contest

We are delighted to announce our Diwali rangoli/kolam contest exclusively for ikolam members. The contest that we’d conducted during last Diwali was a huge success. Following that tradition, we wanted to celebrate Diwali with you through a Rangoli contest. We know you would create a special rangoli to please Goddess Lakshmi. Would you like to share a picture of your rangoli with the rest of the rangoli fans from all over the globe? Who knows...you might win the title of being called the rangoli queen or the rangoli king, for a whole year! We welcome all the members of the iKolam.com community to participate in this event. Contest Days : Oct 20th, 2008 to Nov 7th, 2008. Submission Formats : Images, photos of your Diwali Rangolis. Images should be at least 640pixels by 480pixels. Theme : Diwali Where to send : rangoli@ikolam.com Contest guidelines : You could send up to 2 submissions per member. You should be the original owner/creator of your artwork. Pictures and images should be sent to us in either jpeg or gif format. It is mandatory to include your ikolam userid with your submission. The public contest voting page will open up on Nov 7th. We've now stopped accepting entries. We're in the process of preparing the voting page...it will be up shortly. Thank you.

First of all, a big thank you for all the participants. Your response to this contest in such short notice exceeded my imagination. And the winners are: Nicole Andreijevic, Jagadha Nadarajan and Pritesh Dagur. Here are the results for the top 10 vote getting rangolis. These are the tally of the votes cast between Nov 16th to 18th.

Place	Submitted by	Entry	No of votes	Score
1	Nicole Andreijevic		43	3780
2	Jagadha Nadarajan		40	3300
3	Pritesh Dagur		35	3140

Congratulations to Nicole, Jagadha and Pritesh! I will be emailing your gift certificates in a day or two!.

The following entries round out the rest of the top 10.

4	Pritesh Dagur		32	2620
5	Pritesh Dagur		27	2320
6	Nicole Andreijevic		27	2220
7	Chitra Jagannathan		27	2180
8	Jaya Mohan		28	2120
9	Nicole Andreijevic		26	2020
10	Revathi Devi		42	2000

Thanks a lot for all the participants who sent in their art work. There were submissions from 33 participants. There were 82 entries in all. We were quite amazed to receive that many entries in such short notice. The voting polls are now open. Please vote.