PowerColor Announces the ''DirectX 11 Experience'' Contest

Video card manufacturer PowerColor today announced the "How was your first time? DX11 Experience!" contest asking users for artistic picture of themselves and their "First time DX11 experience." The final winner who beats other original pictures from other 3 communities will get a fantastic PowerColor PCS+ HD5870. The other 3 winners join the final and represent each community will also get a brand new PowerColor PCS+ HD5770!

The rules of this competition are simple, just submit a picture of your first DX11 experience moment, you're reaction, or you're cat reaction to your reaction, anything that might relate to your first DX11 Experience! You just have to hope that others will vote for you as the most original.

This competition has five communities as partners where you can submit your picture, later the community you submitted your picture will vote for the most original one to represent their community. The winner of each community will get brand new PowerColor PCS+ 5770.

When each community has found its winner will then go on direct competition with the other communities winners in a voting that will be held here to find the craziest picture of all. The global winner will receive a brand new PowerColor PCS+ 5870.

Participating communities include, TechPowerUp, HardwareHeaven, HardwareLuxx and MeriStation.

Schedule:
The submissions for this competition are open from January 18^th to January 31^st, 2010. Communities will cast their voting to select their winner from February 1^st to February 3^rd, 2010. Winners of each community will be posted on the competition main page on 4^th February for worldwide voting that ends on 11st of February, 2010. The worldwide winner will be announced on 12^nd of February, 2010.

Rules
1. You must be 16 years or older to participate.
2. You must own the submitted picture / have the rights to use it.
3. Participants are required to upload their pictures both in the main competition page and the community they choose to participate.
4. No plagiarism of any kind. If you copy you will be disqualified and publicly humiliated
5. It's a open to creativity competition, you can post pictures of anything that might relate to your first DX11 Experience, your reaction, your room's door scratched from your dog that wanted to go for a walk and you were too entertained to remember, well anything original just be creative!
6. Pictures can include artwork and be modified.
7. No pornography, nudity, profanity, nor any kind of material that might be offensive.
8. In case of tie, each community administrator will ultimately choose the winner
9. Only one participation per user/person allowed.
10. PowerColor will do everything in their power to ensure a speedy delivery of all of the prizes.
11. PowerColor and its partners reserves the right to refuse entry into the competition, and any entrant found cheating, plagiarizing, or generally following un-sportsmanlike behavior will be instantly disqualified.
12. No responsibility will be taken for lost entries.
13. These rules may change at any time and you must accept these changes.
14. By submitting your first entry, you have confirmed your acceptance of these terms and conditions.