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The Classic Castle Team is proud to announce our first building contest: The
Colossal Castle Contest.
This contest is a bit different than other contests. We have a variety of
categories each with one prize for the winner. Some categories require small
creations and others need larger ones. Everyone, even with a limited supply of
bricks, should be able to enter several categories. We are looking for
creativity, not who has the most LEGO.
Check out the prizes:
http://www.classic-castle.com/events/prizes.html
Every 1986 Castle set is a prize. There are several other sets and custom
weapons. It truly is colossal! Thank you to LEGO, the Little Armory, and others
who donated prizes. The rules can be found here:
http://www.classic-castle.com/events/contest.html
Enjoy!
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Cool! I can’t wait to start building! I have been really busy of late and
haven’t had much Lego time, but now I have some time again. I think this will
be awesome. Way to go, guys!
Still building,
Josh
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In lugnet.castle, Josh Wedin wrote:
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Cool! I can’t wait to start building! I have been really busy of late and
haven’t had much Lego time, but now I have some time again. I think this
will be awesome. Way to go, guys!
Still building,
Josh
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Thanks Josh,
We can’t wait to get our first contest submissions. If anyone has questions
about the contest, please feel free to post here or at classic-castle.com and we
will answer them. Thanks.
Ben E.
CC Sets Admin
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Nice contest.
I have questions:
1. Are “ninja” style buildings and creations allowable?
2. If I have built something and it has never been in any contest or on any
website save one (in which few people have ever even seen or heard of) can I use
it?
3. If no, to the previous question, can I modify it and then use it?
4. Can I use “modified/custom” pieces or galidor pieces and not receive any
penalty in my scores?
Thanks
-Dan
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In lugnet.castle, Dan Thompson wrote:
Thank you.
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I have questions:
1. Are “ninja” style buildings and creations allowable?
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We are focusing primarily on western castles. However, Ninja creations could be
very appropriate for certain categories. All of the CCC compliant categories
would work while “classic shop” might be harder to do. So I would try a few
ninja creations but mainly castle.
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2. If I have built something and it has never been in any contest or on any
website save one (in which few people have ever even seen or heard of) can I
use it?
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Creations should be built after November 19th 2003. However, if noone has seen
it, its not on brickshelf or mocpages, etc, it would probably be ok. Our hope
is to increase the amount of new castle creations.
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3. If no, to the previous question, can I modify it and then use it?
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Slight modifications of old creations will be frowned apon. So someone couldn’t
take Castle Falconstein (which is too large anyway) and put a red roof on it. :)
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4. Can I use “modified/custom” pieces or galidor pieces and not receive any
penalty in my scores?
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No to modified pieces, yes to galidor and bionicle peices. These could be
useful for creating a villainous monster. Custom weapons could be used, but
they wont help you, and they should be kept to a minimum. They look cool but do
not show creativity of the builder. For custom figs you can have torso stickers
and shield stickers but that is all.
I hope this helps.
Ben E.
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In lugnet.castle, Benjamin Ellermann wrote:
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For custom figs you can have torso
stickers and shield stickers but that is all.
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Ben,
How about modifications to heads? Here I’m thinking of the work of Brendan
Smith: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5459
Bruce
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In lugnet.castle, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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In lugnet.castle, Benjamin Ellermann wrote:
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For custom figs you can have torso
stickers and shield stickers but that is all.
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Ben,
How about modifications to heads? Here I’m thinking of the work of Brendan
Smith: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5459
Bruce
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Hi Bruce,
That is probably fine. But the majority of “grading” will be based on what you
do with the brick, not the figs and heads.
Ben
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In lugnet.castle, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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In lugnet.castle, Benjamin Ellermann wrote:
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For custom figs you can have torso
stickers and shield stickers but that is all.
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Ben,
How about modifications to heads? Here I’m thinking of the work of Brendan
Smith: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5459
Bruce
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Hi Bruce,
That is probably fine. But the majority of “grading” will be based on what you
do with the brick, not the figs and heads.
Ben
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Hi Benjamin,
the rules say:
“Submissions can not be entered into any other LEGO contest”
Since the ISCC III is running I have to ask: Why?
The Colossal Castle Contest was announced at 1000steine.de today, and I think a
few Castle Builders from Germany and Europe (and maybe from USA/Canada/Australia
too) are not sure WHERE to submit the entries.
Is there a chance to change this rule?
Regards, René
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I have I question:
Say I create a really cool looking Castle creation but lacking a digital camera
and not wanting to burn a roll of film for just 3 or 4 photographs I can't post
photos, could I duplicate my creation in LDraw or some other computer program
and post rendings?
-Orion
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In lugnet.castle, René Hoffmeister wrote:
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Hi Benjamin,
the rules say:
“Submissions can not be entered into any other LEGO contest”
Since the ISCC III is running I have to ask: Why?
The Colossal Castle Contest was announced at 1000steine.de today, and I think
a few Castle Builders from Germany and Europe (and maybe from
USA/Canada/Australia too) are not sure WHERE to submit the entries.
Is there a chance to change this rule?
Regards, René
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Hi René,
We wanted our contest to be separate from other contests. ISCC is different
because of the storytelling aspect. However, since many people have voiced
concerns, the CC admins will discuss this and get back to you.
We both want people to make new creations. But we dont want our contest just to
be a place where people who have already built ISCC turn in their creations for
another chance to win something. We were hoping to have people specifically
build new creations for our categories.
The admins will discuss this tonight.
Thanks,
Ben E.
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In lugnet.castle, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> I have I question:
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> Say I create a really cool looking Castle creation but lacking a digital camera
> and not wanting to burn a roll of film for just 3 or 4 photographs I can't post
> photos, could I duplicate my creation in LDraw or some other computer program
> and post rendings?
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> -Orion
Hi Orion,
This is another thing admins need to discuss. I think you will be able to do
this. Although it would be cool to make creations for multiple categories and
take many photographs ;). We will get back to you on this.
Ben E.
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In lugnet.castle, Benjamin Ellermann wrote:
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We both want people to make new creations.
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That’s why entries have to be “new” online, that’s very intelligible. I’ve made
such a rule in the ISCC I - III too.
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But we dont want our contest just
to be a place where people who have already built ISCC turn in their
creations for another chance to win something.
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I think about if this would bother me (people submit elsewhere-known entries to
the ISCC), but I think it wouldn’t. As long as the entries are “new” creations
it should be possible for the participants to show them to many people as they
can.
But it’s also understanding that you want exclusive rights on showing MOCs on
Classic-Castle.com to make the contest unique. I will accept and be satisfied
with any decision you make at this point :-)
Regards, René
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In lugnet.castle, René Hoffmeister wrote:
> In lugnet.castle, Benjamin Ellermann wrote:
> > We both want people to make new creations.
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> That's why entries have to be "new" online, that's very intelligible. I've
> made such a rule in the ISCC I - III too.
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> > But we dont want our contest just
> > to be a place where people who have already built ISCC turn in their
> > creations for another chance to win something.
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> I think about if this would bother me (people submit elsewhere-known entries
> to the ISCC), but I think it wouldn't. As long as the entries are "new"
> creations it should be possible for the participants to show them to many
> people as they can.
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> But it's also understanding that you want exclusive rights on showing MOCs on
> Classic-Castle.com to make the contest unique. I will accept and be satisfied
> with any decision you make at this point :-)
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> Regards, René
Hi,
I just have to say something here...
René, you are a good and decent person!
You bring integrity and respect to both yourself and your site.
I just find it so admirable how different groups with different contests are
trying to work together in the most equitable way possible. You bring such
respect to your work due to your objective and enlightened cooperation values.
I'm so proud to be part of a community that has such honorable people within its
ranks,
--==Richard==--
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Hi Richard,
thank you, please tell this to my wife, she's so smitten with remorse whenever
I'm "working" on 1000steine.de, maybe you can help me to get a little bit more
understanding from her ;-)
Oh, and Ben: I just read on Classic-Castle.com again and saw, that the deadline
for the CCC is 01/20, but for the ISCC III it's 01/31, so there is space enough
to win a prize at the CCC and than quickly move the entry over to the ISCC to
win a second one.
Castle-Folks, I expect great feats, it's time to see a Castle-entry as the
winner of an ISCC :-)
Leg Godt!
René
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In lugnet.castle, René Hoffmeister wrote:
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I think about if this would bother me (people submit elsewhere-known entries
to the ISCC), but I think it wouldn’t. As long as the entries are “new”
creations it should be possible for the participants to show them to many
people as they can.
But it’s also understanding that you want exclusive rights on showing MOCs on
Classic-Castle.com to make the contest unique. I will accept and be satisfied
with any decision you make at this point :-)
Regards, René
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Hi René,
A majority of the CC admins discussed the rules and decided to change them to
allow people to enter both contests. The creations will still have to meet our
category requirements.
Even though our contest ends on 1/20, winners are not announced until 2/1. So
someone would not know if they won a CC category before entering ISCC. One
person could win a category at CC and the castle ISCC prize. We feel that is ok
since we are giving away nine prizes to nine different people.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I updated the rules which can be
found here http://www.classic-castle.com/events/contest.html
Ben E.
CC Sets Admin
As a side note, we are now allowing LDraw entries. We also have clarified that
submissions can not be posted online before November 20th 2003. Please check the
rules for these updates
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