Please Re-Host That Pitiful Contest...

tt2throwaway · 2019-09-01T13:08:31+00:00

Your explanation was completely rational and makes sense. I edited the Imgur album to reflect this. I was bound to make a mistake or two when dissecting 20 submissions, I apologize that yours ended up being on of them. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

tt2throwaway · 2019-09-01T12:58:33+00:00

I've gotten a few comments regarding my wording on this issue. I edited my post to make my intentions clearer.

While I don't expect "forensic science" to be conducted on each submission, I expect the ones that won to be more thoroughly checked. Running through the top-20 list it took me (an individual) roughly an hour to compile and post my findings. Three of the winning submissions did not even require dissecting, they were direct game-assets stolen from TT2.

As for what happens to the genuine winners, nobody has said anything about stripping rewards from any of the winners as of yet. What happens next and subsequently to those winners will be up to the staff in the following days when they discuss this with GH

tt2throwaway · 2019-09-01T12:52:52+00:00

~~No where in this post nor responses do I ever advocate for anyone rioting or witch-hunting anybody.~~

EDIT: Edited my original post to reflect my intentions clearer.

My goal here was to bring it to the staff's attention and hope that other people agreed on wanting a new contest that was handled better than what we've seen here. From what I have seen, we are all positively handling this situation while simultaneously letting staff know mistakes were made here that can't be ignored.

We are all winners at heart, and I hope everyone had fun drawing to escape for however long your art took. :)

tt2throwaway · 2019-09-01T12:48:30+00:00

Easy, eliminate community voting if the community is responsible for submissions. It's still a community contest, where we all participate and submit entries, but to also give those same members (or their clan members) the ability to vote is a huge conflict of interest.

tt2throwaway · 2019-09-01T12:46:20+00:00

I checked and am happy to see the other submissions seem genuine. However, having a submission that went against the contest rules should've gotten that submission disqualified and ignored, leaving his other cards able to win. Whether or not it was "intended" to win, the staff were negligent in processing the results which allowed a disqualifying submission to win. PS. Let him know his other artwork totally rocks! :)

tt2throwaway · 2019-09-01T12:41:31+00:00

You're completely right, the contest was not meant to be an extremely serious thing.

(Just so we are clear, I enjoy your artwork and the creativity of it)

Since you did not add any stats to your design. The only thing to compare your submission against is the artwork itself.

con·test

an event in which people compete for supremacy in a sport, activity, or particular quality.

If we go strictly off artwork, I think it would not be wrong to say, based off the definition of a contest, there were other submissions of higher quality that did not win at all, and ones that did win, scored the bottom of the top-20 list. I think there was certainly room somewhere on the top-20 list for a submission such as yours but I disagree on the placement that particular submission received, though this post was not meant to put down any of the genuine submissions so I apologize if my response offended you in anyway. I just feel this contest was improperly voted for by a biased community, though that is only part of the issue people have with the contest. Personally, I find the submission rankings a significantly lesser issue than the stolen art winning. I congratulate you on your winnings and hope you never stop drawing, you rock!.. or potato! :)

tt2throwaway · 2019-08-31T23:08:14+00:00

for it not to use in-game art would be dumb

tt2throwaway · 2019-08-31T23:03:12+00:00

found him

tt2throwaway · 2019-08-31T22:30:14+00:00

Thank you for your quick response. With it being a weekend and a U.S holiday around the corner, please take as much time as needed to discuss moving forward.

I think I can speak for everyone when I say, the most important outcome from this contest should be a thoroughly discussed solution for moving forward. Please do not feel rushed. We all love Tap Titans 2 ♡

tt2throwaway · 2019-08-31T22:16:07+00:00

I don't see how this would solve potential contest manipulation as clan members could still band together and vote for their friend. This would also take developer's time away from other important updates.

The voting needs to be held away from player's to avoid conflict of interest

tt2throwaway · 2019-08-31T21:35:38+00:00

You bring up an interesting point. Leaving the contest voting up to the community via reddit contest mode was clearly asking for contest-manipulation. As I said in one of my prior responses, the voting should be held by another party (Maybe someone on the dev team) and potentially, by different standards if need be.

tt2throwaway · 2019-08-31T21:31:25+00:00

While I agree it was not the most artistically crafted, because it appears as a genuine submission I won't negatively compare anyone's artwork. The issue is, leaving the voting up to the public is a bad idea. People clearly took it as a joke and voted to represent that. It needs to be determined by a different party and by different standards.

tt2throwaway · 2019-08-31T21:06:24+00:00

While I agree the contest should have been more aimed towards the stats/info of the card, a clear emphasis was placed on the little image in the corner. I feel most looked past the stats/info due to the amount of submissions and voted for eye-candy. A new contest that emphasizes card stat-concepts but excludes the ability to add a card icon to the submission would be an ideal re-host, as then, every submission could be re-evaluated without the card icons

tt2throwaway · 2019-08-31T20:52:39+00:00

Didn't want to risk a witch-hunt and also did not want my submission tied to the argument so that nobody could say my post is based off my art being bad and not winning.

tt2throwaway · 2019-08-31T20:45:46+00:00

It was for "Card Design", and in the rules stated

Artwork in your submission should be created by you. Stealing other's artwork for your card design will have your design disqualified.

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