Thread: SOTW Theme suggestions

Originally Posted by MrHewlett10

I'm saying that why compeate with the best when the majority of the time we will lose. Why should i spend effort in making a peice for SOTW when i'm going to get beaten?

Whether you win or lose should have little relevance with your want to participate. So what if the same asshole wins every week? By designing signatures in general, whether you choose to submit them or not, you are improving at a skill you've taken interest in. It's not necessarily whether you win or lose in the SOTW competition, but it's the fact that you'd entered. By entering, you're displaying that you have confidence in your work and that's a good thing.

Don't give up because you don't win... just strive to improve. Before you know it, you'll be the asshole that people complain about because you're always winning.

Originally Posted by MrHewlett10

The elements (Fire,Water,Earth,Air)
Sports
Cars
Freestyle (With supplied render or stock)
Superheros
Games (This could be split up into: Retro, Arcade, FPS, MMORPG ect..)
Stock (Edit ANY stock photo, then post the original and the result)
Runescape (Why not? lol. Just a SOTW based on RS)

These are a few i thought of on the top of my head. I'll reply if i think of some more.

Also, One thing that i wanted to DISCUSS! is that IMO the designers shouldn't enter SOTW. If you look over the last page of SOTW voting, the MAJORITY (not all) Are won by designer users. Designer have their rank for a few simple reasons. They are the best at what they do. They help to community with Graphics because they are EXPERIENCED in that topic.

It's a bit like saying that the worlds best ping pong player with years of experience under their belt, plays a match with a young teenager, with a few weeks of ping pong experience. The MAJORITY of the time, the better experienced person will beat the less experienced person. The same happens and has PROVEN to happen in SOTW. The highest experienced people (Designers) beat the less experienced people (The other graphics community). As i said before, one of the reasons you've been given your rank because you are experienced in graphics and have a great deal of graphical knowledge. I just think it's unfair that you are allowed to compete with us. Even though a normal member OCCASIONALLY beats a designer, it's proven you still beat us most of the time.

I would prefer to lose to another person of the community that isn't a designer. And i think most of the graphics community will agree with me. I don't want to be hated for what i just posted, but i think it's a topic that needs to be discussed.

Thank you

MrHewlett10

Love the idea of rs theme and your other suggestions pretty good and agree partially to what you say about designers but always gonna be arguments with that one ;P

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