Voting for the Pirate Contest! With Results!

[Roland St. Jude]

That time has come again - it's time to vote! Please take the time to look over all the entries before you do so.

Please send your selections to the VOTE account, here. Take a moment to review the guidelines on how to vote found in this thread. Good luck, everyone!

Voting begins, oh, now, and will continue until midnight Saturday, October 7th (Eastern US Time; GMT is 4am) – so Saturday evening, Sunday Morning.

Judging Categories

• Best Overall
• Best Pirate
• Best Sidekick
• Best Ship (Optional!)
• Best Booty
• Funniest Overall Entry
• Funniest Single Item (The single item you found most amusing; having this a separate item allows you to include a single amusing element without going for a whole funny concept.)
• Best First Timer's Entry
• Roland’s Choice Award (Staff Award).

Completed Entries
Blind Draega's Crew by The Demented One
Martin Wennekamp by Rolaran
Ten Thousand Days (Malcolm and his Men) by Fax Celestis the Hoku-Lele
Darkfate, One of Many by Dareon*
Julian Mawles, Inquisitor of the High Seas by Carmichael
Captain Ydani, the Nymph Pirate-Queen, and 1st Mate Haruhi await an unsuspecting merchant ship in their vessel, the Beauteous Lure! by Lord Iames the Light
Bosun McGee by ShneekeyTheLost
Mandible Bones, the Worst Pirate Ev-arrr by Eros Darstariel*
The Ship That Dreamed by The Vorpal Tribble
Allie Basha and her Forty-Eight Thieves by The Glyphstone
The Pie Rat by Vaynor

Drake Bellamy & A Robot Monkey Ninja by palcosmo
Don Raphael Villa Lobos Rapine by foXXtail
The Songbirds by Gorbash Kazdar
Shiel-Kah and Sekolah's Wrath by Nathkry Sciama*
Admiral Geoffrey Quickbeam and the crew of The Scarlet Shard by Haarculaneaum
The Floating Fortress of Fei Long by The Demented One
Gufi the Dreadful by Goff*
Rez Driftgood by Healy the Healslime*
Nicole the Harpy by Mike Lemmer
Pirate
by rimx
Tal Aladon by Elvaris

*Indicates an entry eligible for the First-Timer’s Award. (If you're eligible - and you said so in your entry - just let me know, 'cause I missed it.)

[Goff]

I should be eligible for the First-Timer's award, I did mention that this was my first time entering a competition in both the entry thread and the Synopsis of my entry.

[Lord Iames Osari]

You might want to fix a couple of those links.

[Vaynor]

My name is no longer Vaynor is Elsewhere. Just sayin'...

[Dareon]

I'm also eligible for the First-Timer's Award. This was, indeed, mentioned in my entry.

[MandibleBones]

I, also, am eligable for the first-timer's award, and said so in my thread.

[Merlin the Tuna]

Completed Entries...
Don Raphael Villa Lobos Rapine by foXXtail
The Songbirds by Gorbash Kazdar
Shiel-Kah and Sekolah's Wrath by Nathkry Sciama
Admiral Geoffrey Quickbeam and the crew of The Scarlet Shard by Haarculaneaum
Don Raphael Villa Lobos Rapine by foXXtail

Double-listing.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Why did you put such a long link for my entry, RSJ? Are you subliminally advertising it or something?

[Roland St. Jude]

Why did you put such a long link for my entry, RSJ? Are you subliminally advertising it or something?

I put in the link what you put in the link. So the question becomes, were you attempting to subliminally advertise it? ;)

[Lord Iames Osari]

Oh. I didn't even remember what I put in the link. '^_^

Oh, and Rolaran is a first-timer too. He says so right at the beginning of his entry.

[foXXtail]

Double-listing.

Heh. I had to go back and check that I didn't submit it twice! I was having a day.

[Goff]

Well, I've voted. It was tough choosing in some categories, but I think my choices were sound. I recommend reading all the way through the entries, I found that some I initially liked sort of fell apart half way through, whereas others really came together the more you read.
Good luck to everyone else who entered, I've got my fingers crossed - hoping to win an award in my first ever entry.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Julian Mawles, Bosun McGee, the Pie Rat, and RimX's 'Pirate' links all need adjusted. They take you like halfway down the entry.

[Roland St. Jude]

Julian Mawles, Bosun McGee, the Pie Rat, and RimX's 'Pirate' links all need adjusted. They take you like halfway down the entry.

They link to where people's posts in the Entry Thread linked. Who knows better than the creator where they'd like you to start reading?

I've "fixed" them, but only because I am an unbelieveably nice fellow. 8)

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Who knows better than the creator where they'd like you to start reading?

Pfffftttt...

*cough*

Mmm, sorry, something got caught in the craw.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Aaand sent. Y'know whats funny, I liked most of the sidekicks better than the captains ;)

[Vaynor]

I don't know how I managed to link halfway down the page... I couldn't even figure out how to do that if I tried. ::)

Bad double poster VT, bad!

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Bad double poster VT, bad!

The posts are six hours apart ::)

*whacks the back of Vaynor's head with his palm*

[Goff]

Whoah, tribbles have palms now? That just raises all manner of questions. Unless of course you were saying that Vaynor whacks himself with his palm... Which just raises more questions about tribbles... and mind control powers... Ahhh! Psionic tribbles!

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Whoah, tribbles have palms now? That just raises all manner of questions.

Naw, I just keep several on hand...

[Vaynor]

Naw, I just keep several on hand...

Badum bum psshhhh.

[Fax Celestis]

Badum bum psshhhh.

In stereo!

[The Demented One]

Naw, I just keep several on hand...

That was so bad I think it gave me cancer.

[nathkry]

As mentioned in my entry, I too am eligible for the first-timer award. :)

[The Demented One]

It's getting closer...

[The Vorpal Tribble]

That was so bad I think it gave me cancer.

*bows deeply*


Anyways, only a few more hours. Everyone get off your kiesters and vote!

[Roland St. Jude]

Anyways, only a few more hours. Everyone get off your kiesters and vote!

Indeed.

# Votes < # of Entries = :'(

[Goff]

If there aren't at least the same number of votes as entries, I think I'm gonna cry.


Perhaps the gaming board needs a campaign of internal spam in order to promote this awesome design contest. Maybe that could be the next contest; create the best advertisement to get people to look at the design contests. :P

[The Glyphstone]

Voted. Had to abstain twice, though.

[Draz74]

Indeed.

# Votes < # of Entries = :'(

Yes ...
I think the main way to fix that is to make contest entries truly short. The pirates turned out shorter than the Summer Organizations, on average, but still long enough to intimidate me away from reading them all enough to vote. (Of course, that's partially because I'm extremely busy lately ... hence not finishing my own pirate entry :( ...)