While it can be seen as negative it is the correct word and used in the right way, there is really no better single word to say it clearly. Voting all 10 and yourself 1 would have also 'skewed' the results. If others can think of a better word please let us all know.
Here is how I voted see the brackets [] and my notes (which are rough). I added what everyone got because I wanted to see where I differed from the rest of you in my ideas of what was good. The asterisk * marks the ones that I was significantly different on. Also, I copied in notes from the forum to help me, but they didn't affect my voting.
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[6](got6.68) An Unexpected Vacation - chaco - WATERSKIPPER - anyone build: 6 puzzles 2 were too hard [ 2N1E ; 1N1W ] (-2) 3 were good 3 But 2 didn't seem to show how the element was so great. (-1)
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*[5](got7.47) 2ND pLACE Artful Escape - Ravon - SWORD SWITCH - anyone build: Almost didn't make it past the entrance, (-4) I have the demo and had not seen this element before putting 1E first or some instruction would have made it better. Used build feature to play 1E and figured out how it worked. Never figured out 1S1W. Finished with help. (-2)
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[6](got6.21) Burning Sands - Tom tokyokid - HOT TILES - NOT anyone build (-2) only build: Use to kill roach good instructions, no time for turning sword. Very good.(-1) for un-executable secret room. 80% complete
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*[7](got4.78) Contest - roach strangler - Nenad - FEGUNDO - anyone build: Needed more saves, that lack of saves and alt ways to get in each room is why I marked this down with saves I might have given it a 8 and alt entrance a 9 or 10. I like the easy to med etc approach. In build it Looks like 11 puzzles. but I got stuck at 1S2E couldn't see how to kill the 3 tar babies created when the bombs exploded, realized they were lost leaders only need to kill roach, nice trick ha ha. Missed a chance to show Fegundo against briar's. Also the brain room exit west should have been blocked so I was not tempted to go look esp without saves. Element not in ending text [-1]
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*[10](got5.42) Elemental entry Aneport - MINE
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*[8](got6.10) Elemental Showcase Entry - Noah T - TAR STUFF SWITCH TOKEN - anyone build: Haven't gotten out of entrance. but is fun - Played rooms in editor but 1N has me confused.(-1)For difficulty.
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*[3](got5.89) Elemental Showcase: Fire - cappro - HOT TILES - anyone build: No saves in entrance - too hard played other rooms in build they were either too hard or uninteresting.
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[6](got6.89) Elemental Showcase Jason - jason - OREMITES - NOT anyone build (-2) : training 5N quince STUCK
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[6](got5.36) Elemental Showcase The plumbing - someone else - STALWARTS - anyone build : STUCK in entrance no training. Played in build still needed pointers.
"
Tahnan,OK, I could definitely use some help on Plumbing: 1S1W. In particular, I gather that.."
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*[10](got5.42) Entry 2 building and destroying by lst6 - armin - BUILDERS - anyone build: I could have use that tutorial when building my hold. Wow the best.
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[3](got4.89) Hells Kitchen - Ptanzoricis - anyone build: Too frustrating
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*[7](got4.47) lst6 hold for elemental showcase - Armin - TRANSPORTS BOTH KINDS - anyone build : very short but OK
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[8](got7.84)1ST pLACE PoPS - voyager - SPEED POTION - NOT anyone build (-0) but you can see all : Very well done but stuck in 1E second half cant get past entrance.
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[7](got6.10) Showcasing hot tiles - John - HOT TILES - anyone build: I did fine, was best of the hot tiles but couldn't kill green snake in 1s3e, even when it has only one segment left it won't die. Had to look at build to figure it out. (-1) Now stuck w/ rock goblum but did finish. focus element text missing from ending (-1).
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[6](got7.00) 3RD pLACE Steam vents - Henri - HOT TILES - anyone build: Just not that fun puzzles to confusing so element takes 2nd stage
16. [7](got6.05) The Beach - Daniel Stitt - SINGLE USE PP - anyone build: Gave it a look over very well done. Could have used scroll or scripts(-1)some puzzles too hard (-1).
17.*[5](got6.47) The Lighthouse_300 - boyblue - LIGHTS - anyone build: No real entrances so you stand on green door element not really featured well. I thought about how the light house idea could have been played better.
18. [3](got4.63) The path - dexstewart - NOT anyone build (-2): Have no idea what to do.
Note
ex Stewart - I might as well say that my entry is a bit screwed up, as I made it in 3.0.2 and realized too late that the Stalwart's AI was modified with the patch. Therefore the 4th (second to last) room is impossible to solve. To still "
present"
the idea, the fifth room is simply a big battle with about 24 stalwarts, 20 guards and 8 slayers which you can't pass without killing all the slayers.
19. [2](got4.05) Tokens - Owen - TOKENS - anyone build: Have seen two rooms but have no idea what is going on or the reason token is there.
20. [3](got4.31) Trouble in the basement - Kevin - GEL - anyone build: While the focus is gel the puzzles seem very similar and any new methods are not featured. I have in fact not gotten far just to the next room to the left. 9 puzzles
NOTE: Here you go. The lynchpin is that the only way you can get through the gel formation at the west end is to start on a dark square. In order to make the gel near the dark square cuttable, you need to come in from the northern end.
The rest of the hold is pretty much just the same "
determine which square is where you need to cut"
and "
how am I going to get there properly"
. Blech.
21.*[8](got5.26) Vipuls Element Hold - Vipul - WATER SKIPPER NESTS - anyone build: While not too challenging it was well done. After so many impossible hold this was easy.
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I have been continually playing contest on the forum since Dec 2004. Having often been addressed as a he my new avatar shows that I am a "
Lady"
. And one with a very sharp sword, too.
I love the monthly contests but it took me a long while before I even placed. 21 contests in fact.
Virtual Burning Man was the first contest I took any place in and I got 1st, wow!. Yes, I have received my prize, a sweatshirt from the DROD store, and I love it.
It took 14 more contest but next I took 1st prize in Media of the Eighth Nov07, followed by a win in the Secret Santa 2007. Check out my entry:
http://www.gailswebplace.com/NightSky/index.html
Suddenly I was a winner but, still the goal of a winning hold based contest eludes me....
I keep trying so come and join me.
http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewboard.php?BoardID=83
I apologise if that was not the case.
