2nd Anniversary Costume Contest: The Results!

[GM Kaiju]

Hey everyone! Thank You for the awesome response to the Homecoming 2nd Anniversary costume contest! We had almost 1000 players participate across the shards, and ended up running two contests simultaneously on Excelsior so everyone could attend! Thank you all for helping to celebrate two years of our community!

Now, for the results!

 

🏆Overall Winner: Synroc from Everlasting!  🏆

 

 

Everlasting:

Finalists: Prof Skullface, Defcon X, Guardian Sinaptico, Liberty Vanguard

Winner: Synroc

 

 

Excelsior 1:

Finalists: Diephoon, Jellyfish, Vile Crypt, Data Wraith

Winner: S0NAR

 

 

 

Excelsior 2:

Finalists: Jia the Dragon Lotus, zomBBQ, Moonwave, Vitamin Sea

Winner: Great Briton

 

 

Torchbearer:

Finalists: KWOF, Doctor Ooze, Doctor Epoxy, Great Gold Dragon

Winner: Hand of Paragon

 

 

Indomitable:

Finalists: Murder the Penguin, Blue Plasma, Ocean Goddess, Enkou Samurai

Winner: Father Thames

 

 

Reunion:

Finalists: Ragepawn, Neon Flair, Industry, Glowcat

Winner: Battle Panda

 

 

If you are a winner I will be in touch with you in 24-48 hours - message here, on discord (GM Kaiju) or in game @GM Kaiju if you have questions!

 

Several large and shady characters crashed the party at the end of the contest, but were quickly put in their place by our resident heroes and villains (and Praetorians)!

 

 

 

 

Edited May 18, 2021 by GM Korvin

[Glacier Peak]

The monster mash was a lot of fun!

 

Edit: Oh and Synroc and SONAR's costumes are amazing!

 

Edited May 18, 2021 by Glacier Peak

[pjmoyer]

I’d like to note that, on Everlasting at least, there were so many contestants that the renderer dropped half of them for me (and I suspect, many others)!

 

(not pictured: everybody on the other half of the steps...)

[TemporalVileTerror]

I was actually just about to mention that, @pjmoyer!  That even seems to be the case with the official picture:

 

I was standing just to the left of the shot, and there were at least three times as many people rendering next to me than what this image shows.

 

That's unfortunate.

[Glacier Peak]

Is there a dev tool setting that increases or maximizes the render distance/object quantity? I am curious if there is, and if said dev or GM has a powerful enough system, could they manage to get everybody in a contest like this? 

 

I use /visscale # (where the number ranges from lowest of 1, to highest of 20). Would that help render more players or is that just objects/geometry?

[TemporalVileTerror]

One of the GMs -did- say something to that effect in the Admin channel on Everlasting, @Glacier Peak.  Specifically in regard to the stream that @GM Tempest was doing.

[Glacier Peak]

29 minutes ago, TemporalVileTerror said:

One of the GMs -did- say something to that effect in the Admin channel on Everlasting, @Glacier Peak.  Specifically in regard to the stream that @GM Tempest was doing.

Oh really, cool. I was watching the stream and I thought maybe there was some behind the scenes tools, but I didn't know for sure. Thanks for the heads up!

[Herotu]

Brilliant! Good job everybody!

[KalSpiro]

I are disappoint.  I got pulled aside after the thing for a finalist pic, but none of the finalists are featured.

I'll just add my own, cause I got my special title today too

 

Edited May 19, 2021 by KalSpiro

[krj12]

First I heard of this contest,  where is the post?

 

[KalSpiro]

1 minute ago, krj12 said:

First I heard of this contest,  where is the post?

 

It was posted in conjuncture to the post about Echo Plaza being made

[Mugshot]

Hey look! It's me, Prof Skullface! One of the finalists on Everlasting. 

Synroc is/was amazing. Sonar is incredible - I don't know if I could have chosen between Sonar and Synroc. Please Defcon X - get a pic of yourself here. That was too amazing to not share. I'd love to see all of the finalists too. 
And Liberty Vanguard - I didn't even see you that day. But that is a fantastic get-up. It's totally inspired me for my next one 🙂

Edited May 19, 2021 by Mugshot
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[KalSpiro]

Defcon X has been one of my favorite costumes for a long time, I was not surprised at all that he was called.

[Great Briton]

Thanks for putting this on, was great finally making it to one of these since I've a terrible habit of forgetting events and was almost too late for this one 😬

[nordicon]

Who were the judges what was the scoring criteria? Why did you pick the ones you did?

 

Make it more like the Olympics and grade their back story as well.

 

[Crystal Dragon]

1 hour ago, nordicon said:

Who were the judges what was the scoring criteria? Why did you pick the ones you did?

 

Make it more like the Olympics and grade their back story as well.

 

The GM's were the judges, the criteria was based on the theme for the contest. You are new around here, aren't you? It would have taken them longer to go through each bio on Everlasting with the contestants AND costume judging, so no. I don't think so. If they were getting paid to GM here, then that might be up for suggestion but it's not. They donate their time to do things like this, the very least you could do is allow them their freedom of choice and participation.

[TombTyrant]

Wow some great stuff here!

[Tahliah]

Seriously good costumes here!  Congrats to all.  I must admit that I love Father Thames and Battle Panda. So fun and creative.