RRRR What does it mean - Voting thread
Totte
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It's time to browse the RRRR What does it mean entries thread, spit beverage on your screen in a laugh attack and also cast some votes.
Anyone can vote, not only those participating in the actual contest. You can vote for any entries except for you own entries, and we vote in two categories, Best and Funniest. Best is more of a traditional render contest voting where funniest more takes the humorous look at the image. Some images have a few lines of text explaining the story behind them, which often helps the voting, specially in the funniest category. Each win (1st to 3rd place) will also give the winner at least one sticky Lucky Bastard pull, which means the next round will be a little harder, see below for how wins and Lucky Bastards are counted.
Entries thread here: Entries only thread
Vote here: RRRR Voting
So, what are we voting about?
What are the prizes?
Winner in the best category:
- One item from Dumor3D's store
- $13 DAZ Store GC
Winner in the funniest category:
- One item from Totte's store
- $13 DAZ Store GC
Second place in the best category:
- One item from Dumor3D's store
- $10 DAZ Store GC
Second place in the funniest category:
- One item from Totte's store
- $10 DAZ Store GC
Third place in either category:
- $7 DAZ Store GC
Fourth place in either category:
- $5 DAZ Store GC
The voting starts now, and ends Sunday, November 13 at 23:59:59 DAZ Time
How votes are tallied and summed up:
Voting points: 1st = 5 points, 2nd = 4 points, 3rd = 3 Points, 4th = 2 Points and Tiebreaker = 1 Point.
If an image gets 1st, two 2nd, one 4th and two tiebreakers in a category, that is 5 + 2x4 + 2 + 2x1 = 17 Points
Every image points per category is summed up, and top three is calcutaled in each category. As we now have five prizes, a maximum of two entries from the same artist can end up top three in each category, this is to spead the joy a little more.
The image with most points from the same artist will be the base, the the average score for up to for other images will be added to that score, but if that image takes a top three placement, images who got to the cream of the crop with help from other entires, will gain extra LBs based on how many places it climbed, minus one. Here are two examples:
Example 1: The top image from X has 15 points. X also has five other images that has been voted for, 10, 8, 7, 7 & 5 points. Thaking the average of the first four images behind the top one is 10+8+7+7 = 8, so the first image which was at 4th place, now gets 23 points and rises to the top and becomes the winner. But, that image climbed 3 steps, so it will not only win, but give the winner 3 LB for the next run.
Example 2: The top image by Y has 11 points, and the second image 9 points. The top image will now have 20 points and go from 5th place to 3rd place, granting Y 2 LB for the next run.
If two images ends up with the same score, we use the same rules as in the European Song Contest, the number of higher scores wins over many lower scores, so if one image has 5+5+5+1 (16) and another has 2+2+4+4+2 (16) the first one will come before.
To avoid votespamming, anyone voting needs to post here in this thead that they did vote, and use the same name as they have posting here as the DAZ Forum Name in the first question in the vote system at SurveyMonkey.
Remember to vote in both categories and place all five votes in both categories. Votes that fail to vote in both categories and votes faling to vote 2nd to 5th place will be discarded.

Comments
I ve voted. Lots of great ones! Actually I started going over all of them as soon as Totte announced that the contest was officially closed. And each time I went through them different ones would leap off the screen at me...
Wow there is another month gone and I managed only one entry, but all entries were lovely stories. Hard to decide but I voted.
I voted.
I was hoping to get a second entry in but October seemed to just fly right by. However, there is no lack of good entries here. I had fun voting.
I voted today.
I voted today good luck to all
Voted.
Voted too !
I voted (at last)
Nice work everyone, I had fun voting.
Voted (even at lastier) ;)
So many superb entries!
If I the psychological institutiion's website we use for random number generations started to track down the usage of their random numbers they would be busy for ages figuring out the minds creating those brilliant works of art.
Closed voting - will tally as soon as time permits