Costume Voting Contest

The **Costume Voting Contest** is a reoccuring voting contest where players from each server get to vote for their favorite costumes from a list of nominated A-tier and S-tier cosmetics, for both Survivors and Hunters.

Once the voting period ends, the top five most picked costumes will be available for purchase in the Illusion Hall for a definite amount of time.

## Event Rules

A set of general rules is applied to the practice of voting and for the availability of the costumes themselves. These include:

* Event-related and limited costumes, Call of the Abyss series of costumes, crossover and collaboration costumes, Logic Path costumes, and all costumes of B-Tier rarity or lower are not included in the contest's voting list.
* Players must log in and link their game ID through Facebook/Twitter/LINE to vote. Linked character ID can't be unlinked during the voting period.
* Each player has 5 votes everyday and can't make changes after voting. Player can get corresponding rewards after valid voting.
* Abusing mechanics, unfair practices and exploits can cause a costume to be disqualified from the voting contest.
* Once the voting is over, limited-time shop costumes (such as The Ripper's Soul Emissary) will be purchasable using both Fragments and Echoes, but costumes currently obtainable from Memory Spheres (such as Photographer's Moonlight Gentleman) will be purchasable using Echoes only.

### Updated Rules (2022)

1. 8 costumes are voted back in total (6 time-limited, 2 essence)
2. The same character can't have two costumes of the same tier voted back. If two or more costumes of the same tier for the same character are eligible to return, only the costume with the highest number of votes will return.
3. A costume can't be voted back after two years in a row
4. A costume can't return the last time it came back was less or equal to half a year ago
5. A costume will return if it hasn't come back in 2 years
6. Limited costumes, COA, and Ivory Tower cannot come back

## Voting Rewards

Besides having previous costumes re-introduced to the shop, additional rewards are given out to players who cast certain amounts of votes during the voting period.

**2019-2021 Voting Rewards**

**2022 Voting Rewards**

**2023 Voting Rewards**
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## Previous Winners

### 2019 Contest

#### Global Servers

1st Place Winner2nd Place Winner3rd Place Winner4th Place Winner5th Place Winner
#### Chinese Server

1st Place Winner2nd Place Winner3rd Place Winner4th Place Winner5th Place Winner
### 2020 Contest

#### Global Servers

1st Place Winner2nd Place Winner3rd Place Winner4th Place Winner5th Place Winner
#### Chinese Server

1st Place Winner2nd Place Winner3rd Place Winner4th Place Winner5th Place Winner
### 2021 Contest

#### Global Servers

1st Place Winner2nd Place Winner3rd Place Winner4th Place Winner5th Place Winner
#### Chinese Server

1st Place Winner2nd Place Winner3rd Place Winner4th Place Winner5th Place Winner
### 2022 Contest

#### Global Servers

##### Return of Store Costumes

1st Place Winner2nd Place Winner3rd Place Winner4th Pace Winner5th Place Winner6th Place Winner7th Place Winner18th Place Winner
##### Return of Essence Costumes

1st Place Winner2nd Place Winner3rd Place Winner
#### Chinese Server

##### Return of Store Costumes

1st Place Winner2nd Place Winner3rd Place Winner4th Place Winner5th Place Winner6th Place Winner13th Place Winner18th Place Winner
### 2023 Contest

#### Global Servers

##### Return of Store Costumes

1st Place Winner2nd Place Winner3rd Place Winner4th Place Winner5th Place Winner6th Place Winner9th Place Winner11th Place Winner
#### Chinese Server

##### Return of Store Costumes

1st Place Winner2nd Place Winner3rd Place Winner4th Place Winner5th Place Winner6th Place Winner9th Place Winner10th Place Winner
## Trivia

* During the 2019 voting contest, in the Chinese server, limited and event-related costumes, such as Wu Chang's Far East Wind and Magician's "Masked Gentleman", were included as nominees for this contest. After backlash by players who had originally bought these under the assumption that they wouldn't return, the cosmetics were retired from the voting list, and since then, costumes related to events or marked by the "limited" tag are no longer included as nominees.
* During the 2020 voting contest, a Japanese player guild collaborated to abuse the "obtain support" voting feature to unfairly amass votes for Yesterday in an effort to keep Count's Banquet from winning. This resulted in the disqualification of Yesterday from the 2020 contest for Global servers.
* In the 2020 contest, for a brief period after launch, Cowboy's Misfit icon was incorrectly displayed as Whiplash, his COA III costume.
* During the 2022 contest, due to an error in the composition of the eligible costumes list, Tonight or Never was on the voting list even though according to the new voting rules of 2022 it should not have been able to return that year.

## Gallery

* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023

2nd Anniversary (2020) Costume Voting Contest Announcement2nd Anniversary (2020) Costume Voting Contest Global Results

2021 Costume Voting Contest2021 Costume Voting Contest Results (Facebook)

2022 Costume Voting Contest Announcement2022 Costume Voting Contest Event Detail2022 Costume Voting Contest Store Costumes Global Results (Twitter)2022 Costume Voting Contest Essence & Additional Costumes Global Results (Twitter)

2023 Costume Voting Contest Announcement (Twitter)2023 Costume Voting Contest Global Results (Twitter)
## References

1. ↑ 2019 voting page on website - https://www.identityvgame.com/2019/costume/en/
2. ↑ Due to the issue of Tonight or Never mistakenly taken part in the 2022 Costume Voting Contest it was decided that should ToN win, it would return to the Illusion Hall but not occupy the quota of winning costumes.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 NetEase's apology tweet on their English Twitter account - https://twitter.com/GameIdentityV/status/1505539955283533831
4. ↑ General summary announcing what was happening in the IDV reddit -https://www.reddit.com/r/IdentityV/comments/h9yqsk/skin\_contest\_being\_sabotaged\_by\_a\_guild/
5. ↑ In-depth outline and english translation of JP tweets detailing what had happened by the guild - https://privatter.net/p/6034620