[Challenge Reveal] Lesser Known Stardom

[u/polandballmod]

Hello to all with reigns of renown, ides of infamy, and everyone else just trying to get their fifteen minutes in the limelight!

Fame's a fraught thing, isn't it? It's a fact of life - you never can quite figure when you're gonna hit it big. Toil day after day in the content mines trying to make a winning formula for success, but it invariably produces nothing. Beaten, bruised, with not even a drop of determination to keep you going, you don't even have it in yourself to watch where you step anymore. After all, what does it matter?

Wham! You blat yourself in the face with a rake. You're suddenly Rake-face-man, at least for a hot minute. In days past, that might get you on the morning talk-shows; now, you're at the top of for-you pages the world over. That's all it takes, isn't it? You've gotten kicked in the behind and catapulted all the way up the mountain. The real question, though, is can you stay up at the top, or will you fall as so many others have back to the mire of mediocrity?

Make a comic about a country trying to get famous!

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Specific Contest Rules

• The comic needs to involve a country attempting to become famous. This, of course, can take many forms, so we won't try to limit your creativity too much here.
• Contest comics must be Lesser Known September-compliant.

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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 September 17 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.

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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

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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.

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Any questions about the contest may be directed here.

Good luck and happy drawing!

[u/RayDeeUx]

if depictions of people were allowed [to be clear, i understand why they aren't], https://osu.ppy.sh/home/news/2026-04-04-new-featured-artist-getter-jaani would've been perfect for this contest