Beta Key Contest #3
Welcome to week 3 of the DiabloFans Caption Contest. Each week, we're going to have a screenshot to show and your job is to add a caption. Whether the caption be epic or completely for the lulz, we don't care! We'll choose the best one or two entries each week and they'll be granted a Diablo III Beta Key.
To edit in your caption, you can just toss this image into MSPaint or any other photo editing program, add a few thought or speech bubbles, and go to town! You can then upload your screenshot to your Gallery here on DiabloFans, or any other image sharing service you choose. This week's screenshot is...
Submissions can just be posted here and you are allowed more than one entry if you like! These will run Saturday to Saturday, every week for the next few weeks. Winners will be picked on Saturday and the next screenshot will go up.
Congratulations to Kaulov for winning the second Beta Key caption contest.
Title: Give me BETA or Give me DEATH
Enjoy !
Sorry for my English, I'm French.
This kind of talk always crops up when an organization doesn't disclose their selection process very well...or when they make blatantly obvious misjudgements. The first contest was, while questionable, at least understandable in it's amusement. I personally believe that the second one was a horrible lapse in judgement, and leads me to believe that the winners are random drawn from a pool. Do i have any evidence to support that... not exactly, but again, (and i'll say it more i'm sure), i have a hard time thinking that of all the submissions, this was the "best".
People expect a contest like this to be fair. While choices on artistic talent are controversial, some things can still have a bottom line. That is, i think, what the problem is. I know that's what my issue with the winner is.
I don't particularly want to bash you...but i will challenge you to not find a picture more deserving than the winning submission in the entire post.
I'm glad you're still in on the contest... I for one won't be participating in this again. From what i've seen, it either is a random submission (in which case, the person that posts the most amt of crap will have the best odds of winning, and since i don't have the time or desire to post retarded amounts of crap, i wouldn't have a shot anyway), or it's a biased competition, or the judges have such terrible taste that i can't get behind it anyway.
I don't know what kind of restrictions Blizzard puts on their extra beta keys for the purpose of giveaways, but i know that when a radio station has giveaways, they can't just keep what they want for themselves (as you alluded to in my second quote). If this site is under similar restrictions, then it's not beyond the realm of possibility that there could be some foul play afoot with this particular contest.
come on beta key!!
Yea...sadly it is