Tepe's Treasures Presents: Magical Girls, Sentai Heroes and Sackfuls of Gil! Oh My!

[Teppie]

Artwork by Mahina Shiraat - Hyperion

Tepe’s Treasures - Sentai / Magical girl macro transformation contest!

When? - Saturday 19th of August, 3pm PST/ 6pm EST/ 11pm GMT

Where? - Tepe’s Treasures, Mist, plot 35, 5th ward (Hyperion)

Prizes -

1st place - 12 million gil
2nd place - 7 million gil
3rd place - 5 million gil
4th place - High value crafted items contributed by Omni’a Shinzui.
5th place - High value crafted items contributed by Omni’a Shinzui.

FAQ:

What’s an FFXIV sentai/ magical girl macro transformation?

Creative sequencing of in-game features (Job changing, gear changing, fireworks, job abilities, emotes) through macros to emulate anime such as Super Sentai or Sailor Moon. Like This!
Can anyone take part?

Absolutely! All men, women and races of Hyperion are welcome to take part.

Are there specific themes?

No, the “magical girl” and “Sentai” phrases are just short hand for us to get the idea across, let your creative juices flow!

I’m worried, I don’t own the “Sentai” emotes?

You don’t need them, there are dozens of fun emotes in the world already that you can use.

How will the winners be decided?

Three unbiased judges from three separate FC’s will judge contestants. Five contestants with the highest combined score will be the winners. Those taking part will be judged on creativity, resourcefulness and artistic flair!

Are there any rules?

Just a few!

No limit on macro length, however anything over 30 secs will be frowned upon!
Contestants start their macro on queue after being called to our stage.
Do not test or refine any macros whilst inside the house before you are called onto the stage.
Do not use /y chat.

I don’t want to take part, can I come and watch?
Of course you can!

[Krotoan]

... you need taller camera people.

*O.O*

all fun-poking aside that sounds neat and I wish I was on your server to go watch.

[Teppie]

... you need taller camera people.

*O.O*

all fun-poking aside that sounds neat and I wish I was on your server to go watch.

Why not make an alt for a night just to watch? There's no loss in quality on a level 1 Lalafel!

[RegnumMagik]

Marking my calender!

[Teppie]

Marking my calender!

I look forward to seeing you there!

[LalafellFantasy14]

The thing is, they already picked their winner, Tepe has picked judges that are her personal favorite and most of them are playing favoritism, so before you decide to enter you should really rethink if its worth entering into a rigged contest.

How i would fix this?

Simply have 3 random people on the server be judges.

If they still have the 3 judges i heard of there is no point in entering.

[Magic-Mal]

The thing is, they already picked their winner, Tepe has picked judges that are her personal favorite and most of them are playing favoritism, so before you decide to enter you should really rethink if its worth entering into a rigged contest.

How i would fix this?

Simply have 3 random people on the server be judges.

If they still have the 3 judges i heard of there is no point in entering.

Go back to the void where you belong ExDeath.

[Teppie]

The thing is, they already picked their winner, Tepe has picked judges that are her personal favorite and most of them are playing favoritism, so before you decide to enter you should really rethink if its worth entering into a rigged contest.

How i would fix this?

Simply have 3 random people on the server be judges.

If they still have the 3 judges i heard of there is no point in entering.

I'm not exactly sure why having three judges that I've selected are to be a buzzkill. You have to remember this is a collaboration event, with all the major RP groups of the FC (That are on my radar, I'm sure there are others that I hadn't had the pleasure of meeting yet!) with people that I feel are respectable and charismatic. See the Charisma is an important thing, because having character is important to make the contest fun for all viewers instead of just a boring drab wait. It's the difference between excitedly being apart of the fun, and AFKing/Tabbing out waiting for your name to be called so you can hit a macro then leave for another half hour until winners are called.

Additionally you have to remember, we're scaling to expect a lot of guests, so these judges are people who also have their own crew of FC members to help assist in preparations. Also these are people that I know would be committed instead of flaking. When pooling this amount of resources, gil, real money for artwork and getting time off for work you have to ensure that the investment has as little chance of falling through. We hadn't picked a winner yet, why? Because we honestly don't know who will show up yet!

As a final thing, the grand prize is crafted stuff, and just gil. What use would there be to putting this much effort into bringing the community together, to have fun with people we haven't even met yet if we just wanted to give 24 Million Gil to a friend? We didn't raise the gil through community outreach or donations, we just pooled 24 million of our own together. Most of of our FC members have well over the hundreds of Millions in gil, and those who don't easily float between the 40-80 Mil median. If we just wanted to give 24 Million gil away, we could easily do that without making a big show about it. Heck, the bulk majority of us could do that without even blinking this second and still have what it takes to host the contest.

I've been hosting events successfully, and with great rapport for 3-4 years now. I know that you probably don't know me, and that's completely fine! It's a pleasure to meet you for the first time, I hope that even if you don't participate in this event that you can see that I play things honestly and we might see you at our Halloween event in a couple months!