Can I run away with my trophy yet? I'd like to thank all the little peeps that made this possible...blah blah...lol
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Seriously though, good job everyone. The second round of voting seemed to swap things around a bit. Ironic how that turned out eh?
I'm happy people like the map as I plan to go further with it and I hope to see everyone else take their maps further.
A couple things I've noticed about the contests that could probably be changed for the better:
1- one round of voting only (maybe a tie breaker if needed). This first vote was close, but it did have a winner. Also, maybe it should be posted in the initial thread that a close call would result in revote, might help to encourage people to return for a second round of voting. Still, we had a decent turnout for an unannounced 2nd round.
I even missed the finalist thread for a minute, it wasn't posted at the end of the first vote thread so it was kindof 'stumble apon it'. When I congratulated Darker someone pointed me to it (and I was a contestant).-
2-Like Darker said, maybe better front page coverage. I don't visit the homepage much, but if these are 'big' events trying to draw mappers into the comunity more announcement might help.
3-Seriously need a contest sub-forum update. It has the 1st 4 way outdated contests up and all contests after that have been excluded. There are also links on the main forum page that lead to those old contests, but not to the new ones.
4- And voting ended yesterday? but no announcements? Due to lack of site mods entering? Dates should be established in the first thread for everything. Start, end, voting... I think Youme wrote 7 days (and looking at the date of his post will lead you to the end date) but it should probably be more clear.
You know how the gameday thread/contest posts get misread/skimmed through as is.
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I don't know if lack of prizes was a factor in a small amount of entries, maybe people were just busy with other stuff...
I don't really care about prizes but nothing was even announced such as 'a tag under your name - contest winner 1st, 2nd, 3rd...) Other than entering there wasn't a 'motivating factor'.
I just feel like the contest kind of peetered out into the void.
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Anyway, I appreciate you guys running the contest and am looking foward to what's next.