Tyria's Next Top Model Cycle 2

Haha...that is really funny about the quiz thing. It is still making me giggle.

miss melly O.O I hope everything turns out all right with your family, it must be bad if you have to go away like this

Hehe, I know all the answers to the quiz I think, but I don't wanna try to enter 'cause I can't possibly pick between the last two! @___@ I don't even have a favorite anymore at this point, it's gonna be close

In alphabetical order:

Arala Starsong

The people's army, the triumphant force
The sunspears marching on

Through long brave battles, heroes are forged
The legends marching on

Their stories sung proudly, their names exalted
The eternals marching on

Come join the Sunspears, and fight for freedom
Your name will linger on

Judge 01: It's very catchy! I also like your picture, its very beautiful, it has that statue that's makes your picture very patriotic.

Judge 02: It's a little cheesy to me, but that doesn't necessarily mean its bad. Lot's of commercials out there today are cheesy, so I think it works.

Judge 03: I do like the use of the statue, some symbolism there, I'm just not sure if that has to do anything with the sunspears. I read on guildwiki that those statues are of the Primeval Kings, but then again, there is that level of patriotism there. It might not be directly sunspears, but it is istan, and istan is what the sunspears protect.


Lokii Dia

We see your strength
Strength to command
Strength to lead
Strength in numbers
Against enemies
Against the elements
Against the odds

Through out history we have risen to the challenges that confronted us.
Under the Golden Sun we will rise again.

Order of the Sunspears

When darkness falls, where will you stand?

Judge 01: I think it was very smart that you took in some of the US Army's material, and kinda redo it into Guild Wars manner. I think your first picture was better, but of course, it was off the mark.

Judge 02: Firstly, I have to address your original submission, we want to make sure that we note it was not special treatment for us to let you redo the assignment. It was specifically our fault for being a little ambiguous when we said you could do "anything" for your picture portion, we assumed you understand anything within Istan with Istani armor, after all, we are in fashion destination mode just like last cycle when everything was luxon for three weeks. This cycle will only be two weeks istan since Miss Melly dropped, but you get the idea. Onto your picture, its great, I find it very dramatic, you did bring in a lot of inpiration from the US Army recruitment material, its very clever to make a play on that.

Judge 03: I think it's plagiarism to do that, you only switched around a few words and added in some things, if you did that in an english paper in college, they will consider that plagiarism. For this little competition, not so much, but please be wary of that just for future reference for real life stuff. Picture is dark, I know you we're trying to recapture that same mood in your original submission, but the lighting in this area isn't as good as it would be in the other one.

Szei Ren

Do you have the power?
Join the Order of the Sunspears - now!

Judge 01: N/A

Judge 02: N/A

Judge 03: N/A

I don't know what to say... :O Noa!! What happened?

battle of the monks?

arala

Wow, here I was looking forward to a few more weeks of this, but now all of a sudden it's the last round. A very disappointing assignment to end on.

I'm going to kick Nao in the bottom....where is she? >>

*puts on Elmer Fudd hat and runs off*

To answer one of the judges, and probably some confused guru watchers. I didn't intend that it was favoritism brought upon me by giving a second chance. Yes, I was confused by the fact we still needed to be shooting in Istani. I do thank you for allowing me to know the true intentions of the assignment. I guess it was a little oopsie on both of our sides. I felt bad and stupid about the fact that I messed up, but I still intended on trying to get it on time, even though I was allowed another day. I didnt want to inconvience anyone by taking that whole day so we could start things on Friday. Which I guess I still caused a day delay. :/

As for the plagerism thing, I didn't intend on being an exact copy of an Army ad. Yes, I heard the "Army Strong" one once before, but never intended on copying it word for word. As you can see I used the Paragon attributes, command, leadership. Also play on words from the elemental aspect of GW, as well. I tried thinking of the Sunspear Lore more so in a military tone. I'm sorry if it looked like a complete copy of the advertisement, I didn't realize I did this :/

I know I'm not a fan favorite of this competition.I do get these suttle hints here and there,that I shouldn't be this far in the competition. I'm sure alot of people are possibly confused and upset that I might of taken their favorite's spot. Even some guild members admited that they was suprised I got this far.

I'm sorry to disappoint you guys. =P

I am here, but as cocky as that sounds, I believe I'm this far for a reason. I've worked as hard as the other ladies, and I fought to stay as much as the rest have. I believe I deserve a spot beside these two talented people. (Although I'm really confused about Noa's absense...something must of went wrong.) Do I deserve the top spot?

Well, we shall see. >D

Good luck ladies as we wait for the final scores. This so far has been a fun contest to participate in, but honestly it was it seemed alot more fun and carefree when I only read this thread for the assignments and critiques and disregarded all the comments. I do look forward to any more of these in the future, especially seeing the new crew of ladies that will appear in Cycle 3.


And...if it does come down to a monk battle.

Arala, I challenge you to a 1 v 1 monk smite battle!

Equip your smitting tools and your favorite battle armor and meet me in the hall. It is on!



"Monk Wobble"
-Lokii

(A Little More: Is there a party today (Sunday) for TNTM?)

WTF? I did send in my submission, I've even got a copy of it in my sendbox?!

I'll re-send it to you with a screencap of my sendbox with the correct dates.

EDIT. Sent, I hope it's accepted ;_;.

Lokii, yes we're having a super party at SoS hall, everyone's welcome \o/ (2pm GMT, ask Tidus, me or Nian for invites)

Feeling a bit disappointed at this too. Please don't get your panties in a knot just because you didn't yet know what happened tho. Would you really think Noa would just bail out of this? I can ofcourse vouch for Noa(being her roommie) that she did indeed take a lot of shots and was ready and prepared before the deadline. It's really kind of annoying that the forum decided to eat her PM. Shouldn't you at this point with only three contesants be sending some kind of confirmations that the submission was received to the contestants?

This time I really thought the shot Noa took was really strong and fit the assignment perfectly with it's dynamic pose and posterlike composition.

P.S. And while trying to get this message trough the forum decided to go 1v1 on me again. How convinient. Database error ftl, what's going on with the forum code? I don't think this is normal. -_-

Yup, I've been having forum errors a lot too. Guru is rather notorious for having problems, but for some reason it's been even worse than normal for me ever since Thursday. I hope Noa will get a fair chance to have her picture judged, since I'm sure she sent in the shot.

Great shots from the other two too. This round will be a difficult one to judge, I'm sure!

Noa sent in a shot for TMW, so there is no reason she didnt send in one for TNTM, apart from the problematic forum.

PLEASE PLEASE give her the chance.

noa better get a chance >____<

and lokii...nooo you redid it!! lol I liked your other one but I know you had to redo it xD
this ones really good though for having to rush it

Lokii!!! You took out our sweat and blood?!?!!?!?!? Where did the paragons go?

hahahha jk, good job every one heh heh.

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Alright guys, there should be no surprise that there will definitely be some delays! Hopefully results will be out later tonight, possibly tomorrow.

I edited the original evaluation post to add in Szei's material, but of course there's no comments since we haven't sat together on it yet.

So since we have the time...I think it would be a good time for you guys to evaluate your fellow contestants and see where you think they measure up, I will be sending Arala, Lokii, and Szei instructions on how that will be done in a bit, so hopefully this will kill some time while we wait.

Oh dear, is this really the last assignment? I'm glad that Szei's picture did get submitted, I think it's my favorite this round. However they're all great.... gaah, I still don't have a favorite.

Good luck to you all, I'll be waiting anxiously for results.

I'm sad that this round is over. But also sort of happy because I hope to find myself in the contestant's shoes next time.

WTB: TNTM results :P

Okay, my curiosity is just killing me now! I found that evaluation really hard, and I probably screwed it up, but at least it's done now
(I'm so glad your shot got figured out Noa, what a horrible thing to happen at this point of the competition ><)

WTB seconded :'D!

The evaluations were easier to think than to write, I hope I didn't sound offensive or pretentious 9_9; (lulz if my pm got lost again)

I'm happy my shot was still accepted, thank you thank you~!

Oh and one little request surfaced at last Sunday's party, we thought it'd be great if Nilene&co could give some specific time for the *final* results (when we're down to the last two, that is, and the last assignment is done), so we could arrange a glamorous gala that everyone would be welcome to attend. It'd be awesome if we all could spend time together waiting anxiously for the results, and then congratulate the winner (and everyone else, too!).

That's a great idea =D Hopefully we can organize that.

WTB ---> Results 10k

and I agree with Szei party would be cool for that

I hope my e-mail went through too :/ I havent got a confirmation that I sent it in.

Results, tomorrow evening! I just got home from a double shift, I have to work tomorrow morning as well, so I'm a bit overwhelmed at the moment and I just want to shower and sleep. I really spent the past hour trying to reread and edit everything, but the computer screen is giving me a migraine, and I just can't stare at it anymore.

I did get everyone's submission so no need to worry about that!

Gala would be AWESOME

I'm gonna try and be brief cause I'm not feeling well, so here are some of the comments we received in your additional assignment:

Arala Starsong
Out of the final 3, I think my submissions have caused the most controversy. Whether they love her or hate her, people have been talking about Arala, and in the end, that publicity and exposure is what modelling is about! I've consistently scored well throughout the cycle, and I know I could pull out something awesome to wow the judges for the final submission.

Judges: We all feel that between the final three, you have the strongest overall portfolio, you've never been in bottom two, and your work has shown consistancy.

Lokii Dia: The person I would be honored to be final two with is Arala Starsong, I believe that her portfolio is alot stronger than than Szei's, to be honest, I would like to go against the stronger competitor of the two.

Szei Ren: Arala has has throughout the competition delivered some very good-quality shots and she knows how to use backgrounds to her advantage, but some of her shots have looked rather bland and some of the previous ones also lacked the spirit she's showed in her best work.



Lokii Dia

Judges: You didn't quite tell us why you deserved to be in the final two, nor did you judge the current assignment for your competitors, you just discussed your competitors performance overall. That aside, we feel that between the final three, you are the most improved. From being the person who was one with the background and didnt properly showcase yourself, you really made some leaps and bounds over the last few rounds.

Arala Starsong: Lokii has produced some incredible shots also, but there are a few more mediocre ones in there. It's a case of genius versus brilliance with these ladies, and I'm afraid from my point of view, Szei just comes out a little ahead on the day. I think a few of Lokii's shots, like in Photoshoot 3, were lacking some of the finesse that Szei has shown through the whole competition.

Szei Ren: Lokii is currently my favourite because she's a totally charming person and I think she's really improved during the competition. Both her assignment and off-shots have great emotional and energic tones, and I've absolutely loved her latest shots. I do believe it's Arala who will be in the final two with me and I consider her my worst rival, but the question was who'd deserve the spot and I sincerely believe that'd be Lokii, because she's been doing some really striking shots that have surprised me every round.



Szei Ren
I deserve my place in the final round because I've been actively (zealously, even!) participating in this competition, by handing in high quality pictures and posting in the official thread as well as in the feedback forum. I know how to make attractive, emotional and, more than anything, good-looking shots, and I've put enormous effort to this competition by creating supporting characters especially for certain assignments, getting new but totally useless armor, etc.

Judges: We think that you started off strong during the beginning stages of the competition, your first four shots we're some of the best this cycle had to offer, but lately, we feel that your performance has been pretty stale.

Arala Starsong: Szei has been a standout performer. Her shots have always made me go back for a second, or third look.

Lokii Dia: Szei I can tell was always trying to find her groove in this competition. She always tried to find something new, and I really found her her images in the request forums spectacular and feared she could win this all if she could keep it up.


I will be sending the MOTW winner a PM/Email shortly, ensuring that person of their guaranteed spot in the finale. The two that does not get a pm/email will wait for their verdict tomorrow!

Good Luck Final Three!