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Hello boys and girls! Due to the downtime in the previous month, the contest was regrettably interrupted. But I welcome you once again to the 2nd annual Best Decks Contest! If you haven't been here before, this year it is slightly different, it isn't simply a voting for the best decks, we added in a contest element! But please read the rules carefully before taking part ! All previous voters kindly post your votes again, all records were regrettably lost!

Here are your categories:

Best Ace of Spades: ➙
Best Back Design: ➙
Best Court Cards: ➙
Best Pips: ➙
Best Jokers: ➙
Best Deck Series (at least one release this year): ➙
Best Gaff Card (not gaff decks, eg. Gaff System): ➙
Best Use of Colors: ➙
Best Deck for Flourishing: ➙
Best Deck for Fanning: ➙
Best Deck for Magic: ➙
Best Uncut Sheet: ➙
Best Tuck Box: ➙
Best Packaging (not tuckbox, ie Brick-boxes, Wooden Cases, etc): ➙
Best Deck Accessory: (Coins, Chips, dice, etc):➙
Best Innovation on a Deck of Playing Cards: ➙
Best Kickstarter Campaign: ➙
Overall Best Deck: ➙


Rules:
1) DO NOT POST YOUR VOTES ON THIS PAGE. Kindly PM both myself (Volantangel) and Mike Ratledge the votes.
2) Decks must be released in 2013, KS Decks must be delivered in 2013 to be considered (a guide to this is Bohemia is the first, Imperial as the last). Decks that are not released in 2013 will be disqualified.
3) The administrators reserve all rights to revoke anyone's participation rights should any dishonest activities be suspected.
4) The sponsors have all rights to change any prizes without prior notice
5) Everyone is allowed to participate in the voting, including designers themselves are allowed to vote on their own decks. Administrators have already cast their votes prior to the contest to ensure fairness.
6) The administrators reserve all rights to amend any of the above rules without prior notice.
7) Voting will end on the 21st Feb, Fri. 2359hours PST.


Point System
As mentioned previously, this is now a contest, and the point system is as follows:

For each category:
1st place ➙ 5 Points
2nd place ➙ 3 Points
3rd place ➙ 1 Point

NEW RULE: There must be more than one vote (meaning someone other than yourself voted on the same item) for it to be eligible for points. (ie. 2 votes and above will be eligible)

Points for all categories will be tallied up for all participants to determine the final placings. Should the points be tied for any place, the participant that submits earlier will be ranked higher.


Point System
1st Place
The winner's face to be forever immortalised as part of UC's history by being illustrated by Lotrek for the 2nd UC Deck (Grotesque) plus two Grotesque decks.

2nd Place
A Skulkor Brick Box containing 12 decks of Sharpie's choice

3rd Place
Deco set
Aurum sovereign
Aurum white gold
Encarded sticker

4th Place
Bedeceived trio
Purple LTD
Madison Dealers

5th Place
Ornate Set (4 decks)

6th Place
Tendril 1 of 20 bamboo clip
G.O.D. Chinatown deck

7th Place
Americana uncut
Feminist uncut

8th Place
Black club stainless clip
Black club brick box with membership card (not valid)
Black JAQK deck

9th Place
White Rabbit Deck
Purple LTD
Madison Dealers

10th Place
A set of signed Venexiana court prints

Last Place with a non-zero score
2 decks of fire and brimstone

Random Prize for a Non-Winner
1 brick of Black NOCs


Point System
Kindly thank our kind sponsors for the awesome prizes they have provided out of their goodwill!

Sharpie
Lotrek
Strag
Mike Ratledge
Paul Carpenter from Encarded
Hikeeba

Thank you kind sponsors!

Rule # 7 says the voting ends on Dec 21.

I think it would be fair to assume Feruary 21st - a week should be enough!

(I'll leave it to volantangel to edit as he may have another date in mind)

Whoops my bad. Yeap 21st Feb =)

Big thanks to all the prize contributors as well as V for putting it all together (twice). Thanks all.

Done!
Thanks to all the sponsors!

Re: it being a contest now - it seems, as a contest, there is now a strategy to try to guess what other people will name as the best, as opposed to just voting for your actual favorite.
Also, if someone actually votes for their favorites, "winning" is equated to being the biggest front-runner in the herd. Just sayin'.....

In this context, I offer 2 new decks of Fire & Brimstone to whoever gets the smallest non-zero score (one winner - ties to be broken randomly, with approval from the mods)!
Vive la différence!!

hikeeba wrote:Re: it being a contest now - it seems, as a contest, there is now a strategy to try to guess what other people will name as the best, as opposed to just voting for your actual favorite.
Also, if someone actually votes for their favorites, "winning" is equated to being the biggest front-runner in the herd. Just sayin'.....

In this context, I offer 2 new decks of Fire & Brimstone to whoever gets the smallest non-zero score (one winner - ties to be broken randomly, with approval from the mods)!
Vive la différence!!

Yeah, I thought the same thing but still I just voted for my favorites. Hopefully integrity will carry the day for most. Anyway, nice move here Hikeeba.

hikeeba wrote:In this context, I offer 2 new decks of Fire & Brimstone to whoever gets the smallest non-zero score (one winner - ties to be broken randomly, with approval from the mods)!
Vive la différence!!

Sure thing, why not

OK so here are the people who have voted.

Myself(Volantangel)
Eoghann
Kdklown
sms69x
phantom1412
Mike Ratledge
Ivan

Plenty more prizes up for grabs! Vote now !

Also reminder, gaff decks are not eligible for voting.
Also. Best Deck Accessory: (Coins, Chips, dice, etc):➙ Needs to be more specific, not just dice or coin. must belong to a deck.

Kindly submit any changes if necessary

Just entered. Thanks for another awesome contest

OK so here are the people who have voted.

Myself(Volantangel)
Eoghann
Kdklown
sms69x
phantom1412
Mike Ratledge
Ivan
JokerzGamez

Plenty more prizes up for grabs! Vote now !

OK so here are the people who have voted.

Myself(Volantangel)
Eoghann
Kdklown
sms69x
phantom1412
Mike Ratledge
Ivan
JokerzGamez
Becky C
Mirror
Vasta 41

Plenty more prizes up for grabs! Vote now !

Daily Update:

OK so here are the people who have voted.

Myself(Volantangel)
Eoghann
Kdklown
sms69x
phantom1412
Mike Ratledge
Ivan
JokerzGamez
Becky C
Mirror
Vasta 41
MonteCarloJoe
Samwisethegray

Plenty more prizes up for grabs! Vote now !

Daily Update:

OK so here are the people who have voted.

Myself(Volantangel)
Eoghann
Kdklown
sms69x
phantom1412
Mike Ratledge
Ivan
JokerzGamez
Becky C
Mirror
Vasta 41
MonteCarloJoe
Samwisethegray
DukeBoy
Shadowkat

Vote now ! Dont miss your chance!!

NEW RULE: There must be more than one vote (meaning someone other than yourself voted on the same item) for it to be eligible for points. (ie. 2 votes and above will be eligible)

Why's that? Too many one offs resulting in tied voters?

Eoghann wrote:Why's that? Too many one offs resulting in tied voters?

There are several categories that have quite polarized votes, resulting in quite a few one offs getting points. ORRR there are some categories that have such diversed votes that one offs are getting points as well.

Hahah but im more for the fact that, you shouldnt get points because no one else agrees with you

Another way around it would be to award a score equal to the number of votes for your nomination.
So if only you voted for it - 0pts. if 3 other people voted for it - 3pts. and so on. Arguably fairer (as your score depends on how many agree not the position of the deck in the rankings), avoids the low ties and it's scalable too.
(Trickier to calculate, but you could set up a spreadsheet to crunch numbers for you)

Perhaps to radical a move half way through this year's compo though!

Best way to look at it... y'all are getting some free stuff so be happy with it

Important thing is to get as much participation as possible... we want the awards to mean something!

montecarlojoe wrote:Another way around it would be to award a score equal to the number of votes for your nomination.
So if only you voted for it - 0pts. if 3 other people voted for it - 3pts. and so on. Arguably fairer (as your score depends on how many agree not the position of the deck in the rankings), avoids the low ties and it's scalable too.
(Trickier to calculate, but you could set up a spreadsheet to crunch numbers for you)

Perhaps to radical a move half way through this year's compo though!

I was actually thinking about having that system as well, yea but thats too radical a change too late into the competition.

But if you guys are not agreeable to the rule, ILL TAKE YOU OUT OF THE COMPETITION !!

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J.ust kidding, ill take away the rule, doesnt really affect much.

Nothing wrong with the rule if it helps spread things out a bit

VA is just trying to cancel out the majority of my votes. I'm on to him.

Well if you must insist on nominating Galaxy Cards for everything

I'm disappointed other decks are even up for consideration.

You'd probably get a lot more people to vote if someone would publish a list, with links to photos, of the decks that are qualified to vote on.

We did have a pretty comprehensive list before the crash. That was lost. Here's a partial list cobbled together on this thread:

http://unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3988" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'll try to jump in later today and add some to it. As for pictures, I would assume people voting actually have those decks. But I'll see what I can do. Maybe link to Kickstarter or something.

YoYoSpin wrote:You'd probably get a lot more people to vote if someone would publish a list, with links to photos, of the decks that are qualified to vote on.

hush up I'm trying to win here.

I'm just going to pop this here for the big W

Best Ace of Spades: ➙ Vortex
Best Back Design: ➙ Vortex
Best Court Cards: ➙ Vortex
Best Pips: ➙ Vortex
Best Jokers: ➙ Vortex
Best Deck Series (at least one release this year): ➙ Vortex
Best Gaff Card (not gaff decks, eg. Gaff System): ➙ Vortex
Best Use of Colors: ➙ Vortex
Best Deck for Flourishing: ➙ Vortex
Best Deck for Fanning: ➙ Vortex
Best Deck for Magic: ➙ Vortex
Best Uncut Sheet: ➙ Vortex
Best Tuck Box: ➙ Vortex
Best Packaging (not tuckbox, ie Brick-boxes, Wooden Cases, etc): ➙ Vortex
Best Deck Accessory: (Coins, Chips, dice, etc):➙ Vortex
Best Innovation on a Deck of Playing Cards: ➙ Vortex
Best Kickstarter Campaign: ➙ Vortex
Overall Best Deck: ➙ Vortex

montecarlojoe wrote:I'm just going to pop this here for the big W

Best Ace of Spades: ➙ Vortex
Best Back Design: ➙ Vortex
Best Court Cards: ➙ Vortex
Best Pips: ➙ Vortex
Best Jokers: ➙ Vortex
Best Deck Series (at least one release this year): ➙ Vortex
Best Gaff Card (not gaff decks, eg. Gaff System): ➙ Vortex
Best Use of Colors: ➙ Vortex
Best Deck for Flourishing: ➙ Vortex
Best Deck for Fanning: ➙ Vortex
Best Deck for Magic: ➙ Vortex
Best Uncut Sheet: ➙ Vortex
Best Tuck Box: ➙ Vortex
Best Packaging (not tuckbox, ie Brick-boxes, Wooden Cases, etc): ➙ Vortex
Best Deck Accessory: (Coins, Chips, dice, etc):➙ Vortex
Best Innovation on a Deck of Playing Cards: ➙ Vortex
Best Kickstarter Campaign: ➙ Vortex
Overall Best Deck: ➙ Vortex

Hahahah Disqualified, VORTEX DECK isnt released in 2013. MCJ you have officially zero points. Lemme go cancel your original vote