Main information - Rules, prizes. Last update 30th September

Official Cosplay contest ( COC)

Criators: Audrey Santos and Joana Neto
Prodiuction: Joana Neto, Hugo Salustiano, Audrey Santos
Organized by: larasbackpack
Development: Lara’s Backpack e Fórum Tomb Raider Brasil
Partner: Eidos Interactive

Start: 1st October 2010
End : 14th November 2010
Reveal the winner: 21st November 2010

Theme: Halloween

The oficial cosplayer contest is organized by Lara´s Backpack, and will be developed here in the Tomb Raider Brasil forum. A new idea to join all the comunity to allow fans to express their interest on Tomb Raider, but this time a little bit different.


But what is cosplay? Cosplay is the action of take the role of a character of a game, movie or animation which you like, making clothes most similar as possible, and we want to make more fans to show their Tomb Raider clothes.

Category

This time we will have male and female categories:

Women
Lara
Here you can show any Lara Croft related costume, the classic Lara, Underworld Lara or even an outfit used in the Croft manor. Its your choice.

Natla
Natla is probably one of the characters with the most complex forms, from the human Natla, to the goddess version, Tomb Raider Anniversary, fire Natla , Underworld... its up to you!

Doppelganger
You can chose the muscle (bacon) Doppelganger or the most recent Underworld version

Amanda
There are 3 versions you can have of Amanda: 2 in legend and the Underworld gothic one.-

Others
If you have other idea and it isn´t listed here, simply tell us which character you will be, saying their name and which game its involved, for exmaple:
Name: Sophia Lee
Game: Tomb Raider 3

Men

Kurtis Trent
The main male character and maybe the most well known. Allthe guys can be Kurtis Trent or you can add your personal touch and make the clothes as close as possible to the original ones.

Zip
Zip is also a choice for the male cosplayers. What matters are the clothes and the way the photos are presented.

Alister
Show your creativity by being Alister.

Larson
You can chose weither the classic version or Anniversary version.

Pierre
You can chose weither the classic version or Anniversary version.

James Rutland
The rival Rutland can also be cosplayed.

Winston
Any version of the winston in the games is allowed

Other
If you have other idea and it isn´t listed here, simply tell us which character you will be, saying their name and which game its involved, for exmaple:
Name: Marco Bartoli
Game: Tomb Raider 2

Rules

- The creators of the contest shall not take part in the contest, however the affiliators are free to join.
- The contestants can be of any nationality
- The contestant can only participate in one category, sending only one photos
- the dates of the contest is subject to changes at any moment
- The photos Shall not contain any kind of photomontage.
- At the moment we do not accept groups, Only single contestants.
- The outfits don´t have to be exactly like the originals, You can always use your creativity on a default Lara outfit and change it. If, however you do plan to keep the outfit as it is, the closer it is to the original the best.
- Only game characters allowed, movie, comics or other characters wont be counted.

Points to count
* How similar the clothes are
* The place where photo was taken
* The pose
* Creativity

Prize

Lara Croft and the Guardian of the Light for any platform

How to send your photo

Do not use image host websites such as photobucket

* The file has to be .jpg ou .png, we don´t accept any other format
* Only send your photos via email
* The image shall not contain any logos, and has to be as clean as possible
* Attention to the light so the photo isnt too dark or light.

E-mail your photos to larasbackpack@live.co.uk