Welcome to the first of our Season Finale Mini-Competitions! These Mini-Competition serve three purposes. First, they provide us with some fun stuff to do during the Finale's week-long Championship Poll. Second, they're a way for us to reward competitions winners who've won multiple competitions, since we can only give them an avatar border once. And Finally, they provide us unique opportunities to have competitions for design concepts that would normally be too narrow for full week-long competitions.
Your entry for this competition will not be a card at all! Instead, you will select one of Season 3's winning cards (you may, and probably should, include its image in your submission post), and then you will write flavor text for it. The flavor text that you're submitting should be in bold text (and, to avoid confusion, it should be the only part of your submission post to be in bold text). Please keep the flavor text to a reasonable and realistic length (brevity is the soul of wit, after all), and may the best flavor text win! A NOTE FOR VOTERS: The object of this competition is flavor text, not the card itself. Please judge the flavor texts on their own merits and try not to let your feelings towards the selected cards themselves influence your judgement too much.
As always, you may not delete any posts you make in this Submission Topic. Message one of the Fan Creation moderators if you've posted here in error or otherwise would like your post removed.
Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you must host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards, such asImgur or Photobucket.
General Competition Rules
These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
You are allowed to submit only one entry. An entry normally consists of only one collectible card, plus any necessary additional material or commentary (explained below).
You are allowed to post in this Submission Topic only once, only to submit your one entry.
You may not delete ANY posts you make in this Submission Topic, not even accidental ones you may make over your one allowed, such as by double-posting or by accidentally posting something here that you meant for the Discussion Topic. If you do accidentally post more than once, inform any of the Fan Creation Forum moderators via PM, and we will handle it.
Speaking of the Discussion Topic, that is where any discussion of this competition should go. This thread is for submissions only. If you want to discuss your card or ask questions about the competition rules or process, you can find a link to the Discussion Topic at the top of this thread. Plenty of folks there will be happy to help you out.
Once you have submitted your one entry, you are allowed to make only minor changes to it. Minor changes are things like correcting typos or making balance changes that do not alter the spirit of your entry as determined by we the moderators. If you want to make any changes and have any doubts as to their legality, ask us first.
These are the rules about your Submission:
Accompanying the image of your card, you may offer some minimal additional commentary to explain its design, balance, and/or other qualities. Flavor text is also welcome.
You may not submit any Gold cards. (It's just a cheap attention grab tactic that makes it unnecessarily difficult to determine what class your card is for.)
Your entry must be a card of your own creation. We've been doing this for a while, so if you blatantly rip off somebody else's idea, we will know.
Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you MUST host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. Save it and upload it toImgur, Photobucket, or some other similar site. HearthCards has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your card disappearing part-way through the finals. We understand that there are some HearthCards memberships that will allow you to save your card there for longer (and you should totally get one of those just for general fan creation purposes, by the way), but we don't know who has those memberships and we can't tell from the URLs.
Fun and even humorous entries are perfectly allowed, but "troll" entries will be disqualified. If you're worried that your card may be misinterpreted as a troll card, contact a moderator before you submit.
TIP: Though not a rule exactly, we highly recommend that you insert your images using this icon on the bar above the post text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. Cards that are uploaded and attached to your post are not disallowed, but in our experience they will not do nearly as well, so this is for your own benefit more than anything.
Finally, know that manipulating votes in any way is strictly forbidden. Any violators will receive an official warning, and will be banned from this and all future HearthPwn Card Design Competitions.
Competition Process
NOTE: Mini-Competitions have very different time-tables than our normal competitions, so please pay attention so that you're not caught off-guard!
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts Now! Ends 16:00 UTC Monday, 20/June/2016) It is during this Phase that you may submit entries to the Submission Topic. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like! Note that this is only 22 hours! Voting Phase (Starts 16:00 UTC Monday, 20/June/2016, Ends 18:00 UTC Monday, 20/June/2016) During this Phase, the Submission Topic will be locked, so no more entries may be submitted. Instead, use this time to browse the submissions and up-vote your favorites! Note that this is only 2 hours! Final Phase (Starts 18:00 UTC Monday, 20/June/2016, Ends 18:00 UTC Tuesday, 21/June/2016) During this Phase, the Discussion Topic will also be locked, and a new Poll Topic will go up. Discussion will be allowed to continue in the Poll Topic, and it will also include all the qualifying finalists and poll to decide the winner of the competition!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? First, we'll pull up-vote data from each submission using the formula detailed below:
(ab) / (c) = x
Where, a = The total number of submissions on the same page as the submission. b = The total number of up-votes that the submission received. c = The total number of up-votes on the same page as the submission. x = The submission's final score.
The formula basically measures which cards stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality. It will be the entries that receive the highest final scores that move on to the Final Phase.
The bottom line is that, although entries on the earlier pages of the Submission Topic are much more visible and thus receive many more up-votes than entries on later pages, you don't actually have to rush to get your entry in as soon as possible because the up-votes end up being weighted by what page your entry ends up on in order to determine its final score.
But wait, there's more! During each Card Design Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderators will be given a Wild Card, which they can use to advance any one entry that they feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated to the Final Phase, regardless of its final score. Wild Cards are our way of spicing things up a bit, but please don't ask to be given one or be upset if you aren't given one. These are just supposed to be fun. (Also, it should go without saying that, while we moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, we are not allowed to benefit from Wild Cards.)
Rewards
Note that Mini-Competition winners, unfortunately, do not get to select any future competition theme.
Bragging rights are always awesome, but as usual, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners: Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery! And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
The Taste of Victory
Welcome to the first of our Season Finale Mini-Competitions! These Mini-Competition serve three purposes. First, they provide us with some fun stuff to do during the Finale's week-long Championship Poll. Second, they're a way for us to reward competitions winners who've won multiple competitions, since we can only give them an avatar border once. And Finally, they provide us unique opportunities to have competitions for design concepts that would normally be too narrow for full week-long competitions.
Our second (of three) mini-competition themes, comes from RandomScribbles, who took two victories during Season 3 with Murloc Holmes & Watt-son and Bolf, Corrupted Protector.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
A NOTE FOR VOTERS: The object of this competition is flavor text, not the card itself. Please judge the flavor texts on their own merits and try not to let your feelings towards the selected cards themselves influence your judgement too much.
Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you must host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards, such as Imgur or Photobucket.
General Competition Rules
These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
These are the rules about your Submission:
TIP: Though not a rule exactly, we highly recommend that you insert your images using this icon on the bar above the post text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. Cards that are uploaded and attached to your post are not disallowed, but in our experience they will not do nearly as well, so this is for your own benefit more than anything.
Finally, know that manipulating votes in any way is strictly forbidden. Any violators will receive an official warning, and will be banned from this and all future HearthPwn Card Design Competitions.
Competition Process
NOTE: Mini-Competitions have very different time-tables than our normal competitions,
so please pay attention so that you're not caught off-guard!
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts Now! Ends 16:00 UTC Monday, 20/June/2016)
It is during this Phase that you may submit entries to the Submission Topic. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like! Note that this is only 22 hours!
Voting Phase (Starts 16:00 UTC Monday, 20/June/2016, Ends 18:00 UTC Monday, 20/June/2016)
During this Phase, the Submission Topic will be locked, so no more entries may be submitted. Instead, use this time to browse the submissions and up-vote your favorites! Note that this is only 2 hours!
Final Phase (Starts 18:00 UTC Monday, 20/June/2016, Ends 18:00 UTC Tuesday, 21/June/2016)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic will also be locked, and a new Poll Topic will go up. Discussion will be allowed to continue in the Poll Topic, and it will also include all the qualifying finalists and poll to decide the winner of the competition!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? First, we'll pull up-vote data from each submission using the formula detailed below:
(ab) / (c) = x
Where,
a = The total number of submissions on the same page as the submission.
b = The total number of up-votes that the submission received.
c = The total number of up-votes on the same page as the submission.
x = The submission's final score.
The formula basically measures which cards stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality. It will be the entries that receive the highest final scores that move on to the Final Phase.
The bottom line is that, although entries on the earlier pages of the Submission Topic are much more visible and thus receive many more up-votes than entries on later pages, you don't actually have to rush to get your entry in as soon as possible because the up-votes end up being weighted by what page your entry ends up on in order to determine its final score.
But wait, there's more! During each Card Design Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderators will be given a Wild Card, which they can use to advance any one entry that they feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated to the Final Phase, regardless of its final score. Wild Cards are our way of spicing things up a bit, but please don't ask to be given one or be upset if you aren't given one. These are just supposed to be fun.
(Also, it should go without saying that, while we moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, we are not allowed to benefit from Wild Cards.)
Rewards
Note that Mini-Competition winners, unfortunately, do not get to select any future competition theme.
Bragging rights are always awesome, but as usual, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners:
Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery!
And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
Good Luck!
Turns out not that much in a grove needs guarding.
Turns out its preeeeeety Envious.
Here, take this Poisoned Blade. You truly deserve it.
A beautiful profile picture and an intriguing description. Oh, nevermind. That's Catfish Bait.
"His music talented brother became a Guardian of the Groove."
AMAZING GNOME! YOUR AWESOMENESS WILL BE YOUR SALVATION!!!!
Flavor text: Moment of Clarity: When you play Force of Nature followed by Savage Roar and realize the former has been nerfed.
Custom cards :
CLASSES : Alchemist (CCC#5 | Phase V) | Chef (CCC#4)
EXPANSIONS : Year of the Scorpion (Year Comp)
Failed suitor- He had to take his mom to the prom
Heroic Drakkisath (The Fire Lord?) - #1 Heroic Drakkisath Deck Guide, Featuring Majordomo Executus, by yours truly.
Looking for more card design action? Check out my Artstone Design Challenge:That's So Meta
Murloc Holmes is currently trying to solve the case of the Houndmaster of Basketville. He suspects Professor Mrgliarty might be involved.
We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is!
You would think a huge double barrel rifle would be anything but subtly.
"Ruff, Ruff" - The Underdog
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
"Valeera, Valeera, wherefore art thou, Valeera?" ("Hiding from you, you little twerp...")
Check out my Custom Undead Expansion!
...Or my Custom Elemental Expansion!
When he catches the culprit, they go on about how they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling Murloc and his Mech.
The Nexus comes to the Inn with my set of Heroes of the Storm Legendaries!
This time, for sure!
"Elemrrglary, my dear Watt-son! No brrglry, this is clearly a case of mrrgldr."
Elementals, My dear Watt-Son!
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has sufficient fish heads. Insensibly, one gets really, really hungry."
She's only an Apprentice, Why you ask? Well the only thing's she ever called were Mana Wraiths to talk to on weekends!
What Happens When Mech's Meet an Old God...