OFFICIAL Eorzea's Next Top Model Discussion Thread

[Parodine]

5. Last one, I humbly ask people to take some actual time on voting, I am seeing a lot of names tossed down every week just because (this is what it feels like this cycle) What I do for my approach is I remove the person with my handy dandy awesome trying to stay in the lines paint shop cutting tool, and look at the photo itself, than compare to what the person is doing in the photo and see how they add or take away from it. It takes about 30 minutes for me to get through 6 photos, but the 6 are the ones I think have what it needs to begin with.

that's all.

That's really impressive that you do that. But I don't think you can really ask the majority of voters to do something akin to that. It's not like we're handing them a syllabus with criteria that needs to be met other than the theme of the week. If people want to vote on the overall impression at first glance matching the theme, they should be able to do so. If they want to spend an hour going through them and analyzing different aspects, then that's awesome too.

This is supposed to be a casual screenshot contest. And I'm afraid we'll be taking ourselves too seriously otherwise. But that's my impression as a contestant, I suppose. There's nothing to gain other than a title and, hopefully, some fun. There's not really a way to judge the 'quality' of the votes since your opinion of the pictures may be vastly different to someone else, etc.

This Round, it's Throw Back Thursday! Our models posed with Crystals as their background, just like in Cycle 1!
Crystal color, gear color, time of day, location, and weather were all the models choice!


That was the rules for this round so for anyone saying I voted for you because you followed the rules while the others didn't....please stop it, all 6 models used the rules as stated right above. Is there crystals> check, model > check , gear color > check, time of day > check, location/weather > check

To be completely fair, what you're reading is the changed theme. The original prompt which was included in the original post and email to the contestants said 80%.

Now, I don't really care whether the background was 40%, 50%, etc. I also don't want anyone to drop from the competition because of it. But it does bring up a good point about being careful not to change rules on the fly.

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I hear you on this as well. I definitely don't want photos to be disqualified at this point for it or models to step out because it.