Contest Judge Applications (winners announced!)

PixelPest · Postby **PixelPest** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:21 am

Will any of these people act as a back-up judge such that judges can also submit levels?

YouTube · Postby **bossedit8** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:22 am

Inb4 it's gonna be me like the last contest.

Postby **Valentine** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:23 am

Thanks for giving me something to be salty over, now I can finally complain again

Mivixion · Postby **Mivixion** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:25 am

The way this contest is gonna work it's going to be pretty hard to do the CC backup judge thing.

@Sanct you were one out, no joke. SM7 applied at the last second and sniped your spot

Postby **Valentine** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:28 am

thanks for making me even more salty. I'm gonna go scream into a pillow now.

Emral · Postby **Emral** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:29 am

I'm generally in favour of not letting judges submit their own levels to the contest.
However one thing to consider is having dedicated judge levels which either serve as a breather between tiers in the final game (like in MAGL3) or are appended into the postgame (like MAGLX2).

PixelPest · Postby **PixelPest** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:30 am

Mivixion wrote:The way this contest is gonna work it's going to be pretty hard to do the CC backup judge thing.

But will judges be able to submit levels? Also think that Enjl's idea would be cool.

Anyway, congrats to all of the other judges!

Sorel · Postby **Sorel** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:03 pm

Mivixion wrote:@Sanct you were one out, no joke. SM7 applied at the last second and sniped your spot

Except it wasn't the last second, but quite a lot of seconds over the time limit set by you.

AirSeus · Postby **AirSeus** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:08 pm

HeroLinik wrote:
IzIcy wrote:Good luck everyone!
Thank you! I'll probably need it though...

Looks like you didn't need luck!

JupiHornet · Postby **JupiHornet** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:10 pm

Awesome! Looking forward to this.

Postby **Marina** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:20 pm

With this line-up I really can't see any trouble!

Postby **ShadowStarX** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:25 pm

Mivixion wrote:The way this contest is gonna work it's going to be pretty hard to do the CC backup judge thing.

@Sanct you were one out, no joke. SM7 applied at the last second and sniped your spot

Is it really fair to replace someone who definitely signed up on time with someone who might've signed up late?

Emral · Postby **Emral** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:29 pm

This whole Sanct thing sounds a bit shady to me, too. Your announcement makes it sound like you went "oh thank god we got someone to replace this guy".
If you were going for keeping the dealine, I would've accepted either Sanct or neither, since he already had the spot secured, and, as you said, it was "sniped" away from him.
If you were going to be fair towards late submissions, too, and SuperMario7's application was mindblowingly amazing, I would've accepted both.

Either way this "snipe" thing is something I wouldn't have publically announced.

Nepgya · Postby **Nepgya** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:30 pm

SuperMario7 was just last second, yet he got that place? Explain to me how this works? Why does someone, who did a last minute signup, take a spot instead of someone who's been signed up for quite some time now?

Cedur · Postby **Cedur** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:42 pm

Because it doesn't matter who signed up at what time, it only matters about who is trusted to have the best experience and integrity for judging?

Maybe consider publishing the winning applications, or at least their parts of "by which guidelines do I judge"?

Nepgya · Postby **Nepgya** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:43 pm

Supershroom wrote:Because it doesn't matter who signed up at what time, it only matters about who is trusted to have the best experience and integrity for judging?

Maybe consider publishing the winning applications, or at least their parts of "by which guidelines do I judge"?

Then why did they apply Sanct before?

Emral · Postby **Emral** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:43 pm

Supershroom wrote:Maybe consider publishing the winning applications, or at least their parts of "by which guidelines do I judge"?

How about instead having a "meet the judges" thread, like the one on SMWC right now?

Postby **Valentine** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:43 pm

If he couldn't submit before the deadline, who knows when he'll submit his reviews?

Sorel · Postby **Sorel** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:44 pm

Supershroom wrote:Because it doesn't matter who signed up at what time, it only matters about who is trusted to have the best experience and integrity for judging?

Except deadlines do matter.

Mivixion · Postby **Mivixion** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:45 pm

He submitted late, but submitted a very good application. There was a pretty big divide between good and bad applications, I would have waited longer if I hadn't gotten enough good applications. I was planning on announcing earlier but reviewed the few late applications just in case.

The way this contest works makes it difficult to have more than 6 judges, but I reworked the system since after rereading the applications I actually do want both Sanct and SM7 on the judging team.
It's still early in the process and since not too much has been finalized, I have decided to add Sanct to the judging team since he was definitely in the upper tier of the applicants. In the long run it'll actually lead to a more balanced judging system overall. You'll understand why when the contest itself starts.