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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: September 02, 2017 (11:31 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: September 02, 2017 (11:41 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Before we look at the table, a word from our gracious third judge:
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Author: jerec
Posted: September 02, 2017 (04:42 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Wow, that was an impressive write up from the judging panel. Thanks to WQ and Joe for stepping up. I thought bringing in a guest judge who is not familiar with us or our quirks was great. It was interesting to see what an outsider made of all this, so huge thanks to Kate for taking on this massive tourney judgement.
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Author: Fiddlesticks
Posted: September 02, 2017 (06:23 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Second place, not too shabby! Though it sucks that Masters couldn't judge as originally planned, kudos to Joe for stepping up and Kate for dropping some unexpected feedback and Wolfqueen001 for also offering up worthwhile write-ups. And, of course, thanks to EmP for deciding to organize this thing in the first place. And congrats on the win. I had fun writing my review and reading everyone else's, and I will admit I was eager to see how this would pan out. Lots of good stuff here. Hopefully there can be more events like this in the future. It creates good competition and community spirit.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: September 02, 2017 (08:48 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks, everyone who came together for this event, and especially to the judges who committed to reading a bunch of reviews and providing insightful commentary on each of them. Also, congrats and thanks to EmP for putting together documentation of his victory. Assembling such topics is a time-consuming endeavor, I know from past experience, and he did a good job of it. Congrats to everyone, and maybe we'll have to have a tournament again at some point. Even without a tournament, though, there's plenty we can be reviewing and personal projects and completion projects (like the 32X project) can keep everyone as busy as needed. ;-)
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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: September 03, 2017 (05:45 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Neat. Glad to see these out there. Really appreciate Joe and Kate stepping up to judge this with me, and Gary for putting this together. Poor Marc just had a really bad series of events occur at the wrong time, I suppose.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: September 04, 2017 (09:20 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for all the feedback; made the long wait worth it. I wish I could say I was shocked I didn't win it (or place highly), but I can't. First, you had Jerec's say in his RotW that he preferred my Kemco review for that week to that one and, usually when I enter one of these, I play a game specifically for that tournament. Here, I had a game I was slowly meandering through in that "getting tired of JRPGs, but liking this game" sort of unfocused way, got E, and decided to suddenly get focused with it, leading to a review that, like the judges said, was really good in some areas and more questionable in others.
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Author: dementedhut
Posted: September 04, 2017 (02:55 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I happened to be at work when this topic originally went up, so I managed to skim it briefly. You'd think my first reaction would be on how my review did, but it was actually, "Kate? Who?" So, much thanks for the brief introduction by EmP afterwards. And I look forward to his blackmail story.
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Author: Nightfire
Posted: September 05, 2017 (11:24 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the critiques. I wanted a different letter, but stuck it out with "N" anyway. I had absolutely no good titles in my Steam library or on my shelf that started with "N", so I had to scrape the bottom of the barrel a bit. I felt that I did my best with it, and that's all I could do.
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Author: hastypixels
Posted: September 05, 2017 (08:35 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I gotta say I completely agree - in retrospect - with the feedback given about my Valykria review. That's what happens when I don't structure my writing. It gets messy, but... I've gradually learned to structure things a little more naturally as I've had practice.
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Author: Usagi
Posted: September 10, 2017 (12:46 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Well that was...scathing. lol
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Author: JedwardRandy
Posted: September 10, 2017 (05:07 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
thank you judges for writing words about my words, I like you. My 6th place ranking is honorable finish, and amoral victory because if I didn't get the 20 points penalty, I beat EmP.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: September 10, 2017 (08:04 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Usagi, the people who judge events like this one trust you to know that you're already better than the average writer, simply by virtue of your work appearing on a site like this one (after all, we do reject some stuff that might appear on Metacritic or Steam or whatever).
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: September 11, 2017 (09:07 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I'm glad this thing got done in the end; apologies that I wasn't able to come through... which is especially annoying as I got most of my write ups finished, and for nothing. Good on the judges stepping up, and kudos to Gary.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: September 11, 2017 (06:22 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
SUPER SECRET TURBO SPECIAL EDITION JUDGEMENT
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