Hello Stateballers and landscape painters!!!!

Our America The Beautiful art contest has come to a close, and the moderators have submitted their votes! And now, it's time to announce the winner of the first (and probably only!) Stateball art contest! So without further ado....

The winners of this special art contest contest are drumroll,

• In first place with a score of 8.83, is the piece Meeting for The Tetons by /u/vhisz. As a reward, they will receive the highly coveted Golden G'bret (Gun Beret) award!

• In second place, with a score of 8.29, is the piece Lonely Journey to The Top by /u/DoodleRoar. As a result, they will receive the cool and slick Silver G'bret!

• In third place, with a score of 8.14, is the piece Bellingham Beach by /u/OfficialMoffe. They will receive the steely and nice Bronze G'bret!

Here are the full results:

Our invited judge for this contest was /u/Watmaln, last times's Golden Gun Winner. Thanks to them for their participation!

Congratulations to all the winners and all the participants of this special art contest! Thank you all so much for participating!

Y'all come back now, y'hear!

Hello stateballers! This is just a short notice I’m putting out there really quickly. As of today March 9th, 2024, the state of Utah has officially changed its flag. Accordingly we expect all future stateball comics and artworks featuring Utah to use this new flag. The old flag will no longer be accepted except in historical use (like making a comic about the flag change). Otherwise, we welcome the new Utah flag! Goodbye Utah bed sheet and have a great stateball, see y’all next time!

My fellow Americans. It has been many moons since our last hour of conference!

We know, we know; No stateball contests for months; only the yearly SB Map to tide the frothing masses over between us. Well that changes now! "So a stateball contest?!" you may be asking; well yes, but also no. To arbitrarily celebrate yesterday being leap day, and today being the first day of March, we will hold a SPECIAL ART CONTEST!!!!!! Yes that's right we're holding an ART contest out of typical contest schedule (genius I know!!). "why so random and out of schedule?" You may be wondering dear stateballer; well it's simple, this is STATEBALL and around here we do things the AMERICAN way, which is to say with no particular rhyme or reason. Anyhow, even though this contest will probably get like 4 entries or less, we felt like at least doing something in 2024, so here it is!!!!

##Make a stateball art piece about (north)American Landscapes!

Specific Contest Rules

• Your artpiece has to display at least one ball with a natural landscape.
• No urban landscapes, however urban elements are allowed, as long as the landscape is the focus. (example, San Francisco Bay with the mountains and San Francisco visible.)

General Contest Rules

• You must follow the official Stateball Tutorial.
• You must follow the official Constitution of Stateball.
• The artpiece is NOT a comic, so there should be ONE image.
• No dialogue text from balls. Text on signs, etc. is allowed, however.
• The artpiece must have been drawn entirely by yourself.
• No animated GIFs accepted.
• No photorealism.
• Post your artpiece to the subreddit with the blue "Contest Entry" flair.
• You may post more than one entry, but only the highest performing of your artpieces will be able to qualify for a special gun award. For example, if you post two contest entries and they get 1st and 3rd, you do not get two sets of different special guns; you would only get the Golden Guns award.
• The deadline for submitting your entry is Friday, March 15th at 20:00 GMT

Choosing the winner

After all 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.

Once all the 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 EXTREMELY SPECIAL (and probably the one-time, only held by one person) award of The GUN BERET (G'bret),(A Golden Gun duct taped to a Beret) which they will keep next to their username Permanently (unless we do more of these. (unlikely)).

The highest-scoring non-mod participant will also be able to vote with the mods on the entries for the next contest (unless we dont have another one (very likely)).

The artists with the second and third highest scores will receive the Silver and Bronze Beret Gun Awards, respectively, which will act in a similar manner.

All three gun winners can crosspost their comics to r/Polandball! (And r/polandballart probably(?)

Let's see if we can pump out this contest and it's results before PBA can get their act together and produce their outstanding contest results! GOOD LUCK STATEBALLERS!

Hello my fellow Stateballers! Today we have a very special announcement. Stateball will be participating this year in Lesser Known September. Pretty exciting news! And yes, I DO know we are 7 days late and no, I DO NOT care!

What is Lesser Known September(LKS for short) pray tell? Well it's been a long standing tradition on mainsub, r/polandball and our sister r/Polandballart , where through the month of September popularly used nations are temporarily BANNED from usage, so that the lesser known nations can shine. In the spirit of this wonderful september season, we stateball will ALSO be banning some popularly used states! Let's let the lesser-known North American subdivisions finally take the stage!

This may have you wondering what the banned states/provinces are, well HERE YOU GO!!! HERE IS THE LIST!!!!
BANNED STATES/PROVINCES THRU SEPT. 30
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ALASKA

ALABAMA

BRITISH COLUMBIA

CALIFORNIA

FLORIDA

HAWAI'I

ILLINOIS

NEW JERSEY

NEW YORK

OHIO

ONTARIO

PENNSYLVANIA

QUEBEC

TEXAS

And that includes all major cities within them.

And here is a map of the banned states in red just in case you need it.

Keep in mind that all of the Mexican States are totally fair game.

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Well that's the list. Criticism or Rage? I don't care! Questions or concerns? I might care! Leave them all in the comments below! This ban on these states goes into effect RIGHT NOW!!!! and it will END OCTOBER 1st 12:00am EST.

Now go have fun making comics about Veracruz and Idaho or whatever.

Goodbye and merry stateball!

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