The Photomode Tournament Discussion Thread: Season 6 (2.0)
- Thread starter Nicknamealguem
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- Cumbria
- Thomas_George
You'd also need to think about people who don't have the internet on their PS3, as some of these themes wouldn't work for them
I only mention this as my router is refusing to connect to my PS3 atm..
I only mention this as my router is refusing to connect to my PS3 atm..
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- Cowichan, B.C.
- hobbes-the-cat
You'd also need to think about people who don't have the internet on their PS3, as some of these themes wouldn't work for them
I only mention this as my router is refusing to connect to my PS3 atm..
I agree, you can't really do a theme that requires:
A- Online racing
B- Seasonal events
C- DLC cars/tracks/outfits
D- 3D images (hey, someone might have thought about it)
There are probably some other thigs that shouldn't be required but I can't think of any more.
- 5,249
- Gothenburg
- jaco_bin
Theme suggestion:
No replacement for displacement, show any car with a engine displacing 5500 cm3 (5,5 liters) or more.
Theme suggestion:
Le Mans 24 hours vs Nürburgring 24h, with a Turbodiesel, one contestant decide to shoot a Peugeot 908 HDi at Sarthe, and one does the same with an Audi R10 TDI on the Nürburgring.
Sorry if they've been done/suggested already.
No replacement for displacement, show any car with a engine displacing 5500 cm3 (5,5 liters) or more.
Theme suggestion:
Le Mans 24 hours vs Nürburgring 24h, with a Turbodiesel, one contestant decide to shoot a Peugeot 908 HDi at Sarthe, and one does the same with an Audi R10 TDI on the Nürburgring.
Sorry if they've been done/suggested already.
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Cade
(Banned)
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- Texas
- cade04
Bitter Rivals
Show the Subaru Impreza and the Mitsubishi Lancer battling against other
Car: Any Mitsubishi Lancer or Subaru Impreza
Track: Rally Lancers and Imprezas on Rally courses. Tuned and Stock Lancers and Imprezas on City Courses.
Photomode Travel: OFF
Special Restrictions: Both cars must be the same year Ex: 05 Impreza vs 05 Lancer.
Show the Subaru Impreza and the Mitsubishi Lancer battling against other
Car: Any Mitsubishi Lancer or Subaru Impreza
Track: Rally Lancers and Imprezas on Rally courses. Tuned and Stock Lancers and Imprezas on City Courses.
Photomode Travel: OFF
Special Restrictions: Both cars must be the same year Ex: 05 Impreza vs 05 Lancer.
- 4,387
- Lisboa
Hey all.
Season 03 of the Photomode Tournament had it's end. Thank's to all who participated in this competition and congrats to Boabdulrahman and bmxmitch for the win.
Final Scores:
PMC
Boabdulrahman - First Place;
ijkhk4 - Second Place;
honkydonky - Third Place.
2.0
bmxmitch - First Place;
DarkR - Second Place;
SlipZtrEm - Third Place.
Closest vote margin match:
2.0 Semi-Final Match 2 - DarkR (44) vs. fkxpro (44)
2.0 Final Match - bmxmitch (49) vs. DarkR (49)
User with overall most votes: DarkR (291)
I'll also use this thread to keep track of prizes, so the prize-list for both PMC and 2.0 are as follows:
Prize List - PMC/2.0:
Less voted to make through (Sponsored by Jason_B):
Prize Ticket;
Match with the closest vote margin (Sponsored by Gtuned):
Prize Car;
Most voted image in each round (Sponsored by Jason_B):
Prize Car;
User with overall most votes (Sponsored by NJ72):
Prize Car;
Third Place:
Hall of Fame representation;
Prize Car (Sponsored by Magic Racer)
Car Ticket lvl.21 (Sponsored by Jason_B)
Second Place:
Hall of Fame representation;
Prize Car (Sponsored by Magic Racer)
Car Ticket lvl.23 (Sponsored by Jason_B)
First Place:
Hall of Fame representation;
All it’s tournament images will be featured as banners for a next tournament;
Prize Cars (Sponsored by Jason_B)
Prize Cars (Sponsored by Magic Racer)
Prize Cars (Sponsored by Gtuned)
One year Premium Photo Hosting account (Sponsored by Jason_B)
More prizes to be announced
Prize Cars - Overview:
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Season 04 will take place between, probably, at June of 2012, and themes that were not used in season 03 will be used in season 04.
Last but not least, I would like to hear everyones opinion on the tournament. What went good, what went bad, what could be done better, what should be added to the tournament, etc.
Well done everyone and thanks for the participation.
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- Toronto
- NewAesthetic
- SlipZtrEm
I think it all went very well: I can't think of any particular way to improve things, Luis, I think you have this down to a science 👍
I would like to donate any prizes that may be coming my way to fkxpro, however: a worthy adversary, and most likely, considering the amount I get to play GT5 these days, he would get more use out of them than I would
Thanks to all who participated, be it submissions, sponsoring, or even just voting, for making this another success!
I would like to donate any prizes that may be coming my way to fkxpro, however: a worthy adversary, and most likely, considering the amount I get to play GT5 these days, he would get more use out of them than I would
Thanks to all who participated, be it submissions, sponsoring, or even just voting, for making this another success!
- 4,387
- Lisboa
It's a tie between two matches:
I think it all went very well: I can't think of any particular way to improve things, Luis, I think you have this down to a science 👍
I would like to donate any prizes that may be coming my way to fkxpro, however: a worthy adversary, and most likely, considering the amount I get to play GT5 these days, he would get more use out of them than I would
Thanks to all who participated, be it submissions, sponsoring, or even just voting, for making this another success!
Thanks allot.
I have to say, I liked to host this season more than the others and it would be perfect if it wasn't for some poll swaying/multi-accountants. Is there a way to prevent/spot this earlier? Also, I am a bit sad for some of the defaulted matches, but I think it's bound to happen.
Also, I thought, it was a bit long, having an extra round makes it a little bulky, at least for me. What do people think? If there is an opportunity do you guys prefer to have 32 entrants and an extra round or the normal 16?
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- Wellington
A big congratulations to the winners, and a big thank you to Luis for doing all of the hard work to host this. 
A bit of a heads up; would it be possible to change the photohost website to something like Flickr? Some really great shots got harmed with the photohost website that was used.
A bit of a heads up; would it be possible to change the photohost website to something like Flickr? Some really great shots got harmed with the photohost website that was used.
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- SF, CA
- SUSHI-RACER
SVXA big congratulations to the winners, and a big thank you to Luis for doing all of the hard work to host this.
A bit of a heads up; would it be possible to change the photohost website to something like Flickr? Some really great shots got harmed with the photohost website that was used.
Totally agree with you, I think Flickr should be mandatory for all Photomode competition participant. It is some much easier to use and without all those porn popups lol
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- Toronto
- NewAesthetic
- SlipZtrEm
The best thing to help curb multi-accounting and poll swaying is to continue to bring up the issue to either you, Luis, or me, of people are suspicious of any activity. I've also started keeping a closer eye each round, and using the tools available to mods to keep track. Unfortunate, but required.
About image hosting, while I like Flickr, the pathetically small image size for non-paying members is unfortunate. Might I suggest Dropbox?
About image hosting, while I like Flickr, the pathetically small image size for non-paying members is unfortunate. Might I suggest Dropbox?
- 4,387
- Lisboa
A big congratulations to the winners, and a big thank you to Luis for doing all of the hard work to host this.
A bit of a heads up; would it be possible to change the photohost website to something like Flickr? Some really great shots got harmed with the photohost website that was used.
How so? Can you elaborate it further?
To me I think picasa web is an excellent image host, I can have multiple image size just by changing the link code (s000 for full size and s500 for previews), that way I don't have to host two different sized images and it's way quicker than flickr method. The drawback is (and I have been put out of polls because of this (which I think it's pretty stupid)) the preview image quality is not the best, thus it kind of serves my intention of people actually seeing the full sizes, and I can assure you (99%) that the quality of the image uploaded (in full size) is the same as has the one I have saved in my hdd.
Personally, I don't like flickr, the ridicule limit of 1024px for non paying members and the limit of images uploaded before they start breaking links are huge drawbacks to me. Oh and being the reason bmxmitch picture was so jagged and over-sharpened, made my opinion about it even worse.
The only thing about dropbox is having to download an external program (or am I wrong?).
Really, unless someone finds a easy to use, quick link changing for different sizes, no image compression on full sizes (I don't care about previews), no limit in the amount of images uploaded before they start breaking links or deleting images, I am sold to picasa web. I've tried a huge amount of image hosts (imageshack, photobucket,flickr, imgur, and so on and so forth), and this, to me, it's best I've found.
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- 1,874
- France
- GTP_Fido_le_muet
I think you should keep Picasa.
It worked perfectly fine for me. And if it makes people click to view pics full size, then Hallelujah !
I also agree that it was a bit too long because of the extra round. I must say I wasn't paying a lot of attention in the end. Don't flame me just yet, I was still excited to see the polls thread^^
But, a bit too long IMO
The rest is just perfect. 👍
It worked perfectly fine for me. And if it makes people click to view pics full size, then Hallelujah !
I also agree that it was a bit too long because of the extra round. I must say I wasn't paying a lot of attention in the end. Don't flame me just yet, I was still excited to see the polls thread^^
But, a bit too long IMO
The rest is just perfect. 👍
- 14,410
- Wellington
How so? Can you elaborate it further?
To me I think picasa web is an excellent image host, I can have multiple image size just by changing the link code (s000 for full size and s500 for previews), that way I don't have to host two different sized images and it's way quicker than flickr method. The drawback is (and I have been put out of polls because of this (which I think it's pretty stupid)) the preview image quality is not the best, thus it kind of serves my intention of people actually seeing the full sizes, and I can assure you (99%) that the quality of the image uploaded (in full size) is the same as has the one I have saved in my hdd.
Personally, I don't like flickr, the ridicule limit of 1024px for non paying members and the limit of images uploaded before they start breaking links are huge drawbacks to me. Oh and being the reason bmxmitch picture was so jagged and over-sharpened, made my opinion about it even worse.
You basically said what I was gonna say.
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I think the tournament ran perfectly so a big thanks to Nicknamealguem for running it, but just my own opinion on the quality of preview images; how many of the voters actually view each photo in its full size?
I think potentially it can put one entry at a disadvantage to another depending on the quality of the compressed preview.
Having said that, it should still be the 'hosts' decision as to which image sharing site they use when bearing in mind the work that goes into organising the comps.
I think potentially it can put one entry at a disadvantage to another depending on the quality of the compressed preview.
Having said that, it should still be the 'hosts' decision as to which image sharing site they use when bearing in mind the work that goes into organising the comps.
For the next season (I'd love to know when),I was thinking of a structure like how is the FA Cup in England played:
1) the lower division teams (or in GTP's scenario, those who never won any comp) fight it out in rounds 1 and 2
2) the premier league teams (past comp winners) start playing in round 3, then it would be knocking out all the way to the finish
1) the lower division teams (or in GTP's scenario, those who never won any comp) fight it out in rounds 1 and 2
2) the premier league teams (past comp winners) start playing in round 3, then it would be knocking out all the way to the finish
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- Hong Kong
- Hybrid_Tifoso
Yeah, I agree. Some pictures, when being viewed in a smaller size, looked better than they are in full size, while some pics are just vice versa
Agree, there should be two divisions held annually, one for those who have never won a comp before, and another one (you guessed) for those who have won before
- 4,387
- Lisboa
Well, the objective, like in all competitions, is for people to see the images in full size, that is the image that really should matter and should enter in a vote decision. That or we better start to shorten images up to little thumbnail sized images, in hope that people will click on them and see it's full size.
Yes, that's is and was my primary objective, giving more people a chance to take part, I am just a little afraid it loses interest by being too long.
Next season, as stated, will be around probably in June.
It's a bit difficult to set that up, and would result in a even more bulkier tournament. I want to give everyone the same opportunity, there are no good or bad players here, it's all a matter of skill and luck. For example, ceiling_fan, the winner of the 2.0 season 1 tournament, got left out in the qualifying of season 2.
Jason_B
Premium
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- expressseven75
Both Flickr Pro accounts have been sent out to the new champions. Prize cars for the Semi's and Finals will start going out this weekend it'll probably take 2-3 weeks to get everything out (thanks to the gifting restrictions.)
I'll be on the road 4 out of 5 weeks in June so somebody let me know when it starts!
I'll be on the road 4 out of 5 weeks in June so somebody let me know when it starts!
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- Vienna
- N-A-NABU
do we have a list of software´s we are allowed to use for the 2.0 competitions ?
we got 3 new programm´s in the office but i don´t know if iam allowed to use it or not .
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/
i am sometimes using the Effect´s suite and my colleagues are working with the stuff for Premiere , anyway ...
kind regards
we got 3 new programm´s in the office but i don´t know if iam allowed to use it or not .
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/
i am sometimes using the Effect´s suite and my colleagues are working with the stuff for Premiere , anyway ...
kind regards
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- Lisboa
In any of the competitions, you can use any image editing program, as long as the tools you use in that program are allowed by the competition.
