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Re: Town Hall - Micro Scale for Lego Factory Contest
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lugnet.build.microscale
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Thu, 9 Dec 2004 02:48:56 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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And you won Week 3! Congratulations, Mark!
Why am I so happy about that? Even though my train station came in a fairly
distant second, I don’t mind losing to such a kickin’ design like this. But
the important thing was that LEGO once again made sure that there wasn’t
ballot-box stuffing going on. The original Week 3 Senior level winner was a
fairly crummy little street scene that gathered about 200 votes in the last
two days. There was no way that anybody looking at the Town Hall would choose
that simplistic entry, which got an unrealistic 250+ votes. So my faith in
the integrity of the contest has been renewed, and I may actually enter more
designs.
It was just my bad luck to go up against your model. As time goes on, and the
designs continue to improve, my chances decrease so I need to hurry up. I’ve
got two killer sets in mind, one easy and one fiendishly difficult.
Congratulations on your victory!
Kelly
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Thank you, Kelly - that is very kind of you. I was wondering who had the great
train station, and I’m glad to see it’s a fellow LUGNETer. I told my wife I
would have been happy to lose to your excellent train model (it was a small 4-8
vote gap for many days) - and it was definitely deserving of a win.
You actually had a much cleaner thumbnail to show off your station’s details.
I’m now wondering whether the clean thumbnail was due to your 45 degree picture
offset (since my ~ 23 degree offset doesn’t scale straight lines as well), or
whether I just sent in a save file to Lego without zooming in close enough - or
both.
After Saturday, I believed I had lost, because I saw the 13 yr old’s street
scene and the sudden/questionable 200 vote jump before the weekend. So I
actually didn’t have the heart to check the site again until late yesterday -
and was surprised to see my model in first. It does renew my faith in the system
- which is more important than winning. There is no pride in winning a rigged
contest.
Please keep sending yours in, and post blowup pictures in .microscale or .town
so I can check them out. I’d love to see them!
I have one more design halfway in mind - and I’m sure there is some rule about
not being able to win twice - so any new entries I send in shouldn’t affect
anyone. It’s just so fun to work in microscale, even if the LDD software isn’t
the greatest.
With the current trends, I agree that by week 11 the entries (especially from
LUGNETers) are going to be breathtaking, and I can’t wait to see the creativity.
Good Luck!
Mark
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