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Finalists to win a Nintendo Wii and DS Lite!

By Espen André Øverdahl. Tuesday, 16. January 2007, 11:39:38

competition, widgets, update, Nintendo DS Lite ...

The first part of our contest to win a Wii has now come to an end! We're extremely impressed with all the creative widgets submitted. It's now time to step it up a notch as we're closing in on a new proud owner of a Nintendo Wii

We were forced to make some adjustments according to the original deadlines. Therefore the timeline has been changed to:

January 18th: Polls open for the whole community from this post.

January 25th: Polls close at midnight your time on January 26th.

January 26th: The winners of a Nintendo Wii and DS Lite are revealed.

Since there were so many good submissions we couldn't narrow it down to a list of only five finalists. The jury thought long and hard, but failed to agree ... We have a total of six finalists We now leave it up to the community to decide the winners!

As of today (January 16th) we invite the community to review the widgets. You can contribute by writing a blog post, commenting on all of the finalists, and then link your review as a comment in this post. We strongly advise everyone to take part in this, as the voting for the best widget will be done by the My Opera community.

Widget:	Author:
Multi Game	remcolanting
PaxKel Radio	skid94
Repton Fusion	johnnysaucepn
TankWar Online	zomg
Time and Date	rkm
Video Manager	krzychoocpp

Widget reviews:

Eddie_Lopez

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Win a Wii with Opera Wiidgets

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

Win a Wii, Nintendo DS Lite, competition, widgets

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.

But that's only the grand prize. We're also giving away a Nintendo DS Lite

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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