👻 AND THE WINNERS ARE... 🎃
Wait! Before we get to the winners, I want to say thanks to a few people:
All of our graphics creators – you're the real MVPs here, pulling a huge lift for the fleet to make this game possible. Thank you so much for all the time you put in to make the images and make them look amazing every year!
All of our ship staff – without you pushing for a theme, and helping all of our members get "in costume," this wouldn't work at all. We appreciate your efforts!
Our judges – thank you for volunteering to help judge the fleet's themes. The time you put in to carefully consider the design and originality helps us award the graphic creators for their skill and effort.
Jo Marshall, Geoffrey Teller, and Kali Nicholotti – who helped with compiling the scores and checking them, which is a big process every year to convert our judges scores into a matrix and calculate the winner.
ALL OF OUR MEMBERS – we sincerely appreciate your participation every year in this game that helps build our fleet fellowship!
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Well this was a doozy of a year:
When it come to the raw scores as submitted by the judges, the top three crews were all quite close and had a significant lead from the other crews. The top two we'll announce below were really neck-and-neck!
However... neither of the top two crews follow the directions exactly as required 🤦♂️
If we were to disqualify those crews, we'd end up with a weird situation where two other crews were bumped way down in the score because of their low participation, which means a crew that was more than halfway down the roster in raw score totals would end up in the top spot.
Considering all that, we're making a change to the rules for next year that requires a "qualifying check" at the beginning of each check-in thread. The person who starts the thread must confirm that they've followed all the rules before we even finalize everything, so we're never in this situation again!
So first, let's announce the runners-up, who actually won the Originality score this year and came in second overall when considering the other qualifications of design and participation: USS Arrow, with Robin Hood. Congratulations to them!
AND THE WINNERS ARE...
The Archer theme came in second for Originality and first for Design. Congratulations again to the art wizards on the Gorkon for another beautiful entry.
AND CONSIDERING that this is Gorkon's third win in a row, we're going to consider some judging changes next year to try and change up the results a little More information on that soon.
THANK YOU AGAIN to all who participated! It's always so much fun to see your entries!