Maybe wait for the brawlmasters to say, eh?
I apologize for rushing to answer back then. Anyway, since I have some leisure time right now, I would like to explain my voting and to mention the possitives and negatives of FBrawl#3 so far. Here we go...
BOSS&WRITER:Divine Light: In my most honest opinion, the rightful absolute winner of this task. Good and original story, good and original artwork.
Death Dost Dominate: Probably the mostly underrated task of this round. Truth is, while its art was not of great quality, I indeed enjoyed the way each team member was represented (simple yet effective; the golden background was a pretty neat idea) as well as the Arsenic that was drawn out of the stone (the Excalibur of Death!). Its simplicity was actually its strength imho. But I admit it gained my vote after fighting in my brain toe to toe with Cucko's Nest and Whispers in the Dark comics.
Whispers In the Dark: Quite a few funny moments, but its art was half-finished with no proper removal of Pest's pic background and the text bubbles were usually small with even smaller text in them, making it a really difficult task to read. Quite a pity actually, since a comic must be easy-to-read.
Cucko's Nest: Truly neat and original artwork, but both the story and text felt like something was lacking. Text bubbles would be much moer suitable for a comic rather than plain text and the story could be enhanced with some tweaks here and there. An extremely solid submission no matter what and I am sure it was the 1st pick for many, though it wasn't for me.
ARTIST:Cucko's Nest:My first pick! Original, colourful, sharp and, most of all, with a very strong connection to the name of the team, let alone it has the power of the friendship all around it!
Divine Light:In the beginning, I was probably going for WITD's submission, since TDL's submission gave me the impression the image was copy/pasted and slightly edited by somewhere else. However, the phrase of "Divine Light" inside the pic, the image's animation and the existence of a black n' white large version of the same picture at the beginning of TDL's comic had strongly convienced me it was an original artwork. The fact they bothered to change its size to the normal forum's avatar size was another huge plus of this submission. Well done!
Whispers In The Dark:
The problem with a competition which allows you for 2 votes max per category is when preventing you from voting your 3rd most favourite submission, especially when deserve it. A neat and spooky pic with very good aspects, though it felt lacking some of Cucko's Nest 'magic'.
DeathDostDominate:
No offence (though you will be offended for sure) but this pic was looking like a copy/paste of a probably-not-free random grave pic found somewhere on the internet and slightly edited by sharpen/blur effects and another copy/paste of SoSac's pic on it. I suppose your artist was afk and you had to come up with something. (sidenote: A million apologies for my offensive comment, but I really expected more from a FBrawl submission and from a really strong team like DDD).
CARD DESIGNER:Death Dost Dominate:A good implementation of a quite popular myth that exists in the culture of many countries. A solid effect and an area effect we have yet to see in EtG, it gets my vote (though I would preferred 2 points of mass poisoning instead of 2 points of mass damage).
Divine Light:My second pick, I love both the aggressive and defensive nature of this card. It also has a risk (mass CC vulnerability) which makes it balanced. 2nd voted.
Whispers In The Dark:I don't really like it. I don't see the connection between the 'whispers' and the effect, it takes a relatively simple idea and complicates it much and, in the end, it is just another DR effect (we have shields for this).
Cucko's Nest:I was quite dissapointed not seeing a
card here. The
/
theme & synnergy may was interesting to others but totally indifferent to me.
DECK BUILDER:Divine Light:Normally, that would be just another novabow, but the way you successfuly splashed
cards in it gained my vote.
Whispers In The Dark:An unoriginal deck indeed, but since I haven't seen a single SoSe at any deck of any competition for a very long time and since I believe SoSe needs more love, this submission got my vote.
Cucko's Nest:Nice duo deck, but I strongly believe you guys really butchered your descriptions to make every single one of you represented by either a
or
creature. Moreover, despite this is not bad by itself, some descriptions (like Spy's) weren't making much of a sense. Dragons appear in almost any ancient and medieval mythology and it is not way the most famous japanese creature. Something like "Dragons are the most famous & powerful Yu-Gi-Oh cards, so Spy is a dragon" would made much more sense imho...
Death Dost Dominate:I've seen quite a lot of poisonbows lately; this deck hasn't impressed me because of this.
OFF-TOPICKER:Whispers in the Dark:I really liked it! Short, but it catches your theme very well. Dark and twisted, perfectly fitting
and you team. Voted...
Divine Light:An overall very cool submission! Voted...
Death Dost Dominate:It lacks something... something like more description of your religion. You have to write staff, to make me understand your belief system. Something more than just "Commandment 1,2,3,etc." or cool latin texts.
Cucko's Nest:Good submission, but I really hated the way you overshadow any positive aspect of a Cucko bird in order to overmention its 'evilness' (something you did with your card designer's submission too). I love birds, they're cute, why you ruin their 'cuteness'? After all, any cute create is ruthless in the wilderness (they need to survive after all), so why you ruin our childhoods?
FORUM EXPERT:Death Dost Dominate:Good formatting and good use of hyperlinks of your respective team members. Quite convienced of your awesomeness. Voted!
Cucko's Nest:Good formatting and good use of spoilers describing each member. Quite conviencing about your awesomeness (42!). Voted!
Divine Light:A Forum Expert's submission ought to be something more than just plain text (what is our difference with the Writer role if we just do what a writer does?). Moreover, not really conviencing...
Whispers In The Dark:A Forum Expert's submission ought to be something more than just plain text (what is our difference with the Writer role if we just do what a writer does?). Moreover, not really conviencing...
In general, team Divine Light is the one who impressed me more. My team is the one that impressed me less (come on guys, we can do it better!).
No offence meant in the above text by any means.
GL & HF
