First of all, congratulations to the winners. It was very fun and inspirational to test the scenes submitted, really. I want to especially thank
Somebody for creating a test module for the judges and enabling us to divert time from manually loading and reloading siege maps to actually playing.
Secondly, it was a very close fight at the top indeed. Honestly all the top 10(11) scenes are really unique and above what you would find even in specially handcrafted scenes in most mods in my opinion. Beautiful, functional but most of all memorable. Nearly all the castles that landed in the rest of the ladder are also good. They're something I'd put in my mod if I had a medieval Singleplayer one. They're standard, functional castles you'd expect plenty of in medieval mods. The only thing what separated the top ones to them in
my eyes is how unique I found them, and the bigger overall scope/scale of the effort that went into creating and designing them. Plenty of middle-scored castles submitted are really good, it's just that they get blown out in proportion to the ones that scored top. I think that's fair, and I think it's disingenuous to objectively claim otherwise.
Quantifying scores will never be the most accurate way of doing this, I think we're all aware of that. That's why there are four judges, and I think it evens out correctly. Just because you scored n/120 on the list, doesn't mean the scene isn't good. As I said above, I dig a lot of these. It's just in proportion to the top, let's be realistic.
Thirdly, I was too very surprised at the attention the contest got from participants, the amount of submissions and the attention paid to it by TaleWorlds. It's all wrapped up into one big and successful community event. Big thanks to everyone, and if you have any concerns, would like to see your score, elaborations or suggestions for the future don't be afraid to PM me or something.
Ettenrocal said:
I said nothing about others scenes, i was speaking of mine... 44/120 sorry but this is sick ! But if you really want i can tell you what i think of the first places
Yeah, better not. Shameful display. Very disrespectful. One way to divert the attention from the winners, scenes and the contest to 'me, me, me'. Kindergarten behaviour requires kindergarten counter-measures, I suppose.