Siegfried

I'd like to do another next year. The next forum in dire need for a contest is Sci-Fi... I did consider giving out more smaller prizes, but we then spend too much on postage, and giving away the Technic flagship was pretty cool. Thus we went for two main prizes... which to be honest blew the budget as it was. (As it turns out I'm balancing the "books" right now... and with two big contests finishing at the same time it's not a pretty sight.... :sing: ) However, I'm hoping to arrange at least some prizes from TLG next time. Yes, I was pleased there. I wanted at least 100 votes and I got about that. Thanks for all the thanks! I'll make sure that next time has a equally interesting theme.

Weird.... just weird. I'll have to ask around to see if this is just a local experiment.

Well you're off to a bad start. Did you read the guidelines? That image is too big... and I'll be moving this topic to community as it certainly doesn't belong in Sci-Fi.

It's time for the big reveal! Who won? Find out!

Well it's time to reveal the winners of our To sail the Technic sea contest! First you must read this rant... no peeking at the winners! You back now? OK. Thanks everyone for participating in my competition, and thanks also to all that voted and offered suggestions to the entrants. Extra thanks goes out to my voting panel who helped me pick the finalists. It's been a long term dream of mine for EB to have a Technic contest so I'd like to thank EB for this chance. We'll have to have another one next year and we'll have to make it bigger. In a few days I'll start a topic discussing how it went so please save discussion like that for later. The voting result was really interesting. Place one and two were separated by just a few votes, three was close behind, and in a bit of a clump was four to six. I might post rough details of the tallies later, but you can always add them up and see it roughly for yourself. (There were some PM votes.) Important remarks: Prizes are posted at our expense unless it's really expensive. (Never happened to my recollection, but...) If you are one of the contest winners you'll get a PM after the contest is over to work out the details Winners will be notified in order, and will be allowed to choose a lower value prize if they wish. We're finalising the Architecture contest at the moment so S@H prizes might be delayed. So without further ranting, first place (and first dibs on the prizes) goes to Splat with his Water Strider... ..who wins our respect! Congrats! Also he wins... Second goes to legobodgers with his cool Steampunk shark submersible... ...and he wins... ...and wow, two Australians... Gee we're good. In order, the runners up are... Piper Super Cub Float Plane by dhc6twinotter Motor Boat & water skiing by Tomik The Harbour Tug by efferman Leviathan by Omikron ...and they win... There could be some extra bonuses there for the 3rd place winner. Congrats to the Winners! To those that didn't win I'll probably bash together a tag so you can have a long term reminder of this... If you've won a prize... You will receive a PM about what to do next. Winners will be notified in order, so there may be a delay before you hear from us. Please be patient. Please make sure you have Personal Messenger enabled in your profile. If you've just tuned in, be sure to check the Contest Index for more details of this contest!

Probably not. That's more referring to those that got it at the time. It pre-dates me so I've never deleted it, but I certainly don't want to be giving it out to every person who's a member on CC....

I'm all counted up, but it'll be tomorrow sometime. Please note that it's not possible to accurately pick the winner from the public tally but the top six should be clear enough for those that don't want to wait.

As I posted there is about 12 hours of voting to go. First place is actually still up for grabs; two entries have been fighting it out for a while! Interestingly though unless there is some radical voting in the next few hours the 3rd->6th places are decently clear with no likely chance of any of them losing their chance at a prize. Freaky... Please note, for those tallying at home you don't have the full picture. There have been several PM votes (under 10) so while things should be much what you expect there could be slight variances. (I just checked then; as of right now the placings are unchanged if you take out the PM votes, but this may change.) Anyway, the winners should be announced in about 40 hours... but the prizes could be a bit later as we're allocating the Architecture Prizes right now. (We've got the money, but S@H doesn't like you changing the country when there are pending orders... or something like that. )

As of this post there is a bit over 12 hours to go! There will be no further warnings! When I get home from work tomorrow the first thing I'll do is lock this topic... 13) 4 4) 1 11) 1 15) 1

Are you sure it's them blocking us not us blocking them? Please PM me the IP if it's possible.

You didn't get an EMail like this? PMs: Technically not possible. Contact admin forum: Technically not possible. EMail support: We really don't have the resources to answer personal EMails. We'd rather answer once in a public place.

...and so the tale of lego envy comes to a close.

Indeed. That's why I'm doing this on a spreadsheet so I can check for double names easily....

I'd love that when the votes are closed.

Votes are now half counted. Thus there is probably under two days of voting left.

Sorry, your vote is invalid as you joined after the cut-off.

I'm going to start counting the votes soon and when I'm caught up I'll give a one-day warning and then announce the winners a few days later!

It's no time to be fishing or riding orcas! The vote will be closing soon! Real soon! Vote!

Well I hope he does come by, but in any case Happy Birthday!

Beats me, but their image is watermarked too...

To my knowledge you're early... but in any case the image is watermarked.

Errr.... just one vote please. Errr.... you voted for 5, not 4, and that's a total of 9, not 7.

Sorry, but that's an invalid vote; you can allocate a maximum of 4 points.

The new photos, and MOC edits, are much better! Could you post a picture of the full scene, I'm curious how big it is. I love in-camera effects like that. I agree.

....let's just drop the whole issue please. To me it's been resolved.