We love rockets. And we love cake. But most of all we love winners.
Posted on: August 24th, 2009 by Scott Eats BulletsFirst off, a big thank you to everybody who sent in rocket cakes (or cakes made of rockets, or rockets made of cakes, or cakes getting shot by rockets, and so on and so forth). The reaction this contest got brought a smile to my face and a spring to my step. Seriously. I bounced.
Secondly, an apology if you submitted a picture and I didn’t receive it. I had some people express interest but then I never received an entry from them. It might have gotten lost, or it might have been sent to steam when I was away. I checked my spam folder and didn’t see any rocket cakes in there, so I’m hoping it didn’t happen. However, if this happened, then I have no recourse but to make the saddest of sad faces and hope you don’t hate me.
If you submitted a picture and don’t see it here, that is the reason. I’m not ignoring you. I just didn’t receive it.
Third, this was a hard contest to judge. But judge I did!
I’m posting these in the order they appear in my pics folder. I’m posting all the entries, then announcing the winner at the bottom of the post. That way you have to read the whole thing. Literacy is finally getting used for evil. Or for good. I’m not sure anymore. What do you mean I’m rambling?
First off, Andy sent in a picture where the rocket is a cake, shaped like a rocket. So it’s a rocket cake rocket. Doubling up on the theme. nice.
Bonus: Metal Slug.
Next, Ggglygy. I don’t need to say anything else about it.
Bonus: the sun is wearing awesome sunglasses. Plus Space Heavy. Plus French for a touch of class. Je suis Scott, j’aime la gateau. Bein oui.
Third in this cavalcade of cake is NFreak, with a cake strapped to a rocket. Also the cake appears to be made of lies. I hate lie cake, but I like rocket cake. Is a rocket lie cake any good? We’ll see.
Bonus: First entry, submitted so fast I have friction burns. And rocket lie cake is pretty tasty.
Next up is octo, who proves once again that cake and rockets are best enjoyed with boobies.
Bonus: I love the tagline. I don’t know if you can read it in the squished blog frame. Maybe I should go back and edit these so they’re all links to the full sized images.
Fifth entry on the old blog rollout is Orsa, with some midair Soviet-powered control point destruction. Fro, bitches!
Bonus: Apparently that is Ggglygy on the control point. I came to get some but all there was left was cake. Babies.
Next up… Look at that, it’s Confehdehrehtheh, showing us all what happens when you replace typical explosives with delicious cake.
Bonus: Rocket-powered cake enema. That poor spy.
Nearing the end, SDHitmen proves once and for all that the cake is a spy. So you better blow it up.
Bonus: This spy cake got the Dead Ringer before I did. I also want a cake icon in my kill bars. (Hey octo, can we get a plugin for that? Please?)
Our final entry (that I know of, see point 2 above) comes from Shipster (or StrongBad36x for you old skool Newbs). This one adds a glorious new dimension to the proceedings, with animation!
Bonus: Those are awesome testimonials. Everybody should buy a rocket cake from this guy.
Those were the entries. You can see how I had trouble coming up with a winner, since I honestly liked them all. However, I can’t declare myself the winner (or can I…), so one of you has to be it.
In the end, the thing that just kept coming back to me, making me smile at inappropriate times and making me grimace at other inappropriate times, was the rocket-powered cake enema.
Congrats to Confehdehrehtheh on a cake well rocketed!
And now for a surprise!
I can’t just give one prize. There was too much awesomeness. So I’m opening up another branch of the contest to the community. The picture best-loved by you crazy Newbs also wins a grand prize! I’ll be creating a forum poll that will run for one week, so get your votes in asap!