By Quintin Smith on August 6th, 2010 at 11:38 am.
Who wants a bona fide crate of StarCraft merchandise? We got in a bit of a fight over here about who could keep it and once the other four decided it should at least go to one of the Hivemind I decided that it would be best to give it away to you, our honest readers. Or at least our honest readers here in the UK. Sorry, rest-of-the-planet.
Details of the haul (not all of which is pictured here) and competition after the jump. Come, come!
So, the lucky winner will be getting:
Collectors’ Edition StarCraft II
StarCraft Jinx T-shirt
Brady game guide
StarCraft poker set
World of Warcraft magazine
StarCraft II Enamel badge
Hardback StarCraft novel- Heaven’s Devils by William C. Dietz
Noobz StarCraft toy
Blizzcon bag
Hardback StarCraft II comic book from Wild Storm
Steel Series StarCraft II Mouse pad
Magnet
Stickers
Yes, poker set! Action figure! Magnets! I KNOW! But that’s not all. Also included in the haul is a piece of canvas artwork featuring Arcturus Mengsk and measuring 1.5 feet by 2.5 ft. You can see him below, in all his leathery despotism.
To win all of this just answer the following question in fifty words or less, sending your answer to compo@rockpapershotgun.com: If you were to craft a star into something, what would it be? And why? Winners will be announced on Monday afternoon. And once again, this prize can only be sent to residents of the UK.
In closing, here’s a choice selection of the companies that came together to make this haul possible. Aw, bless.
06/08/2010 at 11:51 Starky says:
Done and done, fingers crossed.
06/08/2010 at 16:01 omicron says:
Into a model prince-and-katamari ball. (US resident, so I can’t answer)
06/08/2010 at 11:52 Ging says:
is there a closing date / time type thing for said compo? If it’s in about 2 minutes, just give me a nod and a wink, ok?
06/08/2010 at 11:54 Quintin Smith says:
Oh, good point. Winners will be announced on Monday afternoon! Consider midday on Monday your deadline. Have updated the post accordingly.
06/08/2010 at 12:39 Ian says:
Announcing winners? Not the RPS way, Quinns. >D
06/08/2010 at 11:52 Meat Circus says:
Yay for tat.
06/08/2010 at 11:53 fishyjoes says:
damn you imperialists!
06/08/2010 at 12:03 Meat Circus says:
If you’d ever been in a British house, you’d know we have a far higher affinity for amassing vast quantities of useless old trinkets and gewgaws than almost everyone else.
Don’t be like us,
06/08/2010 at 18:37 Carra says:
On the down side, I can’t join the competition. But on the plus side, I don’t live in the UK.
06/08/2010 at 19:50 bildo says:
@ Carra
LOL. My thoughts exactly.
06/08/2010 at 20:28 Duffin says:
No but you live under British rule muhahahaha….
07/08/2010 at 05:48 bildo says:
@ meat circus
I love these British English words. Gewgaw? haha, awesome. I almost died laughing when my Brit friend from up in the northern parts told me a faggot is a meatball type food. Sweet.
06/08/2010 at 11:55 Dyst says:
I entered, but I forgot to include my address. Will I get an e-mail back if I win (although I highly doubt that I will) so I can reply to it with my details?
06/08/2010 at 11:57 Starky says:
Oops same actually, I just assumed I’d be asked for it should I win…
06/08/2010 at 12:03 Quintin Smith says:
Sure! That’s no problem at all.
06/08/2010 at 13:39 Aldehyde says:
And I hope it will be ok that I did the same thing AND that I ask for it to be sent to my sister living in the UK. That should be fine, right?
06/08/2010 at 12:06 Wulf says:
The problem with a question like this is how one crafts a star without being wasteful. Generally, the most efficient thing we could do with a star at the moment is setup collectors around it, and carefully maintain its balance (even taking it apart when necessary and putting it back together) so that it’ll live a good many more times than it ought to.
With collectors setup, a continuous supply of power is guaranteed, and when the star finally dies there’s going to be a lot of power to harvest. The thing with stars is that they’re nature’s reactors, and there’s very little we could really do to a star to make them work better than they do, bar a little maintenance, of course.
So, how does one craft a star into something that isn’t completely wasteful of all the materials used? Since a star would be a horrible thing to waste, and dangerous, too.
Hmm.
06/08/2010 at 12:51 Nathan says:
Don’t bring the Collectors into this; they’d undoubtedly destroy the star straight out.
06/08/2010 at 16:35 Nallen says:
Meanwhile, inside Cerberus HQ
Lois: Okay here we go, “Who is collecting our colonists?”
Peter: Aww, oh God I always get these. Umm..okay..uhh..all right..colonists..colonists colonists colonists colonists. Who could be the Collectors of those colonists? Uhh..Oh god I can picture them now…they’re collecting and everything.
06/08/2010 at 16:57 PleasingFungus says:
Stross’s Wireless suggests a scheme involving switching the sun from fusion over to direct matter annihilation, and then feeding it with brown dwarfs stolen from the near region of the Milky Way before its collision with the Andromeda galaxy.
This may or may not be practical for your purposes, depending on the resources and technology level available.
06/08/2010 at 20:31 Sam says:
You guys are taking this way too seriously.
06/08/2010 at 12:07 Jorma says:
I Would craft a star into an that-is-no-moon-it’s-a-battlestation and use it to blow up UK because I live in Finland and cannot participate.
After that id dissassemble my not-a-moon and build my own Starcraft collector stuff from the parts.
06/08/2010 at 12:08 Anonymous Non-Imperialistic Coward says:
I concur! Damn you!
On that note, why UK only? I’d imagine that if someone outside the UK were to enter and win this, they’d gladly pay postage fees.
06/08/2010 at 12:17 Quintin Smith says:
It’s not us posting it :(
If it was, we’d happily pay postage for the rest of the world.
06/08/2010 at 15:41 Ezhar says:
It’s a small bit of justice for all the US only competitions with sweet swag that never permit damn foreigners to get the loot. At least in my mind.
06/08/2010 at 12:08 Binman88 says:
Can I enter if I live in Ireland (Republic)? I’m willing to allow Ireland be considered part of the UK for the purposes of entering this competition.
Seriously though, I’d totally pay the shipping charges if I could enter :)
06/08/2010 at 12:51 Gundrea says:
@Binman88
I say we enter anyway. If they refuse we can initiate legal proceedings due to the denial of our rights as Commonwealth citizens resident in the UK(Under the Ireland Act we enjoy the same rights and protected status as Commonwealth citizens in the UK)
06/08/2010 at 12:13 Heliosicle says:
Any specific title we should use on the email?
06/08/2010 at 12:26 Dyst says:
I called mine “Starcraftmanship.” Seems appropriate.
06/08/2010 at 12:27 Heliosicle says:
Yea its just usually they have a filter on it is all, if not then Starcraft 2 compo will do.
06/08/2010 at 13:21 bleeters says:
Huh, really? How vigorous a filter are we talking, here?
06/08/2010 at 14:56 westyfield says:
Cricket bat vigourous. You really, really don’t want to annoy it.
06/08/2010 at 12:14 [21CW] 2000AD says:
Oooohh, new idea, can we send in multiple entries or just one per person?
06/08/2010 at 12:24 Emphursis says:
It’s away!
Heliosicle, I just gave it the subject ‘Starcraft Competition’
06/08/2010 at 12:26 Nick says:
If I win, will I be able to have a monetary equivalent, seeing as I live in New Zealand?
06/08/2010 at 12:36 Meat Circus says:
Since stars are large balls of hydrogen and maybe some helium, you wouldn’t be able to craft it to anything except MORE BALLS OF HYDROGEN AND HELIUM.
Quinns = Physics Wronger
06/08/2010 at 13:02 Rinox says:
Wait, didn’t all heavier elements origin in stars? And therefore, Quinns would eventually be correct?
06/08/2010 at 13:05 jon_hill987 says:
Wrong, due to nuclear fusion stars literally crafted (nearly) every element in the universe.
06/08/2010 at 13:06 jon_hill987 says:
Damn, beaten to it…
06/08/2010 at 13:24 AndrewC says:
Quinns: he will be proven right at some point between now and the end of the universe.
06/08/2010 at 13:39 CreativeShadows says:
Well stars can craft anything up to iron in the perodic table (iron being the most stable element)
Things after iron intrisincly brake down to iron eventually.
In conclusion everything will become iron eventually.
06/08/2010 at 14:04 Xercies says:
Quinns never has enough iron…so that will be beneficial to him definitly.
06/08/2010 at 14:36 westyfield says:
@ Xercies: Zing!
@ CreativeShadows: Heavier elements that iron are formed in supernovae – you need to put in extra energy to synthesise heavier elements, and that energy comes from a supernova.
06/08/2010 at 12:40 Alchenar says:
I would craft Ben Affleck into a talented actor.
06/08/2010 at 12:43 Rob says:
Damn the fact that I live in the US and am ineligible! Would have loved to have been able to participate.
06/08/2010 at 12:45 Seraphim2150 says:
They haven’t mentioned that it also includes a broodling in the collectors edition
06/08/2010 at 12:52 Dexemplu says:
Oh come on, what about Europe. There’s no ocean to fly stuff over.
06/08/2010 at 14:02 Bob Bobson says:
The English Channel is a cultural ocean.
06/08/2010 at 12:53 Nathan says:
Is the winner going to be randomly drawn, or will the RPS hivemind going to pass judgement on our collective plans for Star-manship?
06/08/2010 at 12:58 Diogo Ribeiro says:
;_;
06/08/2010 at 13:06 Coins says:
Arg, only a bit of water away. Ah well, good luck, UK-folk!
06/08/2010 at 13:07 Anonymous says:
Too bad only for UK residents. How about EU?
06/08/2010 at 13:15 abigbat says:
Sent!
God, I hope I get it.
I hope I get it.
How many people does he need?
…etc
06/08/2010 at 13:37 Auspex says:
I hope that that WoW magazine has not had your grubby fingers flicking through it Quinns!
06/08/2010 at 13:39 Barts says:
This sucks. Why UK only? It is not much more expensive to ship to the rest of UE.
06/08/2010 at 13:49 Cat says:
Damn, I was slightly over 50 words :(
06/08/2010 at 13:50 Piispa says:
Damn those huge invisible walls blocking the UK from the rest of the world and thus preventing any mail from reaching anyone else in this Earth via plane, ship nor penguin! Damn them!
06/08/2010 at 14:15 Malagate says:
Quinns is clearly working through a U.K. branch of the company/companies that’s only willing to ship within ze U.K., probably because it looks like it’s going to be a huge crate o’stuff and even european shipping would probably be extortionately expensive (also their company, their choice, Quinns probably cannot strong arm them into expanding their shipping area).
Also might not want to forget this handy link http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rps-compo-rules/
Not that it really applies to this competition, it’s more of a reassurance that RPS isn’t going to use your address to steal your house, abduct your house-cat and sell you as extra filling to the actual Spam company.
06/08/2010 at 14:24 Stormtamer says:
Any limit on the number of entrys per email/overall? Have 2 really good ones I can’t pick between
06/08/2010 at 14:34 Loke says:
Only form UK Residents? Damn…
06/08/2010 at 14:37 Loke says:
I mean, “for”.
06/08/2010 at 14:43 RC-1290'Dreadnought' says:
What is this Starcraft you are talking about? Didn’t you mean to say Minecraft?
06/08/2010 at 14:45 Rick says:
reasserts itself in the form of postal charges!
06/08/2010 at 14:46 Rick says:
I suck at html.
06/08/2010 at 14:58 Jerricho says:
One word: UNOBTANIUM
06/08/2010 at 15:21 Hesp says:
I made the same mistake! D:
06/08/2010 at 15:24 hesp says:
posted in teh wrong bloody place, but same
06/08/2010 at 16:04 alm says:
Ich habe geentered.
06/08/2010 at 16:17 Tei says:
More Warhammer 40.000 novels…
06/08/2010 at 17:00 Hannes says:
I presume we Dutchies are the most British of this terrific mainland. And, I’ll happily pay postage, no problem at all. I understand that the prizes can’t be send to the US, Tadzjikistan, Singapore or Micronesia, but why should the EU be a logistical problem?
06/08/2010 at 17:09 Navagon says:
A pretty fine haul of merch! I’ll give it a go.
06/08/2010 at 17:39 Polysynchronicity says:
If Quinns doesn’t ever have enough iron, does that mean he’s anemic?
06/08/2010 at 19:45 danarchist says:
If I agree not to punch the next Brit that jokingly refers to my country as “The Colonies” will you let me have the sc loot? :)
06/08/2010 at 19:56 Nathan says:
If anyone in Europe wants to enter and get it sent to my address, they’re more than welcome ;)
06/08/2010 at 20:13 lumberjack_wannabe says:
If I could craft anything out of a star I would craft some way of being eligible for this contest.
With any star materials left for crafting other items, I would create a better spam blocker than CAPTCHA.
06/08/2010 at 20:28 Kirrus says:
Dyson Sphere. :D
07/08/2010 at 00:19 Jimbo says:
This is Jimmy.
07/08/2010 at 00:50 Davie says:
ARGH! Damn whatever laws make this only available to Brits! The American gaming sites never hold competitions with prizes this good.
07/08/2010 at 01:43 WiPa says:
Would “it’s” be classed as one word?
07/08/2010 at 02:12 Auspex says:
Yes.
07/08/2010 at 02:43 TheCentralGovernment says:
What about former colonies of the UK ? Can we participate? Am from India … still part of the commonwealth (and hosting the commonwealth games this time (hopefully!))… so is that good enough ? or will i have to ask our president to cede our independence back to you guys? (c’mon…. its a small price to pay for all of that swag!)
07/08/2010 at 13:33 Stabby says:
Canada is part of the Commonwealth, and we sure love the Queen! Does that mean I can take part in this contest?
07/08/2010 at 13:57 KingKio says:
Entered! :D
07/08/2010 at 17:41 Sree says:
Awesome finally a competition for UK citisens… Wait it’ll only be delivered within the uk!! That can only mean one thing!!!!!
THE ROYAL MAIL!!!
Noooooooooooooooooooooo
07/08/2010 at 18:30 Destroye says:
“N00bz” Starcraft Boy. Ha.
07/08/2010 at 23:52 rocketman71 says:
Bah
09/08/2010 at 16:18 Tom says:
Did I win? I totally won right?
09/08/2010 at 18:14 kingkio says:
Wish they would announce it so i can stop checking my email/RPS every 5 minutes… :D
09/08/2010 at 20:38 CWalker00 says:
Squee, please hurry with the results!