Shadow wrote:moi wrote:It's just a damn popularity contest Lewis. After all the hard work the contestants put in, Mockmaster's adjudicating is a slap in the face to real aficionados of snowman construction. He's like the Mike Riley of GRcade.
THIS!
The people want a poll!
I don't see why there should be a poll. I am not on the board of the Official National Snowman Review Committee. I do not answer to the People's Front for Snowman Construction.
LewisD wrote:I mean, Aaron's is nice and all, but it's covered in mud. I made sure mine was pristine white, clean as an Colorado river!
And it's leaning to one side, something that Alpha Ex was deducted a point for.
Infact, Alpha was deducted points for Dirty snow too!
The snowman is also tilting to the right, indicating its inner base is 15% hollow. Further deductions for evidence of grimey snow.
Y'know Mocky, I love you. But not right now. You've been paid off.
Don't even speak to me.
It is true there is some grime on Aaron's Snowman. And it is true that it slightly leans. On a different day, perhaps I would have picked up on these things. But I judged each Snowman in its own context and on its own merits, with each one a standalone case. In Aaron's case, the story his Snowman's creation told surpassed some technical aspects of others and was enough to grant him the win. It's a story Dickens himself might write, of a pauper fighting to the top despite having no hands.
In any case, Plurbs won.
Nevertheless, the public outcry is deafening.
IN A MASSIVE TWIST I will throw it open to the masses in a new thread, with a democratic poll. I will still award Aaron and Plurbs a prize, and the person who wins the poll. That's 3 prizes plus a raft of Keeley Hazell posters. Wallet Am Cry.