Be My Valentione Contest (NA) - Discussion Thread

[Kilye]

I am very disappointed that I did not receive the prize. Each bracelet I make takes about 20 hours to complete and I made it specifically for the contest. I do not understand how it did not follow any of the rules, but as SE holds the rights to discretion, I feel that I can only post my disappointment here and hope they take note of it. I am not sure if I will ever enter a contest again because I honestly just feel played.

[Gyson]

I am very disappointed that I did not receive the prize. Each bracelet I make takes about 20 hours to complete and I made it specifically for the contest. I do not understand how it did not follow any of the rules, but as SE holds the rights to discretion, I feel that I can only post my disappointment here and hope they take note of it. I am not sure if I will ever enter a contest again because I honestly just feel played.

I'm just making a guess, but I suspect they were looking for entries that showed some sort of link to the game. If your bracelet had, for example, hearts and Moogles (or whatever) instead of "just hearts", it probably would have been included.

[Royardee]

I'm just making a guess, but I suspect they were looking for entries that showed some sort of link to the game. If your bracelet had, for example, hearts and Moogles (or whatever) instead of "just hearts", it probably would have been included.

I'm kinda in the same boat by feeling played. I submitted a drawing that was final fantasy related, and I saw other similar drawings qualify. Was there something wrong with mine? I'm not gonna lie about being butthurt over this because this is the third time I've tried to get those earrings. (And no one knows if there will ever be another chance to get them.)

[Gyson]

I'm kinda in the same boat by feeling played. I submitted a drawing that was final fantasy related, and I saw other similar drawings qualify. Was there something wrong with mine? I'm not gonna lie about being butthurt over this because this is the third time I've tried to get those earrings. (And no one knows if there will ever be another chance to get them.)

I'm assuming it was because you didn't include the title of your submission ("Shy Moogle") within the entry itself. It was only included outside of the piece (in the forum text).

"The entry image must contain an identifier that displays character name, World name, and the title of the submission."

That said, I would have given it to you anyways as you are Lala!

[Royardee]

I'm assuming it was because you didn't include the title of your submission ("Shy Moogle") within the entry itself. It was only included outside of the piece (in the forum text).

"The entry image must contain an identifier that displays character name, World name, and the title of the submission."

That said, I would have given it to you anyways as you are Lala!

That's... really, really lame. It was obvious that it was mine. I'm sorry that the title of the piece wasn't in the picture?! Thanks for pointing that out though, I guess.

[KyanaSkye]

That's... really, really lame. It was obvious that it was mine. I'm sorry that the title of the piece wasn't in the picture?! Thanks for pointing that out though, I guess.

I really think you should have won... I looked through quite a few of the winning entries, and although most included all of the required information, some didn't. Multiple winning entries didn't have the title name within the photo. At least one winning entry didn't include the world name. I saw others like yours that had words written in the photo that didn't match the title to the post.

There's probably nothing that can be done about it, but it's really not fair. I would have been upset if I didn't win because of something like that, when other winners did the exact same thing. =/

[Gyson]

I really think you should have won... I looked through quite a few of the winning entries, and although most included all of the required information, some didn't. Multiple winning entries didn't have the title name within the photo. At least one winning entry didn't include the world name. I saw others like yours that had words written in the photo that didn't match the title to the post.

There's probably nothing that can be done about it, but it's really not fair. I would have been upset if I didn't win because of something like that, when other winners did the exact same thing. =/

I saw the same. If I had to guess, there were probably multiple judges dividing up the entries and individually reviewing them, and some were more flexible with the rules than others. That's just me speculating, though.

[Alarion]

I am very disappointed that I did not receive the prize. Each bracelet I make takes about 20 hours to complete and I made it specifically for the contest. I do not understand how it did not follow any of the rules, but as SE holds the rights to discretion, I feel that I can only post my disappointment here and hope they take note of it. I am not sure if I will ever enter a contest again because I honestly just feel played.

I made a physical Valentine's Day card with screenshots from the game. Took me a few hours to get all the right lighting, right angles, etc. I don't see how my entry wasn't valid either. But like you say, SE holds the rights to discretion, and there never was any way to know from the start if our entries would be valid or not. Which is too bad, because I would have gone back and done something different if I'd known I wasn't going to be considered with my original entry.