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Originally Posted by konidias
"Spring" is a very general theme... A little too general if you ask me.
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You're right, it is a general theme, but if you look at competitions of the past and competitions outside of the forums, topics such as seasons are very common. In my opinion, having a theme of this nature is much better then picking any old thing that comes into your head, just for the sake of comparing.
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Originally Posted by konidias
Also... I'm moving around March 9th and I may or may not have internet until April... So I guess I'm kinda screwed out of this tournament.
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I'm sorry to hear that, really. However, I'm not sure how long you estimated the tournament would go on for, but judging by this it was pretty unrealistic.
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Originally Posted by konidias
I'm disappointed that this is starting two days late and I'm disappointed that this isn't planned out better with better instructions...
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You of all people should know that these things happen
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Originally Posted by konidias
I mean are we supposed to draw something now? There is no size limit to these submissions? You left out so many details that I can't seriously participate in this competition anyway.
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I would presume you should draw something soon judging by the starting and deadline for the first stage and no, there wasn't a size limit because while I was helping Tom we couldn't decide on one, and I would like to see an example of why this is a crucial requirement that is required
so much that you can't seriously participate in the competition because of it, as it would appear that is the only detail that was missing from the Event Guidelines. Something was missing, oh shock horror, "Can you animate?" and guess what, instead of taking a hissy fit about it someone asked and got the answer straight away.
Sure we can pretend that this is a major professional competition and every single detail should be listed before release, but Graal as a whole isn't like that. You're actually acting like a child who's thrown his toys out of his push chair and it's pretty disappointing.
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Originally Posted by konidias
Um... I thought people were going to be matched up?
What fun is it if we don't get to see who we are matched up against until after the contest round is over? If anything it's leaving room for people to be suspicious of the matchups... I mean seriously, just post them up.
Like if you have 5 great pieces submitted and 5 not so great, none of the public is going to know if you change the matchups so that the 5 bad pieces are against the 5 great pieces... instead of maybe a great piece against a great piece or a bad piece against a bad one... It's really not fair in my opinion. I can't see how posting the matchups now is going to cause complaining... really.. "you matched me up against a great gfxer!" um I thought that was the point...
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Originally Posted by DARKVILLIN
agreed. I think you should release who you are matched up against...It will tell you how much time you need to spend making something...Like If i were matched up against konidias I would know I would be screwed... so i better make something outstanding. Plus i think people should know so it causes more of a tournament how its supposed to be?
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The match ups were selected at random, I numbered each persons name, then used a random integer generator to give an automated list. Initially the entries were going to be judged and paired up via the preliminary submissions, but it takes the whole point away. We want to see the best battling it out at the end, not at the very beginning and my generator actually worked out a great line up.
The whole concept of not-releasing the match ups now was for a number of reasons, some I figured would be pretty blatant such as popularity voting. I have also spoken to may of the contestants and know that some people didn't even bother entering for fear of being paired up with people and being the laughing stock of the competition.
I think it would be naive to say that because people may be rivalling those tipped to win, the quality of their work would improve because to be honest, if you're not entering the competition with the intentions of doing your best, I don't see the point.
The competition is providing a bit of light relief with an added bonus on the end, ran by players, for players so I honestly do not see the need for this trivial nitpicking. The competition hasn't started fully yet and because it's two days late this thread probably didn't include everything it should have, but it's easily edited in.
If you don't want to take part Konidias, don't. There are a lot of people who wanted to join in, but couldn't because of the amount of people and the pairing up. I'd love to see what you would produce as I'm a fan of what you do, but it's not like you're being forced.
02-28-2007, 02:28 AM
) to get their votes in.
Good luck to whoever participates.
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