OK, I'll Ask - Who's Submitting?

Well nuts, I thought we could only submit one arc at all. Of course I find this out after midnight of the last day...

I submitted my TOO MANY BUNNYGIRLS! arc because it's the most refined of the three, being the oldest and most-commented-upon. My second probably could have gone in too, but it would have been in for the same category, non-canon story. My third one's still in the "getting comments and making changes based on them" stage.

I have no idea if I can win or not as I know there are a lot of talented folk out there (and I'm only averaging a four-star rating on all three, no five-stars), but I'm guessing the devs are using this contest as a way to look for some new Dev Choice candidates, so I wanted to get my foot in the door (or my mouth) for that!

I submitted Teen Phalanx Forever! for heroic story arc. It's the most comic booky of my story arcs, so I thought this was the appropriate category. My screen shots ended up being a little murky and I'm not sure the pictures are pretty enough to draw someone into trying it, but I'm going to hope for the best.

I wanted to submit A Warrior's Journey - The Flower Knight Task Force for non-canon story arc, but after reading the rules carefully, I don't think it is actually non-canon according to the official rules, since it uses both canonical CoH characters and alternate dimensional versions of canonical CoH characters. So I ended up submitting it for canon story arc, which might or might not make sense, since it's a very Elseworlds sort of story. The whole canon/non-canon classification kinda boggles me; I seem to write story arcs that straddle the line. We'll see what the judges think, I guess.

I submitted the Paparazzi from Celebrity Kidnapping for custom enemy group. This is maybe a long shot since the Paparazzi only have 4 custom models in it, but I get a lot of positive feedback about how funny they are, so I thought I'd give it a try. Due to the tight disk space budget, I usually make custom enemy groups with just a few figures each in them (enough to give the enemy group a little variety with a common theme), then try to sprinkle them in among "normal" mobs.

Since I already had gathered all the files for it anyway, I went ahead and threw Celebrity Kidnapping into the ring for villainous story arc, too. It was that or Papers & Paychecks; my other villainous arc, Axis & Allies, I really like but is something of a guilty pleasure that I don't think is as good as my other stuff. There's more of a story in Papers & Paychecks, but ultimately I felt that Celebrity Kidnapping was better polished and more tightly edited, so I went with that.

Based on the sample taken here so far, it sounds like there's a lot of competition for the "heroic" and "canon" categories, and relatively less for "villainous" and almost none for "non-canon". If only I had a "non-canon" arc to submit! But by the official definition, I don't see myself writing "non-canon" arcs, because I really like my stories to have some connection to the actual CoH world.

Only one entry here: The War on Superadine (Arc ID 151088) - Best In-Canon Arc, based upon the "Just Said No to Superadine" and "Scholar" plaques.

I reviewed my arcs, checked my list of desired changes to make, double checked the list of admitted submissions here and measured mine against the ones I know... and decided I just sit everything out.

Good luck everyone.

I finally broke down and submitted the Satyrs from "Ecloga Prima: Excursio in lingua Latina" (309162) for best villain group. I've been more or less avoiding the creative side of MA since i16 went live, and this was the only group I had enough good screen shots for.

I will probably be disqualified since I added the same mob over and over again with different powers and costume variations but the same names, and they don't show up as separate critter files, so there's no way I could attach them all properly.

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I submitted Tales of Croatoa for best in-canon arc, although I extended canon quite a bit.

I was thinking about submitting Pirate's Quest for best custom group, but decided against it. I had 5 more custom mobs in that group that just wont fit due to space constraints.... kind of depressing.

With all the good arcs that have been submitted, at least something from here had better win or at least make runner up.

I made up something just for the event...