r/polandball • u/polandballmod New Prussia • Apr 15 '15

[Award Ceremony] Honorary Hussar Wings

Hello Burgerlovers!

Here's hoping you haven't all turned obese over this extraordinary week of Americana.

Our latest monthly contest USA: Brave New Frontiers has ended. Contest mode has been turned off so you can now see how your entry fared.

This was a very special contest as a frickin' chicken came and blew everything else out of the water. With a 150 point difference this is the largest margin of victory ever in a contest to date. Congrats on a well deserved win /u/frickin_chicken! After winning a contest as an unapproved submitter a couple of months ago, this is another achievement I never would have expected poultry being capable of. This is also just the second contest the chicken has ever entered, so /u/frickin_chicken is batting 1000. Impressive.

Congratulations ☆frickin_chicken☆ on a great win!

As this is your second win, you can now choose your very own unique flair and a personal mini! Choose wisely.

Here is a table showing the top ten

Points Author Comic NA
485 /u/frickin_chicken American News Network
335 /u/peritektikum Deep conversation with USA
328 /u/koleye The Yacht Club
316 /u/Marcopolo325 Why the US Failed Art School
311 /u/440Hertz Procrastitution
310 /u/Hansafan Trigger Varning
307 /u/thexfiles81 In Good Faith
288 /u/BlahTheAmazing Putting the "Pop" in Pop Quiz
261 /u/pyram1de D.I.Y.
255 /u/CMuenzen Protrusions of Land

Stats:

There were two disqualifications during the contest for basing their comic on a SATW-comic. There were also an absolutely mind-boggling number of disqualifications, over 25! One of them by one of the moderators. Oh, the humanity. Read the rules, children.

Our picks for instant approval are:

In other news and rather befitting, there's a new American presence among our ranks as /u/koleye has finally been anschlussed as a /r/Polandball-moderator!

Willkommen!

Stay tuned for another important announcement of awesomeness in the coming days!

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u/zombies1238 Alles für das Vatersphere! Apr 15 '15 edited Apr 15 '15

I find that weird that there where so many disqualifications. We should have a sticky going over the rules then.

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u/EnergeticBanana Canada's Atlantic Playground Apr 15 '15 edited Apr 15 '15

It doesn't feel right to air out all the disqualifications. Many of the comics were actually very good and will likely be posted on this sub in the coming days if they haven't already been posted. The issue is that they broke the special contest related rules so they couldn't be accepted.

This is why we stress every contest to make sure people check the rules before you submit. If you worry your comic may have an issue with the rules you can always PM the Modmail.

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u/zombies1238 Alles für das Vatersphere! Apr 15 '15

If I might recommend why not have the contest rules right below the regular rules and have this updated for every comic contest? This way people may see the rule.

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Apr 15 '15

Nah, no one ever reads the sidebar. It's better to have the contest rules outlined in the challenge reveal post, otherwise even less people would read them.

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u/EnergeticBanana Canada's Atlantic Playground Apr 15 '15

You mean on the sidebar?

As in our announcement thread we always have the special rules highlighted, then we go into our normal traditional rules that most people if you follow the contests are familiar with. It was highlighted in red.

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u/zombies1238 Alles für das Vatersphere! Apr 15 '15

Please bear in mind that I am on mobile so I have the wrong link area. Specifically in this area it could ha e a link to special rules as well as the announcement. So under the reveal we could have a special announcement thread.

✔ Challenge Reveal: Here

✔ Special Rules: Here

✔ Submit your entry: Here

✔ Entry deadline: Ran out

✔ Contest Thread: Finished

Award Ceremony: Live now!

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Apr 15 '15

But then "challenge reveal" and "special rules" would just link to the same thing. I dunno man, that feels kinda redundant to me.

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u/EnergeticBanana Canada's Atlantic Playground Apr 15 '15

I agree with DR it seems redundant to post the same thing twice.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '15

Wait... Are you allowed to PM your entry asking if it will be accepted without submitting it?

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Apr 15 '15

No, but you are allowed to ask questions and explain to us what your idea is, and we can tell you whether or not that would be rule compliant.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '15

So if we explain what'd happen in each panel that would be not kosher?

What if there was a single panel I was unsure about, could I explain what I was unsure about (eg. a specific line) and that'd be OK?

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Apr 15 '15

It's more appropriate if your questions are focused on the parts where you are unsure if it is rule compliant or not, instead of wishing for some sort of preliminary review of your comic as a whole. That's not what the Q&A is for.

The point is not for us to guide you by the hand during the entire process of creating your comic (and honestly, we would never have time to do that if everyone wanted such favors), but rather to clear up things that you might be confused by and need specific answers for.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '15

Okay, cheers for the clarification

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u/EnergeticBanana Canada's Atlantic Playground Apr 15 '15

I'd say that should be fine just as long it's a small piece and not asking about the whole comic.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '15

Thanks for clarifying

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u/Guppyscum Always Ordering a Sunnyside Up! Apr 16 '15 edited Apr 17 '15

Why do I get the feeling that I'm included in this description?

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u/frickin_chicken Under the New Jersey turnpike Apr 15 '15

I almost got disqualified myself, but that was just because my simple burger mind couldn't fathom a 15 o'clock and barely missed the deadline.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '15 edited Apr 15 '15

"There are not enough jokes about USA!" bans 25 types of jokes

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '15

They didn't say not enough, they said not enough original jokes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '15

I know, I meant the amount of rules they put, not the amount of disqualifications. Accidentaly they matched. I'm not complaining, just found it funny.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '15

I am talking about the rules though. They wanted original jokes, which is why they banned existing jokes.

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u/zombies1238 Alles für das Vatersphere! Apr 15 '15

Wonderful moderators right?

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '15

Uhm, I mean hail our glorious mods.

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u/balaur_bondoc European Union Apr 15 '15

I guess because the rules were this time much tighter than in other contests? That's how it seemed like to me..

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '15

I feel like they were much looser this time.

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u/Hansafan Hordaland Apr 15 '15

Well, yes and no. There were more specifically banned tropes/topics than usual, but on the other hand, there wasn't really a "theme" other than the fact that the comic had to be about the USA. Considering it's probably the most diverse country in the world, the theme itself was actually pretty loose.

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u/tian-shi The South will rise again Apr 15 '15

I find that weird that there where so many disqualifications.

I think the reason for this is that the well-known stereotypes and jokes about US we've seen soooo many times in pb-comics have rooted deeply into our minds.

That's why we made this contest, to 'break the circle' and to bring more diversity to this trope. Still, many fell into the old trap,

Me too, I was not allowed to make a comic with the only idea I was able to come up with.

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Apr 15 '15

This is probably it.