...because it was the only entry without a skull. Hot tipper NoBullet reports that the Mercenaries tat contest is done.

Feast your eyes, mortals, on the 13-year-old winner's acceptance speech:

Hello my name is Matt Deluca but my friends call me mongoose and I am 13 years old. My gamertag is: phatalerror so you can play me on Mercs2WiF (hopefully it comes out for 360).

I was born in Egg Harbor City NJ but I moved and now I live in Atco NJ. Well I am a student on summer vacation, but I do work for a landscaping company for a summer job!

Some of my favorite video games are: Mercenaries, Halo, Halo2, Call of Duty 2, the Metal Gear Solid Series, and to all my buddies over in Iraq the Tom Clancy Series! But when I'm away from my sweet, sweet 360 I go paintballing with some of my friends.

In 20 years I see myself in the military or on the SWAT team and my specialty would be demolitions or a sniper. And that's me!

Mongoose drew the sword seen on the main contest page and won the contest, beating out a slew of better entries that are visible in the "gallery". The design at the right is not his, but it was my favorite. Imagine actually getting that tattooed onto yourself. Fricking sweet.

Why a sword entwined with roses, Mongoose?

A sword to represent strongness, which is a valuable asset in combat. It would be COOL if Mattias had a sword on his arm though!

Roger that. Carry on. Eliza sweet fancy moses it's a slow news day gauger

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