Linden Lab have announced a new snapshot contest for the holiday season as well as news of a Christmas Gift : Celebrate the New Year & Pick Up Your Holiday Gift!
We want to know how you celebrate the coming of the New Year in our New Year Snapshot Contest. If it’s a whole new look for your avatar, or an inworld party to celebrate — share your snapshots for a chance to win L$10,000, L$5,000, L$3,000 or L$1,000.
To enter the contest you will need to go to the official Second Life forum post : 2014 New Year Contest. The rules seem to be on the Wiki and are worth reading, especially if you live in Canada because there’s a requirement for Canadian based Second Life residents to also perform a maths test.
The breakdown of prizes is :
- Grand Prize – 10,000 Linden Dollars (estimated value at US$40.00).
- First Prize – 5,000 Linden Dollars (estimated value at US$20.00).
- Second Prize – 3,000 Linden Dollars (estimated value at $12.00).
- Third Prize- 1,000 Linden Dollars (estimated value at $4.00).
As for the gift, that will entail making a visit to Portal Park.
Portal Park is where you will find a lot of Linden Lab created activities, it has also been decorated for the holiday season.
Portal Park 1
The Portal Park is your launching pad to several great experiences in Second Life. Start here for easy access portals that will teleport you to The Cornfield, The Wilderness, Linden Realms and more!
Visit in Second Life
Once you reach Portal Park, you’re looking for a red gift box. There’s more than one incarnation of Portal Park in Second Life but here’s the SLURL for one of them :
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Portal%20Park%201/133/119/23/
Then comes the news regarding Concierge support : Concierge Phone and Chat Support Closing for Christmas Day
Concierge phone and chat support will be offline Thursday, 25 December, so that team members can spend the Christmas holiday with their friends and family. Both services will close at midnight Wednesday evening and will re-open at 8am Pacific on Friday morning.
I hope everyone will wish the hard working support team a Merry Christmas and a well earned day off. I would imagine that the Concierge team did a happy dance upon hearing this news, possibly something like this :
With thanks to Jupi Shinn for uploading the clip.