WotC Settings Search update

[trix]

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Reality Break:

The winners have already been contacted. That is to say at least they've been sent something in the mail. Contacting folks takes a while, especially if you use snail mail. My guess is that those werew probably sent out LAST week.

Thats not too fair. What about those outside the US? Mail takes ages to get from the US to maritius!! About a month!!!

(Not that i'm in maritius, but what if one of the contestants is. It'd mean that they'll be behind for the next deadline. Things should be equal so that we players get the best possible setting (and therefore WotC get the most cash)).

-Tim

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

Reality Break:

The winners have already been contacted. That is to say at least they've been sent something in the mail. Contacting folks takes a while, especially if you use snail mail. My guess is that those werew probably sent out LAST week.


River

Maybe.

My guess is that the winners will be notified by email, so as to facilitate as fast a contact as possible. They may have already done so.

Snail mail does have the inherent problem of reaching different people at different times.

They would be hard pressed to set out a fair one month deadline (or whatever) for stage 2, if they can't count on each participant getting their notification at roughly the same time.

Though it wouldn't surprise me at all if WotC does also send out confirmation + submittal forms by snail mail as well. Those may well already be in the mail.

Patrick Y.

 

[Maraxle]

Reality Break:

The winners have already been contacted. That is to say at least they've been sent something in the mail. Contacting folks takes a while, especially if you use snail mail. My guess is that those werew probably sent out LAST week.


River

Gimme a break. Like some monkey wouldn't have leaked the info yet. Also, WOTC probably would have posted a "thanks, but the contest is over" message on their website. Unless of course they laid off their webmaster and he's now flipping burgers with a spatula...

 

[kenjib]

Gimme a break. Like some monkey wouldn't have leaked the info yet. Also, WOTC probably would have posted a "thanks, but the contest is over" message on their website. Unless of course they laid off their webmaster and he's now flipping burgers with a spatula...

I don't think the webmonkey would be flipping burgers with a spatula anymore. By now he would have changed jobs to work at a taqueria because beans don't burn on the grill.

 

[Chrysoula]

A couple of observations:

Hey, person who submitted 30 settings: I'm amusing myself imagining you getting a snail mail message with the text, "Your submission has been chosen to go on in the Setting Search," with no indication which one.

Also, color me opinionated but I think it's silly to go on full-blind. Even if they don't want to know which submission is John Nephew's, which submission is Doris Eagan's, and which submission is Kelly Anderson's, knowing that all three names submitted would not be harmful, I think. Especially because hopefully they won't recognize all of the names.

And honestly, I think depriving Enworld and other forums and social groups of their champions is kind of not so insightful. Once first-stage ends and most people lose the fantasy of winning themselves, they'll want somebody to cheer on. Otherwise the contest becomes uninteresting for them, and they're much less likely to buy the new setting out of pure loyalty when it finally appears. Keeping the watchers-at-home involved is a good idea.

 

[War Golem]

It seems to me that a private email to Morrus would be in order, and would not invalidate the "blind" aspect of the contest.

Thus, Morrus could announce that an EN Boarder (or more than 1? Wishful thinking?) had moved to the next round, without naming names.

Entrant remains anonymous, EN Boards get to keep rooting for one of our own.

This is assuming we can trust Morrus to keep the person's identity secret... which certainly seems like a safe bet to me.

Cheers,

-War Golem

 

[Darraketh]

I'm perfectly content to play by their (WoTC) rules and wait the long wait.

 

[d20Dwarf]

This is assuming we can trust Morrus to keep the person's identity secret... which certainly seems like a safe bet to me.

Cheers,

-War Golem

Are you kidding? Morrus is a newshound, it's what he lives for!

 

[apsuman]

WOTC would be smart enought to send out the "acceptance" letters overnight so that eveyone would have a chance to receive them the same day.

I mean it's not like there is some type of cotton-top tamarin in the mail room flipping through the responses with a spatula like Mel from Alice.

g!

 

[Chrysoula]

But have they mailed those out yet?