Tell Excelsior's Tale Event

Dear Settlers!

The Excelsior has traveled to destinations far away from anything your Settlers have ever even heard of; tropical Islands, wild jungles and frozen tundras are only a few of many places Captain Graham has ventured to. She is the most experienced explorer there has ever been - and we want YOU to write about her adventures!

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Tell Excelsior's Tale Event

Write a short story about Captain Graham and one of her adventures with the Excelsior.
The story may be "fairy tale" in theme, but be sure not to just "steal" an existing tale - we'll be checking!

Start: Now
End of participation time frame: 2nd October, 22:59 British Summer Time (BST)

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Read the rules and details (below) and submit your story >here<.

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General conditions

• The story has to be about an adventure of Sonya Graham traveling with the airship Excelsior
• Size: Roughly 400-600 words (~one A4 page incl. paragraphs)
• The text has to be written in English or German

Formal requirements

• You have one regular game account
• Third-party rights must be respected
• Underage players must get parents' permission to participate
• Your contribution follows the Code of conduct and the PEGI-7 rating
• Participants can only win once; you can only get/use one prize
• You can only submit one story
• Participations have to fulfill all general conditions (see above) in order to enter the contest
• Late changes/edits might not be taken into consideration
• By entering the contest, participants agree to assign their intellectual property rights to Ubisoft / Blue Byte and permit Ubisoft / Blue Byte to use the participation in any media, including games
• Participants agree that Ubisoft/Blue Byte is allowed to announce the winners and present their rewarded contribution. Real names will not be used for the publication, only nicknames, game world and language version. The contribution will be stored on Ubisoft/Blue Byte servers to present the content. Channels that might be used for announcing the winners and for presenting the contributions are international websites, forums, Facebook groups and Twitter channels managed by Ubisoft/Blue Byte (especially "The Settlers Online" channels).

Announcement of winners

• Ubisoft/Blue Byte team chooses the winners (CW 41 the latest),
• The number of winners in Rank 2 and 3 depends on the participation level,
  but also on the creativity and the humour of the contributions
• Prizes will be sent to winners' game accounts as soon as possible via ingame message
• Winners will be announced on the 21st of October.

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1st place

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• The winner's story will be implemented in the game
• 6.000 Gems
• 30 days of premium time
• 100 Crystals

2nd rank

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• There may be multiple second places, depending on the amount of stories submitted
• 1.000 Gems
• 7 days of premium time
• 50 Crystals

3rd rank

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• There may be multiple third places, depending on the amount of stories submitted
• 3 days of premium time
• 30 Crystals

Due to the sheer volume of entries we received for this contest (so many great stories!!!), we have to postpone the announcement of the winners to the 21st of October. Judging them has been one tough cookie, but we're nearly there; we're super lucky to have so many creative players!

Thank you for your patience :).