2007 Custom Contest Results

[Tilly]

TOTAL CONTEST VOTES

Tilly's note: These are public to prevent fudging...and me screwing up counting (please tell me if I did). However, if I find out someone was harassed about their vote(s), I will be Not Happy.

BEST IN SHOW
Paladin, with 20 votes total. (Langosta was a close second with 18.)


Paint
Iron Kong Shogun: 8 (quattro, zed, jetfalcon, Stompy, ghe, stormhawk, Nameless, Likklefyah)
Wraith Bane: 6 (Maethius, Blitzwulf, ScissorBreaker, Kyubigan, Charlie, KAndrw)
Paladin: 5 (Rantinan, Colodie, Lionel, Alteka, Darth Daniel)
Rasen Wolf: 5 (Tilly, Moshii, Abaddon, Ped, Lt Sullivan)
Arctic Fangs: 4 (vishus, Kaelin, Adamassc, Gojulas Omega)
Langosta: 2 (Kamadoma, Hidocker)
Rush Wyvern: 1 (Mazias)


Structure
Langosta: 10 (zed, Rantinan, Colodie, Lionel, Charlie, Ped, stormhawk, Nameless, KAndrw, Likklefyah)
Paladin: 9 (quattro, Blitzwulf, Moshii, Kaelin, jetfalcon, Adamassc, Hidocker, Abaddon, Lt Sullivan)
Agathus: 6 (Mazias, Maethius, Kyubigan, Alteka, Stompy, ghe)
Advanced Baron: 2 (Tilly, vishus)
Iron Kong Shogun: 2 (Kamadoma, Darth Daniel)
Relinquo Vir: 1 (ScissorBreaker)
Assault Scarab HA: 1 (Gojulas Omega)


Story
Houndtrupen: 7 (Tilly, Mazias, zed, Alteka, Hidocker, Ped, KAndrw)
Paladin: 6 (Rantinan, Kamadoma, Kyubigan, Charlie, Stompy, Nameless)
Langosta: 6 (jetfalcon, Adamassc, Darth Daniel, ghe, stormhawk, Likklefyah)
Dktahg: 4 (Maethius, Kaelin, Gojulas Omega, Abaddon)
Iron Kong Shogun: 2 (quattro, Blitzwulf)
Wraith Bane: 1 (vishus)
Assault Scarab HA: 1 (Moshii)
Reapspawn: 1 (ScissorBreaker)
Gravity Kaiser: 1 (Colodie)
Agathus: 1 (Lionel)
Rush Wyvern: 1 (Lt Sullivan)


Prizes will be dealt with ASAP - I have to poke the donating mods. Any entering people who didn't win something and like miniZoids, PM me. I have a few spares >_>.

Ped, Rant, Lionel, Maethius: if you want a custom title thingy, tell me.

(and yes, discussion is okay in this thread)

[rantinan]

*Happy dances!*
Congratulations to the other winners, This years contest may have been small in stature, but was big on serious awesome.

[ped]

Wow! Thanks to all for voting. Congratulations to all the other winners, Lionel, Rantinan, and of course Maethius for best in show.

Was a pleasure to have competed with you all. Thanks Tilly for taking care of this and to all who supported the contest as well.

Until the next contest.... maybe.

darth on,

ped

[Kamadoma]

Congratulations to all the winners, well deserved!

Congrats to Tilly and the rest of the staff who made the contest possible!

[Maethius]

Very well done, all! A great show of creativity, skill... and just a love of Zoids!

Lionel, you do know to beat that next time, you're going to have to build the battery, gear box and create your own plastic.

[Ancient Zoidian Vega]

HAHA... im such no0b... i should have entered my custom before my internet decided to die.......... meh, i guess ill post my custom on the custom board anyways..

Vega.

[zed]

Congrats to everyone !

Maybe next time, I will FINALLY get a chance to enter.

zed

[Lt. Sullivan]

Congratulations everyone!!!

Wonderful work on all your parts. Even though there were FAR fewer entrants this year, I think these were some of the best customs our forum has ever seen. Paladin is more than on par with the God and Holocaust Ligers, IMO.

[Xehn]

...Wow. Only two votes in all. >>;; I wasn't expecting to do THAT badly.

I mean, not winning doesn't bug me, but eh. D:

I have other customs to worry about, now. >>

[Lionel]

Congrats to everybody, and thanks too for this great contest and the votes.
Argh ! Two votes only... that's the paint category, it is not something I'm working a lot on a custom.


Lionel

[zed]

I'm kinda biased, cos I was brought up with the OER Zoids and stories. So if I was allowed to pick a Best in Show, I would have picked Langousta. It suits the OER line perfectly. If anything, its probably too complex to be an OER.

The problem with an OER theme is the paint job, though applied very well, will always be very simple. So it was always likely to lose out to something more dramatic like Shogun Kong. I think thats also why the Kong just edged out Wraith Bone. It may have been better painted in terms of details and difficulty, but Shogun was simply more eye catching for me.

I think next year we should have a theme:
- Zoid Racing
- Construction Zoid
- Dark Zoid
- Ultimate Liger
That kinda thing ...

zed

[Moshii]

No one I voted for won...unless you count Paladin's best in show.

One vote


...


...Could've been worse. At least I got a vote. Thanks, SB!!

[Tilly]

Racing sounds great by me. I've always thought that was a neglected thing in-universe. We had sports battles, sure, but I'm sure there'd be pilots interested in testing how they could soup up their Zoids for speed.

Though Pheno's annual contest has always been free-for-all, maybe there could be some mid-year...thing. Especially in the form of a combined fanfiction-custom-fanart contest.

*ponders*

[Charlie]

The voting is really close, and someone could have been the deciding swing vote. Overall, having four winners shows a good balance in the contest.

Also, thanks to the four people who voted for my story:
Maethius, Kaelin, Gojulas Omega, Abaddon

[Maethius]

You're welcome, Charlie... something about that story just kinda got into my heart, I guess.

I just wanted to note that one of my votes would have been different... I hadn't seen Lionel's working innards photo until AFTER my vote was in! That is just awesome work! In the future I will wait until the last week to vote, so that there is a fair opportunity to view any additional photo pages of the entries. Several people had gallery pages locked for the first week.

Again, a wonderful effort by everyone!

(If the next contest has a theme, I may be at a disadvantage... I'm an old fashioned Zoider, and my mind is stuck in military land!)