Lopez: I think that's a great idea. Let me talk about it with the rest of the team. We'll come to a decision tomorrow.

dantesoft: We'll begin accepting widgets tomorrow for the competition.

This is shaping up to be a very cool competition.

thomas.ford 14. December 2006, 13:06

Eddie_Lopez: After a round of discussions, we decided to keep the community review module as it is. We would like to encourage anyone to blog about or spotlight their favorite widget(s). But for this competition, we're going to stick with the original set-up. I'm sure I can find some things around the office to reward the people who post detailed and rational reviews of the five finalists. :smile:

But anyone can and should blog about their favorite widgets. We might even link to very good posts on this blog...especially if you guys let us know where to find them. :wink:

Thanks!

Eddie_Lopez 14. December 2006, 15:31

Thanks for the consideration. That actually means much more to me than the actual result.

lommi 21. December 2006, 18:58

Nice;) I´m ready to start!

hogbola 23. December 2006, 00:31

Hmm... i wonder? I'm using opera 8.60 on my Qtek running windowsmobile 5.0 is there any palns for a widget-engine for Opera mobile and does 8.6 have one? I'm interested in entering this competition if its possible to make widgets for opera mobile.

Zajec 23. December 2006, 18:29

What about uploading new versions of existing widgets? Do you check theses too? Or only a new one?

erfpm 30. December 2006, 00:49

Does this contest available Worldwide? I'm from Brazil, can i join it?

Brow 2. January 2007, 20:44

Sounds like fun!

Sydneylocal 3. January 2007, 04:38

I had a look at Wii Tennis on an add the other day, sure looks like the other play station game using a web came but more fun!

shyzj 5. January 2007, 06:48

Fun！p:

shoust 15. January 2007, 20:01

Things are a bit late aren't they? p:

lifeinuk 16. January 2007, 01:47

sounds interesting... :D

asteed 18. January 2007, 06:09

don't understand but i think it's funny.

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