[konidias]

I know I'm not being forced and my posts were honestly not of me whining or throwing a hissy fit or anything of that nature. Maybe they came off to you as sounding that way, but it wasn't my intention at all. I was simply stating my disappointment as I was expecting something a little different from this. I'm sorry if that's not what you wanted to hear, but that's my opinion.

I'll still participate as much as I can, but I was just trying to point out some of the problems with the competition. I understand that this is ran by the players for the players, but I hardly see how you can throw that card up every time someone has a complaint about it. I appreciate that this contest is being held as I'm sure many others are, but that doesn't give you the right to call me a child for merely stating some of the things I think are flaws with this contest.

If you weren't going to publically release the matchups, why didn't you just have a free for all contest where you post the works of all the entries and have people vote for their favorites in a multiple choice poll. Then you just cut the half of the entries who get the lowest votes/score until you narrow it down to one in the final round. As I see no point for matching people up if you're not going to announce the matchups at the start.

That's all I'm saying... No need to get all defensive about it and tell me I'm being childish.

edit: as far as why the size of the art matters. I think it matters a lot. If one person doese a piece that is like a single pretty pixelated flower and another guy does a piece the size of a desktop wallpaper, of an entire scene of pixel art then it's not really an even contest. You're going to get a whole array of different submissions and it's going to be very difficult to judge them side by side this way. If you made the contest more specific like "draw a picture of a guy rowing a boat in a storm" then it would be a hell of a lot easier to judge everyone's work.