My only gripe is.... if you're going to have a banner contest isn't the idea to vote on who MADE the best banner? Not who cropped a high quality image? It doesn't take a photoshop master to look at something and realize they don't deserve to win anything for putting in little to no effort. And really what they're doing is stealing someone else's work and claiming it as their own.

Yeah the pokemon one is probably my favorite of the simple images..... looks like nothing was done to it, could be wrong tho.

There's a bunch of others that are really nice too.... a couple you can tell had some work involved, Luci and Alhuins definitely included.