Doppelganger Screenshot Contest (NA) - Discussion Thread

[Punainen]

It's really unfair to the winners to tell them they didn't win based on creativity or actually being any good. Obviously the judges thought they were good, so why do you have to rain on everyone's parade? :/

[NephHalp]

It's really unfair to the winners to tell them they didn't win based on creativity or actually being any good. Obviously the judges thought they were good, so why do you have to rain on everyone's parade? :/

You say creativity, yet that doesn't explain the massive number of cactuars and sylphs which won.

[lilena]

It's really unfair to the winners to tell them they didn't win based on creativity or actually being any good. Obviously the judges thought they were good, so why do you have to rain on everyone's parade? :/

I'm not too butt hurt I didn't win, and I was extremely happy to see some of my favs did win, but 7 of the same thing. You think the judges got to the 7th and 8th sylphs and cactar entries and were like "WOW that's super cool Instant win!" Cuz it sure as shit looks like that...
So sorry if that seems disappointing to some of us.

really?

[AltaneenXIV]

Can anyone direct me to where to find the winners?

[Goufunaki]

Can anyone direct me to where to find the winners?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...est-Winners%21

[AltaneenXIV]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...est-Winners%21

Thanks!

Had fun pretending to be a goblin, but still a little sad I didn't win. /sadface

[Selkie]

I felt a bit restless so I took some time to mull through the entries and the winners to break things down statistically. I was looking for patterns in contest selection. I put together a spreadsheet outlining my findings. (You are welcome to go through my data and correct me on any errors found. I apologize in advance for any that may exist.)

[Punainen]

I felt a bit restless so I took some time to mull through the entries and the winners to break things down statistically. I was looking for patterns in contest selection. I put together a spreadsheet outlining my findings. (You are welcome to go through my data and correct me on any errors found. I apologize in advance for any that may exist.)

What DID win is not an indication of the chances to win. And YOU chose how to break down the page groups, so obviously you're able to manipulate what percentages those come out to. And as a side note, I was imitating a Mandragora, NOT a Kidragora, and the other guy was imitating the King Mandragora.

[NephHalp]

What DID win is not an indication of the chances to win. And YOU chose how to break down the page groups, so obviously you're able to manipulate what percentages those come out to. And as a side note, I was imitating a Mandragora, NOT a Kidragora, and the other guy was imitating the King Mandragora.

Seven of eight sylphs won. They looked at eight sylph pictures and chose seven in a contest where creativity is emphasized.

[Selkie]

What DID win is not an indication of the chances to win. And YOU chose how to break down the page groups, so obviously you're able to manipulate what percentages those come out to. And as a side note, I was imitating a Mandragora, NOT a Kidragora, and the other guy was imitating the King Mandragora.

Okay so two mob types who look alike but are named differently, I apologize. (I'm a botanist.) I'm not going to sort sylphs by color either. I used the incorrect name, which I will admit to. And I was not attacking your entry, nor any other entry, and I actually thought, when initially looking through, that yours was incredibly good. I thought it was neat someone had a character that happened to look like that mob type.

In short, I'm not saying that there were no good entries. Additionally, how can I manipulate the page distribution of entries? The mob names are debatable, certainly, but please correct my numbers if I'm wrong.