[ Winter Beauty Contest: 2010 ]

TresBelle - Raging Tide

b:cute

There are 23 awesome entries!

There are still some that I'm not really sure will update their entries from some mistakes but we shall see by Friday. Hopefully they do so that way we can get an easy number to evenly group out people into polls. xD Hopefully like 25 so that way there can be 5 entries per poll for 5 different groups. If that made sense haha.

Still kinda working on the layout design thing. I might have to make it smaller or more simple because x_x a lot of entries came in really small and that's hard to work with, but I guess that can't be helped because Photobucket resizes things a lot. I also don't like nagging people to the core about too in-depth specifics, ya know?

fagnar

Submittedb:chuckle

buttercupcruella

Time is nearly up. Ooooooh, the excitement!!!

Hope this contest will be fun for once! (as in FULLY fun, not partially like before)

TresBelle - Raging Tide

Okay, got all my entries in that were acceptable.

Now I just gotta put them all into that template thing. XD Well...edit that one first to make it more clean or maybe I'll just find a fancy one online, haha. :P

Anyway, hopefully I will get everything done either tonight or tomorrow...and voting will hopefully be set up by Sunday night...we shall see!!

Estiah - Dreamweaver

b:pleasedb:laugh

can't wait to see all the awesome entries!! :DDD

TresBelle - Raging Tide

xD Gah, everyone is probably getting anxious about this so I decided to just keep the old template and stuff and work with that. I'm maybe 1/4 done with everything...x_X I'm trying to finish quickly while not just slapping everything together...

b:surrender Hopefully everyone is okay with the end results.

Estiah - Dreamweaver

TresBelle - Raging Tide wrote: »

b:cute

There are 23 awesome entries!

There are still some that I'm not really sure will update their entries from some mistakes but we shall see by Friday. Hopefully they do so that way we can get an easy number to evenly group out people into polls. xD Hopefully like 25 so that way there can be 5 entries per poll for 5 different groups. If that made sense haha.

Still kinda working on the layout design thing. I might have to make it smaller or more simple because x_x a lot of entries came in really small and that's hard to work with, but I guess that can't be helped because Photobucket resizes things a lot. I also don't like nagging people to the core about too in-depth specifics, ya know?

i just noticed how small my entries were >.<, would u like me to re-upload on tinypic (so it doesn't re-size the screenshot)?

TresBelle - Raging Tide

Estiah - Dreamweaver wrote: »

i just noticed how small my entries were >.<, would u like me to re-upload on tinypic (so it doesn't re-size the screenshot)?

xD Lol I already made and did everything and already in the middle of making the final poll. I tried my best to work with what I can...lol, hopefully I didn't butcher everything up too bad, hahha.

Edit: Polls are now up and running!

Please follow these links to go vote!
[ Voting 1.1 ] [ Voting 1.2 ] [ Voting 1.3 ] [ Voting 1.4 ]

Good luck everyone!

buttercupcruella

Great job, Tres!

I see you got a few entries there:)))

Some choices are just so tough....

May all contestants and voters have fun!!!

Dyskrasia - Heavens Tear

Awesome
Only one guy? lol

buttercupcruella

Dyskrasia - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Awesome
Only one guy? lol

I'm actually shocked to see ANY guy!
He's gonna bias the poll. b:sad

Renza - Raging Tide

im quite disapointed at the *faces* on there, because alot of them, are infact presets that are somehow getting votes, does the person running this contest not no whats a preset and not?

id be quite happy to point out which are, also currently on the 1.4 vote, a preset is winning...nice.

TresBelle - Raging Tide

My contest is not flawless and I'm sorry if some of you are disappointed at some things.

As for who is a preset and who is not, did you really want me to match up each face to every single preset there is? That would have taken up way too much of my time and I find it unnecessary.

All faces may have a trace of preset in them because you have to think, we did have to start off our characters by picking one and working from there to making it our character by tweaking a little bit of this or that to our liking. Does that make sense?

If you are still unhappy with this logic, then you are absolutely more than welcome to create your own contest and match up faces to presets out there and eliminate those entries.

@buttercupcruella: It caught me off guard that a guy joined into the contest lol...and there was actually going to be a second one as well (although unfortunately, his screenshots didn't reach my requirements). As for him **** up the fairness because he's the only guy, I don't think so. Everyone has a chance to win because there are a lot of good looking characters in there!

buttercupcruella

TresBelle - Raging Tide wrote: »

@buttercupcruella: It caught me off guard that a guy joined into the contest lol...and there was actually going to be a second one as well (although unfortunately, his screenshots didn't reach my requirements). As for him **** up the fairness because he's the only guy, I don't think so. Everyone has a chance to win because there are a lot of good looking characters in there!

I was only semi serious about the bias part, Tres, so don't take it as an offense.

This contest shows me that... either people DID make fake accounts to vote on themselves (NOT INTENDED TO CAUSE FLAMES OR ANYTHING, JUST AN OBSERVATION), OR, my taste differs from the majority at times...

Renza - Raging Tide

TresBelle - Raging Tide wrote: »

My contest is not flawless and I'm sorry if some of you are disappointed at some things.

As for who is a preset and who is not, did you really want me to match up each face to every single preset there is? That would have taken up way too much of my time and I find it unnecessary.

All faces may have a trace of preset in them because you have to think, we did have to start off our characters by picking one and working from there to making it our character by tweaking a little bit of this or that to our liking. Does that make sense?

yea it makes a lot of sense, the point I'm trying to get across is, what good is this *beauty contest* if people can attempt to win with an insanely small face edit, some of which didn't edit there face at all and instead just changed the colour of things and hair style, you would know how bad the pre-sets are if you actually played the game (or if you have played the game, you haven't done much editing, or you would know what the pre-sets are.)

its bad enough people putting some annoying un-edited characters into one of the 2 stickys in this section and claiming *look at my amazing character* that was barely even touched, its cool that your doing this contest, but its like having someone judge a cooking contest without knowing the first thing about good tastes, preparation and presentation, what you should of done, was had a second judge, someone that's played the game and done a lot of editing on appearances them self to know the difference, if you wanted, i could point out which ones are praticly a full pre-set and which aren't just by simply looking at them.

Dorset - Heavens Tear

Renza - Raging Tide wrote: »

its like having someone judge a cooking contest without knowing the first thing about good tastes, preparation and presentation, what you should of done, was had a second judge, someone that's played the game and done a lot of editing on appearances them self to know the difference, if you wanted, i could point out which ones are praticly a full pre-set and which aren't just by simply looking at them.

There Already ARE judges. We are. The people in the forum are responsable for voting the presets out not tres its not all her fault. The people on the forum are voting in these polls. and purhaps these people are winngin cause more people.....like...presets? sorry i couldnt say that with a straight face either.

Renza - Raging Tide wrote: »

im quite disapointed at the *faces* on there, because alot of them, are infact presets that are somehow getting votes, does the person running this contest not no whats a preset and not?
id be quite happy to point out which are, also currently on the 1.4 vote, a preset is winning...nice.

I dont like it any more than you do but if people want to vote for presets....or vote for themselves... then thats ok. It just devalues the competition and therefore their victory if they win then i hope they are proud and maybe they arent presets. does the fact that the changes made to them are miniscule necissarily mean its a preset? Where do you draw the line? like i said maybe peopel LIKE that look and those votes are valid.

in Any case people dont have a go at Tres. the competition is a good one. and always remember...everyone loves their own char and how it looks, preset or no preset. everyone has the right to enter and you could be upsetting the person who you call a "preset".

TresBelle - Raging Tide

:P Lol when I first started this game, I went through every single preset and looked at them and some of them just about made me gag. I understand your concern but please remember this is my first contest on here and like I said earlier, I really don't want to invest the time to matching up each and every character to every single preset there is to see if it is edited or not. If I do happen to make up a second contest, I will take into consideration of your observation and dedicate more time and preparation . But for now, please bear with the little flaws this contest does have and just have fun.

@buttercupcruella: Yeah, I know it's concerning to think of the possibility of other people out there voting for themselves...and I even sometimes wished that I kept the voting not anonymous but then again, like with checking with the presets, I don't want to go through every single vote and check through every single person's profile to see if so-and-so are linked together, y'know? I would like to think the people who took the time to send in the screenshots and meet the requirements would be a good enough sport to not spoil everything and vote for themselves.

@Dorset: Thank you for your response...I really like the way you put everything!

TrueAminta - Lost City

GL to everyone!!!u are all beautiful

buttercupcruella

Dorset - Heavens Tear wrote: »

in Any case people dont have a go at Tres. the competition is a good one. and always remember...everyone loves their own char and how it looks, preset or no preset. everyone has the right to enter and you could be upsetting the person who you call a "preset".

This is very nicely put. I look at my chars and see them as the best, because of the story behind the creation. I do see some other chars that appeal to me and some that don't. But, there are as many tastes as many people there are.

b:cute

The winner of this contest (and any other) is the one who enjoys their char (not narcissism, just plain pride...).

I won at that one already, even though some people might ACTUALLY win it )))

Good luck to every1, once again.

This might be my last/one of last posts on the forums, so have fun yall!!!

b:sadb:byeb:victory

Dorset - Heavens Tear

why you leavign now Cruella? :O

buttercupcruella

It was bound to happen.
I left off - topic a while back...
Moved to general discussion/barb/LC forums, but since recent game developments, I lost interest in it all.b:surrenderb:shutup

Grippieluver - Lost City

byee u will be missed b:sad

Susylu - Heavens Tear

I wish you won't leave buttercup =/

I think you did a great job Tres, the contest is actually going underway b:victory Only thing is, I really do wish you did make it open voting, so you can see who voted for who, and that's not just for honesty's sake, just cause it'll be kind of fun to see. I know my hubby and my sister voted for me so whoever else did thank you although you probably don't know which one I am b:laugh (I can already name more than half the contestants.... but I won't say)

It's also a concern that the number of votes per poll don't even add up. It does make sense that some might vote for one poll and not vote in another, but still. 49, 64, 46, 50 votes atm. The concern is that people just ask for friends to log on, vote for their character in their poll and just leave so it did indeed become more of a popularity contest? Maybe I'm too scrutinizing b:laugh

Ah well. It's fun anyways. I saw a couple characters that I thought were nice, and did notice more preset characters that Renza pointed out. There is no problem with it on the grounds that it's a beauty contest, not a character creation contest. The people who entered preset characters might not have done with work to make them look good, but they did have the taste to enter them for the contest so it's all good. I hope you do end up doing another one; I think I might have improved since I put out my rather hasty entry this time.

Thank you again, Tres! Can't wait to see the results b:victory

Kipitei - Raging Tide

Susylu - Heavens Tear wrote: »

The concern is that people just ask for friends to log on, vote for their character in their poll and just leave so it did indeed become more of a popularity contest? Maybe I'm too scrutinizing b:laugh

I thought so at first too, and I figured this would especially be the case for presets...but then I got some votes myself... and I have no friends ingame ;w;
Was actually wondering if its okay to vote yourself but I couldn't do it because it felt wrong ><;

Btw does Tres know who votes who? Like could publish them after contest...
Ohh also, Thank you Tres for this contest, its incredibly well done ! :>

Susylu - Heavens Tear

Kipitei - Raging Tide wrote: »

I thought so at first too, and I figured this would especially be the case for presets...but then I got some votes myself... and I have no friends ingame ;w;
Was actually wondering if its okay to vote yourself but I couldn't do it because it felt wrong ><;

Btw does Tres know who votes who? Like could publish them after contest...
Ohh also, Thank you Tres for this contest, its incredibly well done ! :>

I like your character tho b:pleased I think she's cute. And there's no shame in voting for yourself if you honestly think it looks better than the other people's b:chuckle

No, it doesn't tell you who voted for who so she won't be able to tell. There's a 15 vote difference between the poll with the lowest votes and the highest votes, but meh. I'm personally rooting for one individual in particular to win the whole thing, I hope they win I really think theirs was well made and beautiful. b:thanks

KuiXing - Harshlands

Susylu - Heavens Tear wrote: »

It's also a concern that the number of votes per poll don't even add up. It does make sense that some might vote for one poll and not vote in another, but still. 49, 64, 46, 50 votes atm. The concern is that people just ask for friends to log on, vote for their character in their poll and just leave so it did indeed become more of a popularity contest? Maybe I'm too scrutinizing b:laugh

People might be getting friends to vote for them, because ik someone in the contest asked for my fact to vote for them if they were bored, and posted hers and found mine so she put mine in the post as well, might be throwing the voting off but eh idk :>

Dorset - Heavens Tear

awww i made a point not to mention to anyone even my friends that i was in the contest obv im liek the only one who has done that rofl

Graviora - Dreamweaver

Dorset - Heavens Tear wrote: »

awww i made a point not to mention to anyone even my friends that i was in the contest obv im liek the only one who has done that rofl

Same here. b:sweat

Kyna - Lost City

Yeah I know what you mean. I haven't said a word to anyone >_> I even didn't use my main because she's too recognizable xD

=_= no offense to anyone but I do know of someone that's probably asked friends to vote for them because well... there's no way that character deserves the votes it's got, ijs.

No names mentioned.

Jellytoast - Sanctuary

Kyna - Lost City wrote: »

Yeah I know what you mean. I haven't said a word to anyone >_> I even didn't use my main because she's too recognizable xD

=_= no offense to anyone but I do know of someone that's probably asked friends to vote for them because well... there's no way that character deserves the votes it's got, ijs.

No names mentioned.

I thought the same thing too. b:shocked