Dearest Big Farmers,
Christmas is the time of the year when you spend lots of valuable time with your loved ones. However, Christmas is also the time for creativity and presents, right? 
We actually wanted to let everyone build a real snowman with their friends and family, but since most countries will be far from a white Christmas, we decided for a little twist. This way, you might actually even come up with a last minute present... 
Contest: Build a Big Farm snowman!
The task:
- Build a snowman using a material of your own choice - paper, snow, cookie dough, wood, whatever you like. Your creativity will not be limited in any way!
- Grab a piece of paper or some cardboard and put your username and server on it. As an alternative, you could also add your name, handwitten(!), to the snowman itself.
- Take a picture of the snowman and make sure your name tag is visible. Then share the image with all other users in this thread!
The rules:
- The photo needs to be taken by either yourself or any of your acquiantances. Edited images taken from the internet will automatically lead to disqualification.
- Only pictures including a handwritten name tag of any kind will take part in this contest. Same as before: If you edit your name onto the picture using any image processing software, you're automatically disqualified.
- One snowman per player (several pictures of the same snowman are allowed, e.g. showing different angles) - give others a chance to compete! If you would like to update your entry, edit your initial post!
- Contest entry posts (and edits) need to be time-stamped before the entry deadline to be considered valid.
- Entry deadline is January 3rd, 2016, 11:59pm CET.
The prizes:
- Our jury will pick the most creative, funny or strange 5 snowmen. The following prizes will await the lucky winners:
- 1st place - Community Bonfire + 10 Goldflower Seeds + 5 Seaweed Humus
- 2nd and 3rd place - 10 Goldflower Seeds + 5 Seaweed Humus
- 4th and 5th place - 5 Goldflower Seeds + 5 Super Humus
- Out of all contest entries, we will also randomly choose another set of at least 5 lucky winners, who will each win 1,000 gold. The more entries will get, the more random participation prizes might be added.
- Additionally every user who enters the contest will receive a special exclusive winter contest badge, the Snowman Builder badge!
Timo & Steffi have already put some thought into what such a snowman could look like. This is what we came up with, using whatever we could find in the office:
We're pretty sure that you will be able to do better than that!
So, invite friends and family, rush out into the nature, meet in the kitchen, invade a workshop, play in the snow or go wherever your inspiration guides you! We wish you tons of fun!
Have a very merry Christmas time, we're already looking forward to seeing you and your snowmen again in 2016! Thanks for all the wonderful moments this year. Through good and bad times, it was always a pleasure to be around such a wonderful community as yourselves. Thank you!
Kind regards,
your Big Farm team
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