August Auction
The August auction took place on August 6th. There was sadly no male sets to be auctioned off this month. The female set was a cute purple one sold for PD, designed by the Dutch Areximache, while the female CR set was a white and green flowery thing designed by the German MissSuicideSheep. You can see them both below.
/Pd set by Areximache_NL and CR set by MissSuicideSheep_DE
Mega Credit Week
Mega Credit Week saw a lot of new sets introduced. The female €2 set was a fluffy brown outfit made by Talent, the €6 a sporty set by Allie with a very cute dog included. The €12 was a pegasus /centaur hybrid by Solovey and the €24 another of Allies creations, this time a hip purple set. The €48 was a pink and blue set by Ouch and the €96 was a fantasy-esque set by Solovey.
The male €2 was a K-pop-inspired set by Kino and the €6 a green set by Allie.
All female buyers received some bonus items made by Solovey that, put together, formed complete sets.
You can find all this month’s sets here.
VP Logo Competition
On the 22nd, the second round of the VP logo competition was announced. Everyone can vote for their favourite logos using the following link: https://pollunit.com/polls/virtualpopstar-logo-all. No deadline for the voting was set. We in NT are very curious to see what the website’s new logo ends up looking like, and best of luck to all those who entered a logo for the contest!
The ModSquad hosted applications and a two weeks long Bootcamp during the summer and now our new moderators have finally been chosen. Out of four bootcampers, the moderators had to narrow it down to two new moderators. The new moderators were announced on August 25th and the new moderators are Atencia and Kofod. We wish our fellow teammates the best of luck in their role as moderators!
Event Team
This month, the Event Team hosted 5 competitions, although the first of these was published at the end of July. The first competition was called “Smooth Like…” and the contestants were asked to dress up as their favourite K-pop artist. You can find the details and the prize sets in this forum.
Event Team hosted two Coachella-themed competitions in August. In the first of these, the users were tasked with designing their own poster advertising their favourite band/group or performer. This competition is found here. The second Coachella-competition was a dress up competition in which the contestants had to dress up in a festival outfit, this competition and the prizes are found here.
In addition to the Coachella-competitions, there was an edition of “Guess that” and this time the theme was animals. The users were asked to quote the post containing one of the total 30 questions with the correct answer and the first person to answer correctly won the question, further details and the prizes can be found here.
Finally, the fifth ET competition was “(Wayyy) Back To School!” in which the users were asked to dress up as a first grader attending their very first day of school. Prizes and further details are found here.
Social Media Team
As always, the Social Media Team hosted the monthly “Who Wore It Best”-competition. This time, the users were asked to create outfits using the two selected vests, one for users with female avatars and one for users with male avatars. Curious to see which vests they had to use and what prize they could win? Check it out here!