Level of Month: October (Halloween) (Results)

Core · Postby **Core** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:18 pm

Boo! Its me, Chorpe, and im happy to announce LOM: October!
Winner of September was Chorpe with his level Mystic Caves!

Idea of Contest

The idea on contest stays the same so far. Eclipsed will provide a video with the levels in this contest, and you vote for the level. (when the deadline comes of course) The level that gets most of votes is winning!

Rules of Contest

• Level must be made in this month.
• Level made by 2 or more people is allowed.
• Usage of Lua is allowed.
• 38a is not allowed.
• Your download link of your level should work.
• Level shouldnt be broken.

Video

Link to the Voting

https://goo.gl/forms/14tCHsHpdTKBTf0a2

Sponsors

Ice Diaster - 9 Members
SMBX Server List - 99 Members
The NovaVerse - 92 Members
Eclipsed's Moon Base - 75 Members
SMBX Levels - 67 Members
SMB: The Final Adventure - 10 Members

Some info

-Deadline starts at 1st November.
-Second deadline (Selection of the winner) starts at 10th November.
-When Deadline starts Levels-Participants, Video and link to the site will be announced.
-Sponsors-Servers will be announced as well.
-We will be informing about results (so far) at 2nd November, then on 5th November, and then on 9th Novemer. It will be increasing activity of topic.

Results

Bold n Brash by Enjl: 12
Swapping Gardens by AndrewPixel: 9
Sparky Cave by Eri7: 8
Link's Journey by Eri7: 4
SMB3 Treasure Ship by Surtur: 2
Shadow Mausoleum: 2
Koopa Party by cina1: 2
SMB1 Remake by Surtur: 1
The BASEment by DrMekar: 1
Is this level really hard by Whitely_Ghast: 1
Super Metroid: Mother Brain Fight: 1
Battle in Sunken Ship by basegamer: 1
Chocolate and Vanilla by Surtur: 1

Eclipsed · Postby **Eclipsed** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 1:28 am

Poll and Video
https://goo.gl/forms/14tCHsHpdTKBTf0a2

Eclipsed · Postby **Eclipsed** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:21 am

Here are the current Votes:
Bold n Brash by Enjl: 7
Swapping Gardens by AndrewPixel: 5
Sparky Cave by Eri7: 5
Link's Journey by Eri7: 3

Radiance · Postby **Radiance** » Sun Nov 04, 2018 2:59 am

I'm just curious, how do these sponsor servers work?

Eclipsed · Postby **Eclipsed** » Mon Nov 05, 2018 10:14 pm

Radiance wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 04, 2018 2:59 am
I'm just curious, how do these sponsor servers work?

They are just servers that ping people about the event.

Here are the current Votes:
Bold n Brash by Enjl: 9
Swapping Gardens by AndrewPixel: 8
Sparky Cave by Eri7: 7
Link's Journey by Eri7: 4
SMB1 Remake by Surtur: 1
SMB3 Treasure Ship by Surtur: 1
The BASEment by DrMekar: 1
Koopa Party by cina1: 1
Is this level really hard by Whitely_Ghast: 1
Super Metroid: Mother Brain Fight: 1
Battle in Sunken Ship by basegamer: 1

Eclipsed · Postby **Eclipsed** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:58 pm

Vote Updates
Bold n Brash by Enjl: 10
Swapping Gardens by AndrewPixel: 9
Sparky Cave by Eri7: 7
Link's Journey by Eri7: 4
SMB3 Treasure Ship by Surtur: 2
SMB1 Remake by Surtur: 1
The BASEment by DrMekar: 1
Koopa Party by cina1: 1
Is this level really hard by Whitely_Ghast: 1
Super Metroid: Mother Brain Fight: 1
Battle in Sunken Ship by basegamer: 1
Chocolate and Vanilla by Surtur: 1
Relinked Poll: https://goo.gl/forms/14tCHsHpdTKBTf0a2

Postby **Enjl** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:21 pm

Something that's been on my mind throughout these updates is that there's a possibility for exploit through them...
I don't think anything like that happened this time, or at least I have nothing to prove it either way, but it's something I wanted to toss in the room as a thought experiment.
Consider the scenario in which an update is posted, revealing that you are in second place, with not many votes off first. There's one day remaining before the final results, so to test out a bit of a strategy you tell some of your friends: "Hey, mind dropping a vote for a couple of levels excluding the one currently in first?"
Could sound like a stretch to you, but also could not. Spite could also cause an uneven distribution that ignores actual level quality.
And how would one even go about proving this happens? Should people who happen to fall into a pattern re-evaluated due to paranoia?
Perhaps it might be best to not do updates, or do them more vaguely. Not revealing the level or author in the leading ranks, but instead perhaps just re-linking the downloads and video, to catch some people who missed the first announcement.

Eclipsed · Postby **Eclipsed** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:34 pm

Enjl wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:21 pm
Something that's been on my mind throughout these updates is that there's a possibility for exploit through them...
I don't think anything like that happened this time, or at least I have nothing to prove it either way, but it's something I wanted to toss in the room as a thought experiment.
Consider the scenario in which an update is posted, revealing that you are in second place, with not many votes off first. There's one day remaining before the final results, so to test out a bit of a strategy you tell some of your friends: "Hey, mind dropping a vote for a couple of levels excluding the one currently in first?"
Could sound like a stretch to you, but also could not. Spite could also cause an uneven distribution that ignores actual level quality.
And how would one even go about proving this happens? Should people who happen to fall into a pattern re-evaluated due to paranoia?
Perhaps it might be best to not do updates, or do them more vaguely. Not revealing the level or author in the leading ranks, but instead perhaps just re-linking the downloads and video, to catch some people who missed the first announcement.

There's nothing like that happened this time. All of the votes are legitimate. I think that only releasing results the first day after voting and during the middle and only saying a reminder the last day of voting would do well. Or something like saying these 5 levels are in the lead in alphabetical order if it needs to be more vague. What do you think?

Postby **Enjl** » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:41 pm

Ordering them alphabetically might be neat. I think it's worth testing out.

Core · Postby **Core** » Sat Nov 10, 2018 3:34 am

Okay so, we are announcing the results!

Bold n Brash by Enjl: 12
Swapping Gardens by AndrewPixel: 9
Sparky Cave by Eri7: 8
Link's Journey by Eri7: 4
SMB3 Treasure Ship by Surtur: 2
Shadow Mausoleum: 2
Koopa Party by cina1: 2
SMB1 Remake by Surtur: 1
The BASEment by DrMekar: 1
Is this level really hard by Whitely_Ghast: 1
Super Metroid: Mother Brain Fight: 1
Battle in Sunken Ship by basegamer: 1
Chocolate and Vanilla by Surtur: 1

The winner of this month is Enjl. Congratulations to him!