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LEGO Military Award Service says:

THE RESULTS ARE IN!!!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the competition this year.
Once again, we got a slew of terrific builds, and deciding among them was no easy task for any of us. As with the contest last year, many of the best entries showed up in the last 72 hours, keeping us all on our toes until the very end. There were some categories that were particularly competitive, and not all the great builds we saw ended up winning. We didn't all agree on which entries should win, but each judge had the final word in his particular category. We're planning to do a write up in the near future, with some comments on the winning builds, to give some feedback regarding what aspects we really liked about them, and why they won overall.


We would like to extend thanks to our generous sponsors.
They all came through for us with wonderful prizes for the winners. Dan Siskind AKA BrickMania, who contributed two annual memberships to his Instructions Club; Will Chapman of BrickArms, who is giving us 200 BrickArms items to share out amongs the winners; and Steve Witt of LEGO, who helped out with the big sets we're giving away.



Without further ado, here are all the winners!
(*Scroll down for details on prizes.)



Model - judged by Mad Physicist

Helicopters

●1st place: urthedead - Fl 282 Kolibri





●2nd place: Aleksander Stein - Focke-Achgelis Fa-223 "Drache"






●3rd place: Mainman - CH-54 Tarhe





Combat Engineer Vehicle

●1st place: stgeorg6 - M26 Dragon Wagon





●2nd place: lego junkie - IDF Caterpillar D9 Bulldozer





●3rd place: Aaron Patrick Morse - Bergepanther Armored Recovery Vehicle







MOC - judged by J5N

Stealth

●1st place: Legomonster - SR 122a Peregrine





●2nd place: Carter Baldwin - Wyvern Attack VTOL





●3rd place: Bruno Vaiano - BAE Carcara






Alternative Reality WWII

●1st place: Qworg - Wunderwaffe - Cudowny wafel





●2nd place: 2 Much Caffeine - Foke Wolfe - Project 8





●3rd place: John Lamarck - Junkers EF-112







Vignettes - judged by ChandlerParker

*Unfortunately we didn't get in a great number of vig entries this year, so to keep things reasonably competitive, Chandler decided to only award 1st and 2nd place entries in this category.

Vig Series

●1st place: DarthNick - Evolution of War




●2nd place: imagelego - Peacekeeping






Interconnected Vigs

●1st place: BMW Indy - Rocket Escape





●2nd place: -infomaniac- - Battle for Tennis Court







Diorama - judged by MagnusLauglo

Mini Dio Behind Enemy Lines

●1st place: -infomaniac- - Sneaking Past the Tower





●2nd place: BMW Indy - Indiana Jones and the Battle of Beersheba





●3rd place: Sgt 57 - Somewhere in Cambodia






Large Dio Combined Operations

●1st place: urthedead - Thorns in the Beast





●2nd place: Aaron (- _-) - Assault on Bunker TK-427





●3rd place: Shilmasta Combined Arms







Forced Perspective - judged by Magnus_Lauglo

Small Scale Forced Perspective

●1st place: 2 Much caffeine - Sniper Mission New York





●2nd place: Cardz - June 6th, 1944





●3rd place: Atin - The Bombing of LA






Large Scale Forced Perspective

●1st place: Mainman - Furball Bullseye





●2nd place: Ewok in Disguise - Indian Ocean: Present Day





●3rd place: Snuffwuzz - Hind Attack






CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS!



Prizes summary and details:

*OK, we apologise if this gets a little confusing here, but please read carefully...


We have alot of prizes to give away, but the prizes will be a little different and to some extent up to you guys and what you want.

All winners should send Magnus a flickmail with their mailing addresses and, if required, their request for which kind of BrickArms they'd rather have.


The 1st place winners in the MOC, Vigs, Dio, and FP categories will all win an 7749 Echo base Starwars set, plus five BrickArms items (send Magnus a flickrmail indicating whether you'd like WWII era, Modern, or Sci-fi BrickArms). The winners in the model category will win a one year membership in BrickMania's Instructions Club. In the case of urthedead, who entered two 1st place entries, he can choose between one or the other.

The 2nd place winners will get the following set: 7595 Army Men on Patrol, plus five BrickArms items (send Magnus a flickrmail indicating whether you'd like WWII era, Modern, or Sci-fi BrickArms)

The 3rd place winners will get a pack of about a dozen BrickArms items (send Magnus a flickrmail indicating whether you'd like WWII era, Modern, or Sci-fi BrickArms).


NOTE that you cannot select specific BrickArms items - you will simply get a surprise pack of items of whichever type you specify. In order to get these out to people without too much delay, (and hopefully before Magnus goes on a three week vacation), please let him know by (next) Wednesday, the 16th of June, 2010 which Brickrams packs you'd like. If anyone hasn't gotten in touch by then, Magnus will select the BrickArms he guesses you'll be happiest with, based on your MOCs and photostream. This is so that we can make our BrickArms order before the end of next week, so they will get to Magnus in time for him to send them out, before he goes away on vacation on the 26th of June.

If you entered more than one build that placed, you won't get multiple prizes, just the bigger of the two. Urthedead, who won 1st place for his Model and large dio entries, can choose between two big prizes, either the SW Echobase set plus 5 BA items, or the Brickmania Instructions club.

But wait, there's more!

We do have a few more prizes to hand out.

For the first time, we'd like to acknowledge our pick for the "Best Entry of the Entire Competition" - and that would be Mainman's Furball Bullseye, which really pushed the military theme as well as the Forced Perspective style to new heights. Please join us in congratulating Mainman, who will get a Brickmania T shirt and a mini Nebelwerfer set (in addition to his Echo Base set and 5 BrickArms).

We'd also like to acknowledge one of the most active new builders in the community. Snuffwuzz wasted no time in getting involved in the competition. He started building early and entered builds in at least three categories. For this, we'd like to recognize him as Cadet of the Year. As a prize, he'll be getting whichever prize urthedead decides not to take, either the Echo base plus 5 BrickArms items, or the Brickmania instructions club membership (in addition to his other BrickArms package.)


Many thanks again to all of our entrants and to our sponsors!

- The LMABC Group (12/6/2010)
Originally posted at 2:17PM, 12 June 2010 PDT (permalink)
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