I would just like to wish everyone who entered this year the best of luck. Win or lose I pledge to remain here and support those who make it to the next round. Just remember we are all winners.
Indeed. Good luck to all!
I can root for others with no bias, since I don't have an entry.
(Actually I did, but my computer has been down for a few days and I only just got access again. I pasted my entry, posted... and then was informed the contest ended 50 seconds before. ARRRGGGHHH!!! I've never been as close to smashing my computer with a hammer as I am right now. Still, it's my own fault. I should have posted it when done, instead of giving myself a few days to "fine tune" it. ...I've never been as close to smashing my skull with a hammer as I am right now.)
But good luck to all!
I look foward to reading the top 32 in couple of weeks!
Sorry to hear you missed your chance this year to compete Chris. Live and learn I guess. But remember there is always next year so hang on to that idea.
I would just like to wish everyone who entered this year the best of luck. Win or lose I pledge to remain here and support those who make it to the next round. Just remember we are all winners.
Yeah, I should have done that in 2009... I feel kind of bad about not sticking around on the forums after my villain didn't make the top 16. After the top 16 were announced and my villain wasn't among them, I kind of disappeared from the forums (in fact, I think this is my first post here since then), and I really shouldn't have. (It wasn't out of sour grapes or anything like that; it was just that I was busy... but still, I really ought to have stayed around to support the other contenders.)
Anyway, if I do make the top 32 this year, I hopefully won't repeat my other mistake from 2009, which was... well, I was so sure my item wouldn't make the top 32 that I didn't even check the site to see if it had until the night before the Round 2 deadline. Which means, when I found to my surprise that I <I>had</I> made the top 32, I had less than a day to do the complete write-up for the villain. No, I hadn't started on the villain write-up before that; like I said, I was pretty sure my item wasn't going to make the cut anyway, so I didn't spend a lot of time planning for Round 2. What made things worse was that I was working as a teacher at the time and the Round 2 deadline happened to be in the middle of midterms, so I had even less time to put together an entry than I otherwise would have; I had to quickly do what I could on my laptop in what tiny snatches of time I could get between classes. So, yeah, given the absolutely minimal amount of time I spent on it, I guess it's not at all surprising that my Round 2 entry didn't make it. (Not that I can be absolutely sure I would have put together a winning entry even if I had spent more time on it, but I certainly would have had a better chance.)
Still, I guess that was better than the mistake I made last year, which was inexplicably thinking the Round 1 deadline was a week later than it actually was and missing it entirely...
So, anyway, I'm going to try not to repeat this year my mistakes of the past. (Hey, already avoided last year's mistake!) I'll give some serious thought to a possible Round 2 entry well before the deadline. (I don't really expect to make Round 2, because I think my Round 1 entry is kind of boring and of non-obvious utility, but I thought about the same of the twintone flute I entered two years ago and that, to my astonishment, made the cut, so I guess you never know; I'll be very surprised if my entry makes the cut this year, but it won't hurt to be ready just in case.) And whether it does or not, I'll make an effort to stick around this time and support the other contenders.
So, yeah, good luck, everyone, and see you in the later rounds (whether my own entry is there or not).
Just remember we are all winners.
Here here good sir! Warm well wishes to all of the contestants who took the time and energy to do something we love to do. I too will be sticking around to support my fellow contest members.
of course if I don't make it, this provides a great opportunity to spy er learn from those that did.
Well said Noteleks, well said.
That is my plan as well, to stick around and support my fellow gamers in this most wonderful of RPG contests.
I've said this elsewhere, but Jan. 18th is my sister's birthday... so I'm hoping that date will be a good omen for me this time around. :)
Good Luck everyone!
Good luck y'all!
I will also be here to the end, one way or the other. :)
Good luck! May your item be better than the next guys.
As others have stated good luck to all, its going to be an awesome ride.
Good luck to all, and looking forward to seeing the winning entries - always good stuff. (Heck, even some of the ones that didn't make the top 32 that I saw posted in other threads I thought were game-worthy.)
I know the competition will be tough, so to the 32 that make the cut (well, of course like all the entrants, I'm hoping that translates as "to the other 31...") - way to go, Superstars!