It is our honor to announce the nominees for this year’s Yamster Halloween Costume Contest. We want you to vote for your favorite entry per category. The last day to vote is next Wednesday, 11/11 at 5 PM PST.

And the nominees are (drum roll please…):

VOTE NOW FOR YOUR FAVORITE ENTRY PER CATEGORY!

Overall Winner:

Ya’mi the Yamatar, Joker, and Marilyn Monroe

Scariest Yamster:

I love you Yamster, Machete Yamster, Headless Yamster, and Zombie Yamster

Most Creative Yamster:

Gnome, Harry Potter, and Crystal Ball

Best Classic Costume Yamster:

Ghost, Mummy, and Bat

Funniest Yamster:

Grampster Yamster, Elephant Yamster, and Yamster Hilton

Celebrity Yamster:

Lady Gaga, Kiss, and Justin Bieber

Best Cartoon Costume Yamster:

Winnie the Pooh, Mario Brother, and Mickey Mouse

See some more entries in the slide show below and tell us what you think! In order to see all the fun dressed-up Yamsters, please make sure to join the Answers Halloween 2010 group.

Once again, it’s time for our annual Answers Halloween Costume Contest. Last year, we had awesome winners and we can’t wait to see what you come up with this year!

Download the Yamster avatar and dress him up for Halloween!

Picnik which is built directly into Yahoo’s own Flickr, offers a plethora of accessories that you can use to deck out Yamster. You can also use something like Microsoft Paint, Photoshop, SumoPaint, or any other paint program on the market to edit or enhance an image.

Once you’re through dressing up your Yamster, save the image (right click and “save as”) and upload it to your Flickr account. Then, add the image to the Answers Halloween pool—found here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/yahooanswershalloween2010/.

In order to see all the fun dressed-up Yamsters, please make sure to join the Answers Halloween 2010 group.

Submissions must be received by 5 p.m. PST on Monday, November 1st. Winner(s) will be posted on the Yahoo! Answers Blog and will receive 200 bonus points on Yahoo! Answers.

Rules:

• Yamsters must be submitted to Flickr by 5 p.m. PST on November 1st

• All images must be in compliance with Yahoo’s TOS, Yahoo! Answers Community Guidelines, Flickr’s Community Guidelines, and must not contain mature or adult content

• Submitted images may only be that of the Yamster—no actual photographs will be accepted or considered

• No real value is given to this prize: winner(s) will receive 200 bonus points on Yahoo! Answers

• Join the Answers Halloween 2010 group in order to see everyone’s entries

Thanks again for your patience during the outage and for all the great submissions.

If you didn’t get a chance to submit a Yamster, or want to take a look at some of the other nominees, be sure to stop by the Flickr pool, found here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/answershalloween/pool/

Grand Prize Winner – (500 points)

Cameron

Category Winners – (100 points)

Spookiest, X-Ellen-X

Best Effects,TechOfAJob

Best Classic Costume, ☸ ☥ ♡ ☮ ☯,