You quoted a part of my, well, quote, that you seem to have missed, so I'll repeat.
"even tho we went minimalistic."
Overall, presentation field yields 15 points, out of 100 total. Of that 15% of score, a judge should have appointed points based on how he values the presentation.
I'll use Mythic's entry (no offences hun, and I do love your entry a lot
), and my entry from this contest: there is certainly a judge that will appoint more points to him due to being graphically more impressive than my entry, and there is certainly a judge that will say "Hey, anyone can do it impressive by making it completely in photoshop. It's not fun/It does not work for me." and appoint me more points.
This is known as the random factor. You can't predict "movement" of mind of a judge, unless you know him really well. Your presentation idea might have topped all of our ideas.
You see, the old saying which, well, says, that if you don't join, you'll regret, but if you DO join, you MAY regret; is totally true. Only thing you
could regret is not having enough time, theregore missing an error that should have fixed in your entry.
I'm sure there's a field of expertise you may excel at and bust our asses here.
I'm hoping you'll re-read the upper paragraph once again, and decide to join the next contest. I'd love to see you there
And if nothing else, you might not end up in top 3, but you
damn well tried to get there. And THAT's what matters, and what makes you a person to respect and value.
I suppose...
So apparently there
is a consideration/Criteria for "Presentation" in the Contest. Ok, that's cool.
I suppose I might adjust your statement a bit... Or better, explain it in different terms. We may not be able to tell the 'movements of the mind' of our Judges, but what you speak of is primarily the "Subjective" opinion of the Judge, where the duties of the Judge & the goal/angle of the Criteria should be focused towards maximizing the "Objective" merit of a given entry.
So a two Judges may disagree on whether they
like the particular presentation of the entries (e.g. liked the colors better, disliked the organization, etc), and that's fine, but that's
subjective. Both of the Judges should be able to look
objectively at the entries' Presentation and determine "which was best"; i.e. most organized, most informative, most "well-presented". This, I think, is where I would've failed most; not that what I had in mind was
badly-Presented, per se, but that in comparison it is not really all that good (in large part because it's more suited for an RTS hero, not an AoS hero)
Now, I'll openly acknowledge that it's true; we're all humans, and we no more give purely 100% objective (i.e. truth)-based Judging than we can tear out our hearts & replace them with circuitry
(at least, not yet... ). But with the random users piping up in the thread, and the Public Poll with it's less-stringent
(compared to the "must test all & use Criteria & be expressive" Judges) Voting guidelines, we've already got plenty of "Subjective-ness"; the Criteria & the Judges are an opportunity to encourage/acquire some serious, demonstrably less 'wishy-washy' critique in the form of an objective viewpoint (also why we prefer 2-4+ Judges, so as to "spread out"/minimize any potential Subjectivity)
Moreover, I have long been a proponent of incorporating some "intentional Subjectivity" into the Criteria, usually in the form of an "Awexomeness" Criteria. It's never worth a lot of points, but it lets the Judges say "yeah, this was pretty cool overall" or "eh, wasn't really feeling this entry". This "outlet" for subjectivity allows a Judge to focus more of their objective-ness to the task in the other, more pertinent Criteria.
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Long Soapbox Rant aside, these Contests at first seem pretty cool to me; I'm
all about IDEAS and design (& don't really have a lot to show for it, *cough*), so typing up some ideas in a fancy table is totally a thing I would do. Heck,
I have. : ) But... Well, it's not all about winning to me, but I don't enjoy participating in Contests that aren't well-suited to my particular skills. That's fine, I don't raise a fuss; I just don't join. Or,
I campaign aggressively for & Host Contests of my own design. >
But anyway, these Contests seem to be more about making an AoS hero (which, to be fair, is really appropriate; melee Heroes are, when done right, a bit 'simple' for a whole Contest around them (well... Maybe more than a few (hm, a "Idealist: Make a Full Set of Faction Heroes" Contest?...))), which is really not my forte or preference. I was just gonna take one of my melee-Hero ideas & rework it a bit for an AoS, but meh.
Most importantly, I got pretty sick over this weekend, and just ran out of time (decided "sleeping" & "recuperating" were more important than beating myself up for not entering).
So we'll see. I had kinda talked myself out of these, but you raise some good points. Mayhaps.
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