Lol I know it has been a long time Unexpectedly long, too. But no mercy for the third round.... ;; In about 3 days time the round will be closed... so it should be fairly soon if things come

merged: 01-21-2006 ~ 06:53pm
ROUND TWO CLOSED.

Judging starts now.

Eheh sorry i've been away for some time (busy with exams yeepee)... ahah it seems the pressure is increasing now on the different contestants, DC tries to trip artgeek of the opposite Ao team, but his fellows come to his rescue... and it seems that at the ending line, terra chan is already there, she's given her drawing too early, maybe she'll be granted some more points XP

gambatte.... wonder what's the next dish is !

coughs... um are we alive here or what? when can we expect any results?
misa push those judges will ya!

DCout

It just started ... 4 days ago O_O

Erm, Saturday there or Sunday here is the deadline... I'll go pester tomorrow ;;

*snores* This has gone on too long I want results~

..............well. i'm a rotten eh? but not as rotten as the judges...of course misa doesn't have all the time in the world to get the site update and what not. oh well eh? i'm sort of anxious. i've got to go check out the site again to see who is a fellow ao'er. cheers.

Argh sorry everyone. I'm thinking that the judges scores and comments should be in TODAY... but something happened [I screwed up, yes] and gave some the wrong link. The scores and comments should hopefully all be in by TOMORROW and if it's early tomorrow I can do up the scores and then send them off to the scaler on the same day. Give or take 24 hours or a little more, the scaled scores should be back to me so ONLY 2 days ish left SORRY FOR THE DELAY!

merged: 01-29-2006 ~ 09:34am
to occupy you all during the 2 days let's recap on all teh bets being made:

* Misa and omni bet:
Misa says the judge will get above score *13*.

If 13+, omni must put in his signature he is the chestnut's slave and stop calling Misa chestnut.
If less than 13, Misa makes a userpage design stating that omni won the bet and omni can continue calling her chestnut -.-

Smilebit DC and geeky bet

Too complicated. Check NWP for more details >.>
Basically involving winning, losing- if someone wins, smile draws them something, if they lose, they send smile a photo to manipulate, and other weird, weird options.

The moral of the story is: we need more bets.

there is another bet you have missed Misa...
between me and artgeek12... art bets me that I will have slightly lower score than him..
whoever loses makes the other: "special freaky type image. Something UBER creepy. Something you think could partially represent me, done in that awsome unique style you do."

so three bets so far...

Oh and earlier I bet that more than half of the titles for the book will be made up of two words. I am not sure if someone picked up on that one... where are you ppl?

Cheers!

Alrighty! There are 4 bets and we need MORE.

I'll be sending this off to the scaler in about 30mins and if quick I will get them back tonight. If not, then it'll be tomorrow sometime Wahaha!

merged: 01-30-2006 ~ 09:33am
... well it depends on the scaler. I gave them 3 days but the first round was exceptionally fast~ so it'll be anytime soon, anyway.

merged: 01-30-2006 ~ 12:42pm
THE RESULTS ARE OUT! ROUND 3 IS OUT!

PS: omni I lost my bet to you, but I'm very busy at the moment. I'll try to get that userpage done soon... before I start Uni, hopefully. Also, specify what you want.

I don't get why ppl thought that the girl is yakuza?
the stimulus only says she is a schoolmate to the yakuzas... did I get it wrong?

anyway.. i win my bets! ha ha... this is fun!

DCout~

*sips on wine*... First bet for 3rd round here : the team that wins will be invited to the horsefield, watching the loosers be ridden as horses : "loosers will send a pic of them doing the horse".... how's that ?
good round everyone, too bad some ppl couldn't enter their work

@DC : then if you win your "two words title" bet, what was the counterpart for the loosers?

the two words title bet was not confirmed by anyone.. as far as I remeber.
no bets were officialy exchanged between the parties... unless I missed it.
so I dunno what happens in this case? Misa it's your call.

DCout~

I'm starting to think I'm really not cut out for this contest... I guess I'll forever be a stinker...

Lol DC, it was just a general bet. You didn't bet with anyone, so that doesn't really matter @_@

As for the stimulus, she wasn't actually a yakuza- her boyfriend was a soldier in the army! but some people's imagination went wild... and I guess that was okay

I thought it was funny how geeky's score was higher than yours, DC, and then the scaling came in and then geeky lost the bet Classic.

And you're the bestest ever Terra *huggles* There are other stinkers out there who didn't even reply my spam XO

i don't understand how the scaling works. someone, kuro please explain.

I was trying to take you up on it, actually, DC. You never responded what to what you wanted to define as most, though, so I couldn't ever say anything.

And don't worry about it, Kuri. I'll need time to consider the idea, anyway... and with Arete just around the corner, I don't want the participants distracted with leftovers on top of the tail end of TREC, so I'll probably wait until after that until I tell you, 'kay?

And Terra, I think you've been doing fine. If you focus a little more on your strong points instead of branching out, I think you'd do a lot better in the standings, too.

Ooh, but this next one sounds like a toughie.

I'm almost tempted to bet that somebody is going to go ahead and put theirs in the frame anyway, despite the warning not to.

But I'm not going to. I know which battles I should choose.

so how does the scaling works really? and why?

Terra you are doing just fine! *hugs*

DCout~

merged: 02-01-2006 ~ 01:43am
I cannot make-up any feeling from the stimulus...
I guess shallow is is the main word that pops into my mind.
aaah kicks Misa for her twisted imagination. :P

merged: 02-01-2006 ~ 01:44am
so any bets available for purchase?

Lol I made this as open as possible.

Think of a superficial sugar mummy the image is repulsively exquisite !

Scaling

Basically I break down the omellete, shell etc- but I actually have specific [or specific enough] descriptions beside EACH score range.

Example:

2-3 [very excellent; flawless]
0-1 [very poor; very bad]

And if it doesn't fit in either category, you'll be looking at between 1-2 marks.

Some judges are pretty spot on and I get most marks for example at around 2-2.5 marks- which is good.
Some however might give out like a 0 or a 1 [it does happen].
If the average then is wayyy too off according to the quality of the work, compared with description and other entries, the scaler can choose to add some marks onto the end score. Really, it just puts everything on the same scale.

Oh- and there are times when an entry not as good as another entry gets higher, that gets pushed down so it's on a more linear scale. Sometimes it ain't perfect, but heck the competition is rigged

bets bets bets.... I'll make you a userpage today omni, and probably if you don't like it I'll make another one [with a scan of your choice and colours etc] soon. I don't think I'll have much time when school starts... ooohhhhh I hate my timetable.... so much work to do! Oh I can imagine! !

?still beyond confused and lost as ever?

uhm, it's just to rig the competition

mmmm rigging the comp

there you go kuro. nice and simple explaination. thanks. cheers.

It's to make sure the big bad judges don't actually have any say.

Wait, what?

I'm willing to bet that DC is one of the last three submissions, not counting anybody who doesn't get it in on time.

Though I guess only Kuri will be able to tell us who's right...

And she has a history of rigging things. ><

since when have I ever rigged anything?

and I paid you back already omni with that userpage design. ooooooh