OSC#31 Voting

[DM8954]

It's time to vote for which screenshot best portrays the competition theme.

The theme for the Oblivion Screenshot Competition #31 was: Arena.
The competition page is here: Oblivion Screenshot Competition #31: Arena

Any member of Cyrodiil Forums can vote once whether you entered the competition or not. If you have an entry in the competition it is strongly recommended that you don't vote for yourself. Not only is that a pretty arrogant thing to do but it is rude and could potentially skew the voting. Besides, if everyone voted for their own entry, then only the votes of those who did not participate would count. Everyone be honest and vote for the screenshot that best fits the theme.

Try not to take the "quality" of the image into account too much. No one should win just because they have a more powerful computer and run higher settings. Think of this as an in-game photography contest. Consider, mood, composition, balance (stuff like that if you know about photography), but above and beyond any other consideration: does this entry most make me think about this rounds theme?

It's not a requirement but please tell us who you voted for and why. You can also tell us what was most important to you and what could any of the entries could have done to be better.

The poll will expire in 10 days (Late Wednesday, 10 February 2010 / Early Thursday, 11 February 2010), that's all the time you have to make your decision. After that, I'll leave the thread open for the announcement of the winner, congratulation posts, and any additional comments and discussion of the entries.

[DM8954]

Reminder: There is only a little more than one (1) day left to vote for the winner of OSC#31.

[The Khajiits of the nine]

I broke the tie, and voted for DM

[DM8954]

The winner of the 31^st Oblivion Screenshot Competition is DM8954.

We had 3 great entries this time and each showed a different view of what "Arena" is all about. Congratulations to the winner!

[I hate announcing myself as the winner.]

[Igiss]

DM, did you see my message in the previous competition thread (after it was already closed)?

And yay, congrats... we all hate when we win

[DM8954]

Well, I just feel weird posting the competition and later announcing myself as the winner.

Oh. I forgot that part of your previous post. The rules don't say that there is a size limit but I suppose it's implied because they mention scaling and cropping for file size reasons. I can amend the rules for this one to specifically mention that there isn't a size limit. Any suggestions on how to word it? 'The bigger the better' doesn't sound very rule-like.

[Igiss]

I think we can just add a recommendation to use 1024x or 1280x (or even larger) resolution. I think you can easily link small forum images posted in threads to larger ones, right?

[DM8954]

I think these forum re-sizes images automatically. That's how I originally decided what size to start cropping mine to a long time ago. I'll have to try and remember to upload the images directly on here instead of hosting them on PhotoBucket. It takes longer that way anyways but I've been doing it out of habit for quite a while now.

[Igiss]

I think that using external image hosts is nothing wrong.

What matters is the size of the "complete" version of the image.