We’re having a building contest. Yay!

The theme for this contest is the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. We want you to build a ROBLOX place to host one of the games. Then once everything is in place there will be plenty of locations for people to play Olympics games of your own.

How To Enter

1. Make a new place with the title “Olympics2008 ________________” with whatever you want to call the place on the blank line.
Examples:
Olympics2008 Laoshan Velodrome
Olympics2008 I’m gonna win place
Olympics2008 Archery shooting range

2. Your place must be on your main account and still there at the time the contest ends Monday August 11 at 5pm Pacific. The prizes will only go to your main account.

3. The place must be Olympic Games related. It must be about one of the Olympic sports, or be one of the locations for the Beijing 2008 games.

On the Official Beijing Olympics site there is a list of the sports, and a list of the locations the games are being held. Go check out the games and locations to get ideas for what you’d like your entry to be. Also it might be fun to include the Official Mascots of the games into your place somehow.

Video Contest Mini-Event

In addition to the building contest, we’re having a small video contest. To enter post your video to YouTube with the following tags: ROBLOX Olympics Beijing. Remember to put your username and a link to ROBLOX website. The video can be any length but must be about ROBLOX, the Beijing 2008 Olympics, and comply with the ROBLOX Community Guidelines. The 5 players with the most views on August 11, 2008 will win 300 Tix each and a Black Ring Hat.

How To Win

Prize Winners will be chosen in the following way. At midnight (Pacific Time) at the end of the contest we will run a database search to find the Visits count and Favorites count for entries. Our searches will know how many visits and favorites came after the start of the contest. 

We realize that one person may win more than one category. That is allowed. To prevent popularity loading we will not announce the winners of any prize until Monday August 11 at 5pm Pacific time.

*The Mystery requirement will not be revealed until the end of the contest. Don’t ask!

We may possibly give out more prizes than this, for different requirements. We reserve the right to add ways to win to the contest.

Example: Stadium by olyimpicman. 

Rules

Only one entry per player. A player with Builder’s Club may make up to 10 entries but will not receive multiples of the same hat.

Advertising your place on the forums is only allowed in the Creations Gallery. Posts in other forums will be locked or deleted.

Renaming a place that already has a lot of visits is OK. Our database search will factor out all your previous visits and favorites.

Your place must still be on your account at the time the contest ends. All the prizes will be delivered within 1 week of the contest ending.

We can’t wait to see what sorts of sports places, arenas, and fun locations you guys can make for this contest. The contest starts now so get to building!

                                                                                                    -Will

~Will

When I first heard about Trading Worlds, I was a bit skeptical. From what I had heard, it was a state of the art place, including its own economy. This made me think of any old RPG place that was lucky enough to wind up on the front page. I wondered if it was even worth clicking on the visit online button, which for me means a few minutes wait while the game loads. When I began to play however, I was proved to be wrong.

When you first begin the game, you are on a cloud, with the ability to choose a job that will shape your actions in the game. With choices ranging from pirate to bartender, including a post at exotic Hawaii selling coconuts. Unlike any game before it, Trading Worlds allowed players to set their own prices instead of a set price. This gives the owner of the goods the ability to haggle with customers, or set a preferred customer discount. The only downside to this is it makes it easy for criminals to take the item before paying for it. Many times I have seen somebody run off with a coke in his hand without paying his due to the bartender.

Another interesting prospect of trading worlds is its player interactions. You often see a player acting more respectful towards the town rent keeper than to a grizzly old pirate. You will notice how players will cheer on the gladiator, but heckle the challenger from lands afar (that is, unless your wager was on the challenger!). A shipper carrying pumpkins into town is often greeted with warm smiles and a free root beer, but a shipper carrying spinach is quickly thrown out. By playing this game you learn a lot about your fellow Robloxian’s personality then you would in Shark Attack by Huntermc.

However, this game can only be seen at its best with many different people with many different occupations. I enjoy it most when you focus on shipping and trading more than killing and looting. Fighting has become a large part of this game, and it shouldn’t be. The whole point of this game is to trade goods with people who haven’t any for money. With that said, the only downside to this place is the thing that makes this place so much fun. Theft, killing, and looting that is so easily done because of the innovation completely destroys the game and changes it from a civilized and state of the art map to a horribly boring quest to stay alive.

I have to admit that this is one of my all time favorite maps in my almost whole year of Roblox. Its unique game play and innovative style really appeals to more hardcore users who have played for a while. I have to rate this place an 8/10 because although there are many exploitable loopholes in this map, it is still so much fun at the end of a long day. Rivaling classics like Ultimate Paintball CTF by miked and Sword Fight on the Heights III, PlaceRebuilder has hit the jackpot with his newest addition to the Roblox hall of fame.

Written by Ploober33 -Pictures by Evildemon1123 -Additional support by Chickenbob123

-Will

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ROBLOX Virtual Playworld

ROBLOX is Free!

• Build your personal Place

  Create buildings, vehicles, scenery, and traps with thousands of virtual bricks.

• Meet new friends online

  Visit your friend’s place, chat in 3D, and build together.

• Battle in the Brick Arenas

  Play with the slingshot, rocket, or other brick battle tools. Be careful not to get “bloxxed”

You will be seeing tons of ROBLOX-related entries here also.

~Will