It is time to reveal the winners of our Design a ME3 Multiplayer Character Competition, thank you to all the entries and for everyone who took time to vote. After much deliberation and patience, it has come down to this. As said, thank you to all entries, but there can only be two winners.

Firstly, Best Concept:

Congratulations to Cr0nage and his concept of the Quarian Exile Adept, who scored a grand total of 86 of 100 for his efforts. As winner of Best Concept, look out for an email from me (me3imperia@hotmail.co.nz) to finalize details of your prize.

Congratulations to JayneeCobb88 and his concept of the Asari Ardat-Yakshi Sentinel, who scored a grand total of 82 of 100 for his efforts. You are our first runner up for Best Concept.

Congratulations to ZeroBetrayal and his concept of the Reinstated CAT6 Infiltrator, who scored a grand total of 80 of 100 for his efforts. You are our second runner up for Best Concept.

These three will be placed in the Hall of Fame.

Now, Most Creative:

Congratulations to justazaya and his concept of the Synthesized Human Vanguard, who, of the entries for Most Creative, showed a large amount of creativity as reflected by scores in Awesomeness Factor and Originality. As winner of Most Creative, look out for an email from me (me3imperia@hotmail.co.nz) to finalize details of your prize.

Congratulations to Cr0nage and his concept of the Quarian Exile Adept, who also showed a large amount of creativity and due to his scores in Awesomeness Factor and Originality. His concept is our first runner up for Most Creative.

Congratulations to Yacob360 and his concept of the Salarian Neutralizer Soldier, who also showed a large amount of creativity and due to his scores in Awesomeness Factor and Originality. His concept is our second runner up for Most Creative.

All contestants will receive emails with their concepts and comments within the next week. The winners of each category will receive an email by tomorrow, confirming their prize.

Thank you to all who have given their input on the eight submissions for our Design a ME3 Multiplayer Character Competition, the community votes have been tallied and all voting is now closed. The concepts will be removed from the site this week as I embark on the secondary voting process.

This includes putting the concepts up against five criteria:

1. Effectiveness: whether or not I can see its capability in combat
2. Originality: the “newness” of the concept as well as creativity
3. Balance: how thought out and balanced the class is overall
4. Concept: the thought and sensibility of the concept
5. Awesomeness Factor: how amazing it would be if this concept existed

On Monday 20 May, I will announce the winners for Best Concept and Most Creative concept with a new post. The winners depend on the community score, my votes and what they entered the concept as (submitters had to decided between Best Concept, Most Creative or both, both did not increase their chances of winning). The winner, first runner up and second runner up for each category will be announced in the post. The three for Best Concept will have their scores revealed.

Those winners will then be notified via email. They have one week to reply to that email, where we will sort out the details of their prize. If they fail to reply, the first runner up in that category will be emailed and the winner forfeits. If they fail to reply within five days, the second runner up in that category will be emailed and the first runner up forfeits. The second runner up has three days to reply to the email. This process is not repeated again.

In addition, all contestants will receive an email from me with comments about their concept. I will write comments for each criteria and then general comments at the bottom. You will be able to see the scores I have given you. If you are unhappy with them, please do not take offense; I’ve tried to make the scores as fair as possible.

The Best Concept, First Runner Up and Second Runner Up will also be placed in a new section of the site known as the “Hall of Fame”. At this time, we will be having more contests, just not immediately. If anyone has an idea for a contest as well as any queries or ideas for the site, email me at me3imperia@hotmail.co.nz.

The one-week voting period is now open. From now until Monday 13th May at 3.00am, you may vote on whichever of the concepts you desire, or all eight of them. Contestants are not allowed to vote on their own concepts but they are permitted to give fair votes to other contestants.

To vote, post a comment on the concept explaining what you liked and what you didn’t like, followed by a rating of 1 to 5 (1 is awful, 2 is average, 3 is good, 4 is great, 5 is amazing). Then, rate that post that number of stars. Votes that aren’t supplemented with a comment cannot be counted. In saying that, your comment does not have to be extensive, a short 50 word or less comment would suffice.

If concepts are not voted on, those concepts will receive half of the possible voting score for the voting period, which is 25. The community will be able to give a maximum score of 50 to each submission (10 points for each star a post receives). The higher community score a concept receives, the better chance of success.

During my voting process in the following week, you can gain a maximum score of 10 for each aspect of voting (Effectiveness, Originality, Balance, Concept, Awesomeness Factor). This also totals to a possible maximum score of 50.

The winners will then be posted on the site a few days afterwards, and will be notified about their awards.

Good luck to all the contestants, may the best and most creative concepts win!

Synthesized Human Vanguard – by justazaya (PS3)

Quarian Exile Adept [Female] – by Cr0nage (PS3)

Batarian Technician Engineer – by Reeger50211 (Xbox360)

Asari Ardat-Yakshi Sentinel – by JayneCobb88 (Xbox360)

Quarian Bounty Hunter Engineer [Male] – by LordSitriCZ (PC)

Reinstated CAT6 Infiltrator – by ZeroBetrayal (Xbox360)

Salarian Neutralizer Soldier – by Yacob360 (Xbox360)

Yahg Runaway Sentinel – by Ask4Damien (Xbox360)

Thank you to all entries to the Design a ME3 Multiplayer Competition; they’ve been received and I’ve had a look over each of them–all have the necessary requirements to be eligible for entry. Shortly, another email will be sent to each contestant, asking whether their entry is under Best Concept or Most Creative or both. Saying “under both” does not increase your chances of winning, but it allows me to gauge my voting process easier.

The concepts will be appearing on the site either Sunday or Monday and the community voting period begins on Monday 6th May 3.00am GMT, and closes one-week later on Monday 13th May 3.00am GMT. To vote, go to the CHARACTER COMPETITION category on the site, and select the sub-category of which class you’d like to vote on (you may vote on each submission, but only once; contestants may not vote on their own concept but can vote fairly on another contestants concept). Then, post a comment explaining what you liked or didn’t like and supplement it with a number between 1 and 5 (1 for awful, 5 for amazing) and then vote the post that number of stars.  Votes not supplemented by a comment will not count. If no votes appear on a concept, that concept immediately scores half the possible community score, which is 25.

 
Without further ado, these are your contestants!

Synthesized Human Vanguard – by justazaya (PS3)

Quarian Exile Adept [Female] – by Cr0nage (PS3)

Batarian Technician Engineer – by Reeger50211 (Xbox360)

Asari Ardat-Yakshi Sentinel – by JayneCobb88 (Xbox360)

Quarian Bounty Hunter Engineer [Male] – by LordSitriCZ (PC)

Reinstated CAT6 Infiltrator – by ZeroBetrayal (Xbox360)

Salarian Neutralizer Soldier – by Yacob360 (Xbox360)

Yahg Runaway Sentinel – by Ask4Damien (Xbox360)

I have decided to extend the submission date by a further week, just to see if any more concepts will come on through. I encourage everyone and anyone to enter or to spread the word about the competition to anyone you think may be interested. Because the submission date has been extended, all other competition dates have been placed back one week. The following dates have been altered:

Submissions now close on Friday 3rd May at 2.00am GMT.

Voting opens on Monday 6th May at 3.00am GMT, and closes one week later on Monday 13th May at 3.00am GMT. You can vote by writing a brief comment stating what you liked/what you didn’t like and rate it from 1 to 5 (1 is the lowest, 5 is the best), then rate that number with the star rating system the site uses. Submitters are encouraged to vote on other submitters concepts as long as it deserves the rating it receives, and I will monitor this very closely. You cannot vote on your own submission. Community votes count for half of your final vote.

The winner of Best Overall Concept will be announced on Friday 17th May at 4.00am GMT, and the winner of Most Creative Concept will also be announced at this date. This occurs after the second phase of voting; my vote. My score is the other 50% of your final vote. You’re assessed on Effectiveness, Originality, Balance, Concept and Awesomeness Factor (the meanings for these are in the original blog post on the contest). All concepts will receive thorough comments, whether they are winners or not. These will be emailed to each submitter after the winners are announced.

On another note, thank you to the number of people who have entered already; I’ve read the concepts and they look promising and interesting: all are unique. I’ve had a submission for every class except for Infiltrators which is funny because I assumed I would get more Infiltrators than anything else. And another thank you goes out to the people who are still sending builds through. These will be posted in due time. We are still accepting builds and ideas for the website. I would like to make competitions a semi-regular thing if the community is interested enough, so if anyone also has ideas for a competition, send those to me too. All builds, concepts, questions, ideas and concerns can reach me at me3imperia@hotmail.co.nz.

CoreyImperia