Welcome to the Ponybox Three Day Jumping Battle!!!
Hosted by Elmo and Obie!
Since there appeared to be some confusion with our original post, we are breaking the contest thread up. This one will be the entrant one with the betting part to follow at a later date. 8) This is where you ask the questions. If anything is unclear, ask. With no further adu, lets tell you about the event.
Elmo and I decided we could have a bit of fun with our horse breeds here on ponybox! We are going to have a jumping competition between the different breeds of horses. Only one breed of horse will be allowed to be entered. This means that once a player has entered with a Thoroughbred horse, no one else may enter with a Thoroughbred. Entrants may however buy a horse of another breed from a player breeding them. DNA bred horses will be allowed as well. There is one last little catch...NO ITEMS ARE GOING TO BE ALLOWED on the horses. But again I stress, only one horse from each breed will be allowed to enter. No exceptions to the natural horses as well as more than one breed. If you breed multiple breeds, we may allow you to enter more than once, but we will have to talk that over if it happens.
How are we competing? Well, after the contestants do their jumping part, we will have a story type write up about the competition. There will be three separate competitions. One for Show Jumping, one for Steeplechase, and one for Cross Country. Three competitions, three stories. Each story will eliminate competitors and yes, there will be injuries to both horse and rider as would happen in real life. Who will come out on top? That will be the fun part of the story.
Now, we are not only asking those that enter pick their breed and keep then item-less, we are requesting that they not start their horses at all until the age of 9. That means if you jump your horse before the contest starts, you will be forced to pick another untested horse or be disqualified. You may jump them any way you see fit. On your own or through the forums. We just ask you refrain from calling them contest horses. Once horses are 9 years old, we will ask the entrants to start jumping their horses. They will have from the day they turn 9 until the day they age again to 10. Then you are to stop jumping and the fun starts. Elmo and I will look at the horses and determine the final winner and work out how the competitions will work and then get you the first story a day or two later. Then a few days later the second competition will be released and finally the last and final competition will be released.
We want you to have time to think over this and plan your breeding. It does not matter if your horse is a foundation or has all the DNA bred into it. We are allowing only naturally bred DNA on your horses, just no added items such as DNA, saddles, hearts or the like. All horses entered will be and must remain all natural until contest is over.
Only Elmo or I will know how the winners will be chosen and we will be allowing players to bet on this competition. Oh, I almost forgot about prizes and entry fee. If you wish to enter a horse in this contest, you have to donate one DNA item of your choice (anything in the DNA item pack counts). We both will also be putting some PBS into the mix for the winner of the contest. Each round will have the DNA winners and the final winner will also get PBs plus a DNA item.
Betting on the separate competitions will be allowed and will be talked about in a later thread closer to the contest running. As for a release date, we do not hae one yet, but will soon! So post your interest or questions here and we will do our best to answer them.
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