New contest!! AEX searching for the January Femme Fatale Of The Month!!

[Top T]

Competition rules:
-Entrant must be female, 18 or older.
-Entrant must pose with an airsoft gun purchased from AEX, or is a brand sold by AEX (any gun upgrades can be any brand).
-PG-13, not R.  No pornography or nudity. 
-Send along a brief description of the gun (and upgrades) and brief description of entrant.  Include short airsoft history if there is one.
-Be sure to include contact information in case entrant is the winner.  Minimum contact information- first and last name, mailing address, email address, and phone number, and T-shirt size.
-All entrants will receive a free ladies AEX T-shirt.
-Entrant need not be an airsofter, but can be a friend, etc… of an airsofter.
-Entrant cannot be a “professional” (no hiring of models or stand-ins).
-photo must be no bigger than 3 MB, sent in JPEG form.  Entrant can send in two photos, different poses.
-Any entrant not selected as the Femme Fatale Of The Month or the Runner Up can resubmit new photos for a different month (return entrants will not receive another free T-shirt).
-Send all submissions to TOPT@AIRSOFTEXTREME.COM

Competition details:
-Cutoff date for each month is the 25th.  Entrants will be voted on by AEX staff members.
-A winner and runner up will be chosen, then posted on the AEX website (along with all other entrant photos) by the 1st of the new month.
-Winning entrant will receive a $50 store certificate in her name, Runner Up will get a $25 store certificate.
-Winning photos will be remain on the website for an entire month, and will be replaced when the next month’s winners are picked.
-At the end of the year, all Winners and Runners Up will be posted for public voting.  After votes are counted, a FEMME FATALE OF THE YEAR will be crowned, and will receive a spectacular prize package (details to be announced at the appropriate time).

[Panzermensch]

My vote is a toss up between Kyle, Chicken, Rael and Henry. 

[SteevoLS]

You're too modest, Chris. I nominate you. How does a photoshoot at Jeremy's sound?

[billytehbob]

You're too modest, Chris. I nominate you. How does a photoshoot at Jeremy's sound?

Nah, that wouldn't work out, Chris and Real would disappear

[SteevoLS]

I meant Vanquish...

[billytehbob]

......

[Panzermensch]

i have this contest covered 

I hope it is a picture of you and not one of those ugly bitches you keep taking pictures of.   

[Lionheart]

Jumblies and tingly parts. What colourful terminology. 

[Top T]

I’d like to point out that an entrant can wear as much as she wants (fully covered in a trenchcoat or tac gear if she so desires).

[SteevoLS]

Kyle has a point... you may be looking for librarian warriors, but the poster screams James Bond.

[Top T]

Point taken.  But this contest is open to all willing entrants, from "librarian warriors" to "Bond"-types.   
Ode to the Femme Fatale:

She is Mata Hari. She is Morgana le Fey. She is the villain, but sometimes she’s the hero.  She is Tomb Raider, Aeon Flux, and seductive assassin all rolled into one.

She is the downfall of men, a siren, a vixen.  Her role is to seduce, then destroy the hero.

She is feminine, and exploits her femininity, using sex and seduction as weapons, but does not see herself as evil.  However, she can be vain- beautiful and sultry, while insanely jealous of another beautiful person at the same time.

She is comfortable with guns, knives, and poison, and is a true artist in the use of each.  A death at her hands is stylish, almost pleasurable at first, then as the darkness closes in, the victim knows just how terrible he’s been betrayed.

But in the same manner in which she kills, she herself is also doomed.  A Femme Fatale never lives to see the end of the story, but by the time she dies, there is a pile of dead men at her feet.   

[rael]

Just add camo!
Incidentally, I have taken it upon myself to do the pre-judging. Please send all pictures, along with a $25 non-refundable bribe entry fee and phone number to me at:

Old Goat
PO Box 69420
Columbia, SC 29224

 

[Black Fox]

Glad to see that Jeremy has a date lined up for Prom

[Panzermensch]

Mike told me that she puts out... if you can find it!

[Top T]

I imagine there’s a bit of reluctance or hesitation to submit photos because this is such a new contest and no one knows for sure what sort of photo to send in, so I decided to post up the pics that I’ve gotten so far. 

The cut off for January is on the 25th.  After that, we’ll start collecting entrants for February.

Gallery of current entrants can be found here:

http://gallery.airsoftextreme.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=18466

[Panzermensch]

Down here in the south land (not to be confused with SouthLAnd) we prefer pictures since we can't read nor write very well.   

[Lionheart]

They make multicam miniskirts? 

Ah, but anyway. After looking through the entries, I'd say your photo is the best*, Kyle. Though I'm digging "Bernadette" and her pin-up/WWII-esque photo.

*In terms of overall photo quality, hot chick, etc. 

[Top T]

Very inventive on the miniskirt! 

We voted and will post up the winner and runner up in a day or so.

[Splatmaster]

I thought the choker was a nice touch. 

[Top T]

Congratulations to January’s winner, Bernadette, and the runner up, Croft (Sandra).  Winner will get a $50 store certificate and runner up will get $25.  Since we have entrants from all over the states, these certificates are for web orders.  Additionally, these two lovely ladies are automatically entered into the Femme Fatale Of The Year contest, and will compete against winners from the other months yet to come.  A single winner will be voted on by the public and she will get a spectacular prize package (details to be posted as we get closer to December).

See the other entrants here:  http://gallery.airsoftextreme.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=18519

For those who are wondering, our voting judges consisted of 2 women (one of which is a rabid airsofter), and 3 men (one of whom was majoring in photography).  Since I’m the one who collects up all images and puts text on them, I’m not a voting judge- I vote only if a tie breaker is needed. 

For the entrants that did not win, they will automatically be entered into February’s contest.  Or if they want, they can email a new photo and reenter the new month’s contest.

For the new month of voting, we will not post up images as we get them.  Having images up early allows others to see the competition and either try to outdo them or they don’t submit at all thinking they can’t beat the competition.  Therefore, in the interest of being fair, I will not post up any images I get until AEX members actually vote for the winner.

So, we’re off to a great start!  We’re taking entrants for February now.  Even if you don’t shop with AEX, it’s still a fun and simple contest, so get those submissions in!

[Top T]

For the monthly deadline, there’s about two weeks left before we cut Feb off and start collecting for March.  So far, we’ve only gotten ONE new entrant for Feb, and when combined with the previous month, that brings us up to 9 total entrants.

Not that we consider this a failure- we still have entrants that can win and AEX will honor its prize support promise- but with so few entrants, it will make voting easy and for the ladies who have already entered, it makes their chances at winning pretty high- currently better than 20%. 

But if you are interested and not sure of how you stack against the competition, then look here:  http://gallery.airsoftextreme.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=18519

As it stands, except for the one new entrant, these ladies are the current competition, and if things remain as they are, then a January entrant has a great chance at winning the month of Feb.  So, if you think you can top the competition, then get your photos submitted!

And if you’re wondering about our exact voting criteria, I can tell you that we take many things into consideration.  I won’t spell them out here because it might give someone the impression that that’s all they need to concentrate on.  Suffice to say, a “whole package” will take the cake.  Look at the current entrants, look at the previous winners, look at the quality and creativity of the photos, read the “ode” about Femme Fatales, and this will give you a good idea of some of the things we are looking for.

And for clarification, “quality and creativity” of the photos does not necessarily mean “professional studio quality” or manipulation by Photoshop.  Admittedly, January’s winner did shell out $$$ to go to a professional studio, but the photo was meant to be more of a gift for her husband.  They actually clarified this point with me at the time of submission, and it did not break any rules, so I allowed it.  And for the runner up, that was just a great photo and pose with an average camera by a non-professional person.  However, as great as those photos were, we still only had 10 entrants for January.  Things could’ve been different if there were 20 or 30 others to pick from.

So, get those entries in and good luck!

[the hot tuna]

Kyle, I think that the other chick you take pics of would have won it. this chick is good but the other is pretty much top notch.

[the hot tuna]

I noticed; maybe they just took the shot and posted it without any enhancements.

The winner IMO is lame. Yeah it's a good picture of the chick, but the rifle basically has no purpose in the shot.

[Top T]

Other than adding text, AEX does not doctor any of the photos.  How we get them is how we post them.

[the hot tuna]

I was referring to the individuals who posted the pics, not AEX.