Ring Contest Ended early?? -[Need rep response]

[Pandastirfry]

speaking as a former professional artist, former military, and current chef...

If you're early, you're on time...

if you're on time, you're late.

[Zantetsuken]

speaking as a former professional artist, former military, and current chef...

If you're early, you're on time...

if you're on time, you're late.

Perhaps you could write SE and have them add that to their contest rules next time?

"Be sure to submit your entry "early". Any submissions that are not received (? hours) before the published end of the contest will be disqualified"

By that logic, they could just end 1.0 right now and tell us that waiting to accomplish things up to Nov 1st is just procrastination... after all, we should have been ready for it.

But still, this is all sidestepping the issue.



In reality, the contest rules are a de-facto legal document that SE (and contestants) must abide by. Posting the time and date of termination for entry submission is a mandated part of any legal document involving Contests, Sweepstakes, or Lotteries. As the posted rules did not have any clauses that allow for the changing of such a time and date -- any entries received between Friday, August 10, 2012 (PDT) and Monday, September 3, 2012 11:59pm (PDT) 2012 must be accepted.

Then again, for all we know, maybe they actually intended to give NA contestants another day.

[Keisuna]

speaking as a former professional artist, former military, and current chef...

If you're early, you're on time...

if you're on time, you're late.

Speaking as someone who has seen the "Pieces of Flare" scene from Office Space: If you wanted me to turn it in early, why didn't you make the deadline earlier?

[Camate]

Greetings everyone!

Apologies for the confusion! We will be accepting all entries that were sent by the deadline that was posted on topics (Sept. 3, 11:59pm PDT), so please do not worry!

We will also be switching out the Lodestone banner to the English one, as it appears the French banner has been posted on the North American Lodestone.

Thank you everyone for your amazing submissions!

[Zantetsuken]

Thank you very much for your clarification, Camate~

I'm sure many people will be relieved.

[Vergil_Renata]

Greetings everyone!

Apologies for the confusion! We will be accepting all entries that were sent by the deadline that was posted on topics (Sept. 3, 11:59pm PDT), so please do not worry!

We will also be switching out the Lodestone banner to the English one, as it appears the French banner has been posted on the North American Lodestone.

Thank you everyone for your amazing submissions!

You awesome Snurble. Thanks, Camate!

And good luck, everyone.

[PSxpert2011]

Camate the HERO! Now everyone can stop whining! :P

[Soulfire]

Thank you very much for your clarification, Camate~

I'm sure many people will be relieved.

I'm rather annoyed. We get this information twelve hours after the deadline? And no extension? Would've been far more useful the earlier part of the twenty-four hours of claiming the event's unexpected early end. I didn't even complete what I was working on because of that.