18 September 2022 @ 03:32 pm
Mod note: the comm is now on hiatus until November.

CHALLENGE 153: With a Little Help From My Friends



1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
[personal profile] tinny
[personal profile] tiptoetwirl
[personal profile] word_never_said
Best Colouring
Best Cropping
Best Composition
[personal profile] tinny
[personal profile] tiptoetwirl
[personal profile] word_never_said


CONGRATULATIONS!
 
 
15 May 2022 @ 04:33 pm
I'm extending Challenge 146 - Navy for an extra day because I'd forgotten to enable open membership on the comm. The new deadline is now Tuesday 17th May at 23:59 (11:59pm) BST.
 
 
01 May 2022 @ 11:51 am
Apologies in advance for the spamming of your Reading Panes - unfortunately the journal import feature doesn't appear to be working any more so I am going to manually copy over about 10 entries from [community profile] capicontest that haven't been imported, so the whole comm is archived here.
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03 January 2022 @ 09:30 am
I'll be away without great internet until April, so [livejournal.com profile] nightbulbs is very kindly stepping in as mod while I'm away. If you have any questions/concerns that require a mod in the mean time, please direct them to her ♥
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24 October 2021 @ 07:13 pm
I messed up the timings of Challenge 134 and had reminders a week later than I thought and posted the next challenge before 134 had finished, so Challenge 134 - Glitter and Sparkles is still open for another couple of hours (until 23:59 BST tonight) and Challenge 135 - Costume Party will have a new deadline of 7th November GMT.

Sorry for the mix-up!
 
 
10 June 2021 @ 10:06 am
Apologies for the lack of notice but I'm taking some time off from LJ, including capicontest, for a couple of weeks as the last couple of months have been exhausting, and I need a short break. Will definitely be back by the end of the month, but hopefully before! As I can't give an exact return date I won't be posting/reopening any challenges, hope you understand!
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16 September 2020 @ 06:17 pm
Apologies for not posting voting or a new challenge yet, I'm currently on holiday with limited internet. Hopefully will have time this coming Sunday/Monday to get back on track :)

In the mean time, I have re-opened Challenge 108 (Full Body) in case anyone wanted to add and entry/icons. The challenge will now close at 23:59 (11:59pm) BST on Saturday 19th September.
 
 
19 June 2020 @ 09:30 pm
Sorry about the delays with everything this week, work has been manic. I'm planning to catch up and post the new challenge on Monday.
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19 March 2020 @ 01:34 pm
Polite reminder to please tag your entries correctly.

Every entry should be tagged with challenge ###, maker: username, ~entries, where ### is the challenge number and username is yours.

A lot of entries lately have been missing the ~entries tag and I've had to add it in. It really helps me to have all entries properly tagged as we go so that when I'm collating entries for voting, or using the tags to go back through things when writing a new challenge, I don't have to keep re-tagging entries and I don't miss any in voting.

Thank you!
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11 January 2020 @ 08:04 pm
Happy New Year everyone! We'll be back on Monday with a new challenge, but before we kick off our start of 2020, I have a quick question for you. There was a suggestion of having some more 'All Caps' challenges that were themed in some way - e.g. TV Tropes, Heroes and Villains, Full Body - but you could use any cap that had been posted to capspiration rather than just the selection from the previous two weeks. It would potentially mean more cap-hunting but could also mean the challenge themes could expand a bit more - I've been struggling to come up with themes that can be used for any fandom/selection of caps.

Would you be interested in a trial of these themed All Caps challenges? I was thinking maybe alternating and having two regular cap-restricted challenges for every themed All Caps challenge, with the un-themed All Caps challenges still happening but a bit more regularly too (maybe every 10-15th challenge rather than 20-25th).

Let me know what you think!

Monday's challenge will be a cap-restricted challenge as usual, but there will be more caps than usual in order to catch up with capspiration after the hiatus here.
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10 November 2019 @ 10:43 am
This comm is now on hiatus until early January as I am away for work for the next couple of months. See you in 2020!
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24 October 2019 @ 04:24 pm
Hi guys, so sorry for neglecting the comm for a couple of weeks. I'm preparing for a two month trip abroad with work and there's a lot of things I've had to get sorted out, with very little free time to do it in.

The comm will be going on hiatus from Monday 4th November until early January anyway whilst I am away, but there's time to squeeze in a quick one-week challenge from Monday 28th October - Sunday 3rd October with all the new images posted up until this Sunday (27th Oct), which will probably be about 60 images total for the challenge. There won't be any chance of extensions and I may not be able to post voting/results before I leave on my trip.

Would anyone still like a one-week challenge next week with ~60 caps? Please comment below to let me know!
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15 July 2019 @ 11:44 am
The old rules/info page was a little outdated with the info, so I've made a new one

[community profile] capicontest is a fortnightly icon challenge community where the challenges centre around the caps posted at [community profile] capspiration every week. This community is open to everyone to enter. Your mod is [personal profile] novindalf.

General Rules
- Icons must be made new for the challenge
- Icons must fit DreamWidth restrictions
- You can create up to six icons for the challenge (unless the challenge states otherwise)
- Post your icons in a new entry tagged like so: maker: username, challenge ###, ~entries
- Icons can only be made from the caps posted in the designated period at [community profile] capspiration (unless the challenge states otherwise)

Other Things
- Challenges will run from Monday to Sunday
- The first place winner will be the community's default icon until the next winner is posted
- The first place winner will also be added to the list of challenge winners in the community profile
- There won't be banners
- Generally, challenges will be technical themes that you can do with the caps at [community profile] capspiration. There will be some special challenges where all caps posted at [community profile] capspiration are fair game, and challenges may be themed or not - but specific types of caps such as "faceless," "full-body," etc. will have a selection of appropriate caps do you don't have to hunt for them if you don't want to.
- If you don't like the caps at [community profile] capspiration you can either start posting there or request!

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[community profile] capspiration - a fortnightly icontest with provided screencaps!
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24 March 2019 @ 10:27 am
Hi guys, I'm running a little short on inspiration for challenges so I would really appreciate any challenge/theme suggestions here! Please try to make the suggestions fairly open so they are applicable to a wide range of screencaps and fandoms (something like 'your favourite character' wouldn't really work with a limited array of screencaps for example). Thank you!

Also remember you can leave suggestions and/or request screencaps at [livejournal.com profile] capspiration which will then be used in the challenges here at capicontest. The capspiration suggestions post is here!
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29 September 2018 @ 01:37 pm
Sorry for going AWOL – I moved house and it took over a month for my internet to be set up. It'll take me a little while to catch up on everything LJ so apologies for the delay while I get back up and running again!
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