Forum Brawl #4 - Round 1 Voting

[Chapuz]

Chapuz Round 1 by Chapuz

Boss Life Red Artist Frostbite Life CD Red Frostbite DB Life - FE Frostbite Red OT Frostbite Life Writer Frost Red Bonus *** ***

Writer:
Between Gravity and Red Stars I almost couldn't decide. Red just made me lough more.

CD:
Most of them are just not implementable. Sorry, Gravy. The drawbacks are too high and can become too situational.

DB:
Yes, the rest of all of you used the definitely OP The Inevitable or the OTK Worm. Meaning of Life was the one I saw with an interesting sinergy and used Elitism, a card I didn't remember until today and pretty viable along with other cards of the CIA.

 FE:
Red: Good. We don't have a video section, but encouraging people to make the videos is a good idea. I have seen it somewhere before
Frostbite: ... I like it, and it was extremely well shown.

Art: I don't know shit about art, but that's what I think it represents most the names with something I belive is abstract.

The rest of the peoples: It was just my taste. How the stuff was written, how detailed you did it, the formatting, etc.

[Ginyu]

Team Vote Round 1 by Ginyu

Boss Meaning of Life Ragnarök Artist Ragnarök Frostbite Borealis CD Red Stars Ragnarök DB Meaning of Life Ragnarök FE Frostbite Borealis Red Stars Writer Frostbite Borealis Gravy Train Co. Bonus *** ***

Spoiler for Boss:

1st Meaning of Life: Very original way to explain the receipt and a good sense of humour put in. Highly deserved #1.

2nd Ragnarök: Standard format like the other three teams as well, nothing really exciting. You still get my vote for using only elemental stuff in your receipt, which is worth the #2.

The other teams are pretty standard. @Red Stars: What is "extra-virgin epinephrine"? ^^

Spoiler for Artist:

1st Ragnarök: First, when I saw this, I just thought... what?! After reading the explanation, I still think it, but I can understand a bit. I like how much you thought about it and I guess the results on this will heaviliy depend on the community's humour.

2nd Frostbite Borealis: Simple and complex in one thing, and a good connection to the water theme. I like it.

Meaning of Life: Oh, abstract art saved me in school a lot. Very creative way to show the expression of your theme.

Red Stars: Good interaction of colours and overall good on average.

Gravy Train Co.: I wish I could do such things. It looks good on it's own, but Comparing with the other submissions, it doesn't share the creativity.

Spoiler for Card Designer:

Generally: Man, this was a really hard decision as all five cards are very well thought. Good work on this, Brawler's!

1st Red Stars: I really like this card! Perfectly based on the member and really usuable in some decks without being OP. Good job!

2nd Ragnarök: Strong and very usuable, but it's cost needs to be raised - especially the upped card can do A LOT of harm, and you mentioned just one very strong synergy with Ruby Dragons.

Meaning of Life: Interesting mechanic, and more mutants are always a good thing. However, it's hard for me to think about a deck that can actually make good use of it.

Frostbite Borealis: Quite funny, but too situational to work properly.

Gravy Train Co.: Good concept, but too one-sided in it's use: Voodoo Doll. It's too expensive to be able to target any other card, and if it's meant to drain CC out of your opponents hand, it is too situational to be worth of it's cost.

Spoiler for Deckbuilder:

1st Meaning of Life: Nice idea, simply done. It's mechanic is quite new and it looks well playable without being OP, thus standing far above the other decks.

2nd Ragnarök: PDials is pretty standard, but the mindgating part with the OTK as a replaced winning condition is nice.

The other decks... well, The Inevitable and Angelic Furball are both just so awfully broken cards that I can't like any deck built around one or both of them. Sorry.

Spoiler for Forum Experts:

1st Frostbite Borealis: My favourite one, looks pretty similar to the actual page, but with useful additions. I especially like the fact that some tools are usuable without leaving the page.

2nd Red Stars: This would be a really great addition, even if we don't have a lot of videos so far, this might motivate players to create some.

Ragnarök: Nice ideas, but I think that would be too much. Some of your ideas can be easily combined, maybe like the actual tool's page.

Meaning of Life: Looks okay, but some colours wouldn't have hurt. The texts in the boxes are nice.

Spoiler for Off-Topicker:

Sorry, but I couldn't find the time to read your posts carefully. I didn't want to just overlook and vote on first mind.

Spoiler for Writer:

1st Frostbite Borealis: Very funny, well done.

2nd Gravy Train Co.: Oh man, what a comic theme.

Red Stars: Simple idea, but well done.

Meaning of Life: Okay, but nothing special.

Ragnarök: Good, but an old joke in your comic. Your text was pretty good, but as far as I understood actually not what the task was about.

[theelkspeaks]

my votes copied from team section

Team Vote Round X by

Boss Meaning of Life Red Stars Artist Frostbite Red Stars CD Red Stars Ragnorak DB MoL Red Stars FE Red Stars 'Rok OT MoL Red Stars Writer Borealis Red Stars Bonus *** ***

Boss: MoL wrote a really extensive and funny story good for my 1st place vote.  Of the others, which were of similar quality to each other, Red Stars used more EtG references.
Artist: I've adored the design andre did for ours at basically every stage of the process, I think it turned out looking amazing!   The way the design seems to dance around the Snowflake was a nice touch and good for my other vote.  It's an odd sort of optical illusion that makes me happy.
FE: I really like the single-use-only element of strategy in the Aether Queen card, making that my first vote.  Cool combos with fractal could very well ensue.  My second vote goes to Ragnarok mostly on the grounds of me vastly disliking the other 3.
DB: Meaning of Life gets my first vote for using the most distinct of the decks.  Red Stars gets my second for actually using a lot of old cards, far more than the other submissions.
FE: Red Stars are the only ones who completed the assigned task.  Of the others, only Ragnarok even addressed the assigned task (stating it to be not-needed), so they get a vote by default.
OT: While MoL's submission is mostly forum politics rather than politics among elementalists, I actually really like the characterization and sounds like the basis for a very good novel.  Red Stars seem to make the biggest contribution to EtG lore with theirs.
Writer: Red Stars is the one that I actually see happen the most often and made me chuckle quite a bit.  Frostbite Borealis also had a fairly amusing one, and was the only submission other than ours that made me laugh.

[Naesala]

Voting for round 1 is over. Tallying

[Annele]

Now that the voting is over, I thought I'd share the comic I made before I realised the task was actually completed:

Spoiler for Hidden:

Based on:

[Naesala]

Boss
1st Meaning of Life Nae's Pick
2nd Red Stars
3rd Ragnorok
4th Frostbite Borealis ARTH's pick
5th Gravy Train Co

Artist
1st Frostbite Borealis AND
Red Stars Nae's Pick
3rd Meaning of Life ARTH's pick
4th Ragnorok AND
Gravy Train Co
1/2 points to Gravy for late submission

Card
1st Frostbite Borealis
2nd Ragnorok
3rd Meaning of Life AND Nae's Pick
Red Stars
5th Gravy Train Co. ARTH's pick

Deckbuilder
1st Meaning of Life
2nd Ragnorok Nae's PickARTH's pick
3rd Frostbite Borealis
4th Red Stars
5th Gravy Train Co.

Forum Expert
1st Meaning of Life Nae's PickARTH's pick
2nd Frostbite Borealis
3rd Ragnorok
4th Red Stars
No submission: Gravy train Co.

Offtopicker
1st Frostbite Borealis Nae's Pick
2nd Meaning of Life ARTH's pick
3rd  Red Stars
4th Ragnorok
5th Gravy Train Co.

Writer
1st Frostbite Borealis Nae's Pick
2nd gravy train Co.
3rd Meaning of life AND ARTH's pick
 Ragnorok
5th Red Stars

Frostbite vs. Meaning of Life Writer Wager for 15 - Frostbite wins.
1 point to Meaning of Life for issuing a challenge.

[dawn to dusk]

3rd Meaning of life AND ARTH's pick
 Ragnorok

3rd Meaning of Life AND Nae's Pick
Red Stars

arth's/nae's pick is for MoL in these cases correct?

[ddevans96]

Standings imply that, if I remember them correctly.

[ARTHANASIOS]

Spoiler for Hidden:

3rd Meaning of life AND ARTH's pick
 Ragnorok

3rd Meaning of Life AND Nae's Pick
Red Stars

arth's/nae's pick is for MoL in these cases correct?

correct

[JonathanCrazyJ]

Now Voting's over, here was my 1st idea for the task:

Spoiler for original: