Well, first and foremost I want to thank everyone who took the time to enter the contest. YouÆre all cresent fresh!
The random prize drawing winner was Aiya Papejelah

 >>Credit where credit is due: I downloaded the spiffy font, Retro Bats One from The Font Library. Gads of nifty fonts to be had there, so check æem out. Umà other than the heads, everything else was made / designed by yours truly. Please donÆt rip off my designs, eh? IÆll be eternally grateful. 

 >>Complaints: Sob, sob, sob. If you look through the pages, youÆll prolly notice that I only received 2 fan fics? NO Essays? I was a little disappointed over that one, peeps. Maybe I should have named it differently? Where you all put off by the sound of actualà essay work? Bad school flashbacks, maybe? Color me confused, I thought writing a little blurb on why you like Saitou would be easy. I based this assumption on the fact that I constantly receive awesome Saitou praise/gushing/etc. from mibu no ookami visitors. The fan art was a little better. I was pleased to get some last minute entries there. * sigh * I take blame, though, because I feel I could have better advertised the thingà

 >>Upbeat: The way I look at it all is as a learning experience. I donÆt in any way regret holding it, because I really did love getting all the entries in. Those of you who entered are my new best friends ^_~  I was also pleased to be able to give out some prizes, and telling people they won. That was lot's of fun.  Anyway, you can all check out the sneak peek page to see some of the changes IÆve decided to make for next year.

 >>Prize complaint: I have only one complaintà The person who agreed to airbrush the T-shirt for me backed out on me and kept my money. Yup, I was ripped off, big time. Firstly, I placed the order for the shirt back in AUGUST! I knew the person had a busy schedule, but I also own a piece of his work, which was very cresÆ, so I chose him to do the shirt. I was assured it would be doable on several occasions, and then was told out of nowhere at the end of October that the shirt couldnÆt be done with no excuses as to why.  I sent a few polite emails, some scathing emails (yes, I can be a mega beatch when I wantà Rei and Milinar can attest to my evil side ^_^) but received no reply. My one consolation is that the people have since gone out of business! Xtreme Air Mania is no more, so none of you have to worry about getting ripped off like I did.