GUI Olympics: Week 3 Results

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: GUI Championships News

Week 3 results!

After lengthy and careful consideration, here are the results for week 3 of the GUI Olympics.

Event: WindowBlinds - Most creative visual style

Rank Author Skin
MikeB314 Airlock
essorant Pixel 8
^^Gabriel G-Pod
treetog Antares
danilloOC Sektor

Event: IconPackager - Best themed (icons that fit a specific theme) icon package

Rank Author Skin
treetog Thunder Storm (Icons)
volter15 Smile 3 ))
farid nafar HFN Sapphire

Event: WinAmp Pro - Most usable Winamp skin

Rank Author Skin
Andrew Mackowski EMP 2
Anemovatis AR7
kriptoner D-Reliction

Event: WindowBlinds - Best themed visual style (a visual style that fits a specific theme)

Rank Author Skin
treetog Thunder Storm WB
- vf - Alloy Bezel 4
Scarebear 10pin
EventHorizon Mime

Event: IconPackager - Best Pseudo-OS icon package (an icon package that you could see coming with an operating system)

Rank Author Skin
Miloszwl d3A
Leothar Amdio
Rokey The Last Order

Event: WinAmp Pro - Best power user Winamp skin

Rank Author Skin
Andrew Mackowski EMP 2
a-t-o-m-i-c Impulse
Muniom Designs Resurgence

 

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Halluci
Reply #41 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:54 PM
Good Job to everyone... I got mentioned 5th place with my icons!! (better luck next olympics ) ... one suggestion to future judgings of these competitions so that there is no complaining: the judges should not be allowed to view any of the skins until the judging begins, that way they are not influenced by people's comments, or look at newer skins more closely than older ones, etc.

Halluci
Reply #42 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:59 PM
btw... only wc premium customers will be allowed to vote for user's choice?? () is it possible to let the authors vote for skins in the categories that they have not submitted anything in? ()

Plague_
Reply #43 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:05 PM
agree.. also, the skinners should _not_ have to decide categories themselves. All skins should be able to win in any category, they should not be limited to just two categories, especially if those two categories have to be chosen by the skin author him/herself. If a skin truly is the most creative skin, but hasn't entered that category, it should still win imo. So as I said, don't make the author choose category.

CarlosP
Reply #44 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:28 PM
I think i must say something too. Even if i won somethign i am not really glad about it because i see that other great works from great skinners didnt get what they deserved. I dun wanna say more because everything i wanted to say was told by rpeterclark and plague. I geuss you have a lost a lot of great skinners because most of them wont join next GUIO probably. I would join next GUIO only if i know who the judges are.

Watson
Reply #45 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:36 PM
Excellent job of judging... The winners all deserved it!

Scarebear
Reply #46 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:38 PM
Woo Hoo! Congrats to all. I'm glad I had nothing to do with judging. I'm only following the WB side of the competition and there are MANY deserving winners in each category.

Frogboy
Reply #47 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:53 PM
Plague: Feel free to start your own contest. Sheesh. Do you have any idea how much time it takes to try out 150+ skins? It's physically impossible to try them all out and give them a good shake if you had to wait until the event judging was ready.

VAG - METASKINS
Reply #48 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:10 PM
Congratulations to all winners in all categories. First I wanna say thank you to "judges" giving to my team a medal for AR-7...... Second I wanna know who those people are who judged the WA skins, not in public of course, as a captain of Metaskins team I would like to know with what criteria they "voted" for these results.

VAG - METASKINS
Reply #49 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:10 PM
I totaly agree with Plague and rpeterclark, and I also have an official statement to make representing myself and I hope my team too. As Metaskins we won't participate in any other GUIO in the future cause we "knew" from a very well known person in Stardock website(s) some of the results and we didn't paid attention in his warnings and we did participate hoping that his words was not so true (well they are at the end as I see) - no further info about him in any case -.

VAG - METASKINS
Reply #50 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:11 PM
Now I know we ALL here have different tastes as about the results in 3/4 of the WA categories, BUT how Professionals are those judges to listen to each skin comment and NOT see for themselves? are they so lazy to test skin by skin in category after category and having notes of what each skin has /is able to do /features added on it etc. to REAL JUDGE them all????? I remember you Frogboy for example asking for MORE submitions 3 weeks ago in WA skins cause there was only 17....... don't tell me that thosee 46 exist now are too heavy for those 2 judges that they didn't had trust in their selves adn wanted to "ask for help" from people's posts...... cause if this is true, then GUIO is not a serious competition at all and don't expect in the next "series" to have more than 2-3 teams and 10 individuals to participate in a family compatition and not a worldwide event. You can see in your left of your screen how many teams are registered to participate, and how many of them (including our team) have submited meterials....... So blame your administration or your judges as about WA Skins results and NOT THE PEOPLE who commented, suggested, discussed about skins on the skins comment on each submition. Peace from my side and take my statement as you wish, I don't really care LaterZzz

jark
Reply #51 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:43 PM
i must say that i sat and used every single one of the skins listed and payed absolutely *ZERO* attention to what comments people made. *I* judged and ed what I thought to be the correct choices for each category. i stand behind my ions, which might or might not necessarily reflect the winners, but nonetheless i will say that i was never once influenced by outside sources.

Frogboy
Reply #52 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:46 PM
Well said, Jark.

Frogboy
Reply #53 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:53 PM
Incidentally, most of the judges who voted on the Winamp skins were from Nullsoft. And as far as I know, they didn't look at any comments. My point about the news comments as that if someone felt that some skin was so obviously the "Best" they should have commented on it in the news items and such. Not that it would necessarily have influenced the judges or not, but at least you'd be on record having thought a particular skin was the best. It was *not* my intention to speak on behalf of the judges incidentally on how they vote. I'm just the messenger, not the judge.

nottie_
Reply #54 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:53 PM
Congrats to all the winners and congrats to the judges for having the balls to do the judging after some of these comments

jark
Reply #55 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:54 PM
wow, my comment got majorly mangled by the stardock text parser!

jark
Reply #56 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:55 PM
i must say that i sat and used *EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE SKINS* listed and payed absolutely *ZERO* attention to what comments people made. *I* judged and ed what I thought to be the correct choices for each category. i stand behind my ions, which might or might not necessarily reflect the winners. there was *NO* outside influence with regards to what i voted for.

VAG - METASKINS
Reply #57 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:00 PM
Frogboy, I didn't said you are a judge, I know you are a messenger. But tell to those judges that, in the next GUIO will be even less WA skins to judge (better for them I believe) Mission accomplish

VAG - METASKINS
Reply #58 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:02 PM
No jark you double posted almost

Frogboy
Reply #59 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:05 PM
You're assuming that WA would be in the next GUIO. I'm not even sure what the objection is on the WA winning entries since I don't personally use WA. I looked at the screenshots, they look good to me. What is there all this angst?

whoknowssssss
Reply #60 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:15 PM
The judging sucks, D Reliction should have won first, its the easiest to use, and the quality is perfect. How it ends up in third, is crazy. Also agree that last order icons should have been first for best pseudo.

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