2025 Spring Garden Contest Winners
The virtual world There.com is excited announce the Grand Prize Winner and Runner-Up of this year’s Spring Garden Contest!
The competition was fierce, with so many incredible virtual garden entries showcasing creativity, beauty, and meticulous design. Our talented gardeners truly went all out in There.com, crafting breathtaking landscapes that are a delight to explore. Each garden is a masterpiece, where every flower, tree, and plant were placed with care and precision, creating stunning displays of virtual nature. We encourage everyone to take a tour and admire these wonderful creations!
To ensure a fair selection, each participant’s name was placed on a spinning wheel, the winners were chosen by the name the spin landed on. 1st spin was for the Grand Prize and the 2nd spin was for Runner-Up. Every entry turned in this year was amazing, with flowers, trees, and plants carefully placed to create beautiful and unique designs. We’re glad this contest was a game of chance because if we had to vote for the winners, it would be a very difficult decision.
2025 Spring Garden Contest Grand Prize Winner
A big congratulations to Bawble & Gibbletz for winning the Grand Prize in this year’s Spring Garden Contest! Their breathtaking high in the sky Floater Garden in the Mahalo Fantasy Forest Neighborhood wowed us all with its creativity and stunning design. The Lot owner has earned a free month of rent. The co-builders, Bawble & Gibbletz will both win a Tropical Rock Waterfall designed by Flygirl_Dani. Click through the slideshow below to view the pictures of their magical moonlit floating garden.
2025 Spring Garden Contest Runner Up
Congratulations to our Runner-Up Susanszy for her enchanting garden, Pixel Grove located in the Pixel Hollow Neighborhood! This magical space is a true work of art, filled with charm and wonder. As the runner-up, Susanszy will take home a moss-covered Secret Garden Fence designed by Susie_Q. Check out the slideshow below for photos of Pixel Grove.
A huge thank you to all our Spring Garden Contest participants! Each garden was a delight, and we encourage everyone to take a tour and admire the stunning display of flowers and foliage. Every gardener who entered the contest received a Festive Colorful Lantern gift for participating.
You can embark on a self-guided tour of the participating 2025 Spring Garden Contest entries. Just click on the garden links for a teleport destination.
Brat’s Place by UrChristianBrat
Fantasy Garden by SassyDancer
Salem’s Hollow by ___Jess
Whispering Dreams by DecemberDreams
CCR Garden by CCR_Gina
Z’s Starry Mahalo Aloha Hale by ZiBaAnNa
MaryHelen’s Garden by MaryHelen
Ladybug House by Ladybug12312
Troll Garden by Jamt
Junkyard by HoodAvie
Fifi Lost and Not Found by Mademoisellefifi
The 2025 Spring Garden Contest is a Pixel Petal & Plant Festival event in the virtual world There.com.
Celebrate Virtual Gardening at the Pixel Petal & Plant Festival in There.com!
Spring is in the air, and the Thereian community is ready to celebrate with the Pixel Petal & Plant Festival! From March 19th through the 31st, join us in There.com for a vibrant, fun-filled festival dedicated to virtual gardening. Whether you want to plant colorful flowers, ferns, vineyards, fruit orchards, or even a victory garden, this event is the perfect opportunity to flex your green thumb in the digital world.
Exciting Events & Activities
The festival is packed with engaging activities for everyone. Enjoy garden tours, play garden gin, participate in cross-country racing, test your luck at BINGO, join flotillas, and challenge yourself with trivia. Win garden-themed prizes and Therebucks in a variety of fun competitions.
Spring Garden Contest
Starting March 19th, create your own stunning virtual garden and enter it into the Spring Garden Contest for a chance to win special prizes. The grand prize and runner-up winners will receive exclusive garden gifts. For more details, be sure to read the official Spring Garden Contest blog post.
Highlighted Festival Events
Pixel Petal & Plant Festival events are being added daily. Check the Activities Page for updated events not listed below. Make sure to sign up ahead of time so you don’t miss out on all of the fun.
March 19th, 4:00 PM Pacific – Nellie Rachel’s Garden Gin Event
Stop and smell the roses while playing a few rounds of no-elimination gin. Win fantastic prizes and enjoy the beauty of virtual blooms.
March 21st, 1:00 PM Pacific – Petals & Plants Cross Country Racing
Grab your hoverpack and embark on a thrilling race through a digital garden. Follow blooming clues and navigate a lush world of botanical beauty—but beware of pixelated pollen that might cause a few glitches!
March 22nd, 4:00 pm Pacific – Dragon Rider’s Pixel and Petal Gin
Join your host LadyMisty for a weekly card game of gin during the Pixel Petal & Plant Festival. There is a dice roll for doubles if you lose and a separate dice roll celebrating Spring! This is a Gin combined event.
March 24th, 6:00 PM Pacific – Butterfly Garden BINGO
Join Susanszy and the Bingo Maniacs Club for a garden-themed BINGO night, sponsored by Mahalo Village. Remember to grab your BINGO card beforehand and join the Bingo Maniacs group IM window to hear the numbers being called.
March 26th, 4:00 PM Pacific – Garden Gin with Nellie Rachel
Meet at Dolores Island for a fun evening of cards among the flowers. Bring a partner and test your skills in a friendly round of Gin.
March 26th, 6:00 pm Pacific – BABS Ladybug Picnic
Hop on the back of a ladybug and fly through the gardens of There during the Bay Area Boat System’s Ladybug Picnic Floatila. Captain your own ship or hitch a ride with friends. Meet the BABS group at the Zona Island BABS Tower. Keep in touch with fellow participants by joining the BABS IM window.
March 31st, 6:00 PM Pacific – Pixel Garden BINGO
Close out the festival at the There Community Gardens with Pixel Garden BINGO, hosted by Susanszy and sponsored by There.com. Play for a chance to win 20,000 Therebucks!
Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to embrace the beauty of virtual gardening and participate in an array of exciting events. Mark your calendars and get ready to dig into the fun at the Pixel Petal & Plant Festival in There.com!
Spring Garden Contest
The Spring Garden Festival is in full bloom in the virtual world There.com. We invite all Thereians who plant a garden this year to enter the 2020 Spring Garden Contest. We have a special garden gift for all participating gardeners and there will be a garden grand prize for a lucky dice-roll winner.
Gardens come in all shapes and sizes. Any size Lot, PAZ or Neighborhood is welcome to enter the Spring Garden Contest. To enter the contest, plant your virtual garden in There and then email the subject line “Garden Contest” to feedback@thereinc.com and include your Avatar name along with a link to your garden. Participants have until Sunday, May 17th at 6:00 PM Pacific to submit their garden entries. A special garden gift and entry confirmation email will be sent to all gardeners.
On Tuesday, May 19th dress in your finest fashion for a fancy Garden Tea Party celebrating the Spring Garden Contest winner. A dice-roll will be held at the beginning of the event for all gardeners who participated the contest. The gardener with the highest number rolled will win the garden grand prize. After the dice-roll and tea time, we will embark on a tour of the garden entries. Sign up for the Garden Tea party starting at 5:00 PM Pacific on May 19th. Gardeners must be present at the dice-roll for a chance to win the grand prize.
If you have not planted your virtual garden in There yet, search Garden Auctions for items like flowers, plants and trees to get an idea of what kind of garden you’d be interested in growing. Designers are adding new flora and gardening tools every week during the Spring Garden Festival.
As an additional bonus for submitting an entry to the Spring Garden Contest, the Garden Committee will be keeping an eye out for special themed gardens. If your garden entry is one of the Spring Garden Festival weekly themes you may be awarded a special garden trophy by the Garden Committee. There will be a different garden theme for each week in the month of May during the festival. Week one will feature flower gardens. Trees, forests and jungles will take the spotlight for the second week. Vegetable gardens will be celebrated in week three and the last week of May will feature fruit, orchards and vineyards.
Gardening in the real-world can be an outlet for people stuck at home during the COVID-19 crisis. For those folks who cannot escape outside and dig their hands in the earth, the virtual world There offers a place for people to garden, relax and take their mind off things. Join us during the Spring Garden Festival in the month of May to celebrate virtual gardens in There.
Virtual Caravan Challenge
Join us for the Caravan Challenge in the Virtual World There.com Friday, March 3rd and Wednesday, March 8th! This friendly competition is a solo decorating challenge AND a photo challenge with friends. Participants must register to compete in the event with their friends.
Location
Teleport to the Aurora Highway Rest Stop
Date & Time
FRIDAY, April 3rd
2:30 PM Pacific Caravan Challenge Week 2
3:30 PM Pacific Caravan Challenge Awards
WEDNESDAY, April 8th
7:30 PM Pacific Caravan Challenge Week 3
8:30 PM Pacific Caravan Challenge Awards
Object
You have one hour to complete the Caravan Challenge. You are allowed 20 minutes to decorate your assigned 10-drop caravan Lot located at the Aurora Highway Rest Stop. For the second part of the competition you will have 40 minutes to complete 5 photo tasks with your friends. When you have completed your mission, upload the photos to your Facebook page and tag the There Facebook page (@ThereVirtualWorld).
All registered participants will be entered into a dice roll at the awards ceremony for a chance to win one of the caravans on display at the event. The ten registered Caravan Challenge competitors must be present at the awards ceremony to roll the dice for the grand prize.
Caravan Challenge Requirements
- Premium Membership Account
- 10 decorative virtual home and garden items in your inventory
- Facebook Account – Like the There Virtual World Facebook page.
- Three or more friends to help you with the photo challenge. They can be Silent & Basic Trial accounts.
Join the Event Invites List IM to keep in communication with the Event Host and Co-Host during the competition. You’ll need to join the group to be able to use the IM. The Caravan Challenge Event Host will use text chat to communicate with all participants, but will be capable of hearing Voice for those participants who prefer to speak in real-time instead of text chat.
There are 2 Events in the 1 1/2 – Hour Caravan Challenge
1. Caravan Challenge – 1 hour-long event open to your group of friends and spectators.
2. Awards Ceremony – 30-minute event open to everyone. Attendees will tour newly decorated caravans. 10 Participants will roll the dice for the Caravan Challenge grand prize.
Instructions
Registered Participant Pre-Gaming Event (30 Minutes)
1. Go to your assigned caravan Lot. The Host will tell you your Lot number at the start of the event.
2. Come up with a name for your team.
3. Set a 1-Hour Event in your Lot.
-Event Title: Caravan Challenge (Your Avatar Name)
-Event Description: “Week 2 of Caravan Challenge. Come out to support (Team Name) during the Caravan Challenge!
4. Send invites to your buddies and appropriate Clubs to help build up your photo challenge team.
Caravan Challenge Event (60 Minutes)
Part 1 – Solo Decorating Challenge (Registered Participants Only)
1. Decorate your caravan using 10 drops. You can decorate the inside, outside or both.
2. Complete decorating your Lot within 20 minutes.
**You can begin the photo challenge portion as soon as you finish decorating. You do not have to wait till the allotted 20 minute decorating time is over.
Part 2 – Photo Challenge With Friends (Anyone can help!)
1. Get three or more friends to help you. Silent Trials and Basic Trials are welcome to participate in the photo challenge. If they are a Premium Member they will earn a free drink for participating. Silent Trials are not able to receive gifts.
2. Read the 5 photo tasks carefully and make sure to include all required props and emotes. You can find Item Dispensers with the props needed for the photo challenge in the Aurora Highway Caravan Event Lot. The registered participant must be present in all photos with name tags turned on.
Ready for your photo challenge?!
PHOTO TASK #1 – Pose with the gang outside of your newly decorated caravan. Do a TRY IT with the Grape Stomp Prop. Make sure everyone has a barrel of grapes to stomp their frustrations out in. On the count of ‘3 everyone does the ‘JIG emote and the photographer captures the moment.
PHOTO TASK #2 – Sit down at a Cracked Game table located in the Aurora Highway Rest Stop Neighborhood. Start a round of Cracked. You can play the round if you have enough time or just let the timer run out so the little chick cracks open under pressure. Take a group photo with the cracked egg at the game table AND snap a picture of the avatar holding the little chickadee.
PHOTO TASK #3 – Make friends with the horses. The cool kids are encouraged to wear western outfits and cowboy hats. Find the best acrobat in your troupe and have them perform a ‘HANDSTAND on top of a horse. At the same time your star tumbler is upside down, the rest of your crew emotes the ‘GIDDYUP dance move. Pics or it didn’t happen!
PHOTO TASK #4 – Word on the street from the neighboring Aurora Gulch community is that there is a wild stampede of bison roaring through populated parts of the Aurora Highway. Travelers passing through camp yesterday said their donkey got spooked from the thundering sound of the bison stampede. The poor donkey ran off hee-haw’ing down the highway with three days worth of food and their last roll of toilet paper. Tell your regulators to mount up, because it’s time to let those ranching and rodeo skills shine! Capture a photo of your posse riding a stampede of bison through the middle of the caravan camp. There are several herds out roaming the Neighborhood.
Drop your own stampede of bison or have your crew ride the herds of bison that are already out on stampede in the Neighborhood.
PHOTO TASK #5 – The Aurora Highway Rest Stop bathrooms have been rated 5 stars by the Thereian Transportation Agency for the past decade. Aurora caravans and travelers can count on the rest area being clean and well stocked with the “good kind” of toilet paper. The Aurora Parks and Rec Department have been able to maintain bathroom supplies for the busy rest stop location despite mass hysteria toilet paper shortages reported on the Islands of Caldera, Kansas and Nada. This last photo challenge requires your crew to steal all of the toilet paper out of the rest stop bathrooms. Yes, you get a roll of TP and you get a roll of TP and YOU get a roll of TP! EVERYBODY GETS A ROLL OF TP! To commemorate your crew’s shenanigans, cram as many of your friends as you can into the two outhouses at the Aurora Highway Caravan Events Lot. Hold your roll of stolen toilet paper (use the Try It option) and snap a picture of the crew throwing up a ‘HOLE emote sign. Made you look! ‘rofl
Posting Photo Tasks to Social Media
1. Edit and crop your photos so that the background of your desktop is not showing. Make sure to turn your compass off and remove anything else that may be on your screen.
2. Create a post on your own Facebook page and upload the photos. Make sure to tag the There.com Facebook page @ThereVirtualWorld in your post so that we can Like and Share it to our page.
3. Tag your friends who helped participate in the photo challenge if they have a Facebook account.
4. Post your Caravan Challenge to your Facebook page.
Caravan Challenge Awards (30 Minutes)
Registered Participants must be present at the awards ceremony dice roll for a chance to win the caravan prize.
Registered challengers will roll the dice and attempt to get the lowest possible score on the 20-sided dice to win the grand prize. If there is a tie, roll again until there is a clear winner.
Thank you for participating in the Caravan Challenge! Best of luck to you at the competition. If you enjoy this event, we encourage you to get creative and host your own events in the Virtual World of There.
People around the world right now want to connect online with others and There.com is a great 3-D Virtual World environment to socialize and play in with friends. Help spread the word on social media and by inviting your friends!
Caravan Challenge Registration
“Best of luck to all of our competitors. May the odds be ever in your favor!” – Pyrena
Women’s Summer There Games Apparel
Show your team spirit by dressing the part for the 2016 Summer There Games! Our designers have created stylish sportswear for the ladies to wear during the 10-day series of competitive events. Whether you want to go with a traditional toga or represent your color team with a sweet track suit or cheerleader uniform, there are many styles to choose from. Try on a couple of outfits for free and see which one you like best!
You can find a full list of Women’s There Games Apparel in all sixteen colors in the Auctions.
Summer There Games Logo Contest
We are gearing up for another season of There Games! The next Summer Games will be held in several weeks. Submissions for the Summer There Games Logo are now being accepted. If you’ve got an artistic side we’d love for you to submit your own creative vision of the next Summer There Games logo. All logo entries are due by July 15th, so you’ve got a couple of weeks to work your graphic design magic.
Photo Credit: There Games Facebook Page
Please read the Summer There Games Logo Contest guidelines below to enter.
- Submit logo designs in .jpg or .png format.
- Pixel size must be 512 x 256 or 256 x 512.
- Include the words 2016 and Summer There Games or There Summer Games.
- You may incorporate the official There logo.
- You may NOT steal copyrighted material and incorporate it into your logo.
- If your logo is found to have copyrighted material it will be disqualified.
All entries will be posted anonymously for the Thereian Community to vote on. The winning logo will be used on virtual merchandise. Sales from the Summer Games merchandise will go towards running the event as well as prizes for the winning teams.
If you’re interested in participating in the 2016 Summer Games logo contest, make sure to email your entry to theofficialtheregames@gmail.com by July 15th. Good luck to all of our contest participants!
Name the Foxy Winter There Games Mascot
The 2016 Winter There Games mascot needs your help. This cute little critter needs a name! The Thereian community sent in their suggestions and the committee has chosen five of their top favorite names for you to vote on. The choices are…Artie, Foxy Roxy, Mandy, Erica and Rory.
Log into There.com with your avatar and head over to the Amphitheater in the Winter There Games Village. There is a voting sign set up for you to cast your vote. Click on the Action Tag to open the sign and decide on your favorite.
Voting ends Wednesday, February 10th at 8:00 PM PST. Help name the 2016 WTG mascot!
Winter There Games Logo Winner
There were so many great entries sent into the 2016 There Games Logo Contest this year! It was hard to pick a favorite. Over 300 Thereians voted and the community has chosen a winner. Drum roll please…
Congratulations to GaryBob for winning first place in the Winter There Games Logo Contest!Special 2016 promotional materials will be available for sale in the Auctions in the upcoming weeks. Your purchase of WTG items helps fund the There Games and keeps quality events going in our community.
Thank you to all of our participants in this year’s contest and thanks to GaryBob for submitting the winning logo!
Vote For Your Favorite WTG Logo
The Winter There Games are right around the corner and before the festivities can begin, we need to pick a logo! Several Thereians have submitted artwork for the 2016 WTG Logo Contest and now it’s up to you to decide the winner. Cast your vote for your favorite logo! The voting polls will be open January 19th – 21st. The winning logo will be displayed on a special Winter There Games poster and promotional items which will only be available for sale during the Games. Good luck to all of our participants!
Meet Your New 2015 Winter There Games Mascot!
The 2015 Winter There Games Penguin Mascot has been named Frostbite! Congratulations to BlueAnn for coming up with the winning mascot name. A special prize will be awarded to BlueAnn for winning the contest.
Frostbite will be available for purchase in the Auctions to decorate your Lot or PAZ during the Winter There Games. All proceeds go towards supporting the Winter There Games events!
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