[CONTEST] RED Holidays 2025

December arrived and with it a festive season! Magic fills the air and brings traditions to life - including our Holiday contest!

Whether it's the Continent or Night City, everyone around is busy decorating, shopping, or otherwise preparing for festivities. More importantly, people are getting into the Holiday vibe - and your task this year is to give us a glimpse of how they might do it!

Create an in-lore faux advertisement of a Holiday-themed performance. It can be anything you imagine, as long as it fits the lore of either Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher universe:
A poster advertising a new holiday-themed Braindance?
A leaflet advertising a theatrical performance about Midinváerne in Novigrad?
A TV commercial about a holiday-special episode of Night City's favourite show?
A notice about a concert performed by a famous bard in Wyzima during holiday market?
An article about an upcoming holiday-themed movie about to hit cinemas across NUSA?
Or whatever else comes to your mind!

5 most creative entries will be awarded with goodie bags including:

• Cyberpunk backpack,
• Cyberpunk jigsaw puzzle,
• The Witcher medallion,
• The Witcher 10th anniversary playing die,
• The Witcher 10th anniversary calendar for 2026,
• and other smaller items.
  

Rules:

1. The contest starts today and ends on December 14th, 2025, at 23:59 CET.
2. You can send your entries in a designated thread on Forums (that means this one, right here) or as messages in designated Discord channels. Your entry should be saved as a JPG, PNG, PDF format and attached to your post, or, if it's a video, you should send us a link to YouTube.
3. Only the first entry will qualify for the prize
4. We will reward a total of 5 winners.
5. The prize pool for the contest is shared between Forums and Discord, so it doesn't matter where you participate.
6. Winners will be announced by December 19th, 2025.
7. Full contest rules are in the PDF attachment.

Happy holidays!

 

[v021]

At first, Geralt’s victory over Eredin went largely unnoticed. It would have remained so were it not for the skald Eyvind. After losing all hope of ever seeing the white whale, he went ashore to toss some pebbles into the sea—and ended up witnessing the entire battle with the Wild Hunt from a safe distance. His first tome of ballads about the clash became such a success that several professors voted to invite Eyvind to teach courses in Myth and History at Oxenfurt Academy. The academic community became so enthralled with the idea that a second Conjunction of the Spheres had occurred that, in the end, they promoted a holiday across Redania to commemorate the event. They dubbed it Góða skemmtun, claiming that humanity had been remarkably lucky to survive the cataclysm.


During the most recent holiday, Irina Renarde decided to stage a play in Novigrad honoring the epic deed of the White Wolf. Maxim Bolierre proved a natural fit for the role of the defeated Eredin—even when drunk.


You can find the poster all across Novigrad nowadays.

Happy holidays!

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While almost all of the symbols used here were from the public domain or directly from the Unicode, a few of them required giving the credit to the author(s). Here they are:
Shukla Ranjana Om - Ranjana script - Wikipedia by Rishu Shukla
TibAum - Om - Wikipedia by Wilfredor
File:Om jaïn black.svg - Wikipedia by Etiennekd
Soyombo Om symbol - Om - Wikipedia by KittenBroEeev

 

[KaZ]

This X-MAS E.V.E., Arasaka holds a restricted celebration for verified personnel. Queen Meve—the monarch known for breaking thrones and anyone bold enough to oppose her—will lead an exclusive Braindance DJ Set on Level 77. Expect a disciplined display of power, precision, and sovereign-grade sound.


Attendance is privilege.
Arasaka honors loyalty.

 

[Juman097]

LOL jump man

 

[Daubdki]

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[fraumitaleva]

I painted this poster in gouache for a holiday event I would gladly attend myself)
Hurry up and read it before Roach eats the notice!)

 

[Korvo85]

My entry:

I created a leaflet in which I invite to Midinváerne in Kaer Morhen. This is a wintertime feast with food, beverages, music and dances, sorcery tricks and round of Gwent.
In the picture, apart from the leaflet,you can see:
- a Witcher medallion – one from first game and one from third game,
- several potions to test in skill show,
- Gwent cards nad dice to play with fellow guests,
And a coin you can “toss to a fellow witcher”.
The leaflet will be delivered in a special envelope with a commemorative stamp.

Below is the information about celebrations you can find on leaflet:

Midinváerne in Kaer Morhen.
We invite you to a unique wintertime feast.
This year Kaer Morhen will become a place where magic and wintertime mood become one.

It's going to be a lot of fun!
- Skill shows – sword fighting and potion testing,
- Traditional tree – decorated with dwarven products,witcher artifacts and lit by the magic of sorceresses,
- Fair – craftsman products, witcher elixirs and magical services from sorceresses,
- Wintertime concert – the best bards, headed by Dandelion, will present their latest ballads,
- Stories by the bonfire – an extraordinary performance combining legends and fairy tales,
- Rites of Midinváerne – celebrate with us revival of sun and honor the winter

Let magic and tradition combine into a harmonious whole, creating unforgettable memories.
This evening everyone is equal.
Kaer morhen awaits.

 

[FatherMikhail]

The holidays were coming soon, Geralt thought as he rode through Velen at night.
And here was the first invitation!
A slightly dirty piece of canvas was hanging from a tree, with crooked letters drawn in charcoal.
Geralt understood at once - he would go.
All that was left was to solve the rebus…

Help Geralt solve the riddle and find his way to Johnny’s holiday feast!

 

[sabine.noemi32]

 

[jogunp]

If You want to find out why little Cirilla was left alone in Kaern Morhen on Christmas, You will find the answer in the movie "Ciri Alone". Comedy full of absurdity, mistakes and humor will make You laugh until You cry. You can't miss it! Premiere on December 24 at 6 p.m. only on the Novigad-flixTV

 

[YuckyBubbles]

Read the rules, there is nudity in the game and it may be close to the line, but I don't believe this to be "sexist". But ultimately up to the judges, lol. I just think the citizens of NC who are just trying to live good normal lives do appreciate the NCPD and all the security and protection of every Drone, Mech, Robot and Turret provides! Spread your Christmas spirit this 2077 by showing them your bewbs! Everybody loves a pair'o'boobs!

*Also note: I didn't see in the rules if I happen to win this that it voids ability to win the photomode contest you are running concurrently. If winning this voids possibility of winning that, then please do not select me for winning THIS contest. I prefer (need) the prize from that one a lot more, lol. My gpu fans are starting to make noise and all the love I got out of my 2070super, it is on it's last legs and I cannot afford a replacement if it dies soon

 

[TheHeroOfTemeria]

Hi!
I made ad for a holiday braindance "snow.exe".
Love snow... and there seems to be less of it lately (sigh)
All music, video and images are from open sources.

 

[CzerwonyGryf]

Poster with invitation to the presentation of Yule tree decorating, for all the Skellige clans!
Yes Lugos, Drummonds are welcome too! Nobody will be left home alone.
Axes, shields and swords are unnecessary...

Inscription in Glagolica says:

DECORATING OF YULE TREE
AN CRAITE AND THE OTHER CLANS
EVERYONE ARE INVITED
IN THE KAER TROLDE CITADEL

Photo of work in progress below.
Watercolors on A3 paper.

 

[Ry_Ry]

wouldn't mind finding this in my mailbox one day

 

[Sinkey87]

 

[b4dbug5]

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This is the best thing ive seen on this forum, so cool, so cannon, wonderful poses, classic image, perfect light.
Fourth Wall is right. Break it down.

 

[sabine.noemi32]

This is the best thing ive seen on this forum, so cool, so cannon, wonderful poses, classic image, perfect light.
Fourth Wall is right. Break it down.

thank you so much i truly appreciate it 🫶

 

[Sinkey87]

I like all the works and although I have my favorites, I will support them, but I won't reveal them

 

[b4dbug5]

thank you so much i truly appreciate it 🫶

You deserve it. So CyberNoir. I know this stuff takes time and your time was well spent.

 

[Vattier]

It is time to announce the winners of this year's RED Holidays contest!

As always, your entries amazed us with creativity and choosing the 5 winners involved a lot of careful voting and discussion amongst judges. We loved all of your submissions!

Now, without further ado, the winners are:

@fraumitaleva (Forums) - A Holiday Fest in Kaer Morhen is a must-attend!

wolv (Cyberpunk Discord) - All die-hard fans of holiday action movies are getting their popcorn ready for this one!

@CzerwonyGryf (Forums) - Considering the size of trees on Skellige, we wouldn't want to miss decorating the Yule Tree there! The sight must be magnificent!

♱ 𝔎𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔯𝔬𝔬 ♱ (Cyberpunk Discord) - A Christmas Special by Kerry Eurodyne? Sign us up!

Cr0w85 (The Witcher Discord) - We expect a smashing performance from Grump the Gentle!

Congratulations! Make sure to check your inboxes - we'll send you private messages to ask for delivery addresses.

Happy Holidays!