BRAWL - VOTING HAS BEGUN!
polycounter lvl 6
just in case you missed it- Adam posted for the fighters to resubmit their entries
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1348459#post1348459
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1348459#post1348459
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Not that I actually entered but lets get the ball rolling.
haha no honest mistake , resubmitted!
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Cheer up! Shit happens:)
I was wandering around the forums for 5 minutes before I found this.
what a DUMMY you are!!
Now then, transparency.
One of the contestants (out of a dozen or so who had contacted me I think I only merged over 3 after I checked their stories out to see how true/believable it could be for something to have messed up on our end) had sent me a PM explaining how they missed the submission due to something happening on their end with Polycount not being able to send the post through. They said they had the work done well within the time frame of the competition so I checked that out. Sure enough the work was already and done they had just waited for us to set up the submission thread. I can see how submitting might have been a pain: Small window to do so, constant thread updates with heavy information (pics = memory = slower refresh on the database).
I decided the best way for me to get them in that thread was to 'Move' their single post from their thread over to the competitions submit thread. Because they had their content ready to go so soon, when I merged it over their post went on top of the Submit threads original post (the one I had written with all the submit guidelines, tech specs, etc). Further proving to me that they were in fact ready to submit early like they had claimed and that perhaps it truly was something on our servers side from stopping them. At this point I had committed to merging them in and wasn't worried so much about the reasons why. Gut feeling said it was the right thing to do.
But that post was now above mine and I had to fix it. I edited the newly appointed 'OP', copied the entire post contents to my clipboard, and hit 'Delete, Permanently'. At this point my plan was to remove that thread, have my original post go back to being 'OP' status and Copy > Paste the copied content back in to this artists thread.
Only now it was taking a while for the thread to delete. 'Oh that's weird, I wonder if they had a lot of pi- OH FUCK. OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK. *deleted*'
I go back to Contests & Challenges and sure enough it was gone. Quickly to Google I look for solutions for bringing back perm. deleted threads within vBulletin and came up short. With my foot in my mouth and my tail between my legs I remade the submit thread, posted that I'm a tool (read: I am) and asked you guys to spread the word.
Now, I'm doing my best to ensure that only those who posted in the thread originally make it in but for now this is the best I can do.
To have this contest go so well just to have me bugger it up with a single button click is embarrassing. I'd like apologize to everyone who entered on time and in the original thread and hope you'll resubmit your entry and enjoy contests from us again in the future.
Lesson's I've learned for this contest & future Polycount Contests:
-Regardless of reasons, stick to the deadline 100%
-Open the submit thread at least 24 hours prior to the deadline.
-The schedule will run off of PST, not EST.
-Never, ever, hit that fucking Perm. Delete button again. Always Soft Delete.
timely transparency is making this such an non issue (apart from your silly mistake)
I'm pretty sure that no one is worried, and it'll all turn out fine
Genius!!
Hilarious))))
I lol'd pretty hard.
A concentrated level of awesome so intense that it burned through fucking sheet metal
Hey, I love this idea. Hmm...
Phew, that was close... o__o
You really meant 'DAMMIT' right?
You mean like, one where, when it reaches zero something actually happens instead of another meaningless timer!? WTF kind of world do you live in?!
Anyway, this contest is great, and there's a lot of nice entries. Let's hope everyone gets their in now then
Just got 100% easier
That's the idea
You're still a fucking derp.
Is it possible to change the voting system so we could pick 2 or 3 fighters? (do it in separate threads, dunno) I think it would give more precise and fair results.
omg, that sounds just like GA minicomps >.>
yeah, I agree.
I was kind of expecting that every voter was going to pick their personal top 8, but it might be difficult to set that system up...
I think if everyone was able to vote on their top 3, that would be great though.
and thanks for posting the voting info ahead of time, i like how you organized the list by order of entry.
I hope it's that anyways.
it's the best option, but I can't see how you can pull this off using forum engine
1 thread/entry, which is already in place, with 0 -> 10 choices
well and force people to rate every threads ...
then someone to count everything :poly142::thumbup: