~Knights of Finland Costume Contest~ RESULTS ARE IN!

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Ulrikastern-Alt

Knights of Finland has decided to host its first costume contest, similar to Fashion Contest made by Lionheart in January 2014!

~JUDGING~

I will be judging with my fellow Guild Master See-Eppo. Things that we are looking for from a costume are good usage of colors, creativity and originality.

Use of weapons and shields to match your costume are allowed, but they are not required.

~CATEGORIES~
(You can post up one entry for each category)

~Colors~
It is all about clashes, combos and balance of colors! Can you mix colors and make it look good? These categories 1-8 must focus only on the colors, not certain theme costumes/accessories are required to use. You can use either one of the colors or both.

1. Blue/Grey
Examples: Cool, Dusky.

2. Green/Yellow
Examples: Regal, Hunter.

3. Red/Orange
Examples: Toasty, Hallow.

4. Purple/Pink
Examples: Fancy, Lovely.

5. Light
Must include only light colored costumes/accessories. Example: divine.

6. Dark
Must include only dark colored costumes/accessories. Example: shadow.

7. Prismatic
Bring out your personal color to its full glow! Other accessories than prismatic can be used, but over half (50%+) of accessories must be prismatic!!

8. Rainbow
Show us your creativity and go nuts! Create a costume with as many different colors as possible!

~Seasonal~
How do your costumes reflect the 4 seasons? Now it’s time to show us!

1. Winter

2. Spring

3. Summer

4. Autumn

~PRIZES~

In every category, there will be prizes for first, second, and third places.
- 1st place gets 100k crowns.
- 2nd place gets 50k crowns.
- 3rd place gets 25k crowns.

Few categories have exception prizes for 1st place, but those are secret prizes worth more than 1st place award and will be revealed in award ceremony. There will also be honorable mentions, and some of them might win small prizes.

~RULES~ (READ!!)

If you want to enter to the contest, post 2 pictures of your character (in-game screenshots) for each entry. Inspect must be on and your cursor must be positioned over first your helm while facing front [Link] and then your armor while showing your backside [Link] so that we can see all what you are wearing.

You are not allowed to use gear or other items that you do not own/possess. You are allowed to preview different personal color when you are taking screenshots.

Taking screenshots through steam can be done by pressing F12 when your character is up on the screen. Save images to steam or to other website and post the link to the forum post.

~DEADLINE~

You must have posted your entries before January 12th (11th Sunday is final day to enter!). Then we will have enough time to judge all the entries.

~AWARDS CEREMONY~

Ceremony where winners will be revealed and prizes will be given will be held in Knights of Finland guild hall on January 17th at 12:00 am Saturday night by London Time (+-0 Time zone). Being present is not required; we will mail all prizes to all winners who are not present.

We hope to see as many people entering to this contest as possible!

Wed, 01/21/2015 - 11:24 #101
Ulrikastern-Alt
Explanations

First thing I have to make clear is that being rich would not be able to make you win. We weren't that stupid when we thought of hosting this contest. We wanted to encourage not-so-rich people as well to enter to the contest.

I am not so sure about see-eppo but I am perfectionist to the end of time and beyond. I notice smallest of smallest mistakes. The reason we had categories for colors is because the main point how I judge costumes is by colors. So basicly it was my strongest area to judge (seasonal not so much xD). If you had wrong personal color comparing to the category, it was automatically nope nope nope for me. Personal color is supposed to back up the category, and you had the chance to change it by category. Many realized this and used it to their advantage.

95% of the people who entered to the contest said "My costumes are no match for others' costumes." and it was really depressing. Some of them I had to even force to enter. I don't want people to think that only being rich can make you win.

As for zenje. You are my great friend, I have nothing against you and you should know that. We were not favoring anyone, competitions are made to be equal. We made the categories in a way that cheaper outfits had a chance as well. Many were asking why we did not make open-styled categories like in the Lionheart contest, and reason was that we wanted to give a chance for everyone. If we had had such categories which weren't so...hmm...strict on some parts (colors in this case), your chances to win 1st place would have been higher. I'm really sorry if you got hurt by this ;<

As for future contests, categories won't be so strict but we still try to keep it fair game. There is no fun in it if we favor others.

Wed, 01/21/2015 - 11:44 #102
Lyrose
I am sorry.

I thought the contest was about originality, and not money.
I used my most creative criations in exceptions of some, but truth is I do have a lot of others that would match the certain entries just by the armor color itself.
I'm not the type of person that pukes a rainbow in a costume and there done, I have a certain eye for color and things too, but if I judge only by the color, I would say most of them are generic costumes that anyone in SK can have. Knowing SK is also limited for originality creation if you don't work for it.
I do certain color contrasts to enchance the brightness of my costume, they dont always depend on my personal color but they're build to match my main colors, I also go out of the box and I make things some people think it's not right... why? Why would I wanna make a costume 99% of SK has?! Good example, my Storm Rider, I built that with love and all the thing I wanted it to reflect my coldness within, but people say ahh storm looks better with summer and storm and bla bla bla. No... Actually yellow and blue are complementary colors. It doesnt look bad as people say because they're used to seeing clones everywhere which sickens me.

But anyways, congratulation to who won, I'm not saying they dont have sense of fashion or whatsoever, it's just my personal opinion.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 07:52 #104
Ember-Break
Like I said...

@Zenje
I was just reading too much into it, then (as I stated I might have been doing during my original post thing). In the end, this contest was Fun 1st, Money 2nd after all -- now that he contest has ended, we can all just go back to doing whatever we were doing before with the pride that we got to showcase some of our costumes. That's really all that matters.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 08:06 #105
Zenje
@Ulrikastern-Alt

All is good Ulrika, I know you meant well, no hard feelings either. :3
But I now understand the reasons why I could not win a category in this contest.

Incorrect personal colors on costumes. (Lost half of my entries instantly on this. lol)

But if you were going to drop peoples submitted costumes from the contest for an incorrect personal color, it should have either been made a rule that one had to use. That or let someone know when their costume did not meet proper specifications to be entered in the contest. ( Like you did when Lyrose and Neometal tried to enter into the Prismatic Category with the incorrect number of prismatic accessories.)

Additive of colors outside of color category.

Having different colors outside the category color, such as the use of multiple colors on my Red/Orange(has yellow and blue in it) and Yellow/Green(has red in it). Yet again, it would have been been great to let someone know when their costumes won't even make it to the front door. :\

All-in-all it was a great contest, but could have been executed a little better. Some people were told by the judges when their costumes wouldn't make it, which made it unfair to those who were not told anything only to have their costumes removed from the list before judging even began.