OFFICIAL Eorzea's Next Top Model Discussion Thread

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I sent you a retake Rongi

[Kurique]

I'm fairly confused why these rounds were split up. For example, the comment to Kaelah, how is she suppose to do that? There was no feedback on the initial shots, nor on the first two rounds. How can we improve, when we don't know what we're being judged on? It's like playing Jeopardy, but we only see receive the category and not the clue.

[EorzeasNTM]

I thought we already talked about how they were split up so that each race&gender could have a fair chance of making it into the official rounds. We now have 2 of each race&gender fighting for a spot in the top 16.

As for your other concern, I've already stated I am working on recording a Judging Panel podcast so that everyone can hear the judges opinions on the shots. I just got my laptop in, and I am scheduling a time with the other judges to record one tomorrow. -fingers crossed- I'm the only one who has seen the shots so far, and I wont give them the URL until the recording starts, so you'll be hearing their first reaction. ^^

As for Kaelah's situation, it's extremely unfair that she scored the lowest in both PR1 and PR2, but is still in the contest due to people dropping out. So, I will be watching her in PR3 very closely. I am being vague on purpose in that comment, sorry. ^^;

Edit: SQ, got it! Already replaced it a while ago.
Edit 2: I'm all about including everyone, so for this Cycle I took 40 people! Each Cycle is a learning experience though, so it's not a bad thing. Cycle 3 will be much smaller scale, with most likely only one PR round (the casting round) and only a Top 12.

[Tinsley]

playing the devil's advocate here, it's only unfair that kaelah is still in the contest because of the parameters you set by insisting on even numbers of each race and gender. Which. btw in theory is nice but, a bit unfair to others that might be in a super strong group vs some in a really weak group.
I remember an American Idol doing that.. making sure they had even numbers of boys and girls instead of just taking the best Xnumber no matter if they were boy or girl. But i digress..

In Kaelahs defense she was dropped into the contest extremely last minute.. And what is with the cat girls dropping out? that's three of the top orig 4 picked? Cats are aloof creatures it seems

[EorzeasNTM]

playing the devil's advocate here, it's only unfair that kaelah is still in the contest because of the parameters you set.. wanting even numbers of each race and gender.

But in her defense she was dropped into the contest extremely last minute.. what is with flaky mi

Well, luckily for PR3 she has had ...10 days to take screenshots and resubmit...WHICH SHE HAS! Lol. She has resubmitted twice! That's more than anyone.

And yes, I did want an even number from each race so that we would go into PR3 with an even number. Cycle 1 was nothing but Miqote and Hyur, so this time I wanted to guarantee the other races had a fair shot at the top.

I could have easily sent her home in both PR1 and PR2, based on both her Votes and Judges Scores, but I didn't. So now, in PR3 I will be finally put my foot down...if I have too. She might be fine! Wait til you see her shot before you start worrying.

I am rather surprised you are defending her, instead of emailing me death threats about how unfair it is she is still in the contest. We will see how she does in PR3, and as vague as that is, that's all I am going to say on the matter.

[NarikoStar]

I've already stated I am working on recording a Judging Panel podcast so that everyone can hear the judges opinions on the shots. I just got my laptop in, and I am scheduling a time with the other judges to record one tomorrow. -fingers crossed-

! Judges podcast ! Sweet~ ever plan on having guest judges ?

[Kaelah]

Hey all, sorry if anyone isn't happy with me still being in. I hated my round 1 pic, but I only had 2 days to do it - which was in fact more like one as I couldn't log in one of the days. I can only play from 1:00pm-3:00pm every day also, sometimes less than that as I am a mother of one so this is hard for me to do things on time, and keep up with quality. I'm very happy with most of my actual contest shots, I've had much more time for them, to wait for the right weather and time of day. I hope I manage to stay in the contest so everyone can see them. Hopefully my P3 pic is good enough. (Though to be honest I'm not so sure haha.)

I'd prefer it if we could actually see what the judges have to say about our pics. Could you not type up their comment by their scores? You can do so without naming them in case anyone gets angry. (Though why should they, there is no prize involved lol.)

But every shot we take is still like a gamble, we don't know if they are good enough or how we can improve them until they have already been voted on.

[Tinsley]

I think i speak for all of us when i say i dont like to see any of us voted off and I am tickled pink that I have made it this far. From here on out it's all gravy for me

Im excited to see the next round of pictures and i want to just say to Rongi that i appreciate the work you are doing for this fun contest. I find myself enjoying the beauty in Eorzea much more now.



edit: kaelah, hope you didnt think i wanted you voted off.. as far as im concerned you deserve to be here with the rest of us

[EorzeasNTM]

! Judges podcast ! Sweet~ ever plan on having guest judges ?

Absolutely! I've already sent out an email to, I believe, all of the models from Cycle 1 asking them to join! All but Rena, Aila, and ... someone have replied "YES!!" so I can't wait to have them join the panel! ^^

@Kaelah, I hope people don't get mad! I am just really afraid of posting anything that will make people ragequit the contest. Only 2 of you have sent in your pictures for the Official Rounds...and 2 models does not a contest make! Lol!

You also have to remember that the PR rounds had 37 and then 30 models submitting photos. I, and neither do the other judges, want to sit here and type up comments for each one. Sorry, but that's the truth. Just like the people who don't want to go through and vote for 10 categories. Now that we've got the cast down to 16, I think it's much easier, and much more fair of you all to expect us to make comments.

I think i speak for all of us when i say i dont like to see any of us voted off and I am tickled pink that I have made it this far. From here on out it's all gravy for me

Im excited to see the next round of pictures and i want to just say to Rongi that i appreciate the work you are doing for this fun contest. I find myself enjoying the beauty in Eorzea much more now.

During Cycle 1 I kept saying "my girls" but I can't do that now can I? You are all "my models" and I hate seeing any of you eliminated! But that's the name of the game!

I wont pretend its a TON of work, but it's still a bit of work that I have been having fun doing! ^^ I am so glad this idea was successful! I want to say thank you to everyone for joining in!

[Pscylo]

I just hope its a level playing field for the rest of this....and everyone gets the exact same criteria for pictures, and the people voting know what the criteria for each shot actually was so they can best judge along those criteria instead of having vague categories and trying to just pick the picture they like best instead of the ones that best meet the criteria given to the participants.