Jim

Sure. I will make an announcement in the topic.

Shoot a simple video with your phone and upload to Youtube.

Deadline date is August 21nd, 2023. Contest will be closed on Tuesday the 22nd OR LATER. We do have a tight deadline to submit the request for prizes, so there will be NO extension. We close the contest on Tuesday to avoid timezone issues with closing on Mondays. There is no fixed time, usually when I start a workday on Tuesday (around 8-9 GMT+2, Amsterdam time).

That would be too bad. But like I stated, there is no option for an extension this time around.

Okay, I have had about enough of this endless debate. Let's start focusing on this awesome contest and stop the never ending story....or discussion in this case. It has been going on for too long anyway.

The number of views is in no way related to the outcome of the contest. When people reply (or when you make a post), your topic is at the top of the page, so automatically more people will check it out. It has nothing to do with interest in the model itself or the build quality.

Thanks mate! We really appreciate to hear that

We'll see what we can do. I will aim for a full list with scores. You want this, you need that, etc, etc. I am getting very tired of your constant kind of demanding things in order for you to be able to enter the competition. I have been running contests for almost a decade now and we have had very little issues with people understanding the rules and/or the competition. Basically, you are the only one constantly complaining about this and that. So, it's very simple; either you adapt to our way of running a competition....or you don't and you stop participating. I'm running these contests in my spare time and I love to do it for you guys, because I know you love it. I don't mind a questions or a suggesion every now and then, but the contstant flow of objections, remarks and demands are taking all of the fun away. I'm done with it. I think I made a similar post when we ran TC24 so consider this my final comment about it.

...nor will we take part in elaborate discussions about the judging process Just be patient and let us do our thing.

The voting will be 100% jury voting. The jury will consist of Milan, myself and several "Technic members" who know a thing or two about building Technic. And no, we will not disclose who they are, nor will we disclose the total number of judges. We will provide a list of the top 3 with arguments why they scored in the top 3 in that order. We won't be publishing an elaborate list with scores, nor will we take part in elaborate discussions why the outcome is not fair VOTING CRITERIAThere will be jury voting and the voting will focus on originality, build quality, staying true to the original and the build being in the spirit of the contest. Shrinking the BWE by 1% and submitting a 99% sized version won't get you many points. Regarding the remark about originality; it's a fair point that there is a limited choice when it comes to picking models. So, we won't deduct points for duplicate models.

Because I need to provide addresses where the sets need to be sent. I don't know the winners before the contest Yup, exactly.

Communities (i.e. Eurobricks) have activity support. We can request prizes for activities like contests. We can do this seven times a year with a certain budget per request. But every quarter we need to use two request or else they will expire (only one for last quarter). So we need to submit the request for this contest before a certain date which leaves us no space for contest a extension. We used to request prizes and have them sent to me and I had to relay them (which costs money). Nowadays we wait for the contest to end and have the winners pick their prize and have TLG send them.

You can use it as the fifth one if you want to.

The initial thought was jury voting only, but I will discuss it with @Milan Of course! Additional points can also be purchased via Paypal

Damn, judging this won't be easy. All entries can be winners

LoL. I was about to say "I wonder who didn't join the contest" but I'm glad to see you created a topic

Absolutely. And I must admit that I definitely didn't expect this. One of the best contests we had.

I should have phrased that differently. A picture you found online will suffice. An official product picture. It's just to show us which set/model you used. This is okay, but studio.io is fine by me too. It's just for reference.

Like this? I have included the last post, sorry. Not a big deal. You can edit the first post to the "new first post"

Yeah sure, that's possible.

You need to use Bricksafe or Flickr or a similar service. Bricksafe is free and easy to use.

I have split the off-topic discussion into a new topic.

Yup. There are definitely some advantages. Looking at the new Liebherr crane, the max load mechanism is quite ingenious.

Given the plethora of awesome C-models (of the 42100) on Rebrickable, I beg to differ. Admittedly, you can't use the Control+ app to control these models. But it's not that you can't use the electronics. Don't we have a dedicated topic for this off-topic discussion btw?

So maybe we need to start discussing more interesting things....like game development. Have done some myself (some simple web and mobile games) And let's end the pay-2-win and bigger-is-better discussion. I understand your point of view and with your background I understand where it comes from.