As the Administrator mentioned last week, we've sorted through the 11,000 submissions to the Propaganda contest and picked some of our favorites from the frankly jaw-dropping number of first-rate entries. Scroll and enjoy! (Oh, and to the runner-up winners below: Keep an eye peeled for an email from us so you can claim a little something for all your hard work.)
Most Unique Likenesses of Soldier and/or Demo
- Draw
- Brown
Best Use of a Term We Don't Know the Meaning of,
But That is Probably Filthy
- Matthias Rigling
Best Incorporation of Another Class
- Reese
Most Likely to Get Us a Cease and Desist Order From Bethesda
- LARATRON
Best Use of the Time-worn Maxim "Sex Sells"
- Agent Melon
Best Attempts to Make Soldier Look Adorable
- Delicious Spyger
- Anneka
Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Heroic
- metalpiss
Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Jet-Propelled
- B0nd07's Bison Stacker
Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Manly
- Commissar K
Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Normal
- Brooke
Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Melting
- Nick Pearce
Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Cowardly
- huzzah!
Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Like a Drunk
- The Fox Fanfare
Best Attempts to Make Demoman Look Evil
- Chanicle Bullie
- Daimao
Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Like a Kamikaze Pilot
- ?Faction
Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Like Billy Dee Williams
- The Wenny C's Pride
Best Alternate Entry by a Contest Winner
- J.Axer
Best Ironic Resuscitation of a Long-dead Genre
- Prototype
Best Use of Euclidean Space
- Hollohill
Best Attempt at Iconography
- Viva La Demo!
Best Poster to Take Into a Tattoo Parlor While Pointing at Your Chest
- BAO
Most Convincing Argument for Evolution
- Astoundingly Alluring and Astonishingly Awesome
Most Convincing Argument for Education
- Plank
Most Convincing Argument for Learning How to Contract by One Pixel in Photoshop
- Cliff Hanger
Best Poster Evidently Scanned From a 14-Year-Old's Binder
- Ryan "Danger" Ohlemeier
Best Attempt to Raise Awareness About the Dangers of Alcohol
- Christian Grund
Best Attempt to Raise Awareness About Sticky Bomb Tragedies
- Esk
Best Use of Eye Patches
- Christian Kaiser
Best Reference to Conan the Barbarian
- UnidColor
Honorable Mentions in Catchphrase Creation
- rEJ
- Wofiel
- Shenanigans
- nik.
Honorable Mentions in Catchphrase Borrowing
- kris aubuchon (awesomerobot)
Best Use of Garry's Mod
- Eric Salama
Best Reference to William Wallace
- Alan Longstaff
Best Reference to Uncle Sam
- Dan Tyler
Best Reference to Loch Ness Monster
- Wade "Nineaxis" Fabry
Best Literal Depiction of Larvae
- Christopher Martinez
Most Inevitable Incorporation of Urine
- Christian
Best Use of Sticky Bombs
- Michael A. Szymanski
Best Use of Gratuitous Violence
- Kyattsuai
Poster that Made Us the Most Hungry
- Swankery
Poster that Made Us the Least Hungry
- Yoplatz
Best Weapon-Centric Posters
- Saturnian
- Ben Holland
Best Attempts at Authentic WWII-Era Propaganda
- CaptainCube
- AGENT MELON
- KILOMONSTER
- THE KAMINATOR
Best Attempt to Write Soldier Dialogue
- Eastman's Cranium
Most Incorrect Statement
- BLOB
Best Use of the Most Primitive Computer Art Program Available
- Zachary Lindemann
Most Disturbing Use of the Most Primitive Computer Art Program Available
- Johan
Most Unique Likenesses of Soldier and/or Demo
- Draw
- Brown
Best Use of a Term We Don't Know the Meaning of,
But That is Probably Filthy
- Matthias Rigling
Best Incorporation of Another Class
- Reese
Most Likely to Get Us a Cease and Desist Order From Bethesda
- LARATRON
Best Use of the Time-worn Maxim "Sex Sells"
- Agent Melon
Best Attempts to Make Soldier Look Adorable
- Delicious Spyger
- Anneka
Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Heroic
- metalpiss
Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Jet-Propelled
- B0nd07's Bison Stacker
Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Manly
- Commissar K
Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Normal
- Brooke
Best Attempt to Make Soldier Look Melting
- Nick Pearce
Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Cowardly
- huzzah!
Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Like a Drunk
- The Fox Fanfare
Best Attempts to Make Demoman Look Evil
- Chanicle Bullie
- Daimao
Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Like a Kamikaze Pilot
- ?Faction
Best Attempt to Make Demoman Look Like Billy Dee Williams
- The Wenny C's Pride
Best Alternate Entry by a Contest Winner
- J.Axer
Best Ironic Resuscitation of a Long-dead Genre
- Prototype
Best Use of Euclidean Space
- Hollohill
Best Attempt at Iconography
- Viva La Demo!
Best Poster to Take Into a Tattoo Parlor While Pointing at Your Chest
- BAO
Most Convincing Argument for Evolution
- Astoundingly Alluring and Astonishingly Awesome
Most Convincing Argument for Education
- Plank
Most Convincing Argument for Learning How to Contract by One Pixel in Photoshop
- Cliff Hanger
Best Poster Evidently Scanned From a 14-Year-Old's Binder
- Ryan "Danger" Ohlemeier
Best Attempt to Raise Awareness About the Dangers of Alcohol
- Christian Grund
Best Attempt to Raise Awareness About Sticky Bomb Tragedies
- Esk
Best Use of Eye Patches
- Christian Kaiser
Best Reference to Conan the Barbarian
- UnidColor
Honorable Mentions in Catchphrase Creation
- rEJ
- Wofiel
- Shenanigans
- nik.
Honorable Mentions in Catchphrase Borrowing
- kris aubuchon (awesomerobot)
Best Use of Garry's Mod
- Eric Salama
Best Reference to William Wallace
- Alan Longstaff
Best Reference to Uncle Sam
- Dan Tyler
Best Reference to Loch Ness Monster
- Wade "Nineaxis" Fabry
Best Literal Depiction of Larvae
- Christopher Martinez
Most Inevitable Incorporation of Urine
- Christian
Best Use of Sticky Bombs
- Michael A. Szymanski
Best Use of Gratuitous Violence
- Kyattsuai
Poster that Made Us the Most Hungry
- Swankery
Poster that Made Us the Least Hungry
- Yoplatz
Best Weapon-Centric Posters
- Saturnian
- Ben Holland
Best Attempts at Authentic WWII-Era Propaganda
- CaptainCube
- AGENT MELON
- KILOMONSTER
- THE KAMINATOR
Best Attempt to Write Soldier Dialogue
- Eastman's Cranium
Most Incorrect Statement
- BLOB
Best Use of the Most Primitive Computer Art Program Available
- Zachary Lindemann
Most Disturbing Use of the Most Primitive Computer Art Program Available
- Johan