i didn't really have any problems untill round 3. the problem is that rounds one and two dealt with illustration, while the poster in round 3 falls under graphic design. This effectively cut off all artist who cant do graphic design.
round 1) It sounded cool, but the winners were chosen with the wrong standards: Everyone thought that the winner would be the best model, not the best representation.
round 2) LNR got a pretty difficult assignment, and that surely was a reason why few people participated. And once again won the best looking even if in some of them I couldn't even find any clue of the "plan".
round 3) that was just boring for the LNR, while SE always got better assignments.
Overall) I think you lost it. The idea of two forces one against each other is cool, while two of the working together against one enemy is boring. First of all: changelings are "love-powered", so in case of open war they lose. That's pretty easy to understand. I bet if you are going to ask for a battle, changelings will loose in a few hours. So the last round was the worst error: you made the whole "civil war" thing die, and also chose a tactic that a single enemy like the changelings would never adopt.
If you are going to make a new contest like this one, please consider this improvements:
-more judges voting, from mods from both the groups
-specify the vote criteria, and try to base it on creativity and not on the final visual effect. Consider that if I make a beautiful drawing for a contest but the assignment was slightly different I get discarded, and this didn't happen here. They did even win!
-try thinking more on what the assignments could be: the last one didn't even make sense...
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And for the last round, consider that in a civil war if the leader is struck down, there is always a second one that will replace him. That's because only empires and tyrannies die with the death of the head, not the republics. Please, think about it: if you are fighting against your brothers just to end monarchy, you are not caring about who's organizing everything, you just want monarchy to stop.
DO NOT think that a population would reunite just because a part of them has been tricked, that's childish.
I think that in the first round, the judges had wrong the criteria when it came to deciding a winner. Second round, everyone on Luna's side were told that the were suckers and the assignment were uninteresting. And in the third round the other group gots a much better assignment than the other.
I think the whole idea of a princess based pony war had so much potential and it was all waste on this contest. Were shading wins over creativity and one group gets special treatment.
Sta.sh
Devious Comments
round 2) LNR got a pretty difficult assignment, and that surely was a reason why few people participated. And once again won the best looking even if in some of them I couldn't even find any clue of the "plan".
round 3) that was just boring for the LNR, while SE always got better assignments.
Overall) I think you lost it. The idea of two forces one against each other is cool, while two of the working together against one enemy is boring.
First of all: changelings are "love-powered", so in case of open war they lose. That's pretty easy to understand.
I bet if you are going to ask for a battle, changelings will loose in a few hours.
So the last round was the worst error: you made the whole "civil war" thing die, and also chose a tactic that a single enemy like the changelings would never adopt.
If you are going to make a new contest like this one, please consider this improvements:
-more judges voting, from mods from both the groups
-specify the vote criteria, and try to base it on creativity and not on the final visual effect. Consider that if I make a beautiful drawing for a contest but the assignment was slightly different I get discarded, and this didn't happen here. They did even win!
-try thinking more on what the assignments could be: the last one didn't even make sense...
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And for the last round, consider that in a civil war if the leader is struck down, there is always a second one that will replace him.
That's because only empires and tyrannies die with the death of the head, not the republics.
Please, think about it: if you are fighting against your brothers just to end monarchy, you are not caring about who's organizing everything, you just want monarchy to stop.
DO NOT think that a population would reunite just because a part of them has been tricked, that's childish.
Second round, everyone on Luna's side were told that the were suckers and the assignment were uninteresting.
And in the third round the other group gots a much better assignment than the other.
I think the whole idea of a princess based pony war had so much potential and it was all waste on this contest.
Were shading wins over creativity and one group gets special treatment.