Any news when winners are announced?

Is there something special keeping the humble team from finishing? Deckiller stated they had been given the finalists almost a month ago.

 

The only reason that my tone comes off as being suspicious of you holding secrets is because a judge has just recently posted, fairly explicitly, that there are secrets that they have to withhold from us. I understand that there are privacy issues to manage, but I think we deserve more than one sentence replies without having to beg for more. (Although I am gracious that you have given us more details after the initial post.)

I'm also a bit confused/skeptical of your post, as it seems to have a bit of a conflict with Archeia's post from about a week ago, claiming that all but celebrity judging has been completed. Now you're telling us that there was actually more official judging that needed to be taken care of, as well. I'd like to write this off as just another in the large list of miscommunications, but that's still a very bad thing. The judging team should be more well informed of what's going on with this contest, <i>especially</i> if they are going to be expressing that information to participants.

Lastly, there is no shortage of ways that you could try to make this up to us. You could, as I mentioned earlier, throw us a bone and reveal the prelim stats early (unless you're nervous that would reduce buzz, as people who did not pass would stop caring). You could try distributing the participation prizes to contestants early so that we at least have something to show for these months of waiting. At the <i>very</i> least, you could dig through your bookmarks and post some kind of funny gif for us to look at while we wait.

 

Alright. I guess it all comes down to misinterpretation on my part. I would have thought that the humble judges are considered part of the official judging, so it's a bit of a surprise to hear now that they aren't done yet. I trust that you've disclosed everything you know. I guess there's nothing left to do but wait.

 

This is what we wanted to hear. A very clear and non-vague answer about what's going on at the moment.

 

This is where people are confused. Those two statements seem to contradict each other. Or maybe it's the way it's phrased? The past tense on the first makes it seem like they are done. But they aren't done judging?

And nobody is worried about the moving/illness. Nor do they blame you for going though such events.

 

Alright so the winners aren't determined yet, because the Celebrity & HB Judges aren't finished? Getting some contradicting statements in this topic. :')

Regardless though, no results yet! That's alright.

 

People are misconstruing this from TouchFuzzy:

"Celebrity and Humble Judges were all done after the main judging."

He meant that the celebrity and humble bundle judging process occurred after the forum judges finished, not that the celebrity and humble bundle judges had actually finished.

 

@archeia, I believe your post in the forum a little while ago led to some of the confusion. You said that it was all up to the "contest guest judges," which only (to me) implies Ed Greenwood and Sabre. I don't think many people felt like the humble judges counted as guest judges, since their input is essential for determining a grand prize winner.

It's not your fault, it's just another one of what seem to be many miscommunications that have occurred over the past few months.

 

Nessy didn't say celebrity judges, but guest judges, which means those outside of the site itself - thus the Humble and Celebrity judges. You misinterpreted what she said to mean only the celebrity judges. It happens~ ^.^

 

Guys.  Problem solved.  You all are winners in my book. *point point point*

 

I think someone said the only remaining issue was "external". I took that as meaning something technical like paperwork. Well, it doesn't matter.

 

So the finalists that were handed to the external judges..... Was it like top ten or top several hundred? Going by deckillers comment they've had a month to go through them. Top ten shouldn't take a month . unless they are doing more than one hour play throughs?

 

It's about 140, I believe. Perhaps a judge could confirm this?

 

Top ten, I think. Can't remember if it was top ten of each individual judge or total.

 

how long ago were the top ten passed along? Furthermore, is that top ten from each category (twenty games passed in total), or ten best games from the two combined?