Introducing D&Co’s 11th Biannual Housing Week in Middle-Earth contest !
UPDATE : Update 30 will come tomorrow (6/8). Since there are some Housing Items that will change (Doors to Mazarbul, Obsidian Wall Carving), I will not start visiting your houses before Sunday (6/13) so you will have a few additional days to rearrange your houses if needed.
UPDATE 2 : As expected following the fact that I gave you an extra week to rearrange your houses, the launch of the Housing Week Contest is consequently postponed by one week. See you on Friday June 25th.
It has been a long time since we walked together through the kinship houses of Middle Earth, hasn’t it?
Last time, after the launch of Rohan housing, we had the opportunity to dedicate a Housing Week contest just for that. Now, it’s time to go back to our classic schedule and see what you can do with your kinship houses!
I am therefore happy to announce the beginning of Housing Week in Middle Earth #11: Kinship Houses!
Reminder - Housing Week in Middle Earth ?! What is it ?
Housing Week in Middle Earth is a contest in which participants get the chance to win some cool prizes by showing off their expertly decorated houses in LOTRO. We have already had 10 very successful Housing Weeks since the creation of D&Co du Milieu.
Players on all servers are welcome ! Enter the contest by showing us your beautiful kinship house !
Housing Week in Middle-Earth #11
The Last Housing Week contest was held for Rohan houses only, and the previous one for personal houses in any of the neighborhoods throughout Middle Earth. This time around we will focus on Kinship Houses only.
Feel free to include any house of your choice in either the classic (Bree, Thorin's, Falathlorn, Shire) or Belfalas neighborhoods.
Note : Mead halls from Kingstead and Eastfold neighborhoods are not Kinship houses and therefore, so you can't enter these into this contest. Sorry.
The course of the contest:
Entries will be recieved until June 6th through the contact form.
In the days that follow, I will visit every house that was entered and I will select 15 which will then be posted for public and jury voting during Housing Week in Middle-Earth.
All you need to know:
Dates
Participations - Now through Sunday, June 6th at 11:59pm (EST UTC-5)
Fill out the form at the bottom before the deadline and try to have one of the 15 kinship houses selected for this contest.
Selection: Friday, June 25th (UPDATED)
The selection of 15 houses and all associated photos will be posted in the morning.
Visits and votes: from June 25th through July 4th at 11:59pm
You will then have more than one week to visit, enjoy, and rate them !
Results
Depending on my schedule and the amount of information to be processed, the results of this competition will be published in the days following the end of the voting period.
Rules, Votes, Jury, Rewards:
Kinship Houses (only!)
This time, it is the kinship houses (from Eriador and Belfalas) that I want! No other houses, please :).
Mead halls and other personal houses are not welcome.
Votes
A form for voting will be available online on June 18th.
Only one vote per person, cheating is still not tolerated.
The house with the best average score wins.
More info to come when we'll have our Final Fifteens.
Jury
- Kaels (from LotRO JeuxOnLine)
- Edward (from LesFuretsDuGondor)
- Prunaprismia (from Trolls&Chiffons)
- Yao (..myself...)
The Jury Prize
Yards will be rewarded ! The jury will reward the most beautiful garden among the 15 selected houses. Don’t forget that you can now move yard items from their hooks.
Jury prize does not mean that only yards will be rewarded. This is just an addition to the classic votes.
Rewards
1st place: 1500 LotRO Points + Best House in the Neighbourhood Trophy
2nd place: 1000 LotRO Points + Best House in the Neighbourhood Trophy
3rd place : 500 LotRO Points + Best House in the Neighbourhood Trophy
4th place: 500 LotRO Points + Best House in the Neighbourhood Trophy
Jury Prize “Expert Gardener”: 1000 LotRO Points + Best House in the Neighbourhood Trophy
Note: Rewards are not cumulative. If your position in the ranking already earns you points, you will not be able to cumulate with the Jury Prize and the winnings will be staggered.
Concrete example: I finish first and I win the Jury Prize -> so I win a 1500 LOTRO Points code and a housing trophy. The 1000 points of the jury prize (and the trophy) are carried over to 3rd place.
Example 2: If I finish 3rd and win the Jury Prize, I win 1000 LOTRO Points + a trophy. The remaining trophy is shifted to 4th place and 500 LOTRO Points are shifted to 5th place.
I wish you the best of luck for this new edition of Housing Week in Middle Earth !
May the most beautiful house win 🙂
UPDATE : Update 30 will come tomorrow (6/8). Since there are some Housing Items that will change (Doors to Mazarbul, Obsidian Wall Carving), I will not start visiting your houses before Sunday (6/13) so you will have a few additional days to rearrange your houses if needed.
UPDATE 2 : As expected following the fact that I gave you an extra week to rearrange your houses, the launch of the Housing Week Contest is consequently postponed by one week. See you on Friday June 25th.
>> Participation Form - CLOSED <<
~Yao
D&Co du Milieu
18 Responses
I’ve submitted my form (under the pseudonym of “Tulcatollo”) but did not see how to post pictures of my submitted kinhouse. Do we not post pictures for the #11 Housing Week contest?
You don’t. I’ll take pictures myself when visiting your house.
Excellent. Thank you for the reply.
I tried to enter our kin-island, but the form was rejected (token invalid). What went wrong?
My bad. I forgot to reset the cache of the page yesterday when I worked on the form. Should be working now!
And it did! Thank You!
What goes in the “House Presentation” part of the form? Thanks!
Anything you want to tell us about your house 😉
Quick question – do we get an email confirming submission? If not that’s fine, just checking because I didn’t get one. Thanks
Yes, you should have received an automated email (but sometimes this doesn’t work). Did you check your spam folder?
Anyway, just checked and you are in my files, so don’t worry 😉
thanks for checking, I didnt get anything in my spam folder, but as long as you knw about us that’s great 🙂
June 5th! Yay!
Yao for Baltfora’s entry I need to back out of the contest. Totally changed my housing and will need lots of time. Good luck everyone! Can’t wait to your lovely kinship homes. (Baltfora on Brandywine)
Thank you for the updates regarding the new house decs available with the U30 rollout. Nice to have time to try them out before the contest judging.
So many new housing decs during Midsummer 2021!
Oh, just read that I should have received an confirmation-mail – which I didn’t get 🙁
The confirmation email can be a bit tricky sometime but I did some research and I did receive your participation anyway ! 🙂
Ah ok. Thanks for answering.