I've always wanted a nice picture of my avatar to hang on my real life wall. That's what motivated me to enter the 12 Avatars calendar contest. The premise was simple. You snap a pic of your avatar and then submit it in a notecard to a kiosk. It's really a popularity contest, though. Two avatars with the most votes would win a spot in the calendar.

Two of the spots were predetermined, which leaves eight spots remaining, of which they're milking every day of suspense out of it. When I saw the behavior of one employee of the contest, I became turned off from it entirely. As soon as he found out I was a blogger, he kept trying to offer me scoops. I let him know that I felt it would be a conflict of interest, but he was willing to keep that a secret.

I sat on this knowledge instead. He asked later if I would be blogging about my entering the contest and promised to deliver me "leaked" information, as well as pictures, but he never did. I guess my question here would be why he was so eager for me to blog about the contest when they had almost 600 entries? If he was so willing to tell me things, who else did he share knowledge with?

As for my contest entry, I got a whopping 3 votes from who knows where. I barely told anyone I'd entered at all. When I AM ready to adorn my walls with homages to my avatar, I'll get someone I trust to do it. At least I know they play fair.

*UPDATE: It's been called to my attention that not all of the eight chosen will be selected from the entrants. Some of the calendar spots will be awarded to residents that didn't even participate in the contest!*