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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Turner" data-source="post: 1376926" data-attributes="member: 12329">Here's a little more explanation and clarification.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The decision to concede was fueled by my own disappointment in my efforts and the failure to use all the ingredients in a finished entry.  I could have (and maybe should have) simply posted the incomplete entry with an explanation.  At the time, however, I didn't feel as though there was anything to gain from that.I certainly don't think that my concession should piss off or annoy Paka.  Regardless of whether or not I conceded, my entry was unfinished and didn't make explicit use of a few ingredients.  Maybe Paka could have done better than I did in this round, but the more important point is that he didn't do better than I could in the first round.  I gave both rounds my best effort and I simply came up short in the second round, as anyone else might.  I didn't "drop out" of the contest, I tried and failed.  If I believed that my incomplete entry stood a chance of winning, I would have posted it without the initial concession.  I didn't think that an incomplete entry, even with some good ingredient use, met the minimun requirements for judgment.For the record, I didn't start late and run out of time.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Rather, I was too focused on being innovative and refused to let go of certain ideas way past the time when I should have jettisoned them.  I should have recognized that while some ideas I had were good takes on the ingredients, I was failing to mesh them together.  In Iron DM, the ability to mesh is ultimately what matters and by the time I realized that I personally wasn't going to be able to mesh my ideas in time, it was too late to come up with new ideas (wow, that's a long sentence).  I ran out of time, but not because I put it off.Once again, thanks to both of my opponents for the good competition and to nemmerle for running the whole shebang.  I'll hopefully take what I've learned from this round of the tournament and apply it to the next.  My apologies to those who considered my entry in this semi-final to be anticlimactic (sp???).</blockquote>

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