First of all I know that it's a bit early to evaluate this year's competition. Please delete this topic if you think that it is inappropriate or you feel that I'm discussing anything against the rules.
Anyway:
Even though I must say that that the 2004 Painting comp is a success in terms of the overall quality of the submissions, I''m a bit surprised at the quantity.
The Terrain and Open categories didn't recieve a whole lot of submissions but that's not really that surprising.
However it does strike me as odd that there hasn't been more contributions to the Single Unit, Titan and Battleforce categories. I may remember it wrong but IIRC there was a huge lot of last minute submissions last year.
With the re-launch of Epic I would expect that a lot more new players, talented painters etc. had gotten into the game. Why didn't they enter?
Didn't we advertise the Comp enough on other forums? Last year's Epic Painting comp and the competition gallery was provided with a link from the Fanatic website IIRC. Was it a mistake not to lobby for this again?
Or didn't we give people enough incentive to participate? (I'm thinking of the still unannounced prizes -not meant as a critique, but this may have a strong influence on some people's decision to enter)
Anyway these were just a few loose thoughts flying through my head.
Of course there are many reasons why things are the way they are, such as the recent re-shuffeling at Fanatic and the fact that the official boards have become a lot more busy recently. I just couldn't help wondering how we could improve the exposure of the comp in the future.
Cheers! ?
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