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<blockquote data-quote="Pour" data-source="post: 5211596" data-attributes="member: 59411">From what I can tell, the ingredients and the difficulty of their strangeness is the major hurtle of matches (admittedly I only participated 2 years, and never got beyond Round 1, but I've read back logs and it seems to be uniform throughout). Last year I had a 'holy frying pan' or something like that as one of my ingredients, and boy was that hard to pull off haha. Keeping in mind both contestants must use all the ingredients kind of allows for a lot, I think, when reading and when judging. I'd like to think it sort of inspires creativity instead of impedes it. Working with limitations often does that for some designers, instead of being given open and free reign.This year I had a solid set of ingredients and I still couldn't pull them all off like I wanted hehe. Just the nature of the game. This year is also unique for having a very short time span to formulate and write, too. But from the looks of the entries thus far, most people are unperturbed, hell, these entries have actually been rather outstanding. Keep on keeping on, all!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pour, post: 5211596, member: 59411"] From what I can tell, the ingredients and the difficulty of their strangeness is the major hurtle of matches (admittedly I only participated 2 years, and never got beyond Round 1, but I've read back logs and it seems to be uniform throughout). Last year I had a 'holy frying pan' or something like that as one of my ingredients, and boy was that hard to pull off haha. Keeping in mind both contestants must use all the ingredients kind of allows for a lot, I think, when reading and when judging. I'd like to think it sort of inspires creativity instead of impedes it. Working with limitations often does that for some designers, instead of being given open and free reign. This year I had a solid set of ingredients and I still couldn't pull them all off like I wanted hehe. Just the nature of the game. This year is also unique for having a very short time span to formulate and write, too. But from the looks of the entries thus far, most people are unperturbed, hell, these entries have actually been rather outstanding. Keep on keeping on, all! [/QUOTE]

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