ECA Announces T-shirt Design Contest Winners !!!

ECA Announces T-shirt Design Contest Winners !!!

July 6, 2007
Yes, we said winners... Two, to be exact.

Word has just come down from the ECA command bunker, and here are the two winning T-shirt designs (in no particular order):

"Contrary to popular opinion..." by Mike Thompson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Fight Back..."  by Ryan Le Roux

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GP: Big congratz to Mike and Ryan!!!

But there's more good news. ECA is going to do something for everyone who submitted a design. Most likely, every contestant gets a T-shirt. Finalists get some ECA schwag in addition. As for the two winning entries, as we said up front:
Our fearless leader, Hal Halpin, promises to wear the winning design at E3 during his interviews with leading TV shows on camera and in photo shoots with websites, newspapers and magazines.

Very cool, indeed!
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Submitted by Red Truck Road Trip - WEST Coast Team - July 10, 2007 at 2:44 pm -0500
[...] hits Just Got Some Great News Saturday July 07th 2007, 12:05 am Filed under: MIKE'S POSTS, GENERAL While this isn’trelated to Red Truck Wines or the cross country trip, I just found out that a T-shirt layout I submitted for a contest has been chosen as one of two winning designs by the Entertainment Consumers Association as their official shirt. This is pretty huge, since the ECA is a large mover-and-shaker in the gaming industry, and its president is going to wear both shirts during TV interviews and photo shoots at E3 (one of the biggest gaming conventions of the year). [...]
Submitted by Doctor Proctor - July 9, 2007 at 5:05 pm -0500
http://www.cafepress.com/theeca is the address where the ECA has their schwag, so I'm assuming that these will be available on there shortly. Oh, and while you're there, why not join up? =)
Submitted by roger - July 9, 2007 at 9:51 am -0500
2 words:FREAKING AWESOME
Submitted by LinkRemembered - July 8, 2007 at 8:28 pm -0500
Yeah, where would one be able to buy one of these shirts? On their website, maybe?
Submitted by kory - July 8, 2007 at 4:18 pm -0500
ware can you buy them at i wood buy them both
Submitted by chadachada - July 8, 2007 at 1:03 am -0500
@ Flaps
.....lol, nice man. Assuming you're a dude, of course
Submitted by Catheter - July 7, 2007 at 11:19 pm -0500
Hey awesome, I've found my cool dragon shirt doesn't get me beat up anymore in the adult world, so Thompson's design might be just what I need.
Submitted by Flaps - July 7, 2007 at 11:06 pm -0500
*Wonders where the 360 and PS3 controllers will fall on a...full figured woman*

Yes, my mind is in the toilet, but still...
Submitted by chadachada - July 7, 2007 at 10:43 pm -0500
now that i think about it, i think the shirt might be better with a pc mouse
Submitted by Quincunx - July 7, 2007 at 1:26 pm -0500
Agreed Tammej : / The first, doesn't include a PC mouse. Why must PC gamers always be left out? You can't convince me that they don't represent a large percentage of gamers.
Submitted by Grimm24 - July 7, 2007 at 10:03 am -0500
Woo hoo! These are the two shirts I wanted to win!
Submitted by Tammej - July 7, 2007 at 4:23 am -0500
Personally, I'd probably design a T-Shirt with the stylised image of something video games can all relate to, while still making sure it's within the fair use rights to do that (so no Pac-Man there). Then I'd simply write "We come in Peace" underneath.
Submitted by Tammej - July 7, 2007 at 4:19 am -0500
Furthermore: So far many if not most of those supposedly threatening "Killer games" have been PC games. The T-Shirt doesn't represent them.
Submitted by Matthew - July 7, 2007 at 3:45 am -0500
That first shirt won? How? It's cluttered, uses potentially infringing images, and breaks the first law of propaganda: It includes the subphrase "make me a killer" leading people who see it to question why popular opinion suggests the wearer is a violent criminal. There are far more subtle ways of getting that message across without "protesting too much." Am I the only one who gets that impression?
Submitted by JC - July 7, 2007 at 1:07 am -0500
Hmm, I can put off that 360 expense for a while, I like both shirts, favoring the first one over the second.
Submitted by Oni - July 7, 2007 at 12:47 am -0500
Oh, and I hope they have them in Waffle House sizes.
Submitted by Oni - July 7, 2007 at 12:45 am -0500
I'll definitely be getting the controller one. Damn I love that design, and I was hoping that it would win.

I just hope they'll be able to ship to Canada.
Submitted by PyroHazard - July 6, 2007 at 11:36 pm -0500
Aww damn. I was really pulling for Chen to win. Thompson's entry still rules though.

Congrats to the winners!
Submitted by chadachada - July 6, 2007 at 11:28 pm -0500
hey! chadachada, quit impersonating me!
gr...
Submitted by chadachada killer - July 6, 2007 at 11:21 pm -0500
videogames make me wanna kill chadachada
Submitted by Scazza - July 6, 2007 at 11:05 pm -0500
You can kinda tell the first shirt tried to avoid the "consolley-correct" by not picking any one controller over the other (to appease fanboys), but he also avoided the generic controller (rightly so), and it kinda seems too forced. Its a great idea, and the message is stellar... but the design is kinda hindered by itself... Also the shirt will be out dated in a few years, heh.

The second one is stylish looking, but agree that it is also kinda "violent" and I thought the whole point was to show that gamers arn't just rabid blood thirsty FPS animals...

However, both are decent I guess, and maybe I will pick them up... Kudos to you guys....
Submitted by chadachada - July 6, 2007 at 11:04 pm -0500
If anyone finds out where we can buy these shirts (if ever we can), I'd really like one of them
Submitted by chadachada - July 6, 2007 at 9:21 pm -0500
I like the first the best, as a political shirt that i'd wear once in awhile, but the second the best as "fashionable" not to sound gay or anything
Submitted by Carbonatedgravy - July 6, 2007 at 8:13 pm -0500
I actually prefer the second. I don't think THAT many people actually believe video games cause violence, at least to a substantial degree, so I'd feel like a social hypochondriac wearing that first shirt.
Submitted by EvilZombie - July 6, 2007 at 7:37 pm -0500
Awsome shirts. Hope we can buy them somewhere.
Submitted by DarkTetsuya - July 6, 2007 at 7:42 pm -0500
Mike *Thompson*? No relation, I'm sure... (I'd bet money on it.) but yeah... I'd wear one.
Submitted by E. Zachary Knight - July 6, 2007 at 7:24 pm -0500
I still don't like that second one. Too busy and possibly to "violent" on the back.

Mike Thompson's is the best though.
Submitted by Skeeblar - July 6, 2007 at 7:21 pm -0500
Very nice!
Mike's shirt was the best, IMO
Now we'll be able to buy these, right? I want both.
Submitted by Nutrisoda - August 17, 2007 at 3:54 pm -0500
Check out Nutrisoda's t-shirt design competition at Nutrisoda.com they have some great prizes!!

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