Three and a bit years ago, I ran
this contest. Figured it was about time I ran it again.
LAST CONTEST'S WINNERS:
1st place Crimmy
2nd place Ego Slayer
3rd place Miss Nobody
The process is complicated, so make sure you pay attention. I've also changed it a bit: last time everything was in one category; this time, I've added categories! Here we go:
The (un)Official Best Playground Avatarist Competition the Second
What it is: As much a showcase of the forum's avataring talent and a celebration of Order of the Stick style art as a competition, it's all about sharing and admiring our collective avatar works and appreciating the best - and everyone else too! Don't be shy, share what you've got, whether it's one avatar or a hundred.
How it works: There will be a series of rounds. During the first round, all competitors will submit their art into three categories: Humanoids, Creatures and Scenes. At the same time, everyone (including the competitors, and me) will vote for what they consider to be the three best pieces in every category for every entrant.
The second round will be a tie breaker for those individual pieces. At the end of the tie breaker, every category for every entrant will have three pieces that the Playground as a whole thinks are their very best works of art.
For the third round, everyone will vote on their favourite avatarists for each of those categories, based
solely on that top three.
All votes will be open. If anyone wants to double check my counting, they can.
The Rules
Round 1
Competitors: Submit all the pieces you want to, under the following three headings:
Humanoids: Anything that looks more or less humanoid and is 200pxsq or less. Humans, obviously, and the rest of the core races; giants, ogres, goblinoids, bipedal golems, anthropomorphic personifications... I'd probably set 3 legs as the limit for a humanoid, and I'm undecided about things like lizardfolk. Everyone's welcome to give their own opinions; if there's some consensus on the matter, I'll incorporate it into these rules. If not, I'll leave it up to the competitor to decide.
Creatures: Anything that is not a humanoid and is 200pxsq or less. Objects may be included in this.
Scenes: Anything larger than 200pxsq. May include larger versions of the Humanoids/Creatures, and multi-panel comics. I don't recommend the submission of whole webcomics, but you may choose to submit a few strips and a link - remember, each image will be voted on separately.
All art submitted must be at least recognisably OotS-inspired. If you'd like a general art competition, you're most welcome to start one. And no ponies. Ponies can get their own contest. This is an OotS-Style Avatarist Competition.
There is no upper limit on how many items you can submit. This is a showcase as much as a competition, and I don't want to limit anyone, especially as people are often surprised by how much other people's opinions differ from their own. I would suggest, though, that if you have more than, say, 100, you consider being a bit selective. I will not enforce that.
There is only one other limit on what you can submit: if your image is in
this post, it is ineligible. You don't get to win two in a row from the same images
So don't submit it if it's in there.
Last time, competitors found it helpful to mark different rows in their submissions to help the voters pick out their three specific images in a whole wall of code. It worked last time, so I recommend doing it again. You may also consider dividing the categories into their own spoilers. So, the recommended format is:
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Originally Posted by Serpentine
My submissions.
Humanoids:
Creatures:
Scenes:
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Voters: You have three (3) votes per category per competitor. Competitors may vote for everyone else and for their own. There are no criteria for your votes: you vote for what you like, for whatever reason you want. Voting will be open, right here on this page. I will add up the votes myself, but if anyone wants to double check my counting I'm happy for them to do so.
Just describing the piece you want to vote for can get confusing, so I strongly recommend submitting the image yourself as your vote. Thus the votes should look something like this:
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Originally Posted by Serpentine
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There is no specific deadline for the submissions and votes at the outset. As last time, submissions will be.. "wound down" when people stop submitting as quickly, and will be officially closed when I finish adding up all the votes (with lots of warning beforehand). Any last-minute submissions, too late to get any votes from the public, will simply have their final 3 selected by me. Thus I strongly urge competitors to get into it ASAP, and for voters to keep on coming back to check for new submissions to vote on.
Round 2
Round 2 will consist of the tiebreakers that will inevitably be required to pick out the top 3 entries for each category for each competitor. The images with a clear lead will be "locked in", and any tied will be submitted for revote.
Every voter will have one (1) vote per category per person. Competitors may vote on their own submissions.
This round will look like
this ('cept with more cateogories).
Round 3
The final round. At this point, every competitor will have three of their best avatars, as chosen by the Playground, in each category. The voters vote for their favourite avatarists in each category, based on those three images,
and only those three images. Voters will have three votes per category. Competitors may vote, but not for themselves.
Votes should be submitted in the following format, or something like it:
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Originally Posted by Serpentine
Humanoids:
- Dallas-Dakota
- Haruki-kun
- Ego Slayer
Creatures:
- Dispozition
- Trog
- That guy with the hat.
Scenes:
- Thingo
- Whatsit
- Dooviwacky
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There may be an extra round of voting to resolve ties. If so, every voter will have only 1 vote to decide.
So, here we go again! Get submitting, get voting, and go spread the word and get everyone involved!
ROUND 2 IN PROGRESS
The results of Round 1 are
here. Voters vote on the Tie-Breaker section only. One vote per category per competitor. Vote for
every category for
every competitor for which there is a tie-breaker, including yourself; competitors may vote on their own entries
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