The Contest for Knowledge is officially on over at Gamer Escape, and the prizes are copies of the Encyclopædia Eorzea purchased at Fan Festival 2016! There will be three winners in all, and the grand prize copy is autographed by all three authors (Banri Oda, Koji Fox, and Natsuko Ishikawa) as well as Yoshi-P himself.
The playing field favors the loremongers (and those willing to put in a little elbow grease) just a tad, as the the entry form itself is a fourteen-question lore quiz. Not too easy, not really difficult, just a little tricky. Time probably isn't a factor, right? Look around if you're unsure!
The die will be cast for all entries with the highest scores and winners selected at random.
Best of luck!
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11-15-2016, 12:12 PMAnonymoose[Heads Up] Win an autographed Encyclopaedia Eorzea from Gamer Escape!
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11-15-2016, 06:04 PMRobinMalvin
Hmm will the prize be shipped outside NA?
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11-15-2016, 08:53 PMAnonymoose
Unfortunately...
IIRC there was once this incident with a puzzle won by someone in New Zealand that had them repairing kettles for a while...Quote:
Contest is open to residents of North America.
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11-15-2016, 09:58 PMFenral
Hmmm, I got almost all of them on a first look, but I won't submit it until I can be sure I got all of them. You sure you made it hard enough?
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11-15-2016, 10:35 PMAnonymooseDepending on who's giving the commentary, it's difficulty is rated all over the place; total bell curve coverage of "It was pretty easy." to "It was mercilessly hard." It's meant to be a few gimmies, a few double-checks, and a maybe two or three "Maybe I should look into this for a bit." But that's coming from someone who's been archiving all of the things since 2010, so I'm sure that as long as I'm thinking about it, I'll be torturing myself over it. All I can do is pray that who wins the prize will actually treasure it, even if statistics are against me when it comes to a contest on the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenral
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11-15-2016, 11:23 PMZetsumei_Tsunarashi
The quiz gets replaced with an ad after like 2 seconds. Tried in both microsoft edge and chrome, same thing happens.
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11-15-2016, 11:42 PMAnonymooseAre you on a mobile platform, by chance?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi
There's a rogue ad that we're trying to squash on mobiles recently. Closing and refreshing, or using the desktop site, should circumvent it. -
11-15-2016, 11:45 PMZetsumei_TsunarashiNope this is happening on my home PC atm. Unfortunately I'm unable to take the quiz due to this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anonymoose
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11-16-2016, 03:55 AMKhalithar
I selected the view your accuracy thing, not sure but I think it said I got 100% correct. Just have to hope for the best!
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11-16-2016, 04:26 AMGrayveHmm, I tried that and I didn't see a score. Maybe I got zero correct? Oh well, it was fun!Quote:
Originally Posted by Khalithar
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11-16-2016, 05:39 AMWhiteArchmage
Ow, didn't read the North America part...I hope Mexico counts as part of NA for contest purposes :c
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11-16-2016, 06:43 AMAnonymooseQuote:
Originally Posted by Khalithar
Having the score displayed immediately (for the few minutes it did so) seemed to just encourage people to attempt to immediately re-submit a perfect copy. Some didn't even bother trying to conceal it. And my faith in hyurmanity wasn't doing so hot as it was!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grayve
I assume so.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage
And I'm rather idealistic so I'd probably laugh, shrug, and push for honoring it if it was a mistake. That'd be on whoever typed NA :p -
11-22-2016, 08:05 AMmoleverine
I didn't see this until hours after the contest ended, but I submitted mine anyway just for fun. Will we be able to see how well we did?
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11-22-2016, 08:41 AMAnonymooseIndeed! There's an option to email everyone their results, but it seems better to just post the answer sheet along with the winners, that way there's room for a full explanation of each question, the options, and why it was what it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by moleverine
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11-22-2016, 08:45 AMmoleverineProviding more context around the questions and answers seems like a much better option for sure. Are you planning to make it into an article?Quote:
Originally Posted by Anonymoose
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11-22-2016, 05:56 PMAnonymooseSure, what the hells! Couldn't hurt (unless someone decides to pelt me with popotoes over inadvertently tripping them up).Quote:
Originally Posted by moleverine
As soon as we know the three winners are able to be contacted and shipped to, I'll link the article here. -
11-27-2016, 07:26 AMSainya
<I'm looking forward to it!>
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11-28-2016, 09:04 AMAnonymoose
Just another heads-up: The answer sheet article was posted last night!
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11-28-2016, 12:20 PMFenral
I can vouch for one of them, at least.
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12-03-2016, 04:07 AMmoleverine
I can't remember exactly what I answered, but I think I got about 11 of them right. Not bad for me.
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12-03-2016, 04:50 AMLineageRazor
Aw, I messed up the Lahabrea's Number question for sure, and I think the What Year Is It question, as well. No book for me!
And while I did NOT screw up the elements question, I still feel that it's mighty stupid that Wind extinguishes Fire. The vast majority of the time, Wind FEEDS Fire, bigtime. Still, given the elements that we have, it's pretty much inevitable that one or more of the pairings is going to be a bit questionable. Like "Ice blocks Wind" in FFXI. -
12-03-2016, 09:17 AMCyberForte
I've been meaning to post here for a bit since this is where I saw the contest, but I kept forgetting, haha. I believe I won the grand prize, which I received recently and was very happy with. I wanted to say thanks again to Gamer Escape for running such a cool contest! While I ended up being right on my first guesses for all the questions, I'm definitely glad I looked some of them up to be safe. I feel like Lahabrea's was the most meta and tricky of them, since all there is to go on is the numbering of his minions who barely appear if you haven't done the summoner line.
I was pretty amused, therefore, that so many people failed the elemental one. I remember how wtfed I was to see the elemental wheel(s) here the first time I did, so I knew it wasn't water. Oh, and "ice blocks wind" applies here too. =P Fire > Ice > Wind > Fire. I feel like they'd have done better to do a pokemon esque system of multiple weaknesses and resists, but I guess it wasn't worth the effort for something that's essentially just flavor. I was also amused to see how many people got Gerolt's wrong since he has nothing to do with the Manderfails, but I guess I can't really blame people for not reading the relic quests when their storyline is possibly the most uninspired thing ever, haha. Either way, seeing the results was definitely interesting, and I'm very happy with the lore book! -
12-03-2016, 09:46 AMAnonymooseThanks so much for popping in! Being that I was assisting GE in setting up a large scale, general contest, I really had to steel myself to the very real possibility that a collector's item (of which very few currently exist with that set of signatures) might be won by someone who wouldn't treasure it. It gives me the warm and fuzzies to know that it went to someone who'd actually been to the lore forums before the contest existed, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberForte
May you always have fond memories of Eorzea, good sir! -
12-03-2016, 10:21 AMBloodyHoly hell he has my last name....... Proof of common ancestry between races? Who knows!Quote:
Originally Posted by Anonymoose
Thanks so much for popping in! Being that I was assisting GE in setting up a large scale, general contest, I really had to steel myself to the very real possibility that a collector's item (of which very few currently exist with that set of signatures) might be won by someone who wouldn't treasure it. It gives me the warm and fuzzies to know that it went to someone who'd actually been to the lore forums before the contest existed, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberForte
May you always have fond memories of Eorzea, good sir!
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12-07-2016, 02:32 AMSilverObi
A second place winner (runner-up?) checking in! Huge thanks to GE, the last couple weeks of work in November were dragging me down and that unexpected e-mail really made everything brighter ^^
Been a lurker on the lore forums since their inception, back when I didn't know much of anything of Eorzea or its lore. Been devouring the information in that lovely lovely book and couldn't be happier! As a longtime hoarder of lore regarding FFXI, it took me longer than most to fully immerse myself in this game's universe but the lively discussions and debates in these boards has helped me feel at home in Eorzea just like I used to in Vana'diel.
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12-10-2016, 09:01 AMFenral
It's not autographed, but my back-ordered copy finally arrived.
Mmmm, book smell...