MMC Open 2008 (Deadline December 31, 2008)

I gotta agree w/ tetsujin here. A good model is a good model, no matter how often one posts on a site.

If they gave prizes for some other purpose or agenda, well, that's their prerogative too.

I used to play the Contest Game a few years back, where you study a contest to see what they want and then build to that standard. Every one of them is different, and every one has it's own agenda. That's not bad, it's just the nature of the beast.

The only time something like that makes me mad is if I paid money to enter. I got shut out of a figure painting contest once for being "a professional".

"This contest is for amateurs and hobbyists, not for some ringer to come in and scoop up all the prizes!" they said.

Now I appreciated the "compliment", but I certainly ain't no professional. So I demanded my money back, and never went to that show again.

smeagol the vile wrote:

The only contest that we had over at MMc that had prizes was the Federation vs Zeon contest.  We had ALOTof people show that normally didnt.  alot of crap too.  I was really disapointed by the judging, to be honest.  Personally I think it was a bit unfair that the prizes went to people who never entered a kit there before, and never entered one after that.

There were a couple other events with prizes.  We may do prizes again in the future.

I think the Fed vs. Zeon contest had a lot of great work, personally.  Even the weaker entries were generally quite good.

As for the prizes - what does it matter if the prize winners hadn't entered on the site before, and what does it matter if they never came back for that matter? They came to the site and entered quality work. So, what, do we disqualify them from the drawing 'cause they're new to the site? Ridiculous. Anyone who enters should have a shot at winning.  If we say "Oh, they're new here, we shouldn't give the prize to them", that's really unfair...  And it defeats the whole purpose of the prize from our perspective, which is to promote involvement in the contest - not just from the people who regularly enter, but from everybody... Anyone who puts in the time and effort to submit a quality entry to a contest should have a fair shot at winning the prize.

Oh, I think I brag enough as it is...

Critique? Is that like criticism? Oh, I don't know, I'm fragile and easily bruised...

Cosmic J wrote:

So what would I win?

Bragging rights.  :)  Plus I try to coax the judges into giving good critique when judging...