Weapon Design Contest: Reaper & Sage Edition (open until 12 June 2022)

[Gaido]

Competing in the Olympics is the equivalent of being picked as a finalist, not submitting an entry.

Note exactly. Because still rules in Sport are simple and objective. You have the best time, you jumped the longest, etc. You are the fastest man in World, you know you will win. These rules do not apply to art. You can't look at some image and say "it is the best" in the same matter as "he was the first".

You can make your life masterpiece and loose to guy that sketched in 3 minutes namazu plunger. There are no stricte, objective criteria, that if you are best in them, you will have guaranted win like in sport competitions.

[Iscah]

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Well, good luck explaining that logic to... anyone who ever ran an art contest, really.

I don't think this conversation is going to go anywhere.

[Gaido]

Well, good luck explaining that logic to... anyone who ever ran an art contest, really.

It's nothing unusual.

This is reason why proffesional artists do not take participation in art contests (unlike athletes). And it's nothing special. You can see many "dramas" where some company make some similiar contest, and is shamed, that instead of ordering and paying for art, just run some contest with lacklaster rewards. This is reason why in case of Final Fantasy it would be good reason to make some form of participation reward.