Tev's Great Big Contest is over, but she'd love your feedback! Snubear! I finally finished your picture!

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None of posts 500, 1000, or 1200 actually have real content.
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Uh, gimme a second, Ill edit my post lol.

/e is sad that he didn't finish his story or origami Greaver in time. D:

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/shrug

Meh. At least I got a poem in. :3 Although I won't be able to attend the awards ceremony. Darn school.

This week's mini-contest should be fun. :3 I'm good at making riddles.

I have this strange connection to this contest. It's almost older than my time in Spiral Knights. It's going to be sad when this is finally over.

Thanks to Tev, for devoting so much time to this thread. It was an honor serving.

"Myqpalzm had the worst pun"

-_-

Worst as in "funniest and made me groan the most", Myq.

Oy, Tevvie fails. Lay down to wait for a painkiller to set in so I wasn't judging grumpy and fell asleep. So it's well past halfway through first judging day and I haven't even read a single story (and I lost one of the "find the difference" emails, so have to wait until it's re-sent XP).

"btw: A euphemism is when you say something on purpose which is a lie to cover up the truth. Like saying when someone dies, they're in a better place. At least I'm preeetttyy sure that's what it means"

"A euphemism is a generally harmless word, name, or phrase that replaces an offensive or suggestive one. Some euphemisms intend to amuse, while others intend to give positive appearances to negative events or even mislead entirely. Euphemisms are used for dissimulation, to refer to taboo topics (such as disability, sex, or death) in a polite way, and to mask profanity."

The more you know. /o/ *flies away*

Nice to see so many enjoying themselves. Try to have some fun with the judging, eh?

-Windsickle

Yes, very true. Nice touch at the end, too. XD

Will say though, for the sake of clarification that language changes over time. Euphemisms refer to a lot more today than they used to, just like many other words in our culture mean more or less than they used to.

"Nice", like the normal word nice, i.e. you're a nice person, 700 years ago meant rude or stuck up. If you check a dictionary from every century since 1500, you see the change over the years until it comes to be known as it is today. Cool stuff...

Tev, painkiller? For some reason, the SFM video "Bad Medicine" came to mind when I read that. XD
In any case, feel better! That's an order. :'(

Thanks for hosting the contest, Tev. You and the participants have put so much effort into this contest, and look at how great it turned out. Good job and good luck to everyone!

I've awarded the prizes for the drawing and the mini-contest. I'll have the "spot the difference game" up tomorrow, as it wouldn't be fair to leave someone out because I accidentally deleted their entry. :P

@Latisan: I'll do my best to follow orders, Sir. Lydia was sick last weekend and Sol was sick mid-week, so I suppose it's my turn (and a toothache to boot!) If worse come to worse, I may delay judging a day or so, as I'm a bit loopy right now and reading fiction would go something like "I just spent half an hour reading something, but I can't remember what happened or how much I liked it". Bad form, that. I'll try to get some of the art entries done, since I don't have to concentrate so much for those, or the short poems.

It's ok, Tev! Everyone here is loopy! XD

lol Tev <3 "Vifig was brave" XD
That's one way of looking at it! =)

Like everyone else said, thank you for running this! It really has been a lot of fun =)
And an amazing marathon feat that is not over with yet!

I like vitamin C cough drops... the lemon/orange/grapefruit pack... I haven't tried the blueberry pack yet, but I should. If cough drops are relevant, I recommend those. Though... nothing a cough drop can do that a nice tea can't, I bet your thinking would be.

To everyone who contributed the contest:

I bid everyone good luck on this contest, everyone had put up their hard work on this and it'll be very awesome for sure. :)

I made tev laugh, a great remedy for stress! Anyway my origin was 100% true to my memory, thanks!

Just to let you guys know how judging is going; Sol and I have already chosen winners for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (or 1st only, if that's what the category called for) in all categories except the Fiction categories. I'm going to see whether I can get all of the Fiction judged tomorrow so I can get you guys your Community/Artist choice ballots, and once those are in, I'll do the subjective prizes for each category.

Some of the categories were harder to choose one piece over another, making Sol and I scratch our heads for a little bit and pull out the grading rubrick to tally up scores to break ties and whatnot. I am continually impressed by the talent we've got in this thread.

Love you all!

(Also, I'm feeling a little bit better after three cups of tea. XD)

=( Well, Tev, I hope you can use the riddles I sent you!

Gwah, I cant be able to see the ceremony, But Ill be there for all of you, ALWAYS

http://i.imgur.com/MG4r1.jpg

That's a threat, isn't it?

Kinda glad you haven't judged the fan-fictions yet. I don't believe mine is on the first page. Thanks.

@ Sol-ether

What do you mean?

I had it there under your name, but hadn't added it to the category. It's there now!

So I will most likely be unable to attend the awarding ceremony...I apologize. Also, the SK forums are still unresponsive on my computer, so I will be unable to post my actual story on the forums (I dont know if that woulx help or not).

Thank you so much for doing this, Tev.

~Dat Sarge guy

IGN : Msaad
Title : The Fight against Vanaduke
"Finally, I reached here.. It's time to show the person who destroyed the great almire Who's the boss."
I stepped forward, with my blitz needle ready for attack. I stepped in front of the gate, only to see a really big person about 18 Feet long! "So this is the Vanaduke guy everyone fears... Time to show him what I'm made of". The gates opened.. I see Vanaduke with his HUge cloak. He tells me to Run away. I told him "I'm not afraid of anything! Show me what you've got!!" Then I see Vanaduke face to face. "This is it" I thought.
He raises his huge mace to summon two slags, I deal with them easily.. Then I charge my blitz needle and fire at him.. "WHAT THE HELL?? It's like he got no pain at all!" I wasn't giving up, I kept on charging and dodging his attack until he stops, Suddenly, He deflects all of my attacks.. His mask came out of his face, which had a fiery round flame and flame orbs around it. I tried to Ttack, but I fail. "Dang it! What do I do now???" I looked at the water near me.. I took it and threw it at the mask. Suddenly the flame goes and some watery aura comes around it, I shoot my blitz and BANG! Out goes the mask, I celebrated my victory, but only for a few seconds, Vanaduke rises again, with flame orbs around him.. I was scared to death and didn't know what to do.. I threw a freeze vial and charged.. His mace bangs the floor and out came the roof rumbling down with lava, I threw water on the lave and charged until he fell down. The mask again, but this time not really easy. The flame orbs were rattling at high speed and I couldn't see clearly
I tried my best, and wasted all my remedy capsules, He still won't get up!! With my anger, I threw several water balls at him and charged my blitz needle.. I was facing a very big challenge.. BOOM, his mask is gone... I thought it would be easy now..

I was wrong.
He spread out flames all around and it hit me, no matter what I do, he still won't die. He hit me with his huge mace and I started to see blackness.

Blackness of death.. Then I suddenly remembered the health capsule I had. I used it and my health was restored. The too armed slags just keep on hitting me. "THAT'S IT!!" I thought, With my frustration, anger and weakness, I charged my blitz for one last time.. I hoped he would die, but I was wrong, suddenly the slags fall and they drop health, I take the health, restore my energy. But not soon enough, I fall Down with the mace hitting me.
This Is the end..
I fall down.. Ready to die
Suddenly I see a goddess.. Who stopped Vanaduke from killing me and gave me a sword.. A sword I have never seen before. The goddess said "Take this divine avenger with you, for you shall succeed with it" I take the divine avenger as the goddess disappear. I hit Vanaduke, dodging his attacks and finally charged the DA.
That was it.

Vanaduke, the most feared, the scariest of all, falls down.
I couldn't believe it..

I was back at haven where many people congratulated me for my victory.
I couldn't be happier.

For the spiral order, I would face many evils as much as I can.

Dang it, I was too late D:

I havent thank ya for hosting this pretty nice contest, Tevokkia! I found about it like 2 days ago but it was pretty amazing how well organized and massive it is!

I thought the judging was on the 30th of november which was 1st december for me. I waited the whole day... ARGH..... I logged on to the forums to see....... The website was down! (FOR ME) Dunno why, so i mailed Yttriu and asked her, as she was always online at that time. Found at she was offline. STRANGE. WHY IS THAT?????? OH YEAH

IF i won anything... Thats a big IF, then if its on saturday or sunday, pls. give it to Yttriu if she's online, IF NOT pls. just mail it to me

G'Night men and women

When do we find out the results :o immediately after judging or at the ceremony?

Well...I DID tell you my explanations sucked xD

Also...Latisan-Sklay...whoa...those things are EXPENSIVO~ like seriously O_O
And how does that guy have SEVEN of them, if only NINE exist? Wow.

Mysteries of Spiral Knights. Strange happenings...

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I have no idea why, but for some reason it's fun to type Latisan-Sklay. hahahahaha. Latisan-Sklay. Latisan-Sklay. I must be weird-ing everyone out. >.>

Yes, yes you are. In a way.

Anyway, according to my sources, the guy who had 7 of them left SK, so he gave them away.

...
 Latisan-Sklay Latisan-Sklay.
Y'know what? Typing Latisan-Sklay does feel fun.
...

Now I'm weird.

You guys just made my name pop up seven more times in Google... XD theoretically anyways.

And thanks. I do like my name. You should address an email that way and send us some content for the podcast!! XD

Yeah, Lord-Hood told me the guy who owned the DFS's he collected stopped playing, but I didn't hear that he gave them away... o.O

Also, I don't think it was 2 billion... that's a bit ridiculous. I guess it was 2 million... still pretty steep. If YOU found a DFS in your Tier 3 Gremlin Grounds, what would you do first? Then what?

Good news, peeps! I'm finished judging all of the placement awards! I'll have the ballots for the Community Choice and Artist's Choice up later today. When I get the ballots back, I'll decide on the subjective awards. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony, and then posted in the thread when the ceremony is over. At that time, I'll mail prizes to anyone who was unable to attend.

ALSO: the Artist/Community Choice awards are listed at 1* or 2* right now (I can't remember), but I'm bumping them up to 3*. Just lettin' y'all know.

@Latisan: What would I do? Immediately equip it and begin building an outfit around it. XD

I do hope I won something. Uh oh, if Tev's reading this and I didn't get anything, it might make her feel bad. So bad a bus runs over everyone then explodes. TEV, IGNORE THIS FOR YOUR SAFETY.

/ignore it

System.out.println("Sorry, user 'it' is not online.");

Everyone gets SOMETHING. It just may not be a big something.

I see what you're trying to do... :o

Anyways, everyone gets a 'Participation' award so technically everyone 'wins'.

Okay peeps! Go ahead and do your voting for Community/Artist choice! You've got until Friday night!

Bah!

I was too late to enter, but at least I've got myself a cool model! I'll put it up somewhere soon hopefully.

Question on ballots (which I may or may not fill out, depending on obligations): did you mean six or more when you said you could vote for two?

No, six or fewer. Sever or more is three. I have it listed on the cut/paste ballot itself how many you can have for each category.

Can we vote for our own entries? Or only other's?

You've got a handful of spare gs in the dropbox links. They seem to all work when the spare gs (as in pngg and jpgg) are deleted, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

I must also squee. *squee*

Anyway, ya, I'll get around to picking favourites soonlike. You don't explicitly state it, but I assume it'd count as foul play to vote for one's own work, yeah? :P

@Artist: I'd like it if you didn't, but I"m not going to disqualify you or anything if you do.

@Inco: Thanks for letting me know! Someone else also did over tumblr, and it's fixed now.

I vote for Short Poem F! :D

I'm only weighing into art right now as it's finals week and I don't have time to go over the other stuff.

Knights - Entry C
I don't know, this piece just spoke to me more than the others

Gremlins - Entry E
This one really looked like some work was put into it and it reminds me of a gnoll, which I like, I like people having different takes on gremlins

Everything - Entry J
This one just looks really representative of spiral knights in general and looks like it had a lot of heart and soul poured into it

Spiral Spy - Entry B
This one was touching without words, so again it was the one that spoke to me the most and looked the most professional and well put together with the most happening in my opinion (and I kind of know a thing or two about spiral spy). That being said boys and girls, all your submissions had the compass in the lower left hand corner there is an option under "view" on the main page (RIGHT BELOW GRID! I DIDN'T SEE ANY GRIDS GUYS, SAW LOTS OF COMPASS'S THO IT IS LITERALLY RIGHT BELOW IT GUYS!) there is a check box right next to compass, just uncheck it, seriously guys.

Also i tickled myself with the though that she may have actually pushed him off the edge hehehe ^^

Other - Entry D and E
Those two are just bad ass, they are just so [frakking] wicked

Art: Gremlins - (Choose up to 2)
1. Entry F
is just a great scene from a fun perspective. Love it. =D

Art: Everything - (Choose up to 3)
1. Entry E
is cute and funny (yeah, I remember the original caption).

2. Entry B
shows a good bit of action and I like how it has just enough background detail to set the scene.

Art: SpiralSpy - (Choose up to 3)
1. Entry F
has the most interesting perspective.

2. Entry J
is another interesting perspective.

3. Entry B
put a story in my head as soon as I saw it.

Fiction: Mini - (Choose up to 2)
1. Entry A
had a clever idea. Yeah.. I just liked what this one was about. ^^

Poetry: Short - (Choose up to 3)
1. Entries B and F
were both amusing. =)

I'm choosing not to vote in the art category that I entered.

Art: Knights - ENTRY B and ENTRY J

Art: Gremlins - ENTRY A and ENTRY F

Art: Everything - ENTRY E

Art: SpiralSpy - ENTRY B and ENTRY I

Art: Other - ENTRY E

Fiction: Mini - ENTRY E

Fiction: Short - ENTRY F and ENTRY M

Can't vote in poem categories because I don't know anything about them. :P

Tev, for some reason you still haven't updated the first page which lists the entries. I edited my last submission (spiral-spy) about a week ago. But as I said earlier, you haven't updated the front page listing the submissions. This has kinda unnerved me, have you forgotten about my last submission :(?

Did I comment on that entry? Because I don't recall even having seen it. I'll go check. Why didn't you mention it in the last day or so before the end of the contest when I told everyone to check the front page for their entries?

Do you remember what page it was on, at least?

EDIT: Okay, I found it. Why in the world did you edit an entry you decided not to use into a new entry rather than just making a new post? I genuinely did not even see this entry until just now.

If you've already voted on the art entries, go back and take a look at the SpiralSpy category. There's an entry there that had been missed. Since nobody has used up all of their possible votes (why are you guys only making 1 vote?! You have up to 3 in most categories), adding this one if it's among your favorites shouldn't be an issue.

@Tevokkia "Sol and I have already chosen winners for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (or 1st only, if that's what the category called for) in all categories except the Fiction categories."
That just made my heart skip a beat or two 0_0
@All Suddenly

Artist Choice:
Knights- Entry G 'Theres just something about traditional art that I like =)', Entry B 'Thanks, I had nightmares..............:P', Entry C 'If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a drawing is worth 10,000'
Gremlins- Entry A 'Awwwwwww', Entry B 'Awwwwwww", Entry F "I feel sorry for the Jelly King :P'
Everything- Entry B 'Traditional for the win :D', Entry C 'Its called Lovejan, or maybe a Tropuppy.........', Entry F 'Now make a new boss :P'
Spiral Spy- Entry B 'It would be nice if we could do that =) (yeah, touched my heart as well :D)', Entry I 'Would be nice if we could watch monsters fight against each other =)'
Other- Entry A 'REBECCCAAAAAAAA', Entry E "Now you have to make a wrench wand :P', Entry C 'Awwwww"
(Never knew there were THIS many people in asia [or, who are asian] who play Spiral Knights :P)

Going to finish typing up the rest of this later, I need to go do some more homework :P