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You've got 4 hours 30 minutes to submit your entries!

Am I doing this right?

 mind taking a look at my class on the previous page?

Hey there guys, a quick - and hopefully pleasant? - update for you all.

When looking over the number of entries, we came to the conclusion that there isn't really a need to cut anyone from this first round. In past competitions, when we had over 200 entries (I think that was our second CCC?) it made sense to start whittling down the numbers early on, because otherwise the competition would be just too cumbersome. However, the amount of entries we have now wouldn't, I think, be too much to take into Phase II, so we won't be cutting anyone from Phase I. Bolding that for anyone who just wants to skim this.

Now, what does this mean for the 'voting phase' portion of Phase I? Well, we're just going to remove that completely, and extend submissions to Wednesday instead. This'll allow any stragglers a chance to enter should they wish, and also let everyone who has already entered edit their submissions should they wish to - your submission does still need to follow all the rules by the time entry closes on Wednesday, or you will be DQed.

In the future, it is likely we will take this measure again for Phase I of competitions unless we get back into incredibly large numbers of submissions. We're always looking for ways to improve these and let everyone have the most fun, and taking a larger number of people through to Phase II seems like a really easy way to do that without giving us too much work.

Remember, Challenges will return for Phase II, so even if you think you have your Basic Set complete, be ready to make changes as needed. Hope you're all enjoying the return of the CCC and WCDC!

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Hey there guys, a quick - and hopefully pleasant? - update for you all.

When looking over the number of entries, we came to the conclusion that there isn't really a need to cut anyone from this first round. In past competitions, when we had over 200 entries (I think that was our second CCC?) it made sense to start whittling down the numbers early on, because otherwise the competition would be just too cumbersome. However, the amount of entries we have now wouldn't, I think, be too much to take into Phase II, so we won't be cutting anyone from Phase I. Bolding that for anyone who just wants to skim this.

Now, what does this mean for the 'voting phase' portion of Phase I? Well, we're just going to remove that completely, and extend submissions to Wednesday instead. This'll allow any stragglers a chance to enter should they wish, and also let everyone who has already entered edit their submissions should they wish to - your submission does still need to follow all the rules by the time entry closes on Wednesday, or you will be DQed.

In the future, it is likely we will take this measure again for Phase I of competitions unless we get back into incredibly large numbers of submissions. We're always looking for ways to improve these and let everyone have the most fun, and taking a larger number of people through to Phase II seems like a really easy way to do that without giving us too much work.

Remember, Challenges will return for Phase II, so even if you think you have your Basic Set complete, be ready to make changes as needed. Hope you're all enjoying the return of the CCC and WCDC!

 Well, this is nice. Gives me time to write my submission in a nice way (it would've been kinda rushed and choppy otherwise). Anyone can tell me how to format my submission, with different columns for the cards and such?

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Hey there guys, a quick - and hopefully pleasant? - update for you all.

When looking over the number of entries, we came to the conclusion that there isn't really a need to cut anyone from this first round. In past competitions, when we had over 200 entries (I think that was our second CCC?) it made sense to start whittling down the numbers early on, because otherwise the competition would be just too cumbersome. However, the amount of entries we have now wouldn't, I think, be too much to take into Phase II, so we won't be cutting anyone from Phase I. Bolding that for anyone who just wants to skim this.

Now, what does this mean for the 'voting phase' portion of Phase I? Well, we're just going to remove that completely, and extend submissions to Wednesday instead. This'll allow any stragglers a chance to enter should they wish, and also let everyone who has already entered edit their submissions should they wish to - your submission does still need to follow all the rules by the time entry closes on Wednesday, or you will be DQed.

In the future, it is likely we will take this measure again for Phase I of competitions unless we get back into incredibly large numbers of submissions. We're always looking for ways to improve these and let everyone have the most fun, and taking a larger number of people through to Phase II seems like a really easy way to do that without giving us too much work.

Remember, Challenges will return for Phase II, so even if you think you have your Basic Set complete, be ready to make changes as needed. Hope you're all enjoying the return of the CCC and WCDC!

Question regarding the extension.

The longer submission phases in this competition were designed so that the end of this Big Comp would coincide with the end of season 9, but if this phase is getting extended, does that mean future phases will be shortened so that they will still both end at the same time? If that is the case, how are the phase shortenings adjudicated? Is one phase simply going to lose 3 days, or are multiple phases going to lose 1 day?

 This Phase is sort of cannibalising itself, I guess. Instead of submissions ending in ~2 hours, and then having three days of upvoting before Phase II, the unnecessary upvoting stage is removed and submissions will be extended for those three days. So Phase I will still be the same total length. Other Phases will be unaffected.

Sorry guys just trying to figure out how to post my cards... not sure what link to use. 

Does this work?

Edit: figured it out. Sorry for the dumb post ^_^

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we won't be cutting anyone from Phase I. Bolding that for anyone who just wants to skim this.

 Even invalid entries?

 No, entries that should be DQ'd will still be eliminated. "If you follow the rules, you're fine" is the name of the game here.

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Managed to submit it last minute and hadn't had much time to talk here due to diploma exams and 3 finals this week. So I rushed it and submitted it only to find that there's an extension. Joy...

 We waited on purpose, just long enough for you to think you needed to rush :P Good to see you <3

Well this is pleasent news! Some people on the second page popped out of nowhere whith some awesome concepts and i got scared i'll get left behind. 

How many people will advance to phase 3? Can this happen again next stage if there are still not enough entries?

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How many people will advance to phase 3? Can this happen again next stage if there are still not enough entries?

 We don't have an answer to that right now. Our usual tactic is take a percentage of the total number of submissions, meaning we won't know how many can proceed forward until we know how many people are participating.

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OH BTW THIS IS PROBABLY REALLY IMPORTANT

List of Things You Have To Consider For Expansions in The Year of the Raven

 Have to make it past Phases II and III before it matters :P