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Elements the Game => Trials => Events and Competitions => Trial of Time => Topic started by: Scaredgirl on August 09, 2010, 03:04:59 pm
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Phase 2 - Community Vote
Phase 2 has ended
It's time to vote for your favorite Master candidate.
Every community member has one vote. You can change your vote at any time as long as there is still time on the clock.
Vote based on who you think would make the best Master of that element. Do not vote based on who is the best player or who you know personally. Try to pick someone who you think would help the community the most.
Feel free to ask the candidates difficult questions to help you make your decision.
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Greetings ladies and gentlemen, mortals, daemons, elementals or whatever you are.
My name's Xinef and I'm the Master of the best element. Having control over time is quite a power... now is your time to decide if this power will remain in my hands, or should I give it to one of the great warriors competing for it. As long as it's given to a true Time Warrior and Time Lover I'm happy with it.
I'll make it clear, I'm much more attached to Time than to the Master title, so no hard feelings if you don't vote for me. I don't think of myself as a great PvPer and I'm amazed every time I manage to beat someone strong. I'll sooner attribute the victory to the awesomeness of Time or to the great people who support me, though I feel a bit better with my deckbuilding skills and if you ever need advice with a time based deck feel free to ask.
I'm not a kind of person who would sit long hours in chat (I prefer organized, archived means of communication), and I enter chat only when I have an arranged battle, but I'm usually checking the forum a few times a day... and night ;)
If you want to know anything more about me before you vote, I'll say that my main hobby is world creation and it has a few side effects. Such as my fascination with programming and computer graphics, both aimed at game development which I find a pretty damn good way of expressing the worlds I create.
I live in Poland, near Gdańsk and I'm a 21 year old good daemon, currently during the third year of Informatics studies. I'm interested in martial arts (I'm training aikido but I'd be more interested in kenjutsu :P ), fantasy and science fiction, strategy games (RTS, turn based, economical) and RPG :P . To be honest I can be interested in pretty much anything but football, celebrities and politics, although politics not necessarily.
Anything more you'd like to know, feel free to ask.
Xinef
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I'll say, Xinef has made a pretty strong case for himself. But thise one I will let the others do the same.
WHY do you deserve my vote, guys and gals?
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I voted Bo, mainly for the reason that he not only is active on the forums, but also in chat, and in my mind a master should be active in both areas. That and I know from personal experience he is a great pvp player (though Xinef is pretty good with :time ;) ). And in Xinef's post right there I dare say he sounded almost condescending of the chat.
Both are great choices, however.
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Xinef, I enjoy your sense of humor and I almost instantly voted for you when I read:
My name's Xinef and I'm the Master of the best element.
But then you made me a sad panda with:
To be honest I can be interested in pretty much anything but football
I put some serious thought into question: are people that dont like football capable of being masters, especially when they come from a country notorious for their hooligans?
Then I decided I'd turn my head around and vote for you anyway, as hopefully in :time you'll change your views about the second most important thing in the world.
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It's not true that I don't like football. I'm just not interested in it. I have a lot of friends interested in football though, so you can always hope they'll change my mind.
On the other hand my approach to football might be similar to my approach to chess. I know the rules, but I prefer to invent my own rules - it's more fun. You can use chess to play a siege, with one side being a fortress and the other one being an invading army. You can play football with Shaolin kicks and lightsabers.
And by the way, if you might be interested, I broke my finger once playing football. That damn goal attacked me and I had to defend myself. That's what happens when my friends ask me play football with them :P
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I think Kuro should post one of his infamous questions here as well! And answer it too
Why should you vote for me to be the master of :time? I will give you my credentials and my reasons - think about it like a public resume. First and foremost, :time has been my favorite element since the day I joined elements. When I first signed up for the forums, I was excited to edit my profile and get to know the elements community, and I came upon a particularly interesting section of my profile - my favorite element. Having just a week or so of elements experience, I scrolled through the different names, thinking about which element I liked, and some kind of intangible draw kept bringing me back to :time. I chose it, and haven't thought about changing it since. Time is the element that controls all other elements. It has the power to change the entire flow of a game and a deck. What other element can control your opponents hand indefinitely and move through a 30 card deck in 10 turns? That's what i thought. Anyways, I've been looking forward to the trials since I joined the forums and elements community, and wanted to hold out until I knew I would be ready as an effective leader of :time.
After running this past PvP League, being a warrior of :time under Xinef (we exceeded expectations), and being an active member in both chat and on the forums (unfortunately all 3 of us have about the same number of posts :P), I've tried to emerge as a leader naturally, without the title of master, and I think i've been as successful as I could hope for. I've met a lot of new players through the PvP league, and I can clearly see that elements is growing and heading in the right direction, and I want to lead the :time niche that will develop.
If you look in the :time war archives, you'll see that I was building decks from the get-go and always cheering my team on. If you look at the PvP League threads, you'll see I kept them actively updated and was fair in mediating any problems that ever arose. If you look in the humor section, you will see a thread that says Robinson218 is better than me, well, that's true. But! If you look anywhere on the forums, I've tried to make my mark and help out the community as best as I can.
I'm not going to tell you to vote for me, just keep in mind the qualities of a strong leader: activeness in leading, confidence, honesty, ability, and maybe even friendliness, and think about any interactions you've had with me. If you think I've proven myself to be these things, only then should you cast your vote.
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I think Kuro should post one of his infamous questions here as well! And answer it too.
You asked, I'll supply. ;) (this is more of a 'personal' question, rather than some super elite pvp/deckbuilding question)
Q: "Time is generally separated into 3 aspects. Past, Present, and Future. Which 'aspect' of time do you feel you connect with the best and why?"
And for me, I say I choose the past.
(I'm probably going to be shooting myself in the foot here, but oh well)
People who look into the future and idealize are important in any system. Without people planning things ahead of time, nothing would change, and nothing would become progressive and or innovative. From that, I do have a tendency to have crazy dreams and ideals, but that's not a representation of being a futuristic person. It just shows that I often idealize or day-dream to escape the time-stream in question, which isn't very productive. ^^; Likewise, people who look into the present are people who are constantly doing what needs to be done now, which is also vital for any system, because without maintenance, a system also falls apart over time.
That said, I would be a person of the past.
My name means 'Dark Sorrow (or regret, depending on your take of 'aitou')', mainly because I always felt bad for my actions as a kid; other kids called me a crybaby because of me feeling guilty for doing ANYTHING wrong. As time grew on though, I tried to hold dear of the memories I had as a kid and did my best to learn from my mistakes (both in school and at home), and despite the regret, I've built myself up from those experiences.
And because of this 'guilt', I feel that being a Master includes having the ability to not only look into one's own mistakes on how to correct them, but also the mistakes (and achievements) of others.
Being a person of the past requires looking into ideas of the past and how to apply them in current (or future) applications, and thus, as a 'Nostalgic' guy who's also just barely 21, I tend to look at older posts to get a sense of what people do and how people are like, and how they've grown from those 'newbie' posters to Full, Senior, or Staff Members in-game. :) In that sense, I want others to also grow the way I've grown on this forum (for such a short time too!) in any aspect of the forum I can help them with, especially Card ideas.
Because of this, I know that both Xinef and bojengles77 have had massive amounts of experience and knowledge under their belt, whether in PVP, card design, deckbuilding, and/or the war archive. But as a former competitor of the first Time (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5330.msg59929#msg59929) Trials (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5330.msg59940#msg59940), I'll say these things again:
I believe that I've learned a lot from Xinef and from my past to become an impressive master over Time. I know that I'm not perfect, but I'm still willing to prove myself of a capable warrior and provide my all to the community at large in any aspect of the game whenever possible. I'll continue to challenge my PVP skills (which I ultimately lacked during the first War - but it won't happen again in the second!), and regardless of whether or not I gain the title, I know that I'll keep on striving to be the a fighter for the Element of Time.
...oh, and remember folks - if for any reason you had clicked on my name by accident for the vote, feel free to use the 'Remove Vote' button and vote for the person who you think deserves to be the master. :)
[@bojengles77 + @Xinef: Sorry about the rant - hopefully you guys will answer my question as well. ^^;]
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Ok, I'm going to give a short reply because your answer is very convincing and I hope it brings you some votes. You really deserve some and I don't want to steal too many votes with my answer :P
So, I'd consider myself a person of the future.
Mainly because I see myself as a young soul, still learning and preparing for the great tasks that await me.
I'll change the world, I'm even changing it now, but it's nothing when compared to what I plan to do :P
But first, I have to learn the world.
My sensei once told me "Xinef, you like to create worlds and you strive to make them perfect. Go and see the world I created, observe it from the inside, see it from the human perspective, and you'll understand."
That's why I'm here. Learning the world which I know is perfect even if it superficially does not seem so. Trying to manipulate it from the creations point of view, instead of creators PoV. Learning the differences between humans and daemons and why both are perfect in their own way.
And having fun :)
It seems learning and manipulating worlds seems almost as fun as creating them, so all I have to do is keep going, and interacting with people and stuff.
So yeah, see you in the future ^_^
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I voted for Kuro because he's the underdog and I think he could do just as good a job as Xinef and Bojengles.
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I voted for Kuro because he's the underdog and I think he could do just as good a job as Xinef and Bojengles.
I agree. I think :time trials are going to be tough from beginning to end, because it's one of the only trials where everyone involved is qualified.
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I would have liked to give new people a better chance of success, but in the end Xinef succeeded to convince me of his qualities.
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Q: @ ALL: If a noob comes and tells you Time sucks and they have no damaging spells, blah blah....How will you respond?
Q: @Xinef, You pretty much remind me of Icy, and you have done a great job. But you are against tough challengers, how do you plan to win with less points?
Q: @Bojengles, You are a league organizer and a great member at our forum, but what do you think of your experience if you are in the final battle against Xinef?
Q: @Koruaitou, Even though your questions are great, do you think you have what it takes to be Master?
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1. I'd tell him that he can easily beat a deck based on damaging spells with an anubis+dragon rush. If he wants a fast deck then damaging spells suck because they are one-use low damage spells, or bolts that require you to wait many turns. A devonian rush with precogs or hourglasses is on the other hand fast, while deja buff is a fast and funny deck. If he intends on stalling or control, there are better strategies than bolter decks, like a pharaoh control deck, or duos like :time :aether.
Damaging spells are also useless against tough creatures like flying titan, :earth, :gravity and :light dragons, and a few other, while a proper rewind deck (using synergies with quanta denial for example) shuts down any creature setup, especially flying weapons.
And if he still thinks that time sucks, I'd ask him for a duel, unupped (because he is a noob), mono, he tells me what element he is about to use, I use time. Or duo, whatever he prefers.
2. Heh... I wonder what in me resembles Icy, the great Master of Aether... and great ego :P thanks anyway.
My plan for now is to do my tasks the best I can, Phase 1 already completed, so that leaves Masters Tourney and preparing decks for the final showdown :P
As for Phase 2, I won't do any negative propaganda because I hope everyone gets as much votes as they deserve (sadly that's impossible, for everyone to get 100% votes...), but I'll simply keep spreading :time all over the forum and hope that increases peoples love for :time... and if it affects their votes, it's nice of them, but I don't expect it.
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Q: @ ALL: If a noob comes and tells you Time sucks and they have no damaging spells, blah blah....How will you respond?
Q: @Koruaitou, Even though your questions are great, do you think you have what it takes to be Master?
A: It depends on the tone of his voice. If he's throwing around exclamation marks and is just trying to start a flame war in the Time Cards section, I'll probably ignore him.
If he's an actually complaining about the damaging spell cards, I'll try to reason with him. Time is more about control and manipulation (sort of like Darkness and Water, but without the 'damaging' aspect as you say), or more specifically, card manipulation and control. Soft creature control from Rewind (and Eternity) is an effective way of buying you more time while denying the opponent (especially in pvp) the ability to move forward with their deck. If the so called 'noob' is also complaining about the spells, I'd also say that Rewind (and Precognition) are both useful in various situations; Eternity and Hourglasses can be easily ruined by a quick Explosion or Steal, while Rewind serves can be pretty frustrating and surprising for your opponent to deal with. Likewise, Precognition is a 1:1 ratio in all aspects (upgraded) - you pay 1 card of 1 :time quanta to get a potentially strong card in your deck, all the while seeing what cards your opponent has (creature control, damaging spells or shields, etc.).
So, either ignore him, or try to reason with him that Time doesn't really need to rely so much on damaging spells. Scarabs and Rewind/Eternity are powerful forms of creature control, while the rest of Time is based on card manipulation in itself.
A: I'm going to sound like a contestant on a Miss America pageant, but I think we all have what it takes to be a Master.
People underestimate each other and themselves; I know that for a fact about how I feel about myself sometimes. But I really do believe that I can become a strong and helpful master and an important part of this community. Xinef has done an exemplary job of that, and if I can't follow in his footsteps directly, then I hope I can make my own footsteps (achievements) of my own to become a personal master over Time.
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Q: "Time is generally separated into 3 aspects. Past, Present, and Future. Which 'aspect' of time do you feel you connect with the best and why?"
[@bojengles77 + @Xinef: Sorry about the rant - hopefully you guys will answer my question as well. ^^;]
I'd Have to say I'm most connected to the Future, undoubtedly. Although there are important lessons to be learned from the past, and we are defined by what we do in the present, the future is where all our hopes and aspirations live and I think it captures the essence of time the best. I'm always looking on to the next thing, trying to improve upon what I already have; hoping for the best, preparing for the worst.
For as long as I can remember, I've been trying to improve in my personality, my education, and any venture I decided to begin. Today, I'm preparing to go off to college next year and be on my own. Even though I'm enjoying the summer and everything that comes with it, my mind always seems to float away to thoughts of college and what I'm gonna need to succeed there. Next is a career, a family, and whatever else the future holds. I suppose this has to involved the present, because everything I want to achieve in the future, I have to plan for now and begin now, it merely ends in the future. But i'm a person who's always trying to do the next best thing and fill the future with my dreams and accomplishments. There's nothing more fun than filling up a blank slate.
Wardead Answers Inc..
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Woa, I love that question Kuro! :D
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Woa, I love that question Kuro! :D
Heh, thanks. :D Now if only the other contestants of the other elements could respond to my questions, I'd be more willing to vote for them. (You're okay by the way)
I'm anxious at this point on who's going to take the title. >.>
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Bo gets my vote for now. Xinef is a very nice master but hasn't been that active on chat might just be my time zone.
Bo has been very helpful with forums and chat, though as of late he hasn't been that active.
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Bo gets my vote for now. Xinef is a very nice master but hasn't been that active on chat might just be my time zone.
Bo has been very helpful with forums and chat, though as of late he hasn't been that active.
I do apologize for this, it's bad timing for my real life. Right now i'm in a hotel room and i bought internet so i could see if ravingrabbid was on for Team PvP since we are supposed to play. I'm leaving on a 4 day pre-orientation hike tomorrow for college and then i have moving in on august 20th and orientation for 5 days. Point being, I'm extremely busy and i've been packing and preparing for a few days now. I'll be back as soon as I can full force.
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Bo gets my vote for now. Xinef is a very nice master but hasn't been that active on chat might just be my time zone.
Bo has been very helpful with forums and chat, though as of late he hasn't been that active.
I do apologize for this, it's bad timing for my real life. Right now i'm in a hotel room and i bought internet so i could see if ravingrabbid was on for Team PvP since we are supposed to play. I'm leaving on a 4 day pre-orientation hike tomorrow for college and then i have moving in on august 20th and orientation for 5 days. Point being, I'm extremely busy and i've been packing and preparing for a few days now. I'll be back as soon as I can full force.
Buying internet just to check up on a game...now thats commitment.
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Bo gets my vote for now. Xinef is a very nice master but hasn't been that active on chat might just be my time zone.
Bo has been very helpful with forums and chat, though as of late he hasn't been that active.
I do apologize for this, it's bad timing for my real life. Right now i'm in a hotel room and i bought internet so i could see if ravingrabbid was on for Team PvP since we are supposed to play. I'm leaving on a 4 day pre-orientation hike tomorrow for college and then i have moving in on august 20th and orientation for 5 days. Point being, I'm extremely busy and i've been packing and preparing for a few days now. I'll be back as soon as I can full force.
Buying internet just to check up on a game...now thats commitment.
elements isn't a game.. it's a lifestyle
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Bo gets my vote for now. Xinef is a very nice master but hasn't been that active on chat might just be my time zone.
Bo has been very helpful with forums and chat, though as of late he hasn't been that active.
I do apologize for this, it's bad timing for my real life. Right now i'm in a hotel room and i bought internet so i could see if ravingrabbid was on for Team PvP since we are supposed to play. I'm leaving on a 4 day pre-orientation hike tomorrow for college and then i have moving in on august 20th and orientation for 5 days. Point being, I'm extremely busy and i've been packing and preparing for a few days now. I'll be back as soon as I can full force.
Sorry about not being on. But at that time I was deep into sleeping.
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Xinef is an awesome master, 'nuff said. The others would be very strong candidates, but I think Xinef had done an awesome job in war. Also, he does Aikido (I do too :P ) so my vote goes to him
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elements isn't a game.. it's a lifestyle
Can i put that in my sIGNATURE PRETTY PLEASE
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Buying internet just to check up on a game...now thats commitment.
elements isn't a game.. it's a lifestyle
Life is a game :P
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Wooo! Go Bojengles!!
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elements isn't a game.. it's a lifestyle
Can i put that in my sIGNATURE PRETTY PLEASE
absolutely mang.
Anyways sorry for the 5 day hiatus i'm back from my trip, still extremely busy with orientation week, but i just moved into my dorm and i'll try to be around as much as i can. I no longer have unlimited internet =( but 20 gigs isn't too bad.
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...so I just realized that after looking at this poll, the community is relatively split up between voting for me and bojengles77 as equal candidates for the new Master of Time. :D
*hugs everyone*
But ugh. Why does this competition have to be so neck-and-neck? >_<
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Thanks for all the votes everyone, but i'm going to have to resign in the race for master. At the beginning of trials, I was fully committed to the event and I wanted nothing more than to lead the army of :time, however in the past week, i've arrived at college and realized that I am not going to be able to fulfill my duties as master or as league organizer with the amount of time I want to put into studying and socializing. That being said, I am going to take a break from the elements community for a while until I can fully adjust and make sure my time gets managed well and I'm not losing any of my college experience or the benefits of a good education. It was a good race Kuro, good luck in the final battle vs Xinef and i'm sure i'll stop by chat from time to time to say hi.
Boj
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Thanks for all the votes everyone, but i'm going to have to resign in the race for master. At the beginning of trials, I was fully committed to the event and I wanted nothing more than to lead the army of :time, however in the past week, i've arrived at college and realized that I am not going to be able to fulfill my duties as master or as league organizer with the amount of time I want to put into studying and socializing. That being said, I am going to take a break from the elements community for a while until I can fully adjust and make sure my time gets managed well and I'm not losing any of my college experience or the benefits of a good education. It was a good race Kuro, good luck in the final battle vs Xinef and i'm sure i'll stop by chat from time to time to say hi.
Boj
Well that is... surprising. Good luck living the social life my friend. ;)
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Thanks for all the votes everyone, but i'm going to have to resign in the race for master. At the beginning of trials, I was fully committed to the event and I wanted nothing more than to lead the army of :time, however in the past week, i've arrived at college and realized that I am not going to be able to fulfill my duties as master or as league organizer with the amount of time I want to put into studying and socializing. That being said, I am going to take a break from the elements community for a while until I can fully adjust and make sure my time gets managed well and I'm not losing any of my college experience or the benefits of a good education. It was a good race Kuro, good luck in the final battle vs Xinef and i'm sure i'll stop by chat from time to time to say hi.
Boj
Well that is... surprising. Good luck living the social life my friend. ;)
...should I be happy or sad?
Thanks again bojengles for the tough competition. Have fun in college (I certainly did, for what little time I had there), and I hope that we'll see you again. ^^;
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Thanks for all the votes everyone, but i'm going to have to resign in the race for master. At the beginning of trials, I was fully committed to the event and I wanted nothing more than to lead the army of :time, however in the past week, i've arrived at college and realized that I am not going to be able to fulfill my duties as master or as league organizer with the amount of time I want to put into studying and socializing. That being said, I am going to take a break from the elements community for a while until I can fully adjust and make sure my time gets managed well and I'm not losing any of my college experience or the benefits of a good education. It was a good race Kuro, good luck in the final battle vs Xinef and i'm sure i'll stop by chat from time to time to say hi.
Boj
GL&HF
;)
Indeed organizing time for studies, socializing and Elements seems like a hard task, but I'm sure you'll eventually master it. I was hoping to see you in the next war in our team, but feel free to do what you find to be the best option in time management ;]
And good luck Kuroaitou, you'll probably have some point advantage because I wasn't able to participate in the Masters Tourney, so I guess the final battle is going to be tough ;]
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And good luck Kuroaitou, you'll probably have some point advantage because I wasn't able to participate in the Masters Tourney, so I guess the final battle is going to be tough ;]
I'm glad you're back!
Despite the point advantage, you're a much more flexible (and innovative) deck-builder than I am, meaning that even though I might have some more upped cards, your skill alone is going to give me more problems that whatever cards I have in my deck. ^^;;