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About LinkBacksOK guys, I'm pulling the breaks here and would like to set a few things straight:
First off, while I understand that some people are naturally upset over not winning, neither for the jersey competition, nor for this one, did we say we would do a community vote for the winners. This was decided by a vote from members of our Art team and a few more people. As we intend to have these kind of competitions on a regular basis, we can't take a vote from more than 9 million people every time. And if we take only the forum votes, it's still far from the popular opinion.
We also have an idea what can and cannot be implemented, or what would require minimum or more changes to put into the game. We can't copy anything verbatim, it needs to be adapted to work in the game.
As for the "they chose you because you are new on the forums", I assure you that when the judges were going through this, they had no access to the names, and even if the did, they wouldn't know who's new and who isn't on the forums. The judging was literally done not by browsing the forums, but by looking through the gallery of submissions with an image viewer.
There's an onslaught of reasons why we didn't make this a community vote and I don't know who planted the bug exactly that that was ever an option. This is the same as the jersey competition, we take aside a small number of people from the company, sit down, and discuss the entries.
Now, obviously, that doesn't seem to sit well with everyone here, but I do not agree that if we're asking for the popular opinion, we should limit ourselves to the forums. Therefor, we'll look into ways for the next competition (which will most likely be a jersey competition when the current run of fan jerseys is over) to be voted on Facebook, as the majority of our players are located there, and that would be the only fair (and also feasible) way to make voting a community choice.
With all that said, I ask you to be at least courteous to your fellow players and be respectful towards their victory. Everyone worked hard on their submissions, including them. There will be more opportunities for competitions, with more opportunities to win.
Starting now, any future flaming or anything similar in regards to the winning entries will be met with an infraction and being blacklisted from future competitions. If you still have issues, please send me a PM and we can discuss it there.
Originally Posted by unkulunkulu
And while I can't address individual comments like "Why did my entry not make it?" I can give an answer to the general questions.
