Our first City States fan art competition has concluded.

We are excited to announce the winners and the prizes they will receive.

We held this contest to give everyone who entered a guaranteed Forrester NFT collectable which have turned out to be much desired along side the Barracks NFT which was awarded to those who boosted our Discord server. However, it had been announced that those who showed exceptional talent and won the community vote would be rewarded with something extra desirable, our much coveted VIP passes. These rewards had been previously disclosed with first place receiving a Gold VIP Pass ($1000 value), Second place, a Silver VIP Pass ($500 value) and 5 Bronze VIP Passes ($130 value each) to runners up.

However, we were so impressed with the work you guys produced that we felt it only fair to award everyone who made it to the final vote a VIP pass!

For clarity the prize distribution will be as follows:

Entries voted 1st-3rd place: Will each receive a Gold VIP Pass.
Entries voted 4th and 5th place: Will each receive a Silver VIP Pass.
Entries who took places 6th-10th: Will each receive a Bronze VIP Pass.

You have all really earned these, without any further ado, here are the final results:

First Place
Created by CyberPunk
Reward: Gold VIP Pass

Our first place goes to CyberPunk for his amazing pixel art Magnus from City States guarding a chest that clearly contains his Gold VIP Pass. Well done, the animation really looks great!

Second Place
Created by ArtbyGaile
Reward: Gold VIP Pass

This beautiful rendition of Robyn Hodl received was very popular with voters and for good reason. The artwork is nothing short of stunning, well done ArtbyGaile, truly outstanding!

Third Place
Created by beeBMO
Reward: Gold VIP Pass

Pixel art is one of those things that may seem simple in theory but actually requires a lot of planning and work to pull off when you’re aiming for a quality piece like this by beeBMO. The facial expressions are fantastic!

Fourth Place
Created by cherryu
Reward: Silver VIP Pass

Another popular take on Robin Hodl by cherryu, this time, an anime inspired piece that’s both adorable and deadly!

Fifth Place
Created by MagicMark
Reward: Silver VIP Pass

Somewhat ominous and a little bit creepy! This piece by MagicMark really gave us evil jester vibes and was a really original take on the fan art brief.

Runner-up
Created by Setra
Reward: Bronze VIP Pass

Another original entry idea from Setra documenting some of the earliest team members and backers of CSM, We think this one in particular will be really interesting to look back on a year from now.

Runner-up
Created by XerifBill
Reward: Bronze VIP Pass

This wonderful Satoshi wood carving really blew us away and we can only imagine the amount of time XerifBill has spent honing his skills in order to produce something as incredible as this.

Runner-up
Created by Probably_drunk
Reward: Bronze VIP Pass

Another amazing work of art in the card art style. We can see that a great amount of detail went into this such as the foil border and the shading on the forgers body really made it come alive. Great job Possibly_drunk!

Runner-up
Created by Jordo
Reward: Bronze VIP Pass

Jordo really showed us his skill using the power of image manipulation and special effects here in this fiery interpretation of Satoshi.

Runner-up
Created by Scoda95
Reward: Bronze VIP Pass

And finally, but certainly not least we loved Scoda’s interpretation of our CityStates’ heroes who turned out to be very photogenic in this awesome group pose.

We really can’t stress how much we want to thank everyone who entered this contest, every entry generated a chuckle or a gasp and we are thrilled to see that so many people got involved and had so much fun with this. We would also like to thank all the people who took the time to view and vote on the entries and if you didn’t get a chance to enter this time, please keep an eye on Discord for future contests!