Recent News

01/24/03

• Drawing Contest Winners Announced - Congratulations to the drawing winners: bobbushbobbush, ktschmid, and evanrulesyea! They each win 7,900 Sand Dollars (equivalent to 7,900 NP!).
  
  
• Most Improved Award Winner Announced - Wow, it was an amazing fight, but in the end knoxville_ess won by improving 185 bottles! Minskyyy came in a close second by improving 165 bottles. knoxville_ess wins 50 times the number of bottles he improved, so he wins 9,250 Sand Dollars (equivalent to 9,250 NP!). However, I was so impressed by everyone else, I will give each person who improved over 70 bottles a small prize -- 10 times the number of bottles you improved. Great job everyone!
  
  

01/24/03

• New Contest: Price Wars! - Be sure to sign up for our team game: Price Wars!! It may be a little confusing at first, but it's not too bad. Read all about it!
  
  

01/22/03

• New Contest: Wednesday Mine Games - A little logic puzzle that's based on minesweeper/neggsweeper.
  
  
• New Contest: Thursday Meet the Members - This is your chance to meet other guild members! Talk to other guild members to find out the answer to a certain question, and win neopoints!
  
  
• Leaderboard Updated - This will be the last time I post this on the news, since I don't post when ranks are updated either. ;)
  
  

01/21/03

• New Contest: Messageboard Madness! - Anytime during the week, when no one seems to be looking at the messageboard, green_sand_guild will post a message with the subject "Messageboard Madness!". The first person to respond to that message will win! The prize for winning will be announced in the message posted.
  
  
• New Contest: Tuesday Neopets Trivia - How well do you know neopets and the history of neopets? Try our neopets trivia. Hint: a lot of the answers are from the neopian times editorial and old neopets new features section.
  
  
• Mystery Pic Updated - What are you waiting for? Try it out!
  
  
• Leaderboard Updated - :)
  
  

01/20/03

• New Poll - Should we have a guild currency, "Sand Dollars"? Vote on the guild poll!
  
  
• New Scavenger Hunt - Scavenger Hunt Sundays! Try the new scavenger hunt!
  
  

01/16/03

• Weekly Drawing Winners Announced - Congrats to erintippin, evanrulesyea, and toadnoodle whose names were drawn in the weekly contest. Mizzooc won the most improved award, improving by 92 bottles, and it sounds like he intends to win next week too! Can you beat him?
  
  
• Leaderboard Update - Whee!
  
  

01/09/03

• Drawing Prizes Increased! - Starting this Friday, the prizes you will get for winning the drawing or the most improved award will be 100 times the number of members in the guild at the time of the drawing. At the time of this posting, we have 39 members, which means the prize will be 3,900 NP! Encourage your friends to join our guild, and the prize will be even more!! Good luck everyone!
  
  
• New Mystery Pic Posted - Go try the new Try the Mystery Pic.
  
  
• Leaderboard Updated - The leaderboard was updated again, so you can check on how you are doing!
  
  

01/09/03

• Guild Layout Changed - It should load a little faster now, and I removed the java leaderboard. The java leaderboard will still work in your shop and will still be updated. Neomail any comments to green_sand_guild.
  
  
• Mystery Pic Contest Announced - Name the neopets image that has been distorted in some way. Try the Mystery Pic.
  
  
• Scavenger Hunt Contest Announced - Can you find a webpage based on a clue or text from the page? Try the Scavenger Hunt.
  
  

01/04/03

• News Finally Updated - Hi all, I know I hadn't updated the news in a while because I was visiting family, getting my account frozen, and all that fun stuff. I should be doing more regular updates to the news now that I'm home.
  
  
• Contest 8 Winners Announced - Congrats to winners: ashamolie (222 bottles), venjure (256 bottles), roadgecko352 (623 bottles), erintippin (most improved by 15 bottles). Be sure to keep up the hard work!
  
  
• Leaderboard Cleaned - Many of the old members who aren't collecting sand anymore have been removed from the leaderboard -- it should be a little easier to look at now.
  
  
• The Green Sand Movement -- Moving! - As many of you heard, my ilaci account was frozen and we have no idea why. Therefore, we are moving the guild to a safe account: green_sand_owner. This account will not do a single thing other than own the guild, which will mean the guild stays safe and we never have to move again! (Note: green_sand_guild will be doing all the guild functions, green_sand_owner will not even send neomails, so only send neomails to green_sand_guild. Thanks!)
  
  

12/07/02

• Poll Updated - There's a new poll up. Vote on what kinds of contests you would like to see!
  
  
• Weekly Drawing 4 Winners Announced - Congratulations to ktschmid (642 bottles + 375 donation entries), roadgecko352 (519 bottles + 97 donation entries), and icanflycoolguy (64 bottles) for winning this week's drawing!
  
  
• Most Improved Award - atheistx won the Most Improved Award for collecting 321 bottles since last contest. Great job!
  
  

12/04/02

• New Sand Sculptor - darkerside4darkerone has taken the job of Sand Sculptor! We should see some nice pictures and advertisements for the guild!
  
  
• Green Sand Dollars - Want to use the sand in your shop like money? We are working on a system to give you one neopoint for every bottle of green sand you have in your shop -- every week! Neomail ideas to ilaci!
  
  
• Rank and Leaderboard Updates - Over 5,000 bottles of green sand collected in guild shops! Woo!
  
  

12/03/02

• Half Price Day - Don't forget! The 3rd of every month is half price day! This means you can buy anything at half price in neopian run stores! Also, although not related to half price day, fire faeries are especially cheap in the shop wizard today. Stock up, but watch out for scammers--always check the price before you click to buy!
  
  
• Rankings Updated - Remember, the more bottles of sand in your shop, the higher your rank!
  
  
• Leaderboard Updated - How high are you?
  
  

11/30/02

• New Poll - Vote on the new Layout!
  
  
• Most Improved Award Announced - Now the person whose maximum number of bottles increases the most will win an award worth about 3,000 NP!
  
  
• Layout Improvements - Do you like the new main page? Let ilaci know!
  
  
• Rankings Updated - What ranking do you have now? Remember, rankings is based on how many bottles of sand you have in your shop.
  
  
• Leaderboard Updated - How is everyone doing compared to you?
  
  

11/29/02

• Contest Winners Announced - This weeks contest winners announced! Congratulate evanrulesyea (443 bottles), roadgecko352 (508 bottles), and venjure (250 bottles)
  
  

11/26/02

• Vacation - (Sorry! Because I was on vacation, not much got done.)
  
  

11/23/02

• Raffle Contest - Chombymaster2001 (our guild Greenback) is having a raffle!
  Buy tickets for 500 NP in the green_sand_guild store (buy the Pickled Olives). Prizes depend on number of tickets bought. Free tickets will be given out to the winners of other contests.
  
  
  Buy your tickets now! Contest ends December 6!
  
  
• Better Than You! Contest - Chombymaster2001 scored 491 at Jelly Processing Plant. Can you beat his score?
  
  
  1st place gets 3 raffle tickets
  2nd place through 5th place gets 1 raffle ticket each!
  
  
• New Poll - We now have a new poll! Look at some of the general categories we are working on and tell us which one you want done more quickly!
  
  
• Weekly Contest Winners Announced - Congratulations to roadgecko352, erintippin, and venjure! They won the drawing for this week. Remember, the more bottles you have, the better your chances are at winning because it means more entries in the contest. If you run out of room in your shop, you can donate sand to the user green_sand_guild. Each bottle you donate counts as a one-use entry in the next contest.

11/21/02

• Winner Quotes - Each week we will post quotes from the winners of the weekly contest. Collect more sand to increase your chances of winning! We have our first quote from the winner circle!
  
  
• Ranking Update - We went through and updated everyone's ranking, which is based on how many bottles of sand you have in your shop. Read more about the ranking system and let me (ilaci) know if I made a mistake.
  
  
• Green Sand Banner Code - Now you can put the code in your shop by copying it from the boxes of the Banner Code Site.

11/19/02

• Extra Weekly Contest Entries - Earn extra entries for the next weekly contest by buying a bottle of sand from green_sand_guild, or by giving bottles of green sand to green_sand_guild (you will have to make green_sand_guild your neofriend). Read more details on how to get extra entries.
  
  
• Daily News Added - Now you can see the brief daily news on the guild main page, and check the actual news site for full details.
  
  
• Green Sand Movement Banner 2 - There's now another banner in the photo section

• Leaderboard Update - leaderboard updated again today.

11/18/02

• Green Sand Movement Banner - The photo section now has a new banner ad you can put in your shop or your neocircle table. Let everyone know about the Green Sand Movement by putting this in your shop and putting up a link to the guild!
  
  

• Leaderboard Update - We updated the leaderboard again today.

11/16/02

• Frequently Asked Questions - Now up! Go see and neomail ilaci for anything you'd like added
  
  
• General site fixups - fixed the colors and made it so the guild home page and the extension home page don't look exactly the same.

11/16/02

• News Board Created - Watch this page for news on changes to the guild!
  
  
• Greenback Added to Council - Welcome chombymaster2001 to the position of Greenback -- the guild treasurer!
  
  
• New Poll Posted - We posted a new poll. Vote on what kinds of prizes you would like us to offer!

11/15/02

• First Contest Results - The contest was run about midnight neopets' time, and we have our first winners!
  
  Congratulations to:
  
  venjure with 248 bottles of green sand
  ninjapup with 210 bottles of green sand
  malaaktaus with 102 bottles of green sand
  
  Good job to all! Keep up the bottle collecting!