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[Dark0ne]

After Bethesda released the Creation Kit for Skyrim we partnered with Nvidia and iBUYPOWER to offer some great prizes to the mod authors here at the Nexus. The competition ended towards the end of May and I’m happy to now finally publically announce the winners of the competition.



iBUYPOWER Skyrim PC Winner – SkyUI by Schlangster
The winner of the iBUYPOWER PC was decided by tallying up the file with the highest amount of endorsements from fellow recognised mod authors (recognised mod authors being members who have more than 1,000 unique downloads to their name on one Nexus site). It was perhaps no surprise, then, that SkyUI took this great prize after comfortably sitting at the top of the Nexus Top 100 of all time for many months now. SkyUI is more than a worthy winner of this prize.



2 x PNY GTX560Ti Skyrim Video Cards Winner – Warzones, Civil Unrest by MyGoodEye
The winner of the two Nvidia graphics cards was picked by myself based on a wide range of criteria. To simplify those criteria I was looking for mods with a large scope and good execution that brought something new, unique and exciting to Skyrim. Warzones – Civil Unrest is a perfect example of this (with a very well presented mod page, which I always like to see!).


1 x PNY GTX560Ti Skyrim Video Card Winner – Open Cities Skyrim by Arthmoor
For the final winner in the competition, taking home a PNY GTX560Ti I was looking for a mod that brought something essential to the Skyrim experience. When Bethesda changed the way they loaded cities in Oblivion I noticed a huge drop in immersion in my playing experience. They continued with this approach in Skyrim, so the Open Cities Skyrim project that ensures a fluid transition between the outside world and cities of Skyrim is a god send for me. At the time of judging the winners Open Cities Skyrim was crippled by the long running navmesh bug that has been present in many of Bethesda’s recent games. Word is that patch 1.6 for Skyrim has finally (FINALLY!) fixed this issue, so fingers crossed on that one.



Congratulations to all three of the winners of our competition, and a big thank you to both Nvidia and iBUYPOWER who approached me to run this competition because of their massive appreciation for the work the modding community does in making these games so much better.

[prong]

Congratulations to the winners, especially to the SkyUI by Schangster. Skyrim would be like a barren wasteland without this mod. I was a bit surprised by the Open Cities mod, as this was a buggy experience for me, and have to remove it. But can't wait for the stable version.

[Edg3k]

Im surprised about OpenCities to, it hasnt been updated in nearly 2 months, but probably due to navmesh issues it was suffering from. Hope they finish it after the new update. Warzone was glitchy for me and crashed my game a lot, but the idea was solid. SkyUI, what can I say, it deserved it! Well done to all.

[Celltrex]

I am amazed that the winners were not the nude texture modders. Lol.

[phenderix]

Congrats to the winners! All of you have made amazing mods and we are all very grateful for your time and efforts!

[checco85]

secondo me tra i vincitori manca un mod fantastico, cancellato dall'autore principale, che in questi giorni doveva tornare con una nuova versione!
purtroppo non hanno fatto in tempo a ricaricare la mod delle mod: '' Wars in Skyrim ''
comunque onore ai vincitori...
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in my opinion of the winners is missing a great mod, deleted by the principal author, who in these days had to return with a new version! unfortunately do not have in time to reload the mod of the mods:'' Wars in Skyrim ''

excuse my bad English

Edited by checco85, 06 June 2012 - 03:12 PM.

[jefthereaper]

lol, i did not even know there were competitions like this running, well congratulations to the winners!

[EMT2010]

SKYUI - Schlangster

A must have for Skyrim!

Congratulations! You all deserve it. I haven't tried the others (2) but heard about them.

[Nadimos]

This is making me happy. Congrats to all the winners. Well deserved all. Schlangster also in light what you did for fallout 3/new vegas, Arthmoor for oblivion and MGE, well if you dont recognize this name, then i dunno what. Go check the
mods out and make sure to endorse, if you like!

Edited by Nadimos, 06 June 2012 - 03:24 PM.

[sunsi]

Congratulations to all the winners--your hard work and imaginations making our game better gave you a well-deserved pay out!