Golfe du St-Laurent: Tisha Wins!

[OliverFA]

Both maps are good. I finally decided to vote for Tisha's for two reasons:
- The bonus is clearer
- Isahia40's diagonal image is pretty, but I don't think it would work nice with numbers on top of it.

[bedub1]

I'd like to vote for a merge and joint effort.

Map Name - Isaiah40 (Tisha's look like lips)
Lines connecting countries - Isaiah40 (I like how they don't touch)
Countries - Tisha (I like how obvious and definitive and pretty they are)
Bonus Definition - Tisha (I like the visual representation instead of the words)
Compass - Isaiah40 (The compass looks cool)
Background - Isaiah40 (this is the toughest call. When they merge, dump the burn marks where the paper got creased.)

Dump the ship on Isaiah40's
Dump the valentines day dude playing the flute on Tisha's

So basically move Tisha's Countries and Bonus Definition to Isaiah40's background etc...

Great work both of you, but you can do better if you combine your efforts.

[VectorxMan]

I love how Tisha's map has the mini-map in the top right visually showing what each bonus is worth. That's what sold my vote.

[Industrial Helix]

Alright, I'm going to call the winner: Tisha at 63% of the votes and 115 votes total.

Isaiah40 came in with 67 votes at 37%.

Congrats to Tisha, expect further instructions in the near future. Thank you to Isaiah40 for an excellent entry and thank you to all who participated. All the entries were quite good and worth of CC, but there can be only one winner. Thank you again!

Tisha

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[Riskismy]

How about the other entries? I'd like to check them out, and surely they deserve the 'honourable mention'?

[natty dread]

They are all in post 1

[Riskismy]

Thank you, didn't catch that, obviously.

[Riskismy]

Had I been around for the first vote, I would have gone for entry #7.

You can really tell how wet and cold it must be there, though it's a little hard to tell the bonus areas from each other. Nothing that couldn't easily be fixed. By comparison, I associate the winning map with a warm and gentle environment (something it clearly isn't).

[ender516]

It may not be gentle, but it is plenty warm enough at the right time of year. And although #7 had a very interesting texture and technique, I thought it was a little overboard on the number of lakes.

Congratulations, Tisha!

[natty dread]

I made #1

[Riskismy]

I just went and had a number 2.

[porkenbeans]

It may not be gentle, but it is plenty warm enough at the right time of year. And although #7 had a very interesting texture and technique, I thought it was a little overboard on the number of lakes.

Congratulations, Tisha!

The number of lakes ARE an accurate account of the place, as I used a real topographical map as a base.

[porkenbeans]

Had I been around for the first vote, I would have gone for entry #7.

You can really tell how wet and cold it must be there, though it's a little hard to tell the bonus areas from each other. Nothing that couldn't easily be fixed. By comparison, I associate the winning map with a warm and gentle environment (something it clearly isn't).

The winning map is not bad, and I really like Tisha's other maps. South America is my favorite work of hers.

However, I do NOT believe that the winner of this contest made the best map. I do believe that it was the best run campaign though. The lobbying efforts employed by Tisha beat out everybody else. Through family and friends and PM's, (I imagine), she has successfully navigated the system to take the prize. I applaud her, and give my respect to her.

In the future, I suggest that contests like these should be run a bit differently. I believe that the best map can be discerned only if, the voters pool was made up from 3 or 4 thousand members, that are randomly selected to participate in the poll. To qualify as a potential participant, the member must be active, and not a reg. forum poster. So this means that the ballets will be sent out via PM's.

If there were say 5,000 of these ballets sent out, my guess is that at least 20% would respond and cast their vote. So the min. amount of voters would be at least 1,000. This pool of voters would be free of family, friends, and lobbied participants.

The number of voters in this poll was just way too small. 115 cast votes is not going to give the true average public opinion.

Some may say "sour grapes" and point their finger at me, That is alright with me, but if you really want to prove me wrong, run a poll in the manner that I suggest.

[natty dread]

However, I do NOT believe that the winner of this contest made the best map. I do believe that it was the best run campaign though. The lobbying efforts employed by Tisha beat out everybody else. Through family and friends and PM's, (I imagine), she has successfully navigated the system to take the prize.

OMG pork, you do not take losing well.

[porkenbeans]

However, I do NOT believe that the winner of this contest made the best map. I do believe that it was the best run campaign though. The lobbying efforts employed by Tisha beat out everybody else. Through family and friends and PM's, (I imagine), she has successfully navigated the system to take the prize.

OMG pork, you do not take losing well.

Why may I ask, did you leave out the rest of my words, that completed that quote ?

Tish won far and square. She did not do anything outside of the rules to my knowledge. She simply figured out the best way to win under the rules. Nothing wrong or improper here at all.

My suggestion goes to the way this poll was implemented. Can you not see the logic, and the reason for looking at a better way to do these polls ?

With only 115 people voting, it is very easy to rig the outcome by getting 20 or so friends and family members, to come vote for you. I thought about doing it myself, but decided against it. I felt that it would not be fair to the other mapmakers.

My suggestion would fix this problem, and make it MORE about finding the most popular map, ...not the most popular mapmaker.