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I just hope that this doesn't include the feedback I gave in Round 1, since this would make me pretty sad to be honest.

*rant on*

Nevertheless, I kind of get where you're coming from and I had similar situation with the Screenshots you guys made for Round 2, just that I'm on the side of the voters and my opinion seemed to vastly differ from other voters, which didn't even wrote why they voted for specific screenshots or not.

I'm not going to go to much into detail here to avoid creating a bad vibe... it just seemed to me, that screens that weren't that good overall, still managed to get a ton of votes, just because the character looks cute or the pose was great.

While it is true, that this contest is called "Eorzeas Next Topmodel" and the focus should be on the character when voting, the restrictions within this fun contest are not as harsh as they would be in a real model show, and all of the participants got assignments in which they are to create a specific mood/feel/impression with the scenery/outfit they chose or they had to use and make use of expressions or poses to underline the feel of those pictures.

Considering all these aspects and how they affect the overall impression of the pictures, the voters can't and shouldn't go for the "Ah well, this character looks sooo good, I guess I'll just vote for it" approach, since this only covers one of the aspects that make up those pictures at most (Applies to the judges as well since I get this same feeling from them sometimes).

I personally find it really disrespecting towards the participants that actually had really great ideas or great pictures, that they don't get the recognition for the hard work put into their pictures that they deserve, while other participants, that seem to have not put that much work or thought into their picture, get the most recognition for their "efforts".

*rant off*

I'm probably alone with this kind of opinion so I'll gladly take any kind of enlightment on my little problem on why I feel so diffrently about voting for pictures~ :3