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The problem with SP challenges

7,446 FeiWu  4.2 years ago

SP challenges are basically all the same. Someone sets the rules, people make stuff, and a winner is selected. Recently I participated in this cargo plane challenge. I built this plane for it. I got second, and the winner was this plane. Make your own judgement by flying both planes. Really? Like I have spent more than thirty hours working on all the custom gear and flaps and control surfaces and I got beaten out by a plane with only the boxy default wings? It turned out that the guy who made this challenge didn’t even fly my plane before making the judgement, nor did he consider his OWN rubric either. He just gave the win to that plane after glancing over mine for about 20 seconds. In his winner announcement, I had a long argument with him, during which he tagged two moderators, but neither of them responded. You can read the post here. I hope this is not becoming an angry rant, but the point is some people have very bad judgement and often judge a book by its cover. The cover is only the size of a single page after all.


Thank you for reading.

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    Like one time I did a challenge and got first, and the dude took 5 months to give me 5 upvotes.
    @KnightOfRen

    4.1 years ago
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    41.8k Ren

    @Planeacceleration
    Ight

    4.1 years ago
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    Wow wow hold your horses, I'm not accusing you of anything or anybody of anything.

    4.1 years ago
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    41.8k Ren

    @Planeacceleration
    I do give prize. I just take awhile BECAUSE STUPID COOLDOWN!!

    4.1 years ago
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    @KnightOfRen
    Some people host challenges just to get upvotes, they dont intend on giving anyone a prize.

    4.1 years ago
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    And overall it really is the person who is hosting the challenge say and who wins. It could be a very inaccurate thing, so you can ask them how can you improve and what was wrong with your build.

    4.1 years ago
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    41.8k Ren

    @Planeacceleration
    Not sure if "Understandable" or should be taken as a good or bad thing.....

    4.1 years ago
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    @KnightOfRen
    Your challenges are accountable.

    4.1 years ago
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    41.8k Ren

    @Planeacceleration
    What about mine?

    4.1 years ago
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    I can agree with this a little bit most challenges are by low ranking users. I'm not saying that all low ranking peoples challenges are bad, but they're less accountable. I have over 100 upvotes in challenges that I never received the award.

    4.1 years ago
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    7,446 FeiWu

    @KnightOfRen I blocked vader plays so you probably can't tag him on my post.
    Even if you do he cannot comment here

    4.2 years ago
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    41.8k Ren

    He was experimenting, and he gets hate for it.

    4.2 years ago
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    Erm.... I,think,your plane needed more details besides custom everything....

    4.2 years ago
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    41.8k Ren

    @Vader_plays109

    4.2 years ago
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    7,513 SuperRoto

    I saw the challenges results and I agree. Challenge runners should always stick to their rubric and have no bias going into the judging phase.

    4.2 years ago
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    27.8k Strucker

    What a mess, personally the plane that won was good in regards to their level, but no where near enough to win a challenge with contestants such as you.

    +1 4.2 years ago
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    7,446 FeiWu

    @Pita about the custom thumbnails, yes.
    I cant believe the creator of the bogus is now nearly silver. Maybe we should rethink life choices XD

    4.2 years ago
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    7,446 FeiWu

    @Pita and even if I don't win, I feel like I shouldn't be second to what was apparently perfectly above and beyond XD

    4.2 years ago
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    7,446 FeiWu

    @Pita well it is right to avoid the possibility of bogus altogether
    You can read that post to see just HOW I feel right now XD

    4.2 years ago
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    3,360 FishbedFive

    @Pita laughs in tsunami

    4.2 years ago