A quick question: My name is Daron, and I'm a third-party publisher working under the trade name Abandoned Arts. Further, Abandoned Arts is only an imprint of Fat Goblin Games, and I currently publish only PDF products - no print yet. Abandoned Arts is not my day job or a full-time job, and contributes only marginally to my income.
I am wondering if an item submitted by me will qualify, because I technically work in the industry. I've already seen at least four or five items more than once while voting, and I'm not even a Star Voter yet. I'm just wondering if I haven't seen my own item by now because it was disqualified!
Thanks in advance,
Daron Woodson
Abandoned Arts
That's not to say your item couldn't have been disqualified for other reasons, but it won't be for that reason. In fact, we couldn't tell it was yours even if you would be DQed for who you are until after we pick the item for Top 32, since it's anonymous.
That's about what I thought. Thanks, Adam! Thanks, Mark!
Don't worry about the repeat items either..., that's quite normal!
I believe what happens is all the items are put into a queue, as everyone refreshes their pages and vote, they get a random pair from the queue, once the queue empties it is refilled, repeat and continue as necessary. (It's probably more complex, but I believe that's the general gist)
So getting repeat items is going to happen - in my first 100 votes against 2 pairs, you would think 200 items - no, I saw 177 unique items, 23 were repeat items in different pairings. One I had appear 4 times!
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We spell that out pretty specifically in the rules: " Employees of Paizo, their immediate family members, and persons with whom such employees are domiciled are ineligible. Anyone who has been employed full-time as a designer for a game company is ineligible. Anyone with a cover credit on a hardcover RPG book is ineligible. Anyone who has a design credit in 3 or more of Paizo's Pathfinder products is ineligible. The top 8 finalists of all previous RPG Superstar™ contests are ineligible. "
If you aren't "employed full-time" by a company, and none of the other conditions apply, you're eligible.