The FIFA World Cup 2010 is up and running and so is toonpool.com’s own CARICUP 2010. This means we are finally going to tell you how this thing works. Here are the rules:
Caricup is an international caricature competition limited to caricatures of soccer/football players. Since sports is one of the few fields where nationalism can be fun for everyone, we decided to have only one contestant per country. Each country taking part in the competition will be represented by one caricature.
The subject of this caricature doesn’t need to be from the country it is ‘running for’. The artist, on the other hand, does. An example: this caricature of C. Ronaldo could be representing Hungary, since that’s where artist Tonio is from.
The players depicted do not necessarily have to take part in the World Cup. Franz Beckenbauer would be totally fine with us. We also decided that there can be several caricatures of the same player running for different countries. The competition is about the images after all, and not about the players. So, Hungarian C. Ronaldo could be battling French C. Ronaldo. Keep in mind, though, that people watching this competition might be bored by 30 C. Ronaldoes.
Stage One (June 11-22): Sign-Up Stage
During this stage, artists wishing to take part in the competition need to do two things:
- Add soccer caricatures to our “soccer portraits collection”. Add as many as you like, but only one of them can take part in the competition.
- Sign up in our forum (click here). If nobody else signs up for the same country, you will take part in the CARICUP with the picture you mentioned in your post (see example below). If other people sign up as well, there are two possible solutions: You may discuss the subject, consider all the pro’s and con’s, and finally decide who will be running. You could, for example, decide that artist x will let artist y represent their country if he only changes the picture from C. Ronaldo to Diego Maradona. If you haven’t decided on who will be running until June 22, we will randomly choose one contestant from the forum posts.
Stage Two (June 25-July 11): Knockout Stage
This is the actual competition. There will be “matches” between two caricatures and the winner will move on to the next level (see example below). In the end, there will be a “World Champion”.
The “matches” will be held on a special page accessible from toonpool.com’s main page. One match will take a fixed amount of time, during which people can vote for either team. The team with the most votes wins. We will announce the matches on the main page.
We have not figured out yet how long the individual “matches” will take, since we don’t know how many teams will be competing. If a lot of people sign up right away, we might have to shorten the sign-up stage – but we’ll definitely tell you in advance.
As we mentioned last week, there will be no material prizes and there are no other companies involved either. The three best artists will, however, receive virtual trophies which will be on display on toonpool.com. And, of course, the further you get in this competition, the more people will see your artwork. We are pretty sure that the 2010 Caricup will be a lot of fun for everyone involved, so.. Let’s go!
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