Epicontest: Voting has begun!



[user=Titania McGee] has begun reporting on the judging of the EPICon Cosplay Contest! You'd better head over and start voting.

If you've entered, at the end of the contest all the votes that you get will be added to your EPICon war team!
December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Ohdake
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I saw someone dressed as Mushi from Mushishi. Whoever you are I love you!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bagheera23608
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BWAH HA HA HA!!! Jesus Christ or Data from TNG????? Decisions, decisions!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Jaded
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Havent seen mine yet, but I have seen like 10 repeats. Were there really not that many entries? I can't believe that. I have seen some amazing ones but a lot of them I have no clue who they are so I have to go by ref pics. Just because I dont know who an entry is doesnt mean it isnt good...I just judge on the ones that are closest to the ref pic. Sorry people without a pic!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Cresenta
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Haven't seen my HA come up at all yet, but I have seen some come up a couple of times... sigh

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by anagram
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I wish you could see how many votes your cosplay got.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bagheera23608
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Thanks Starshadow - there is no Hellgirl reference picture, at least not officially anyway. And there a lot of folks with reference pics that I think did NOT do a good job of matching their HA to the ref. Is that b/c they couldn't? Is that b/c they thought they HAD to include a ref pic? Is it b/c they thought they did a good job of matching the pic? I'm not against ref links, but they shouldn't be mandatory. If you don't know who their HA is supposed to be, don't vote for that HA. Or vote for one you think looks awesome for whatever reason, despite if it matches some pre-conceived notion. At real cosplays people don't carry around reference pics; either you know them or you don't.

And once again, I had quite a few repeats of HAs I have already seen. Now I KNOW I haven't seen all the HAs there are too see so I wonder what's up. I also haven't seen ANY of my friends' HAs either.......

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Random
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I've actually seen TWO (different ones)! I was amazed!! I squee'd and then voted...and then squee'd some more - I was totally shocked that I wasn't the only person on the planet that knew that movie...and then disappointed in myself for totally not thinking of it to enter myself! XD

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Cresenta
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I loveeee this event! It's so much fun

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by StarShadow
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Yes I agree that reference images are a good idea as I have no clue who 95% of these people are supposed to be, even with the reference image. But it can't be required to enter since so many don't have any pictures to show.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Iknimaya
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the point of a ref image is so that even if people don't know who your trying to cosplay as, if they see your image and see that your HA is done well in accordance to it they can still vote for you. This makes it fair for people from lesser known fandoms. Personally I don't vote for any character without a ref image unless its so amazing that not only do I know it but I squee with delight as well.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by StarShadow
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Yeah, I haven't had a round since yesterday afternoon that didn't have at least 1 HA I'd already seen in it. I know there were thousands entered and would like to see some different ones. And haven't seen mine once. I hope the randomness of the entrants showing is regulated somehow so some don't get shown a ton of times and others not at all. And I can't see how they could require a reference picture since it's not possible for many. Lots of characters are from books or games that don't have a picture or of characters that the player can't find a good picture of. For one popular character I had considered I looked on the internet and even though I found lots of pictures there wasn't one decent one good enough for a reference and she was wearing a different dress in every picture, dark red in one, white in another and blue and silver in another picture. So I gave up and picked someone else. Hmm, have they said how long the voting goes on or when the winner will be announced? Is it all week? Hope so,

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bagheera23608
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Haven't seen YET, not it. Where did that come from......

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bagheera23608
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I didn't put a reference BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ONE. I hope they are NOT mandatory next time. If you don't know who it is, don't vote for it. You can't know everyone.

I just had a selection of Rainbow Brite, Willy Wonka and Cap't Kirk. Soooooo hard to choose!!!

But like others, I have seen one HA many times, over and over again and it's not a very good one, lol. I know it's random, but doesn't that mean some may show up all the time and some not at all? I'm getting sick of seeing that HA when I know there are tons I haven't seen it.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Tjulan
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I hope it works like the Billboard- each HA shows up 100 times or 1000 times or whatever. Some HAs I've seen the 2nd or 3rd time... others I still miss...

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Aludra
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Didnt see the Last Unicorn one but I did see one from Robot Unicorn Attack. I am in heaven.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Moonbeam
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I am loving all the Harry Potter cosplays. Just saw a Bellatrix one and about DIED of happiness.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Deleted User

Did anyone see the Last Unicorn one? 8D

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Kazefiend
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I just seen an Antonie Dodson. That should just win the whole contest.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by god
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/Even moar commenting. I WISH references were mandatory oh my god. I think I just saw an Otacon cosplay but I can't be sure because there was no image asdfghjkl. HEARTBROKEN.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Lychnobia
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The Calypso was awesome!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Evy
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This has been the most fun part of any event we ever had. Hand down. I'm LOL'ing so hard at some of the cosplays. Love the entire event. Love the cosplay contest. Love the cosplays. Love how it's all organised. LOVE EVERYTHING!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by stereo_waltz
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it said the descriptions we entered are going to be for a a gallery, so I'm assuming they'll post them all up after the voting.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by god
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/Moar comment. I find it sad that we can't browse through entrants while waiting for the timer to hit zero. ): I'd like to see more of what's out there without depending on rounds. Oh well. There are some amazing ones, and I hope I don't miss anything really, really amazing.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by CieBreeze
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OMG this is harder than I thought. So MANY great HAs! Congrats to all of us!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Megatron
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Whoever was Fuchsia from Sinfest totally got my vote.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bliss
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I'm seeing a lot of the same avatars :/ Doesn't this give an unfair disadvantage to others?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by JelloStar
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There's been some really creative cosplays so far. Like how voting is being done too, with no knowing who submitted what.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Kyphoscoliosis
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I've voted for like... 4 TF2 cosplays. And damn they're good. makes me wish I'd done my Scout.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Arxaime
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who ever cosplayed as Henry Townsend Epic Glomp of Awesome/Smexy Doom!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Chlorr
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I love the voting method for this, honestly. No UNs attached and random HAs appear.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bliss
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Damn. That means the .png had to be all in lower case.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Damon
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I'm really loving this. c: Best of luck everyone. I've managed to vote and see some AMAZING cosplays. So many talented people.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by ney
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the first batch i got were all pretty terrible, and almost none of them had references so i didn't know who they even were. i wish references had been mandatory!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Aydan
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The Carl Fredrickson (old man from UP) is by far my favorite so far

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by NovaAva
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Huh. The costume I voted for last "round" appeared in this "round." I guess it is random who shows up.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by StarShadow
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I wish the 20 entrants we have to vote on each hour weren't random but in some kind of order. I've seen 3 HAs at least twice now in only the first few hours. So HAs that are shown randomly more often than others have a higher chance of getting more votes just because they're seen more often. And if it is totally random then some won't even show up at all. Strange. I also wish they'd had categories or something.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by octochan
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hey, it says that I can't vote because I'm not on a team? what's up with that?? (I'm with ManWar, btw.)

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Allaconna
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Yeah, Subeta has this weird thing were the file has to be .png not .PNG, because for reason their system sees it as two different kinds of files. I had so much trouble putting up a banner before I learned that.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Kyphoscoliosis
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Probably my most favorite thing about this voting system is that the names aren't shown, and there are no links to their pages, so popular Subetians won't get picked all the time over some lesser-known user with a better outfit. Subeta mods/planners/people of general Subeta rule are royalty.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Tribunal
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It says right at the bottom you have an hour to vote before they change, unless that's just wrong.

But really, you can't pick 1 of 20?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bliss
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Haha yeah. I've seen some pokemon too.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bagheera23608
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- thank you. That's weird tho. I wonder why they didn't include them in the voting process......anyhoo.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Aludra
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Nyaah so many wonderful cosplays, and its great to see not all of them are just from anime and games |D I seen an Ernie from Sesame Street earlier, thumbs up~

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bliss
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I couldn't submit a ref image because when I was uploading my .png image, it kept telling me to upload a .gif or .png. So, I wrote a description on who I cosplayed as. I wonder why we're not able to see the descriptions.

Anyway, there are so many great entries out there! When I vote, I usually have two-three favourites.

Good luck everyone!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Allaconna
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The description said it wouldn't be seen by the voters.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by ARU
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Whoever did Cheshire from Pandora Hearts - I LOVE YOU! A

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bagheera23608
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I can't believe people are complaining that didn't have time to enter. People will dog about anything around here. Sheesh.

The reason I come here - when we did enter, we had the option to write a description. What happened to that? Since I didn't have a ref pic, I wrote a short (2 sentence) description. Where did those go, I wonder?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Itachi
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so many great cosplays

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Hael
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Ooooh, this is so exciting! x3 I'm skeptical that I'll get many votes, if any at all, but it's so much fun to be able to see all the entries! 8D

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by ZeBee
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good luck everybody :3 this is rather exciting =D

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