07-15-2011, 07:57 AM
I have to say, despite how hard the prelim challenge was, I really felt like I was pushed to display my best instead of just chucking something out for you guys to digest. There's a sense of palpable achievement when you finish and I think the process of pushing myself to finish actually helped me improve a lot in these past few hours.
Still, about half the initial entrants are going to fall off the train here, from novice to expert, just for lack of time. The quality of the first round was certainly high, but I think the quantity is the main stumbling block here. Both Silhouette and Heavy took me about five hours each to complete, which added together is more than ten hours of invested pixeling time- perhaps not something people are willing to put in for what is essentially a for-fun tournament.
Still, about half the initial entrants are going to fall off the train here, from novice to expert, just for lack of time. The quality of the first round was certainly high, but I think the quantity is the main stumbling block here. Both Silhouette and Heavy took me about five hours each to complete, which added together is more than ten hours of invested pixeling time- perhaps not something people are willing to put in for what is essentially a for-fun tournament.