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Post by drakkenfan on Mar 20, 2007 11:18:27 GMT -5
Today is the last day to enter!
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Post by VICIOUS on Mar 20, 2007 12:20:58 GMT -5
Hey, ya think ya can make second place the Shego charm instead?... Please!!! >.>;;;
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Post by drakkenfan on Mar 20, 2007 12:32:31 GMT -5
Hey, ya think ya can make second place the Shego charm instead?... Please!!! >.>;;; I only have one Shego charm that's unopened in mint condition, for the first prize winner. The other Shego I have, my daughter has been playing with (in other words: destroying), and the leg keeps falling off because she pulled it out once and it needs to be re-glued. The leg also has a scratch on it and the hair has a worn spot. But if you win second place and you really want a Shego charm, I can ask my daughter if she's willing to trade her used-Shego for your brand-new Drakken charm. Though I can't guarantee she'll say yes. She loves Shego, and can never seem to remember Drakken's name.
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Post by VICIOUS on Mar 20, 2007 13:11:54 GMT -5
lol, I'd rather have a new drakken then a knawed on Shego ^^;; *sigh* Oh well, lets see what happens.
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Post by Warbandit on Mar 20, 2007 17:13:38 GMT -5
Haha, well isn't that ironic...it's Drakken's name that can't be remembered this time Anyway, I guess it makes more sense for a Drakken charm to be the prize in a Drakken contest, anyway. ;D Looking forward to any of the last minute entries today...good luck to everyone!
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Post by drakkenfan on Mar 22, 2007 13:01:43 GMT -5
During the voting, there's been some confusion by more than one contestant as to how many people have entered and where the art entries are posted. Sorry, if I never mentioned this on rs.net before, but I've been posting all of the contest announcements and all of the art entries on my DA page (on the journal): drakkenfan.deviantart.com/ . There's 11 entries and that's where you can see them all to vote. (Voting is open to contestants only, so that it's not a popularity contest.)
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Post by drakkenfan on Mar 28, 2007 11:44:50 GMT -5
If anyone knows how to contact Liokaiser, can you please tell him everyone is waiting for his vote so I can announce the winners. He hasn't been on RS.net or on DA for over 2 weeks so he never received my vote instructions notes. It's almost the voting deadline (March 31st), and he'll end up being disqualified if he doesn't turn in his vote. I'd feel really sad having to disqualify him.
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Post by nabusan on Mar 28, 2007 11:56:08 GMT -5
So when will it come to the general public voting?
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Post by drakkenfan on Mar 28, 2007 13:44:05 GMT -5
So when will it come to the general public voting? There isn't a general public voting, because I wanted to avoid popularity/friend votes.
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Post by DanMat6288 on Mar 28, 2007 16:52:53 GMT -5
But, seriously, have you considered the chances of everybody voting for their own picture?
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Post by Sarah on Mar 28, 2007 17:20:02 GMT -5
It's set up so you can't vote for your own picture.
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Post by Prof. Joel Chen on Mar 28, 2007 18:43:53 GMT -5
No one said it was perfect, but there're some important flaws to this system too. With voting limited to the contestants one could rate his/her perceived best competition lowest, and another could enter with a two-minute doodle to get his/her vote in Although of course we'd like to think our players are good sports
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Post by drakkenfan on Mar 28, 2007 19:15:44 GMT -5
No one said it was perfect, but there're some important flaws to this system too. With voting limited to the contestants one could rate his/her perceived best competition lowest, and another could enter with a two-minute doodle to get his/her vote in Although of course we'd like to think our players are good sports I know that's possible too, but this was the fairest voting system I could think of. FaZhou uses it for his contests too. And in the end, everyone voted honestly. Though I'm still waiting for that last vote.
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Post by nabusan on Mar 28, 2007 19:47:23 GMT -5
No one said it was perfect, but there're some important flaws to this system too. With voting limited to the contestants one could rate his/her perceived best competition lowest, and another could enter with a two-minute doodle to get his/her vote in Although of course we'd like to think our players are good sports Ah we think alike, I was about to mention tactical voting ;D
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Post by VICIOUS on Mar 28, 2007 21:17:22 GMT -5
I voted Honestly o.o And you know how critical i am about this stuff ^^;
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Post by fazhou on Mar 28, 2007 23:27:40 GMT -5
Thanks for the nod, Drakkenfan! No one said it was perfect, but there're some important flaws to this system too. With voting limited to the contestants one could rate his/her perceived best competition lowest, and another could enter with a two-minute doodle to get his/her vote in Although of course we'd like to think our players are good sports Right, no system can be perfect, but the "voting amongst participants" pretty much eliminates the "stuff the ballot box" syndrome. Then, to reduce favoritism amongst the participants, I throw out the highest 1/3 and lowest 1/3 scores for each piece. Sort of like what they used to do in Olympic figure skating. (For those of us old enough to remember, during the Cold War the communist countries' judges all voted favorably towards other communist countries and against the USA, so the Olympic officials tossed out the highest and lowest scores.) It's therefore extremely difficult to "cheat" this scoring method in the way you described. For a good example, in one of my past contests one of the entries was a "Kigo" drawing. When the votes came in for it, nearly everyone gave it fairly high scores, but two voters rated it as a "1" (last place). Since their votes were so inconsistent with the rest of the voters, I could only surmise that those voters merely hated Kigo and were not voting on the quality of the drawing. No matter, because with my method those two votes were not a factor in the final tally anyway. I feel the results have been quite fair and had little to do with the artist's popularity. When the votes came in, there's always been a pattern--a consensus--about what the best drawings were. Each of my winners have invariably been solid pieces of art.
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Post by Prof. Joel Chen on Mar 29, 2007 0:13:51 GMT -5
Hmm, well that sounds pretty close to perfection to me
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Post by fazhou on Mar 29, 2007 8:59:59 GMT -5
Forgot to add--I also make it a point not to "talk up" an artist during the contest, or just prior to it. Plus, I make sure that during the contest, I don't have any "favorites" on my front page that belong to any of the participants. I'm not into rigging contests.
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Post by drakkenfan on Mar 29, 2007 11:01:39 GMT -5
Well, all of the votes people sent in were fair, and there weren't any big discrepencies, so I don't see any reason to throw out the 1/3 highest and lowest votes on each piece at least in this contest. Though I can understand why that would be useful when there are pictures of 'ships like Kigo that some people love and some people hate. That's a good idea to keep in mind for any future contests I might have.
Once all the votes are in, I'll post everyone's final score so they can see how well they did.
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Post by VICIOUS on Mar 31, 2007 1:55:07 GMT -5
So... When's this final vote in?
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