Hear ye, Hear ye, Today we announce the Cheerful Ghost

Hear ye, Hear ye,

Today we announce the Cheerful Ghost Borderlands 2 Haiku Contest

To celebrate the upcoming Borderlands 2 launch on September 18th, Cheerful Ghost is having a Borderlands 2 Haiku Contest. You have two chances to win a copy of Borderlands 2 on Steam and the details are as follows:

We are giving away one copy of Borderlands 2 on the Steam Gifts site here: http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/RaQNV/borderlands-2 One lucky winner will be selected at random to win on Steam Gifts site.

We are also going to be giving away a second copy of Borderlands 2 to the Cheerful Ghost user that creates the coolest Borderlands 2 Haiku. The winner will be determined by which Haiku gets the most “+1” comments from other users. To post your Haiku for consideration, add Borderlands 2 to your game list and post your Haiku with Borderlands 2 as the game category for your post.

Feel free to share your Haiku post over Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to allow your friends and family the ability to vote for you. Due to practical considerations, only “+1” comment votes count that are posted directly to the Cheerful Ghost site.

Each person may only vote once. If you vote multiple times, we will disregard each vote over the first one we count.

Each Cheerful Ghost user can only submit one Haiku to be considered.

Please format your Haiku appropriately, for more information on that see the always amazing Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

Deadline for Haiku Contest entries and votes are September 15th @ 4PM EST!

If you have any questions on the contest, feel free to ask in the comments below.

Rudyard_Stone wrote on 08/29/2012 at 07:24am

This is a Haiku
It's about Borderlands 2
I hope I win it

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 08/29/2012 at 03:09pm

Thanks for the submission Rudyard.

If you want this one to be considered for the contest, it will need to exist in its own Borderlands 2 post so people can vote on it.

It would be too hard to parse out whom votes for what in a comment thread with different Haikus.

Thanks again!

Sebastian wrote on 08/29/2012 at 08:03pm

Borderlands was sweet
Now I want to play the next
How will I do it?

Well I heard of sites
Mainly Cheerful Ghost dot com
I might win this award

First is a contest
This haiku is my entry
I really hope I win

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 08/30/2012 at 12:01am

Hi Sebastian.

Thanks for the comment. If you want any of those to be in the contest, they should be a proper Borderlands 2 post so people can comment on them.

Thanks!

Axel_Mller wrote on 09/05/2012 at 10:49am

Will you be checking the Haikus authenticity at the end of the contest to see if they follow the 5-7-5 pattern?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/05/2012 at 11:41am

Yes, we will.

Axel_Mller wrote on 09/05/2012 at 12:48pm

Oh. I'm glad to hear that. I made sure to proof-read mine several times.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/05/2012 at 02:21pm

Actually I'll confer with @panickedthumb about that. Let you know.

Axel_Mller wrote on 09/05/2012 at 03:11pm

Thanks!

TonyJapMayo wrote on 09/14/2012 at 10:59pm

Hi, So do we get the winner based on the votes?

If yes, cant people just make fake accounts to +1 etc?

Thank =)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/14/2012 at 11:00pm

They could but it doesn't seem like that's the majority of people voting.

The next contest will be different :D

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/14/2012 at 11:01pm

And yes, winner is based on votes.

Axel_Mller wrote on 09/14/2012 at 11:05pm

I've been trying hard on this. I hope it ends up well.

TonyJapMayo wrote on 09/14/2012 at 11:05pm

Oooh, temptation >< haha.. nah, I'll play fair.. I love Japan n Haiku is Japanese ><

Btw, I hope your vote = 20 votes =P haha.. Thanks for the chance jdodson =)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/14/2012 at 11:09pm

No problem.

Bryden_Gee wrote on 09/15/2012 at 06:22pm

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I Have A Gun Get In The Car

Axel_Mller wrote on 09/15/2012 at 06:23pm

Do you wanna play,
The rape game? No!
That's the spirit...

Tsunami wrote on 09/15/2012 at 08:01pm

Rise and shine brave men!
The whole world is up and down!
Free your mind!Go Fight!

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