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Re: Announcing the Alternate Star Wars Contests
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Date: 
Mon, 7 Jun 2004 00:41:55 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Orion Pobursky wrote:
In lugnet.announce, Joseph Kazmo wrote:
Hi all,

I'm here to announce the "Alternate Star Wars" contest that I'm currently
hosting on the FBTB "LEGO Star Wars Customs" forum.

The obvious and the main reason for it, is to boost the creativity in creating
more Sci-fi based original customs. Yes there had been (and still are) few
contests in that theme before, but it doesn't hurt to have few more...

This contest actually consists of two separate ones that have some modest prizes
to win.

I know these boards are filled with talented giants whom I'm a big fan of, and I
believe this is a great opportunity for you guys to show the younger generation
of builders how the LEGO medium could be a wonderful experience without the
dependency on instructions and the constant availability of images.

Both contests are about creating alternate Star Wars customs from alternate
universes of your imagination.

For more details about the contests and their rules, please check out this link:
<http://www.fbtbforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=1884>

Good luck and have fun...





Joseph Kazmo (aka Darkkazmo)

As a member of the LDraw community, I'm dismayed that you explicitly
disqualified all CAD creations from this contest.  Basically you limited the
list of potential sumbitters to those who have a significant pile of bricks or
those who don't have to beg their parents or significant others for money to buy
sets.

-Orion


Dear Orion,

Here is a copy of that rule:

"- No CAD (L-Draw/MlCad) based creations are allowed, unless you don’t
have the bricks in the right colors and you could show us your creations
with real LEGO bricks, then your entry is valid."

So,let me re-phrase it, you still can use L-Draw if you don't have the bricks in
the right colors as a true rendering tool of you entry. This decision has been
approved by all the judges for this particular contest that it is focusing on
building with real bricks.

The second category (B) is basically dealing with alternate creations, which
makes it hard for us to judge the entries if they were made in computer based
programs!

We might have other contests in the future that could be a bit more liberal in
their contents. So if this particular contest doesn't meet your expectations,
well I'm sorry... You might be able to participate in other future ones.

I my self, see L-Draw as a great tool for designing, making instructions and
stuff like that. But LEGO as Toy, isn't a virtual experience IMHO ! Otherwise,
why invest in the LEGO medium/brand in the first place?!

Again, a decent creation doesn't mean "a significant pile of bricks " like what
you have just mentioned!...

I my self as an alternate specialist can tell you quite the opposite!  Basically
the techniques that you use in building from your "limited" LEGO part
collection, that determine how creative you are as a builder!

I hope you understand where I'm coming from.


Take care.
Joseph



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(...) The tone of my message makes it seem like I'm being a jerk. I apologize for that. I was actually trying to nicely point out that LDraw creations should be allowed in many of the MOC contests that are held in the community. The reasons for this (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.starwars)

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(...) As a member of the LDraw community, I'm dismayed that you explicitly disqualified all CAD creations from this contest. Basically you limited the list of potential sumbitters to those who have a significant pile of bricks or those who don't (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jun-04, to lugnet.starwars)

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