How many of the vaunted Top 32 seats are typically claimed by returning Top 32 prospects from the previous year?
Thought it would be an interesting stat.
:: shrugs ::
How many of the vaunted Top 32 seats are typically claimed by returning Top 32 prospects from the previous year?
Thought it would be an interesting stat.
:: shrugs ::
I think so far it has happened twice.
3 times if you count the Maw of uragotha (sp?)and I think there might be an alt who made the Top 32 in a later year or vice versa.
Very few.
Matthew Morris and Alexander MacLeod have done it. Technically, Casey Smith, too.
But I'm not sure how many others. It isn't very many.
Also, keep in mind that the Top 8 from each year become ineligible to compete in following years. So, only 24 out of the Top 32 really have a shot at pulling off a repeat. That said, I also happen to think that more and more of those prior competitors are sharpening their pencils (or their knives?) to make another go at it. So, it'll be interesting to see how that plays out this year. More of them know what it takes now. And they're all good enough to make it. They've just got to go back to the well and bring out something wondrous again.
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Very few.
Matthew Morris and Alexander MacLeod have done it. Technically, Casey Smith, too.
But I'm not sure how many others. It isn't very many.
Also, keep in mind that the Top 8 from each year become ineligible to compete in following years. So, only 24 out of the Top 32 really have a shot at pulling off a repeat. That said, I also happen to think that more and more of those prior competitors are sharpening their pencils (or their knives?) to make another go at it. So, it'll be interesting to see how that plays out this year. More of them know what it takes now. And they're all good enough to make it. They've just got to go back to the well and bring out something wondrous again.
Matthew and Alexander are the only 2. Alexander 2008 & 2010, Matthew 2009 & 2010. (I have all the winners in a spreadsheet for the PDF I'm creating :P)
...and I think there might be an alt who made the Top 32 in a later year or vice versa.
Andrew Black. Made the Top 32 in 2008. Alternate in 2010.
Forever, ever...as far as I know...or until Paizo decides to change it.
If someone makes it to top 8 they're banned from the contest? wow... Is that foreva or just a (few) year(s) ?
Look at it this way: part of the point of the context is to identify new talent that could be tapped to write for Pathfinder. By the time you hit the top 8, you've already been so identified -- the powers that be have a sense of your writing and could call on you in the future. I've noticed some people who placed highly but didn't win in previous years get writing credits, at least.
Once you already know that someone is "good enough", it makes sense to get them out of the pool so you get more fresh competitors the next year.
Still must be pretty harsh...
It's all a matter of perspective. If you enter RPGSS to win RPGSS, harsh. If you enter RPGSS to get to write some official Pathfinder stuff, you may have already won at 6th place, so not harsh.
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It's all a matter of perspective. If you enter RPGSS to win RPGSS, harsh. If you enter RPGSS to get to write some official Pathfinder stuff, you may have already won at 6th place, so not harsh.
Still must be pretty harsh...
Agreed:
Going to try to make 2011 better though.
How many of the vaunted Top 32 seats are typically claimed by returning Top 32 prospects from the previous year?
This brings up another question. When do the judges find out the names of the Final 32? We already know the judging is anonymous, but when does the curtain of anonymity lift for the judges?
And, is it a +1 curtain of anonymity? ;-)
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It's all a matter of perspective. If you enter RPGSS to win RPGSS, harsh. If you enter RPGSS to get to write some official Pathfinder stuff, you may have already won at 6th place, so not harsh.
Still must be pretty harsh...Agreed:
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I can always set you a deadline, if that would help. ;)
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Wanted to add, as far as I know, the judges don't know who made the top 32 until after their chosen, maybe at the same time we do.
Looking at the comments on my Tankard, the final four didn't seem to know it was me again (you'd have to ask them though) Neil's post says 'joined the ranks' where 'rejoined' would have fit better if he'd known it was me. (we all know how precise Neil is)
Vic (and maybe Ross) seem to know/can find out who sent what, but I don't think the judges know until they pop up.
This brings up another question. When do the judges find out the names of the Final 32? We already know the judging is anonymous, but when does the curtain of anonymity lift for the judges?And, is it a +1 curtain of anonymity? ;-)
Now you have me wondering if the judges are perusing the many Round 2 threads and snickering at the archetype musings of people who didn't make the Top 1000.
I mean, they have to do something to keep themselves out of trouble for 5 days...
This brings up another question. When do the judges find out the names of the Final 32? We already know the judging is anonymous, but when does the curtain of anonymity lift for the judges?
We don't know until you do. We send our final list and alternates to Vic and company. They process them and do the big reveal. We, literally, have no advanced info on who the winners are (with the one caveat that when the maw of urgathoa was submitted the second time and it made our top 32 anonymously, we asked Vic to confirm it was sent by the same author as we all agreed we would NOT have advanced it had it been polished up and submitted by someone else; so that was the one time we knew before you did).
Yeah. We literally have no idea who submitted these things we've selected. And that's a good thing. Both for fairness and objectivity in the judging process. And, because we're just as excited for the big reveal as anyone else.
We don't know until you do.
Thanks, gents! That's cool you get to wait and be surprised with the rest of us.
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I seem to remember suggesting a 'superstar of superstars' contest last year, and after this year there should be enough top 8 contenders to go around....
(Assuming all top eights are still alive, insane, and able + willing to post, that is...)
The thought of doing this contest more than once a year just gave me an aneurism. And we'll have to go quite a few more years before we'd really get enough contestants who could otherwise not enter to make a finalists rematch showdown sorta thing. Of the top 8 in the first year, only three have not yet had a cover credit in a Paizo RPG product. All seven of the top 8 who didn't win the whole thing in the two subsequent years could still participate, though. That brings the total to only 17 eligible entrants.