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andylegate wrote:Congrats to the winners!...... Grogyan, you might want to check your math however, hehe.

How do you mean?
I used the internal math functions of Excel to calculate them

There were 2 instances where all the scores were 0, meaning that they weren't functioning for that judge, is that what you mean?

Oh, and out of curiosity: Is there any reason why Judge Kato did not score my Age, or did I get all 0's from him for real?

And also I noticed that Judge Greg also either did not give Sean any scores on his age, or gave him all 0's.

Comments?

And what I meant was, I scored 3rd place, not Bob, but that's okay.

EDIT:Just saw your post, The judges were suppose to let us know if our Age was not functioning for them.

Sorry, my mistake, I saw that blunder and changed it in that post

andylegate wrote:Oh, and out of curiosity: Is there any reason why Judge Kato did not score my Age, or did I get all 0's from him for real?

And also I noticed that Judge Greg also either did not give Sean any scores on his age, or gave him all 0's.

That is correct

EDIT:Just saw your post, The judges were suppose to let us know if our Age was not functioning for them.

Yes they were, or have let us know about it so that we could have notified you, too late now

Wow.

I didn't try to win. I just modeled straight out of my heart and what I wanted most to do and make.

Thanks RAD for giving the me chance to build a full age. Thanks Grogyan, GregW11, PhilippH, Nynaveve, Hoikas, mar, Kato, Chogon and the people I forgot to put here.

This has really given me a chance to have feedback about my age writing.

I had a really good time building this age and seeing the other contestant's ages.

Lemme now go and take a look at all the info that's been posted.

Yes they were, or have let us know about it so that we could have notified you, too late now

sigh. And you wonder why I'll not enter another RAD.........

Anycase, congrats on your Win Lon, you did a good job on your Age. Everyone else too thank you for the effort you put in.

MAYBE one day these contests can be run with their act together.

Grogyan slowly raises his revolver to his head, to prepare for the flood of comments

Congrats to the winners!

Now that the judges can't be influenced anymore, I can say how much I was impressed and moved by Lonthav's work.

Even before trying it for the first time, I was intrigued by this note in the zip file:

Instead of trying to be realistic I'm trying to paint an abstract emotion in the viewer's mind. This is what almost all great art attempts to achieve. This is why you can get the same powerful inclination (if not a much more powerful one) from abstract paintings as you can from something photo-like (don't know about you but this holds true for me).

I realized I was hungry for such an Age, that this was a yet unexplored universe for Writers.

And Tre'bivdil gently brings forth that universe. It is timid at first, almost apologetic in its welcome note at the linking point. And then you start noticing the building blocks, the bold splashes of colour among the pastel hues, the infinite blue sky, the calm ocean. Few ingredients, a minimalist palette.

You feel there is a lot to explore, and yet you take time to sit and take in the view, listen to the murmur of the sea. The sun feels good and the light would make any painter happy. There are distant islands, inhabited, you decide, by sea-going natives who revere this place as sacred.

Then you get up and discover the Age. It is a Dali masterpiece lost on a distant planet. Each sandstone island a small world in itself, a Zen garden you could sit in for days, just savoring its distinct taste, before crossing the bridge towards the next, a symbolic gesture, a rite of passage. The bridges themselves, in sharp contrast with the pure geometry of the stone, ancient, creaking, yet lovingly maintained for millenia.

There is a sense of perfection, of completeness. Nowhere do you think "I would have done this or this differently". You know you wouldn't have done it at all, and you feel sorry for it.

Lon, thank you for this masterpiece. It has a permanent place in my bookshelf.

Thanks for the perspective, Chacal.

Congratulations, Lontahv!

I just submitted the results to the Guild of Messengers, for them to spread the word around the community.