Graal Pixel Tournament Spring '07

[Tom]

As the entry date has now passed, and we sadly had to decline a few people from entering it's time to begin! The initial match ups have been decided at random, and all of the fine details are finalised, therefore I'm pleased to announce that the Graalian Pixel Tournament Spring '07 is finally starting. I'd just like to run through a few extra details to avoid confusion before we get started.


Competitors:

The match ups will be posted on the 25th of February, the day before the first stage submission deadline, you may or may not be paired up with someone who is tipped to win, but don't fret as you never know.

In order to keep things fair and allow everyone to have enough time to complete and submit their stage entries, I thought 5 days would be the perfect length to design the entry and flex your skills. When each new theme is released you will receive a PM (you can opt out from receiving this, but it is probably better if you don't) for notification, once the theme has been released you should start your work as soon as you like, as long as it is in before the deadline. You should submit your entries by PMing me, preferably sooner rather than later. Once the entries are in by the deadline, a poll will be made between yourself and your randomly selected opponent, which will run for another 5 days for the public to decide which is better, and for our panel of judges () to get their votes in.

As stated in the Introduction Thread, each round will be assigned a "theme" to what the image should surround to provide a direction. In each stage of the competition, the themes will be released in this thread, between 5pm and 6pm EST on each of the dates listed below. Bear in mind that the theme is there just to provide a direction, use your own imaginations on how you would like to represent this theme as you like. Below will show the latest theme, the time and the deadlines, read over the Event Guidelines if you have not done so lately.

• 26th February to 3rd March¹ - Spring
  As the competition is after all, "Graalian Pixel Tournament Spring '07" I didn't see a more fitting first theme than "The Season of Spring". There are a lot of words associated with Spring, for example, rain, new life (both plant and animal), etc, so there shouldn't be any problems with inspiration.
  
  
• 10th March to 15th March - ???
  
  
• 22nd March to 28th March - ???
  
  
• 3rd April to 8th April - ???
  

Public:

Like I said in the introductory thread, even though you have not entered to win, your participation is still needed. Remember that the public vote counts for 60% of the final decision of each match - that's quite a big influence! The more votes they get, the more fair it will be.

The polls for voting will be posted in a special forum specifically for the competition here. To avoid any unnecessary posts in the threads posting in the forum has been disabled, you will only be allowed to vote on the polls. Any discussion of the entries should be posted here.

Oh and again, good luck


¹ Due to a 2 day delay beyond control, I have moved the dates forward by 3 days to make up for any loss of time.