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GTX_Admin:
Ok folks,

As promised, until Scooterman is repatriated, here is the Poll for the GB.  The entries may be viewed here.

You only have a single vote so make it count.  You are however able to change your vote should you change your mind.  You only have 10 days to vote though.  Results will be shown after the poll is closed and I tally up the bribes votes.

Regards,

Greg

Cliffy B:
I honestly don't think its fair to lump all of the entries together.  I know Brian was the only one of us to do any psychical builds but comparing his to the rest of the profiles, stories, and profiles/stories just doesn't seem fair to everyone.  The entries all clearly fall into one of those categories.

I'm not trying to come off sounding like an ass or come off as jealous in any manner here (its certainly NOT my intention) but I feel like there needs to be different categories, however few the entries for each for the sake of fairness.  Maybe I'm alone in this but I felt the need to say something.

Brian da Basher:
Thank you for your thoughtful comments, Cliffy. I'm pleased as punch just to have my models displayed among such amazing and inspiring entries. The work done for this GB set a very high standard indeed!

I'm OK with things as they are. If there were other 3D entries, splitting them out separately would probably be a good idea. I think we should consider doing that for the next GB if needed.

I also wanted to thank everyone who participated. It's because of you that these GBs are such a blast!

Brian da Basher

GTX_Admin:

--- Quote from: Cliffy B on July 13, 2012, 03:29:25 AM ---I honestly don't think its fair to lump all of the entries together.  I know Brian was the only one of us to do any psychical builds but comparing his to the rest of the profiles, stories, and profiles/stories just doesn't seem fair to everyone.  The entries all clearly fall into one of those categories.

I'm not trying to come off sounding like an ass or come off as jealous in any manner here (its certainly NOT my intention) but I feel like there needs to be different categories, however few the entries for each for the sake of fairness.  Maybe I'm alone in this but I felt the need to say something.

--- End quote ---

I hear what you are saying and do sympathise.  Normally there would indeed have been separate categories (just look at the earlier GBs this year to see what I mean).  In this case though because Brian's was the only physical creation submitted, it hardly made sense to have a category just for him ( you could vote for Brian or you could vote for Brian...).  I did agonise over this a little, but didn't really see any other option.  I am happy to take suggestions though so as to avoid this problem in the future.

Cliffy B:
I hear what you're saying as well.  Excluding Brian from this (no offense man) since he clearly won the physical build section  :D 

I look at the others and see differences enough to warrant at least two or three categories for them.  Some of us did profiles only, stories only, or a combo of both.  Those that, say did a profile, may draw more votes based on the "ooo shiny" factor, and those that just did stories will get the "oh he just wrote some stuff" reaction and get viewed as less of an entry.  Then there's the "I don't want to read a wall of text ooh look a profile" and then the story doesn't even get a skim.  If they were split into separate groups than the stories could be judged on their own merit and not having any accompanying profiles doesn't detract from the quality of the entry.

It just wouldn't seem right if for arguments sake, Brian won just because he's the only one that built something therefore the others didn't stand a chance.  I know this gets into voter mentality and the like but if that did happen you could easily make that argument and several people could feel rather cheated.

I've seen that happen in other circumstances when dissimilar entries are voted on as one group and I'd hate to see that happen, especially with this GB as everyone obviously put a lot of work and effort into their entries.  Just because someone can build, or draw, or write, or draw and write shouldn't give them an advantage over someone who can just do one or the other. 

How exactly to split up the entries though I'm not sure and I think we'd wind up with different categories with only 1-3 in each which isn't necessarily a bad thing.  Lumping dissimilar entries together is going to to create unfair ad/disadvantages for all involved.


On a different but related subject, where the heck is Scooterman?  Do we need to send out search parties again?  Should we wait until he returns and see what his thoughts are since its his GB?

I don't know...

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