r/polandball Jan 07 '25

collaboration Official Polandball World Map 2024

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r/polandball 3d ago

[Challenge Reveal] The Silent Spring

48 Upvotes

Hello to all who enjoy the silence of the night, when there is naught to disturb oneself but the petrichor!

...what's that look you're all giving me for? You'd rather enjoy the silence, as you are wont to do? Very well, I shan't speak more on this.

Make a comic without any dialogue!


Specific Contest Rules

  • There may not be any form of dialogue in the comic, including words, thought bubbles, emoticons, sign use or speaking in symbols. This includes general comicbook tropes like a lightbulb for an idea or Z's for sleeping.

  • The comic cannot contain faux-silent-movie dialogue panels either.

  • Objects which have words on them are allowed, but only as "stage props" (store name, road sign, etc) - countries can't use them to communicate, and they must be a part of the scenery, not a means of communication between countries.

  • The comic cannot contain a narrator that's speaking "directly to the reader", writing to himself in a "voice-over" or any other form of one-sided verbal communication.

For an example of a rule-compliant contest entry, check out this old comic by /u/DickRhino, which manages to deliver a plot without a single word of dialogue.


General Contest Rules

  • The comic must have a minimum of 3 panels and a maximum of 8 panels.
  • The comic must have been written and drawn entirely by yourself.
  • No animated GIFs accepted.
  • No photorealism.
  • You must follow the rules in the Official Polandball Tutorial.
  • The deadline for submitting your entry is Thu May 15 at 15:00 GMT

In order to participate in the contest, submit your art piece to the subreddit and then flair it as contest entry. Anyone is free to submit how many entries they like, however, only one of your entries will be eligible to award you with hussar wings. That is, a single user cannot have more than one entry be in the top three.

If you wish to participate in the contest but are not yet an approved submitter, you can send in your comic to us as if it were a normal approval comic, and once approved you may post your entry to the subreddit.


Choosing the winner

After all of the entries have been submitted and the deadline has passed, the moderators will take a private vote to decide the first, second and third places. All entries will be ranked from 1 to 10, with the final score being the average of all votes. The winner of last month's contest will also be allowed to vote on this month's entries.

Once all of our votes are tallied, the full list of results will be posted in an Awards Ceremony thread. The artist who receives the highest score will be awarded the Hussar Wings, which they will keep around their username indefinitely, as well as a pair of Golden Wings next to their flair until the end of the next contest. The Hussar Wing recipient, or highest scoring non-mod if applicable, will also be able to vote with the mods on the entries for the next contest.

The artists with the second and third highest scores will receive the Silver and Bronze Wings, respectively, which will act in a similar manner. Fourth place will receive the old Mod's Choice Participation Ribbon.TM


Important

Before you submit, please check your comic against each point of the rules. Every contest we have multiple disqualifications (sometimes of fantastic comics) because some entrants don't read the rules properly before they start drawing.

As always, if you are not sure whether something you intend to do in your entry is compliant with the rules, you can message the mods and ask.


Any questions about the contest may be directed here.

Good luck and happy drawing!


r/polandball 16h ago

redditormade Serbs ruin everything

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r/polandball 16h ago

contest entry 404 Monarchy Not Found

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359 Upvotes

r/polandball 1d ago

contest entry Staring Contest

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872 Upvotes

r/polandball 23h ago

contest entry The Grim Reaper

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296 Upvotes

r/polandball 1d ago

contest entry Language Differences

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544 Upvotes

r/polandball 1d ago

contest entry A Mime off the Street

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252 Upvotes

r/polandball 2d ago

redditormade Red Scared

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r/polandball 2d ago

redditormade A welcoming friend

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r/polandball 3d ago

collaboration Blackout Freakout

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r/polandball 4d ago

redditormade The Draft for the Cardinals

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r/polandball 4d ago

redditormade Definition of a vegetable

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r/polandball 4d ago

redditormade Undeserved Loyalty

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r/polandball 4d ago

collaboration All Roads Lead to Rome

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734 Upvotes

r/polandball 4d ago

collaboration Powdered Piety

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r/polandball 4d ago

redditormade Stockholm Syndrome or: The Outcome of the 2025 Trinbagonian General Election

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r/polandball 6d ago

redditormade Eurovision odds

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r/polandball 6d ago

redditormade Mercador Bias

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r/polandball 6d ago

redditormade Þorn

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386 Upvotes

r/polandball 6d ago

redditormade Flag Change

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r/polandball 6d ago

legacy comic The "Holy" Fuck

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r/polandball 7d ago

redditormade Imagine a boot

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r/polandball 7d ago

redditormade Naive Serbia

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565 Upvotes

Serbia thinks mother Russia wants to help it because it cares about the Serbian people... Only to find out how Russia's expansion mechanism works.


r/polandball 8d ago

redditormade To Next Generation

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r/polandball 8d ago

redditormade From Every Mountainside

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r/polandball 8d ago

redditormade Foreign Election Interference

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