The results are in! After a careful review of all the skins we received during the contest, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the winners:

Deformity Category

1st Place: Crystal Lab by ZOiD  winner of a Cintiq 12WX.

2nd Place: SilverGlazz by LuckyMe  winner of an Intuos3 6*8.

Originality Category

1st Place: Stormless Messenger by mynetx  winner of a Cintiq 12WX.

2nd Place: Beaver and Steve by aNILEator  winner of an Intuos3 6*8.

Functionality Category

1st Place: Wii Messenger by Ethan Li  winner of a Cintiq 12WX.

2nd Place: Windows Live Messenger 2009 by roflmao456  winner of an Intuos3 6*8.

…and the big winner of this contest, all categories considered is…

Top Place: Oil Slick by Volv who wins the Cintiq 20WSX!

Congratulations to all of you and a big round of applause (queue /sapplause) to every other contestant. 20 million skin packages have been downloaded since last year on this site alone, you can bet your work was certainely not in vain. Enjoy the rest while you can, a new version of Messenger Plus! will soon be released to let you update your skins for the new Messenge 9 Beta. More about that probably next week… :-).