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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Bringing the OSR Superstar Competition to an Incomplete Completion

I've thought long and hard on how to bring the OSR Superstar Competition to a successful conclusion at this point, and I don't see a simple solution.

So, I'll have to be satisfied with a simple ending, and call it with the four top finalists in place. No final round, no grand winner.

Yeah, anti-climatic as all shit, but at this point, any conclusion to this would be anti-climatic.

The four top finalists will split the final cash prize, the 2 boxed sets will be randomly awarded to 2 of the final 15, and 4 the final 15 will have some mapping goodness coming from http://squarehex.myshopify.com/.

Is it the finish I had planned on? Nope. Neither was 2014 the year I had expected.

I'll be reaching out during the upcoming week to get the necessary info to award the prizes.

I appreciate the work everyone put into their entries. There was some amazing creativity that the judges and I read.

The next time someone makes a suggestion like this to me in the future I'll make sure to have my head examined before answering ;)
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7 comments:

  1. redbeardMarch 2, 2015 at 12:04 AM

    Thanks for the update, Eric. I know when I was faced with the step of making a dungeon to order I found myself having no time as well. Life happens. Congrats to those that completed it.
    Weren't the entries to be released? Is help needed in compiling things?

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  2. -CMarch 2, 2015 at 7:04 AM

    Yeah, Communicating about this is great. I'm tired of projects that die and creators that refuse to respond to comments about them.

    You were tagged in this, and posted a public response inside of a week. That's a good example for all of those creators that just ignore e-mails and don't communicate with their fans.

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  3. UnknownMarch 2, 2015 at 12:53 PM

    Erik,

    I was wondering when you were going to post on this. Glad to see it come to a conclusion and congrats to the winners.

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  4. Gus LMarch 2, 2015 at 3:37 PM

    Nice to hear it's wrapping up - thanks for organizing it.
    My final round entry can be found at:

    http://dungeonofsigns.blogspot.com/2014/07/osr-superstar-round-3-submission.html

    I'd really love to see the other entrants more than anything.

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    1. David The ArchmageMarch 3, 2015 at 7:18 AM

      Gus, here's mine. http://towerofthearchmage.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-archmages-octavo-2-keroths-bridge.html

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    2. Nathan IrvingMarch 4, 2015 at 1:40 PM

      I didn't finish an adventure (real-life something or another got in the way) but I did finish laying out the map. Just posted it today.

      http://secretsoftheshadowend.blogspot.com/2015/03/osr-superstar-map.html

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  5. Venger SatanisMarch 2, 2015 at 11:31 PM

    That was still going on?!? I assumed it ended about six months ago.

    Even though I never made it past the first round, I was grateful for the opportunity. It nudged me to think outside the box. Those magic items went into The Islands of Purple-Haunted Putrescence.

    Anyway, congratulations to the winners!

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