Since there's a possibility of 'unfair results' here, we are concerned and would like you to point us to the appropriate Rule of the contest which was broken: "But it says '...a screenshot of mine art that you created purely for this contest!'" Yes - this doesn't mean that you had to plant all the mines yourself. It was still obviously @CooperO's creation, she just got another player to help to implement it in practice. "Well, you guys just didn't consider how unfair it is that there's no rule against this!" We did... Thus, there was never any rule against multiple players planting mines, as long as the mine art was clearly the concept/creation of the entrant. The prize would only be given to the creator (the entrant). You did have a chance - I shortlisted your entry for consideration. However, its lack of originality let it down. Remember, the three criteria were: - Beauty, - Originality, - Neatness. Apologies if I'm wrong, but I didn't think your entry was very original at all, though well executed. I can provide similar explanations for why all non-winning entries didn't win, but that would take forever. Read me, accept that maybe we did take some time and care here to reach fair results, and think before you post.

Topic updated with the 2nd and final part!

Man, what moderators do as part of their work doesn't make them evil. They have to do their jobs, and that includes closing topics as appropriate, banning players and so on. It sounds like you have a grudge against him based just on that!

Obviously can't speak on behalf of the mods here, but the majority your post seems to be doing exactly that - it's full of assumptions of what mods would do or think in those situations you give. Maybe you don't intend it that way, but knowing a little about how they act in terms of their private and public operations, I don't think the mods would act in the ways you've said they would. I would recommend you base your observations on facts rather than opinions of the moderation based on superstitions or past perceptions. For example, it would seem your topic was locked because you raised a point about moderation (in this case, players 'imitating' mods) and it was responded to by the moderators. Apologies if I'm not reading properly or something, but I'm struggling to see how this supports your point about the moderators trying to 'hide' stuff! The moderation of this forum has improved so much over the past couple years. It's great that most players no longer hold such perceptions of the moderation, and I'd suggest you take another look with an open mind, too. Plus, aside from the fact that these are your personal grievances rather than a topic for all of us, this topic really would be much more appropriate if you brought this up with the moderation administrators in private. They'd be able to deal with any complaints you have much better without all the sensationalism and drama of a public discussion, where rumours about how they work would be thrown around left right and centre. I'm sure you'd appreciate a rumour-less conversation with the team you're addressing here, based on the facts of the matter that they can give you about their operations rather than hearsay? Hope your issues are resolved somehow! Just remember: dialogue is the key to reaching understanding. And a small pointer - you really didn't hide that name very well!

We've unfortunately had a few contests that have published their results a bit late recently, so we are holding a giveaway of 20,000 crystals (unused contest funds which would have vanished into the Tanki void) as a thank you for your patience over the past few months. We care about you players, we're always working to improve and we'll make sure it doesn't happen again! Here's how it works: You post any two usernames of different players (so no alts!). You can post your own username and that of a friend, or even be selfless and put forth two friends. The winning poster will receive 10,000 crystals to the accounts of each of the two players posted! You must also include a joke in your post. (Don't worry, any joke will do, we won't exclude you even if your joke is really bad! However, it must be clean, and not violate any of the Tanki rules.) So, remember: post two usernames of different players with a joke included for a chance to win! This topic will be closed at the end of 25th July 2016. We will randomly select a winner and announce it in our next Issue. May the odds be ever in your favour!

And the results are here! Entries were judged by their beauty, originality and neatness. With this in mind (and with our apologies for the delay), we have finally selected the top 3! In 1st place and winning 30k crystals: JIIOPII-0 Excellent entry. This fit the criteria really well, looks neat and beautiful, and was quite original with the combination of tank and drawing. Well done! In 2nd place and winning 25k crystals: A high quality entry here which must have taken quite a bit of effort. A neat and good-looking drawing, with a nice original cartoon-style approach. In 3rd place and winning 20k crystals: @CooperO Whilst not a proper mine drawing, it was decidedly artful... and, fitting the criteria of originality, beauty and neatness quite well, managed to take 3rd place! Unfortunately, no consolation prizes have been awarded. There were some other original entries, but these fell down when it came to beauty and neatness. Lastly, a special mention to @Avizer's wonderful entry. Simply inspirational. Congrats to all the winners! Check out the rest of Issue 53 right here!

That's not sad... it's nice to spend more on the support of citizens who need it than on the upkeep of military. I would accept it's a sign of progressive society, even though I'm not leftist. But let's not go off-topic and launch into a politics discussion, heh xD

Nice essay, generally agree with you! However, I would clarify that you seem to be referring to certain personal technology (esp. that for entertainment purposes) rather than the gigantic field of technology as a whole, right?

At this point, lemme clarify something that I'll also add to the main post... Easy to enter but not easy to win. If your entry was easy to think up, you probably won't win! Some good entries so far, good luck all :ph34r:

Which is why I started and ended by saying "If you are referring to the case with Arabiannoble here ... so it's obvious in that case, this sort of scenario could not possibly have been true". Arabiannoble seemed to be a common theme in terms of your examples, so I responded to how your scenario did not apply there, and my response concerning if you were to apply your explanation to the Arabiannoble case was a valid one. Sure, your example is possible, but it doesn't mean it's correct. After all, it's possible you are using an online translator from another language to English to communicate with me, but your natural typos and generally good flow seem to serve as evidence otherwise. Similarly, there is no evidence that your explanation is correct, but there is evidence that contradicts your explanation. Oh, and it's - I have indeed talked to him before. And, having worked very closely with Semyon for an extended period of time in the past, I can assure you I've come to know a lot about the way he manages things! I am well aware of the TWG scenario. TCG sprang up from what was TWG, they are not totally different, and both TWG and TCG members have won contests in the past. I was simply referring to TCG as that is the most current name of the writing group. And to answer your question: yes, if his entry was worth a win, I would honestly think he would win in that scenario. Just because you think we must be biased, doesn't mean we are - I have already provided evidence contradicting this idea, and you have provided absolutely no evidence that suggest that we are biased in this way. Currently, I fear your thoughts seem to be based how you think things would happen, rather than on any facts or evidence. Again, you say "the contest was biased", although I can't see any evidence to effectively support your statement. The contest was run on Facebook, so one needed to use Facebook to take part... that's like saying "think about all those people who don't play Tanki, how unbiased that they didn't get to take part because of their lack of game knowledge!". I don't think this really makes sense. The contest being held on a particular site does not mean it is 'biased'. In fact, it is not excludable in any sense - for anyone can create a Facebook account. All entries with the correct tag would have been seen, and the contest did say what to do. If one didn't know how to add tags to the post, then the information to find out the simple way to do so is out there for all to find. Again, that's like saying "what if people didn't know how to make a FB post to enter the contest?!". This is not a particularly good argument at all, in my view. Sure, the contest required people to enter it on the site where it was held by making an identifiable post there. But this is not "unfair prejudice against a person/group", as bias is. It was simply an equal requirement for all entrants to take part. As for the '#girlsplaytanki' contest, the problem with your criticism there is similar to the problems raised above. Having requirements for a contest does not make it 'biased', it merely makes it a defined contest for people to take part in. Tanki is not a communist state where the only way to run an 'unbiased' contest is to remove all of its requirements, and just give everyone free crystals! And yes, players have had a role in deciding contest winners many times in the past. As for the link I posted, you can see that one clan beat another by merely one vote, and vastly outperformed all others despite not having any better entries. It was widely alleged (and even revealed by members of the clans) that this is because they created a lot of alternative accounts to spam votes for themselves, thus abusing the system. This is a fair point, and I understand where you're coming from. In light of this, I have now removed the name from the quote. That's fine - thanks for sharing your point of view. I look forward to that, too! :P

Apologies for the delays, people. They're all just being processed, and will be published ASAP, by the next issue at the very latest! (so that's ideally by 20th May)

Yeah, I meant that I'd already responded to that particular point you'd made, so it would've been better to consider my response there. Feel free to write a reply :P

i.e. Lham is about to obliterate you for your insolence dw it's nothing unusual

This would not happen. If you're referring to the case with Arabiannoble here, well, I judged that commentator contest with Damn_Slow and GeneralVeers at the time. We had no idea who he was at the time as he was low-ranked and only started up recently on YouTube, and he did not win a prize (I thought he should and the two others didn't like his entry so much so I was fairly overruled). Then, he joined the commentators, then he departed the staff and made those controversial videos (which are more exaggeration than they are truth). So, it's obvious in that case, this sort of scenario could not possibly have been true. Again, this is false. The owner of the current TCG topic won a prize in the last issue, and their members have won prizes before, too. Many of the members of this group are also members of the official Amateur Writing Club, which is run by the Newspaper. I have previously made it clear that we could not care less about involvement in such writing groups, and are not biased in this way. We do not 'keep track' of who is in such groups, it does not affect out judging of contests, and the facts are against you on this one. You are not 'on Lhamster's side', because we do not have this attitude. As above... ...so sure, you can disagree with the results and/or quality of the judging, but this doesn't mean the judges were biased. Whilst a lot of players did 'dislike' the results, that tends to be true for a lot of contests where many players are also entrants, and where judging what is 'better' is quite subjective. So yes, maybe the judging could have reflected 'popular opinion more' - but either way, there is simply no reason to think it was inherently biased or unfair. It's a good idea, but it has been tried in the past and tends to get abused if players' votes decide the results completely. For example, it is well-known that it was abused here when players got to determine the overall winners for the whole contest. However, there are official contests which do have a 'players' choice' section, such as with the Mister TO and Miss TO voting. So, it is already the case that there are contests where both judges and players decide who gets prizes. And, again, I responded to the gentleman above... If you'd like to respond to my response, that would be welcome; but let's keep the discussion moving forward, shall we? ^_^ Anyway, I understand and appreciate your point of view, but believe that if you consider the facts (I've included a lot of links here to demonstrate this), there is a lot of evidence that contest judging is not biased in the ways you think it is. I look forward to your response!

Thanks all! ^_^ The Craft-A-Tank contest was judged with a team of Tanki company staff voting on their favourites, as far as I'm aware - so it was at least a democratic and fair process. However, it's true that such a contest is always going to be subjective, and one could constructively criticise the judges by simply arguing they had 'bad taste' when it came to this artistic contest. Even so, whether you agree with the results does not make them unfair or biased, as I argued in the article. I did not humiliate the person I quoted in any way, shape or form. The post was simply used as a focal point to get discussion on the matter started i.e. one tanker reacted in this way, so what does this mean in terms of the contests? Are they inherently biased? and so on. In addition, I would add it's completely fair to quote posts made anywhere on the forum - they are made in a 'public domain', and so it is perfectly fine to quote them. Anyways, besides the fact that quoting is perfectly legal, main point is there is no humiliation in this article directed towards the person quoted. Cheers!

It won't work for us - you have to upload them to an image hosting site.

I made it myself :blush: using pictures taken off Google Images

Can't stop myself from posting on this one. Great detail. Top notch effort... very, very well done! (But I would agree with a poster below... Isida definitely can cap flags! :rolleyes:)

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Nah, none of it's false - but by all means believe so if that's what makes you feel happy. It's just amusing how you'd call someone out for lying without any basis (and of course there is none here, because I'm telling the truth). Honestly, it's perfectly feasible that a delinquent 11-year-old (as I was) did such things. They're only examples of small pranks and misdemeanours, so yeah, you're kinda jumping to conclusions a bit... I mean, I didn't claim any actual hard-to-believe stuff like "I blew up my school" xD ty :blush: That sometimes happens - though other times, the teacher asks for 'proof' of some sort, and I was citing an occasion there where that happened unexpectedly (and so I had to rely on good fortune). Another alternative is to plan with others before the lesson to purposely write down a later deadline as said proof, heh.

The Exploits of a Delinquent Rock Revealed!!1 Primary school: Main skills acquired since moving onto high school - excuses and distractions to get out of homework which have been successful in the past:

i concur love you pho <3

Titled edited, along with the instances in the article!

Approved! We took a bit longer over this one since it doesn't meet the recommended length, but it's a good example of the short story form where an exception should be made.