RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
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Champion Voter Season 6, Champion Voter Season 7, Champion Voter Season 8, Champion Voter Season 9
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I just had 2 items I couldn't decide which I liked more. The deciding factor was a single comma italicized in the requirements.... and we all worriedly hurry to check our saved item submission documents to make sure we didn't accidentally italicize our commas...
Whew. Wasn't me. :)
No need to worry anyway, both have received many upvotes prior.
RPG Superstar 2015
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Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9
aka mamaursula
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Is it okay to talk about stuff and reveal authorship after voting closes, or do we have to wait until the results are revealed?
NO NO NO DON'T DO THAT! You have to wait until the Top 32 is revealed on the 20th, you could disqualify yourself. (Sorry, didn't mean to scream.)
Agh, so close of a match-up...but you forgot to list your crafting feat.
sometimes it pays to play dead
sometimes it pays to play dead
Not once the bards get a hold of that story...
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I am your dentist, and I enjoy the career that I picked
I am your dentist and I get off on the pain I inflict
Whoa, where did that rod come from? Nice!
ring on ring where that rod go...
ring on ring where that rod go...
Just had a thought... my almost ran item's doppelganger might make top 32. if that happens I'm going to never stop kicking myself
Just had a thought... my almost ran item's doppelganger might make top 32. if that happens I'm going to never stop kicking myself
Unless you make top 32 as well. :)
Just had a thought... my almost ran item's doppelganger might make top 32. if that happens I'm going to never stop kicking myselfUnless you make top 32 as well. :)
That would almost be like winning twice... It's really the same darn item if I ran it thru a few more edits.
Now here's a perfect storm on hard mode - can you assemble a Top 32 of items from all different types and slots, to be wielded and worn by a single character to epitomize a single theme...?
I can think of a suit of armor, a shield, a weapon, and a rod that would work together along one theme. I'm sure I've seen at least one staff that would probably fit, but I'm not so sure about a ring.
So, close to champ.
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RPG Superstar 2015
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Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9
aka mamaursula
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That is where I'm at on a mini-scale on the way to Marathon.sigh I am somewhere deep in the over 2500 votes but I don't keep track, so I have no idea where I am, but now I feel driven to get to Champion.
~excerpt from "Confessions of a Nerd"
You can make it to Marathon! You just have to vote for 8 hours over the weekend! You can do it! You're half way there!
Gary, are you sitting by the server's console chuckling at our feeble attempts to vote?Gary insists that it's all random, but I think he's inadvertently put us on the path to Skynet.
Has anyone actually seen Gary recently anyway? You know, not through internet avatar that might be under the server's control anyway?
Ah, item with unfortunate phallic imagery versus expensive consumable item....
(Mostly I'm just posting to help us try and hit 5K)
Oooh, my favorite rod versus an armor I quite like. I know a lot of other people like that rod, so there's a part of me that wants to vote for the armor, just so it doesn't fall through the cracks, so to speak. Hard choices!
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Is it okay to talk about stuff and reveal authorship after voting closes, or do we have to wait until the results are revealed?NO NO NO DON'T DO THAT! You have to wait until the Top 32 is revealed on the 20th, you could disqualify yourself. (Sorry, didn't mean to scream.)
Yes you did. Just admit it and you will feel better. :)
Throwing vs. catching. Playing catch in Pathfinder. :)
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sigh I am somewhere deep in the over 2500 votes but I don't keep track, so I have no idea where I am, but now I feel driven to get to Champion.
~excerpt from "Confessions of a Nerd"
Argh! Me too! So... close...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I need a Gaming Intern. :)
Both rods of fire against each other. The first time I have been able to compare them directly.
AHHHH! Keep vs. Keep! I hate when that happens!
AGGG! And again! Two in a row!
Algorithm, why do you hate me? Have I not shown great enough respect?!?
AHHHH! Keep vs. Keep! I hate when that happens!
Time to resort to numismal binarian arbitration?
AHHHH! Keep vs. Keep! I hate when that happens!Time to resort to numismal binarian arbitration?
Surprisingly that was how I settled the matter. :)
Surprisingly that was how I settled the matter. :)AHHHH! Keep vs. Keep! I hate when that happens!Time to resort to numismal binarian arbitration?
Ever read Asimov's The Machine That Won The War?
Ever read Asimov's The Machine That Won The War?Surprisingly that was how I settled the matter. :)AHHHH! Keep vs. Keep! I hate when that happens!Time to resort to numismal binarian arbitration?
Yes, a long time ago. :)
Ah beautiful little weapon, unique in every way and covered in flavor. How I treasure thee...
My only concern is all the talk about "pit crews".
If I know the name of all my friends items, and we are rolling 10 deep, that's a circle of 10 people each voting for our friends items over and over when they pop up.
My only concern is all the talk about "pit crews".
If I know the name of all my friends items, and we are rolling 10 deep, that's a circle of 10 people each voting for our friends items over and over when they pop up.
Meh. I'm pretty sure the randomness and overall voter pool size contrive to mitigate any effect of something like that.
To give you some idea, both years I've entered, none of the people who knew which item was mine even saw it, in the entire voting period. I gather this is not anomalous. I'd crunch the likely probabilities, but I'm feeling lazy.
(In addition to a Gaming Intern to vote according to my criteria till I reach Champion, I apparently also need a Math Intern to solve these kinds of problems.)
I wonder if the creator knows that that spell doesn't work on that item.
My only concern is all the talk about "pit crews".
If I know the name of all my friends items, and we are rolling 10 deep, that's a circle of 10 people each voting for our friends items over and over when they pop up.
Also - you have 10 friends? Like, real ones and stuff? Are you, like, a celebrity or something?
:)
My only concern is all the talk about "pit crews".
If I know the name of all my friends items, and we are rolling 10 deep, that's a circle of 10 people each voting for our friends items over and over when they pop up.
Well, for example, I now have to choose between mamaursula's item and one of my keeps.
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I'm thinking...
...still thinking...
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...meh. I don't have to live with her.
Sorry mama. I have to be honest in my voting. :(
Quibblemuch is right. I've voted more than 1,000 times and seen my item twice. I've seen one of my crew's item maybe a dozen times, but most I've seen only once or twice.
Also, to be completely honest, it's not an automatic vote. Granted, the fact that I have the person looking at my own item means I respect their opinion, which means their item will probably be strong, but if I like the other item, I'll vote for it. It definitely happened this year.
And as I recall, per the stats last year, even the Champion voters didn't have *that* much influence on the voting. Plus, the most the voters can do is get something in the top tier where judges look at it. It's still on the judges to decide whether something's good enough to be in the Top 32.
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RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
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Champion Voter Season 6, Champion Voter Season 7, Champion Voter Season 8, Champion Voter Season 9
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My only concern is all the talk about "pit crews".
If I know the name of all my friends items, and we are rolling 10 deep, that's a circle of 10 people each voting for our friends items over and over when they pop up.
As long as they didn't design the items by committee...
As long as that group of friends didn't all hit Champion voter, there shouldn't be much of an effect. The judges still have the final vote.
Quibblemuch is right. I've voted more than 1,000 times and seen my item twice. I've seen one of my crew's item maybe a dozen times, but most I've seen only once or twice.
Also, to be completely honest, it's not an automatic vote. Granted, the fact that I have the person looking at my own item means I respect their opinion, which means their item will probably be strong, but if I like the other item, I'll vote for it. It definitely happened this year.
And as I recall, per the stats last year, even the Champion voters didn't have *that* much influence on the voting. Plus, the most the voters can do is get something in the top tier where judges look at it. It's still on the judges to decide whether something's good enough to be in the Top 32.
This. I have seen mamaursula's item about nine or ten times through my voting. I usually vote it up because it is well made. But there are occasions where I vote the other way.
Those of us who can vote a lot and do tend to take our voting very seriously and try not to let loyalties cloud our judgements. So we aren't voting as a block and even then we couldn't change the overall opinions of the voters. This system has been designed to keep that sort of ballot stuffing from happening.
My only concern is all the talk about "pit crews".
If I know the name of all my friends items, and we are rolling 10 deep, that's a circle of 10 people each voting for our friends items over and over when they pop up.
I expressed my concern about this on another thread as a possible negative of such a deep cull. I can't say if it is truly a concern, but the judges and the number crunchers on the other side of the screen might be able to glean this information. I'd like to think that most voters would vote on on the merits of the design and not personal bias, but voters are human. I'd likely give preference to a friend's item and I'm sure I would for my own. Will this effect the items at the top? I don't know, but it is something to look into and if seems like it might have had an effect, avoid culling more than half of the entries in one shot in future years.
My only concern is all the talk about "pit crews".
If I know the name of all my friends items, and we are rolling 10 deep, that's a circle of 10 people each voting for our friends items over and over when they pop up.
As long as they didn't design the items by committee...
As long as that group of friends didn't all hit Champion voter, there shouldn't be much of an effect. The judges still have the final vote.
My crew was really strict, comments only no changing text or writing suggestive text.
I tend to favor my crew but it's also a situation where they are all very good designers. I've seen their items across multiple personal keep lists. Bear in mind even 10 Marathon+ voters are a ripple in the pond compared to the overall number of votes.
If prior years remain indicative of the voting we're looking at a small minority that post and even achieve beyond star voter
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Those of us who can vote a lot and do tend to take our voting very seriously and try not to let loyalties cloud our judgements. So we aren't voting as a block and even then we couldn't change the overall opinions of the voters. This system has been designed to keep that sort of ballot stuffing from happening.
HYPERBOLE THEATRE PRESENTS: THE VOTING CABAL
"Thank you all for coming. As you know, RPGSS starts tomorrow."
"Brubarubarubaruba!"
"Settle down, settle down. Now we've all shared items and we know whose is whose. What I need each of you nine friends to do is spend the equivalent of a 30 hour a week job over the next month clicking voting buttons in the hopes of randomly seeing a fellow Cabal member's item and upvoting it."
"Brubarubarubaruba!"
"Quite. As you know, using your annual holiday to sit in front of a computer screen clicking one of two buttons for hours on end will ensure an slightly greater than average chance that at least one of the Cabal's items will, through nepotistic voting, rise an increment or two in the overall rankings."
"Bruabrubarubaruba!"
"Indeed! Our masterful plan could then marginally affect the judges' opinions of said item, leading to it receiving an immeasurably smaller advantage over the general non-Cabal pool of items, when time comes for selection of the Top 32!"
"MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
*curtain*
Ugh. Same two items in a row...flipped sides.
Really algorithm? You think I don't notice?
Uh-oh. Three in a row. We're looping.
...or I'm caught in a Chronic Hysteresis Loop! OH NO!
close your own loop Feros
close your own loop Feros
But I don't have a dog's tail to wag! All I have is a cat's tail. Oh well, here goes...OW!