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[CCOS] February Official Results!!!

Sir ArmaMalum··12 votes·3,381 views

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This is not a drill! This is not a drill!

February results are out for the CCOS!

But before we get to that we gotta send some thanks towards this month's judges!

Kaegn and TheTyeGuy, stand up and take a bow! Or, you know, whatever else you want to do.

These guys took a serious amount of time out of their month to get to each and every concept this month. Both judges actually got feedback to most if not all entries too! Give these guys a serious applause, the CCOS couldn't happen without them!

######Some of the more observant may notice Kaegn was actually an 'entrant' for this month. Don't worry this was intended on my end and was made apparent to the other judges from day one. He would not have been eligible for a prize if he had scored highly. It was more of an experiment than anything else. We were low on the entrant side so it was a good opportunity for this specific month.

So with that out of the way, it's that time again! The winner of the February CCOS is....

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#Yzariel, The Soul Ripper by Auryiel with a score of 175/200 (87.5%)!

Congratulations! You'll be getting your prize medal gif sometime next week! (I'm heading to PAX East this weekend so inevitable delays :P)

#Runner-ups

|Place|-----------------------------Concept----------------------------------|------------Author-------------|---------Score-------- |- |2 | Gor'Gama, The Royal Toad | Nuclear Corvid | 172/200 (86.0%) | |3 | Day, The Streetwise Slinger) | Ladention | 167/200 (83.5%) | |3 | Sága, Seer of Wolves | Raptamei | 167/200 (83.5%) | |4 | Mortis, The Frozen Champion | Alaurina | 163/200 (81.5%) |

#And YOU get something, and YOU get something!

Don't fret if you didn't make the leaderboards, you'll still be entered into the CCOS Official Archive as well as getting some nice feedback to your concept from this month's judges.

Find your concept's feedback here! Steps to access:

  1. click link
  2. page 1 (Final Count) is a quick way to see all the scores, switch to Page 2 (Judging) by clicking the tab at the bottom. This is where the specific feedback is.
  3. be sure to scroll to the right to find the feedback for your concept. The spacing can get weird do don't be afraid to zoom out a bit to scroll more evenly!

Be sure to tell me of you have any trouble accessing the document, I'll be sure to help out as much as I can and can give you your score directly if needed.

#Next month!!

I'm already getting ready to get the March CCOS ready to go! I need judges an concepts, so get your stuff ready! If you're interested in judging for March please e-mail me at '[email protected]' with your IGN. Otherwise if you're interested in entering be sure your concept was posted within the month of March!

The March CCOS will be taking entries this Monday, keep an eye out for the entry post around noon EST.

#Addendum

Look guys, I'm sorry but I've been running on less than no sleep for the last week due to tests and lab reports (College life) so after this I'm heading to lab and then very quickly passing out until tomorrow. I'll be sure the judges know about this post and stop by so you can talk but as far as I'm concerned I'll be mia for the 24 hours or so. But I'll be here tomorrow, so if you have any questions/concerns I'll get to you then! gl hf!

39 Comments

Stephenizgod2 votes

Dang having to write two concepts in the span of a week really cost me lol Oh well the people who hit top 5 were all freakin excellent concepts so im not even a little disappointed, it was pretty fun reading them all.

Othello the Cat1 votes

Ah well. I didn't do too bad, but I've had the idea of Britt stored up for a while and I thought I'd use him this month. I've got more ideas in store for March!

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

Looking forward to see it/them! ^_^

Othello the Cat1 votes

If he'll work, I've got a somewhat experimental champion in mind.

Sir ArmaMalum2 votes

experimental is all the more fun though!

Oh btw, if I could beg an upvote from you. Hate doing that but some asshat's going through the concept Board and downvting everything and this post kinda needs to get to people.......DX

Othello the Cat1 votes

Oh, of course!

Stephenizgod1 votes

Hmm if i were to ask you to look at a rough concept of a champion ive been working on, would that disqualify me from the March contest? Im mostly just wondering if its not too complicated to understand or if the idea itself is flawed. Id rather not find out after doin all the work that the concept is a dud.

Keagn1 votes

Hey! I'm not SirAlmaMalum, but I think I can answer this for you. You would be better off posting a less ruff version in March, but the contest definitely encourages brand new designs. Still should be able to do it though if you flesh out your concept more.

Stephenizgod1 votes

Hmm im not really worried about winning or losing, more if people can understand it, if they cant then i wont bother. Ill post it anyways and if people dont get it then oh well :) Thank You

Keagn1 votes

Glad I could help! :)

Sir ArmaMalum2 votes

Hey Stephen, I can take a look myself and help out provided I get enough judges (5+) this month. If I can break that point I can be somewhat reassured there'll be enough scoring at the end and I myself won't have to judge. Go ahead and as Kaegn said, enter anyway, as I personally won't know if I have enough judges until the end of the entry week.

Stephenizgod1 votes

Ok thanks for replying :) I'll hold out for a few days, if you can't get enough judges just send me a message and ill be one. I prefer to enter because i like getting critique (the bonus round was pretty brilliant, i think you should make that a permanent requirment) but i dont mind Judging either since i read all the concepts anyways.

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

For the bonus, yeah I've been toying around with that idea for awhile, peer review is something I'd love to get going but at the same time it's difficult to get a review reliably to everyone. For example, five people in Feb didn't actually do it and there were a lot of doubled-up reviews on the same concept. It went better than I expected though, so I'll be sure to bring it back as a bonus at the very least as often as I feel I can.

Yeah on the judging but wanted feedback, that's the same logic Kaegn had with my little exception there and it's something I want to try to accommodate but I don't have a good way to do that right now that's scalable. (It'd start getting really confusing in y current format if we have a couple of judges doing it at the same time.)

Othello the Cat1 votes

Sadly, I was one of the people who didn't review. February was the month of writing essays, so I really wanted to be sure all my school stuff was done first before going too deep into this.

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

Oh yeah, IRL>CCOS always, I'm not gonna jump on you for that or anything. ^_^

It's just for reasons such as that it's harder to make something like that work reliably every month. I have a few additional ideas to try out to make it a bit easier so we'll see.

Stephenizgod1 votes

Yea i noticed a few concepts didnt get any feedback, but its hard to comment on all the concepts with stuff going on, i at least try to read them in my spare time. Maybe if its permanent extra-bonus? Like its possible to score extra points by commenting on another persons concept but its not required. Idk i just think it was a very good idea.

Hmm so how did that work?

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

Simply Kaegn asked if he could, knowing he wouldn't be eligible for the prize. There weren't many entrants and enough judges already, so I decided to give it a shot. It went alright, but there was some confusion even with one, so it's definitely not off the board but I'm going to see if I can make the judging side a bit more compatible with that idea before I make any lasting changes.

Stephenizgod1 votes

Ah i see, it sounds like it could get pretty confusing indeed. Id rather just do one or the other, if im judging i cant really look at feedback and make changes to my concept and still try to give feedback and judge other concepts, my brain would get all tangled up.

JaeCryo1 votes

Good job Auryiel, he really had admirable effort put into his work and he gave good feedback on mine. Glad to see him win.

TheTyeGuy1 votes

Ah. . . I didn't put anything down for Widget, since I was confused on the whole "incognito judge thing" and I assumed that judges couldn't enter in the contest. Also, there were only 2 judges? I feel like there should be more. Also, for Nashanel, you swapped the feedback. Kaegn said the shorter one.

I've certainly learned a lot about judging, and you can expect me to return next month.

Keagn1 votes

Yeah, I did a short thing for Nashanel because I had left fairly thorough feedback early on and recognized the same concerns coming up. And I couldn't of won regardless, so its okay :P I just wanted to get a view from the trenches, so to speak.

Sir ArmaMalum2 votes

I made a mention of it in the large "Things to know" bit, but yeah it's a was a twist on things sorry. No harm done!

And there were actually 6 judges to start off with, a few ran into IRL issues and some just up and didn't do it (happiness more often than you'd think). It's the whole reason I get extra judges. And the reason I make damn well sure to have 3+ judges before I sign myself of of the role. And I'll be happy to have you Tye, ya did great this month!

Raptamei1 votes

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(happiness more often than you'd think).

Phone detected. Tristana

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

-shifty eyes- maaaaaaaybe

ladention1 votes

Third place :D This contest was great, and i learned a lot about how to make my next champ better thanks to the judges. Unfortunately i forgot to list one important thing in his kit, oops. Thanks!

Raptamei1 votes

Third place. :P

(...what "problematic cast time issue"? There's one spell with a delay, just like every AoE in the game. -frown-)

Keagn1 votes

That must be my cue. I realize what you were trying to do for Saga, I personally felt that the lack of "right then" abilities in her kit made her frustrating to a fault, and someone useless unless she had a chunk of time to prep before any real fighting started. It might of been a bit of a misinterpretation on my part, though at this time I do not believe so. Looking at Saga's kit, the only thing she is capable of doing right then is hide health bars, everything else is channel and charging up. However, its still a nice concept overall!

Raptamei1 votes

@Judges: don't worry about your effort going to waste, I read all the reviews. :D

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I realize what you were trying to do for Saga, I personally felt that the lack of "right then" abilities in her kit made her frustrating to a fault, and someone useless unless she had a chunk of time to prep before any real fighting started.

Hmm, that's the point though.

She is indeed 100% helpless when caught off guard, but this is intentional because getting caught means you fail at being a seer. Her entire kit is as much as realistically possible about predicting what is going to happen and winning fights through planning and map awareness instead of brute force. The only reason she has as many as 2 damage spells is to kill jungle creeps, and I was aiming for 1 or 0.

All because there aren't many people in Lapland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rttmL0soLKM

Which leaves the question: is the implementation unsatisfying or is the concept just not all that appealing?

Keagn1 votes

I would have to say that you should have mixed it up a little more. There needed to be a healthy balance between preparation abilities and in the moment actions in my opinion. I do, however, admire the kind of concept you put forward. It was strong thematically, and tackled a potential play style that others have not. I simply didn't think it would work out in a live environment :/

Nuclear Corvid1 votes

Aw, so close to two months in a row.

Ah well, nice work to all!

Keagn1 votes

You would've been my personal choice, though I wish the lore was a bit more :P

TheTyeGuy1 votes

I think your kit was the strongest, and I feel like yours would be most fun to play, but the presentation of Yzariel and lore really put him above the others. He was the most thematically solid.

Alaurina1 votes

forth place i am fine with that ^^

Alaurina1 votes

{quoted}

forth place i am fine with that ^^

If possible i would love to have some comment from the judge to make my next champion even better ^^

Auryiel1 votes

Ooooh thanks :D

I gotta admit, I'm kinda surprised because I didn't really like the kit XD

TBH I just did it because I liked the lore I came up with

SushiKnight1 votes

kills self Just kidding ^.^,anyway thanks for the feedback :D (If you knew how old I was the concept mightttt have made more sense :s)

SushiKnight1 votes

If the "TheTyeGuy" reads this I didn't see any of your feedback so that's why I didn't change because I didn't see what you said @.@

SushiKnight1 votes

Oh wait never mind ,hehehe.

SushiKnight1 votes

Okay I did fixed my concept a bit,not like anyone going to see it again anyway.

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