Posted by Fel350



Posted by Jonny-higgins



> Not yet no. I'll follow up with them again. Sorry about the delay guys!

This was 8 days ago..... Ive given up on checking the stats on this contest.

I thought you were not worried. ;)

Maybe if we all stopped bending over for tripwire we would of had the results by now. We are waiting on them (as usual) and its been far too long to think they are actually going to do anything at this point. Face it, They have their own contest going on now and thats much more important to them then this is. There is only 17 days left till phase 1 ends of Tripwires official contest, its been at least another 23 days and no results from them about this contest. The longer this goes on the higher chance people will forget about it and Gamebanana won't have to pay the prizes. Its also Tripwires fault the contest got extended in the first place due to the update. which happened 3 days before this contest was suppose to end. They should of announced their decisions before doing that update which broke all the maps or at least once this contest ended so they could still play a map version on the older version which the maps worked on.





Tripwire has been unprofessional about this whole thing. They are not informing the gamebanana devs who should be informing us about their progress on their decisions. Not to mention disrespectful of tripwire to the gamebanana admins leaving them hanging like this. I don't even think they started playing and judging the maps from the lack of information we are getting. Also there was talk about announcing the gamebanana map winners on Tripwires social media channels but its possible that Tripwire felt the maps were not good enough to mention on there channels which might be contributing to why this is taking so long. Whatever happened to that? Read #4 near the bottom section. Was this actually promised by tripwire? Because Im starting to think this was made up by the admin. I want proof of Tripwire saying this, because otherwise my suspicion of gamebanana making a scam contest starts to strengthen.

Posted by Jonny-higgins



> **Posted by2Pikachuno/Fisto** > > I have a question about how you will judge on the maps gameplay and enjoyability. How many times will you try out each map? Will the testing be done solo or multiplayer? Are maps that get submitted sooner more likely to get a better score for the gameplay and enjoyability because the judges have more time to play them? or do the judges play them all after the deadline to make a decision? > > And once the deadline ends how long might it take for the results to be announced? Hi 2Pikachuno/Fisto! Great question! Normally how we judge our contests is as follows. 1) All the maps get downloaded at midnight (or as soon after the deadline as possible). Judges do not test the maps, or give feedback prior to the deadline, as it may not be the final version and we don't want to influence anyone in anyway prior to the deadline. It would be unfair if the judges had already played and commented on one map, but not the others - so we just say that judges can not enter, help, or give feedback to participants until after the deadline and all judging has been completed. 2) As soon as possible after the deadline we will message the judges and try to allocate a time for them all to play the maps together. Almost all of our judges are volunteers, and have work or school commitments so this process can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. It all depends how many maps we have and how much free time the judges have that week. - We try an make it as quick as possible! 3) Normally we go through and load up each map very quickly at the start just to make sure they all work and remove any which obviously break the rules or otherwise need disqualifying. Once we have a list of 'qualifying maps' we then go through one by one and give them a thorough test (the amount of time varies based on numerous factors, but we would rather the judging take longer and the maps a proper test, rather than rushing it and quickly glossing over things!). 4) Judges score independently and the results are averaged out. If there is no clear winner or judges scores vary a lot then we will go back and replay the maps in question as a group until winners are agreed upon. That being said this contest is slightly different as the games developers (Tripwire) are going to be helping us judge the entries. So GB will play through and select the top 10 maps, these then get passed onto the level designers at Tripwire and the guys in the office will play them and give us additional feedback. We'll then combine Tripwire's scores and GB's scores to decide an overall winner! I probably should update the prizes and contest page to reflect the fact that Tripwire have decided to support us! Winners will also get featured the KF2 Website and Social Media channels :) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^





Because if I don't see an email or something from tripwire about them claiming they will announce winners on there social media channels then it all starts to make sense this was a scam from gamebanana to get free playable content for KF2 without promising the rewards they claimed was right. But Tripwire is also at fault here for being extremely unprofessional about this whole thing keeping us waiting on something that should of been announced a long time ago which is making them look bad and also making gamebanana look bad. So we need to stop sucking up to tripwire like they are some holy grail INCLUDING the gamebanana admins who seem to be getting taken advantage of from Triwpire also. Tripwire has been keeping us in the dark and are showing how incompetent they are. Doubt Im going to participate in anymore gamebanana contests once this one ends. IF it ends.





I'm not even in favor for community voting for the map winners at this point either since this contest has been long and forgotten about. Just have the gamebanana admins announce their choices of winners and award the winners the prizes they were promised.





TL;DR

Gamebanana either scammed people to making them KF2 content for free

OR

Tripwire is extremely incompetent and they are getting away with taking advantage of the contestants and gamebanana admins but no one is calling them out for being incompetent because people will not stop worshipping them and making them believe they can do no wrong. Also they got people to make more free game content for them and are possibly not going to deliver on what they promised.





WAKE UP EVERY ONE!