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Cinco de Mayo ‘Recipe for Destruction!’ Contest: Rules and Guidelines
Hey Mafia Fans!
It’s time to get creative with your festive flavors for your chance to win up to 500 RP. Using any combination of ingredients, come up with a fun, inventive, and delicious recipe to celebrate this year’s Cinco de Mayo in the ‘Recipe for Destruction!’ forum contest.
Is your beans and rice dish en fuego? Does your drink mixing compare to the hottest Margarita cocktail? Can you kill your friends and enemies using exotic ingredients? If so we want to hear about your deadliest concoctions that help you celebrate a killer Cinco de Mayo.
Rules, Guidelines, and How to Enter:
CONTEST RULES
-Entries will be accepted from Noon PST on April 28, 2011 until 11:59 pm PST on May 4, 2011.
-The Mafia Wars Community Team will select the top ten most destructive recipes entered into the contest. The criteria for selection will be based on tastiness (based on recipe only; MW Community Team will not try to reproduce the dish or drink) and visual presentation (if optional picture is included.)
-Mafia Wars forum members will be able to vote on the winner from the top ten selected recipes via a voting page on surverymonkey.com. The winner will be the contest entry with the most votes.
-The prize awarded to the first place winner will be: 500 in-game reward points; second place winner will receive 300 in-game reward points; and third place winner will receive 200 in-game reward points.
-Recipe must be Cinco de Mayo themed.
-Brief description of the recipe must be included in the post.
By submitting an entry, you affirm, represent and warrant that such transmission or submission is (a) not confidential; (b) not in violation of any laws, contractual restrictions or other third party rights, including but not limited to rights of publicity, and that you have permission from any third party whose likeness, personal information or intellectual property is included in your submission; (c) free of viruses, adware, spyware, worms or other malicious code.
Zynga will own all rights to any submission you choose to provide in this contest. You agree to, at any time, execute any documents reasonably required to ensure Zynga’s ownership of your submission. By providing a submission, you also waive any moral rights in your submission. You agree that unless otherwise prohibited by law Zynga may use, sell, exploit and disclose your submission in any matter, without restriction and without compensation to you.
This contest as well as the use of any Zynga website, forum, or game is also governed by the Zynga Terms of Service. Collection and use of user information governed by Zynga’s Privacy Policy
Community Judging: On May 5th, 2011, all entries will be presented in a survey for community vote. Feel free to rally your friends to support you in creating your ‘Recipe for Destruction.’ Your fellow Mafia Wars family members will vote on which recipe sounds most destructively delicious and our 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place winners will be selected by popular vote.
CONTEST GUIDELINES
-Do Not copy other entries or other original artwork. All designs should be original. Be creative! Any entry that appears to have been copied or to have misappropriated original designs will be disqualified. Entries depicting violence, pornography or other objectionable content (to be determined in Zynga’s sole discretion) will be rejected.
- Do Not post negative comments about other contest entries. Doing so may result in the disqualification of your entry.
- Do Not post inappropriate content in the photos.
- Photos must be original owners.
- Entries that are not posted here (i.e. sent by email, skype, or PM) will not be considered.
- To ensure the legitimacy of the picture, you must present a sign in the picture with your Forum User Name (Not your FACEBOOK ID!). This way we know the submission to be authentic!
- Please enter your submission on the following thread here Entries
- To discuss this Recipe for Destruction Contest post here Discussion
Rewards: The prize awarded to the first place winner will be: 500 in-game reward points; second place winner will receive 300 in-game reward points; and third place winner will receive 200 in-game reward points. Winners must make contact with calle13jr within 2 weeks of contest results to claim awards. Players must provide FB UID via PM for prize awarding process.
HOW TO ENTER
Step 1: Create a drink or food recipe celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
Step 2: Post your recipe to the Contest entries thread Entries on the Mafia Wars forums.
Step 3 (optional): Take a picture of your completed Cinco de Mayo dish or drink. Visual presentation can win you points in the voting but this is an optional step.
Step 4: (optional): Share the image in your post. To share an image you must visit a hosting site like Tinypic or Imagengratis. If you do not already have an account you will need to create one. Once that you have uploaded your image to your account, locate the links and codes provided for the image. Copy the image code or link provided for your image.
Step 5 (optional): Paste your image code into this thread by clicking here: Entries. Please note that this thread is ONLY for submissions. Any discussions about the contest should be posted here: Discussion. Keeping these two threads separate will help us sort through entries when choosing the top entries.
**Please be aware that Facebook images will not post here on the forums if you have specific permissions set. There are several free image hosting websites available on the web: imageshack, flickr, TinyPic or Photobucket. Please see this thread for additional information.
This contest has nothing to do with the game, but is instead a way for those that would like to participate to have some fun and win some easy Reward Points. If reward points do not tickle your fancy, you are in no way required to participate.
Thanks,
CM
A) Overwrite your existing MafiaWars.com account with a pre-constructed account.
B) Apply a lump-sum Reward Point package to your existing MafiaWars.com account.
Copy the PIN you have there and save it.
"We have heard your cries about the gifting event! We are making changes and ask that you be patient!
There is nothing we can do about this next gifting event as that one is bagged and ready to go, but we will be trying out new events which will provide the same type of rewards with a more rewarding player experience."
The Story of Mafia Wars and Zynga.
Mark Pincus: I did it! I have established a new business!
*Hires Workers.*
"Sweet, let's work on creating some awesome and addicting games!" The workers say.
Creation of Mafia Wars is born.
MySpace: Good Old Days --- updates --- Unlimited Hitlist XP = positives.
Facebook: Still Good --- Positives, unlimited job assists XP. New York and Cuba and then Moscow.
Players are impressed with the game, many great social aspects.
As time passed by, the games on both platforms were doing great, and there was still many great features and additions.
Summer 2009: The corporation is still doing good, but then darkness soon arrives in the near future...
Fall 2009: Dev guy: "I think its a good idea to get rid of robbing." Workers agree? What's happening? That doesn't sound like a very good decision...
October 2009: Mark Pincus comes in to the office: "Hey guys, I found a great new product for us to try, let's take it to see if it helps us think of even more great ideas, also I think we should bring back robbing soon.
*Workers take pill.* Dev guys "I feel queasy."
Now the corporation is infected and is now doomed.
Bad Ideas now come along: "Hey let's destroy the game now! We got enough money now, let's make a new policy for us to follow:
New rules and contract get posted on the bulletin: "It is now time to turn against the players for no apparent reason, they are children and we are adults, and it is our duty to make them not have any fun, example: child asks "Hey dad can I go skateboarding?" Dad says No, child says why? and Dad says "Because I said so." It is now Zynga's duty to keep taking this new product so we can enjoy our day by making customers feel misery, and its time for us to be the most rude and inconsiderate corporation ever, and also have the most stupid rules and regulations ever, it is our duty to be annoying and not make any sense enough to try and make the universe explode. Our main target we should destroy the most is Mafia Wars, its a crime game, so we should do the most wacky drugged up crimes on the game, and destroy the whole Mafia style aspect of the game entirely."
... Everyone agrees and signs this contract from Hell.
Now Mafia Wars falls...
December: Massive bugs and glitches
January: New crappy properties
February: Marketplace and Flash
March: Slow fightlists and game is now a bogged down bloated steaming pile o' crap. Also introductory to new poor Robbing.
April: Crap Advertisements everywhere, buy this buy that.
May: Moar crap stuff
June: Game still is dung
July: More poor decisions: Deduction in top mafia percentages.
August: More unnecessary tampering with XP pay-outs.
September: Game still continues to fall.
October: Things are getting worse...
November: Biggest new crap stuff yet, the removal of newsfeed from the home page and making room for more unnecessary stuff like advertisements
December: Numbers are really starting to drop now and it looks like the end is closing in.
January: Crappiest stuff yet: Shark Tank fiasco and then the removal of FC Refills.
Now in February and Zynga also continues to disrespect MySpace.
And right now it seems things are now closer to the end than ever before.
I wanted to update you on some things you missed
The world of Mafia Wars
Searching the web I have found out that:
1) Mafia Wars was pulled from Bebo
2) Mafia Wars was pulled from Sonico
3) Mafia Wars was pulled from Tagged and they received a small package for a move over to Facebook
4) Mafia Wars deleted and made Yahoo players start all over including starting over with 0 mafia with no compensation
5) Games discontinued by Zynga
Attack!
Dope Wars
Dragon Wars
Fashion Wars
Football
Gang Wars
Ghost Racer
Guild of Heroes
Heroes vs. Villains
Music Pets
My Heroes Ability
Ponzi Inc.
Prison Lockdown
Roller Coaster Kingdom
Space Wars
Special Forces
Street Racing[58]
Triumph
It Girl
Poker Blitz
*This list does not include all games that were aquired during a buyout of another company and closed down.
6) There are other Zynga Games that have not been pulled but do not get updates.
I am not saying Zynga is wrong for how they conduct themselves. I am just stating the facts of what they have done. We all know by the app data that Mafia Wars is dying.
The facts are:
Zynga has reduced Top Mafia Percentages
Zynga has reduced Top Mafia bonus
Zynga has reduced loot drops from energy/stamina jobs
Zynga has reduced good loot from operations
Zynga has broken missions
Zynga has had way to many roll backs
Zynga has accused many people of being a cheater. When they are not and they have to prove they are innocent
Zynga has changed XP on jobs many times
Zynga has made Italy under 2.0 XP for energy jobs
Zynga has managed to break something with every release
Zynga has added pop ups while you are fighting
Zynga has increased the number of pop ups
Zynga has destroyed Myspace's game and left them for a year
Zynga has promised multiple times in the forum to communicate more
Zynga has not given us release notes on updates
Zynga has not told us how new features work
Zynga has not fixed old bugs
Zynga has not had a real community leader for Mafia Wars
