🎄[POLL] ENDED 🎅🏻 1st BTCTALK Physical CRYPTO X-MAS Decoration Contest🎅

[smoothie]

Contestants Gallery of XMAS Decoration Lealana Contest 1

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1) montreal1	2) MoparMiningLLC	3) Dr.Bitcoin_Strange	4) minerjones	5) TxCryptoKid
6) saxoshi	7) MarkZellers	8 ) Kryptowerk	9) aoluain	10) cryptogreatdane

Contestants Gallery of XMAS Decoration General Contest 2

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1) Shaha98	2) Dubaian	3) Cygan	4) Tjtonmoy	5) Dr.Bitcoin_Strange
6) Mbitr	7) xSlyy	8 ) Burugcrypto	9) Remsjack	10) TxCryptoKid
11) Woodrose	12) Amphenomenon	13) Patrol69	14) Kryptowerk	15) aoluain
16) Helena Yu	17) Ryu_Ar1

Voting begins now for Contest #1 & #2.

How the Poll is to be Run
Poll will run until January 6th 2023 at 11:59pm EST.  1 vote per user (you are NOT allowed to use your alt account to vote twice). You can change your vote, of course only up until the contest ends.  

IMPORTANT: This will be an OPEN voting system. Pick your top three entrants for each contest and post it. You will be required to post only once in this thread your votes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd places in each contest. You cannot duplicate a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place for a user unless it is in the other contest. Here is an example of a user’s votes:

Code:

Contest 1
1st place - tom
2nd place - dick
3rd place - harry

Contest 2
1st place - Joe
2nd place - Larry
3rd place - Ikaika

IMPORTANT NOTES:
Once the 7 days is up, the voting will end. I will tally all of the votes and announce the winners.

NO NEW ACCOUNTS CAN VOTE. Your bitcointalk.org account has to be at least 2 months old in order to vote and had been active (your last post prior to voting post) in the last 3 months to count as a vote.

In the unlikely case of a tie, we'll run another poll which will be set to run for 3 days.

I am confused - are we voting for who actually gets first place? or just our top 3 favorites? curious because what if a contestant gets 5 votes for 1st, 5 votes for 2nd and 5 votes for 3rd - with only 5 votes in each of placement, they obviously lose if the voting is by placement instead of total overall votes, in which case they would have 15 votes.

Winners will be selected by total points accrued by all votes cast as follows:

1st place vote = 3 points
2nd place vote = 2 points
3rd place vote = 1 point

Each place carries a weight in points. Most points wins 1st place, second most wins 2nd place etc..

No manipulation of any kind allowed. If I see you trying to manipulate the votes in any way, I reserve the right to disqualify you. Please no alt-accounts, no begging for votes etc.  


If there any typos in links I will correct them as I find them. If there is anything I forgot it will be posted here asap.

Mahalo for all the entries. This truly was a great first year for the xmas decoration contest.

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[smoothie]

reserved

edit: is anyone else seeing the first column of entrants as smaller sized thumbnails than the rest of the contest entrants?

Very odd as the preview shows it as showing up the right size, but when finalizing it it is smaller than the rest.

Hmm

[Eclipse33]

Contest 1
1st place - cryptogreatdane
2nd place - aoluain
3rd place - moparmining

Contest 2
1st place - txcryptokid
2nd place - helena yu
3rd place - tjtonmoy

[NeuroticFish]

edit: is anyone else seeing the first column of entrants as smaller sized thumbnails than the rest of the contest entrants?

Yes.
One easy fix is to make a first row of underlines and adjust by those the column withs
Edit: if that's OK for you, an option with that code of this table "fixed" (with added underscores) is in this post.

Code:

Contest 1
1st place - minerjones
2nd place - Dr.Bitcoin_Strange
3rd place - Kryptowerk

Contest 2
1st place - Helena Yu
2nd place - Mbitr
3rd place - Cygan

[minerjones]

Contest 1
1st place - MoparMiningLLC
2nd place - MarkZellers
3rd place - cryptogreatdane

Contest 2
1st place - xSlyy
2nd place - Helena Yu
3rd place - Kryptowek

[QuakerBull]

Contest 1
1st place - Kryptowerk
2nd place - MoparMiningLLC
3rd place - cryptogreatdane

Contest 2
1st place - Kryptowerk
2nd place - Helena Yu
3rd place - xSlyy

[tjtonmoy]

Contest 1
1st place - cryptogreatdane
2nd place - aoluain
3rd place - moparmining

Contest 2
1st place - txcryptokid
2nd place - helena yu
3rd place - tjtonmoy

oh wow! i never thought someone would actually mention me ! did a pretty shit job compared to others.... I really appreciate your vote! giving the last Smerit to you my guy! thanks again 

[Kryptowerk]

This wasn't an easy one, happy to see quite a few creative and beautiful entries.


Contest 1
1st place - aoluain
2nd place - TxCryptoKid
3rd place - cryptogreatdane

Contest 2
1st place - Helena Yu
2nd place - Remsjack
3rd place - xSlyy

reserved

edit: is anyone else seeing the first column of entrants as smaller sized thumbnails than the rest of the contest entrants?

Very odd as the preview shows it as showing up the right size, but when finalizing it it is smaller than the rest.

Hmm

Yes I do. Using latest Firefox. Rechecked with Chrome and it's the same. Weird.
Interestingly enough, when typing a response and seeing your OP in this view, everything seems normal-sized.

[MoparMiningLLC]

I am confused - are we voting for who actually gets first place? or just our top 3 favorites? curious because what if a contestant gets 5 votes for 1st, 5 votes for 2nd and 5 votes for 3rd - with only 5 votes in each of placement, they obviously lose if the voting is by placement instead of total overall votes, in which case they would have 15 votes.

[owlcatz]

Dammmn this wasn't easy, and still bummed I never had time to enter either!

1:

Cryptogreatdane
Kryptowerk
Mark Zellers

2:

Cygan
Kryptowerk
Alouain

Great work & Happy new years to you all too, especially to the Smoothinator himself. 

[smoothie]

I am confused - are we voting for who actually gets first place? or just our top 3 favorites? curious because what if a contestant gets 5 votes for 1st, 5 votes for 2nd and 5 votes for 3rd - with only 5 votes in each of placement, they obviously lose if the voting is by placement instead of total overall votes, in which case they would have 15 votes.

Great point. I half thought it out.

But here is a simple solution to your exampled dilemma.

1st place vote = 3 points
2nd place vote = 2 points
3rd place vote = 1 point

Each place carries a weight in points. Most points wins 1st place, second most wins 2nd place etc..

[MoparMiningLLC]

ouch so someone with the most votes could still actually lose lol this will be fun - can win first with 1/3 of the votes.

[Helena Yu]

edit: is anyone else seeing the first column of entrants as smaller sized thumbnails than the rest of the contest entrants?

Yep I try to figure what's the problem but I can't find anything, I create thread in Meta board about this, maybe a bug?

Anyway the voters are eligible for everyone? which mean a participant can vote too?

Edit

@OP you can update your thread with this code, the images on the first column will appear with the same size like the other columns.

Credit to: NeuroticFish

Contestants Gallery of XMAS Decoration Lealana Contest 1

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1) montreal1	2) MoparMiningLLC	3) Dr.Bitcoin_Strange	4) minerjones	5) TxCryptoKid
6) saxoshi	7) MarkZellers	8 ) Kryptowerk	9) aoluain	10) cryptogreatdane

Contestants Gallery of XMAS Decoration General Contest 2

_____________________________	_____________________________	_____________________________	_____________________________	_____________________________
1) Shaha98	2) Dubaian	3) Cygan	4) Tjtonmoy	5) Dr.Bitcoin_Strange
6) Mbitr	7) xSlyy	8 ) Burugcrypto	9) Remsjack	10) TxCryptoKid
11) Woodrose	12) Amphenomenon	13) Patrol69	14) Kryptowerk	15) aoluain
16) Helena Yu	17) Ryu_Ar1

[MoparMiningLLC]

Contest 1
1st place - minerjones
2nd place - Kryptowerk
3rd place - TxCryptoKid
Contest 2
1st place - Helena Yu
2nd place - kryptowerk
3rd place - Tjtonmoy

[aoluain]

Great to see voting has started. Well done to all the contestants, very diverse collection
of pieces. I would have liked to vote for a lot more submissions and Merited more also
but didn't have enough sMerit.

Here are my votes below.

Code:

Contest 1
1st place - MoparMiningLLC
2nd place - MarkZellers
3rd place - TxCryptoKid

Contest 2
1st place - Kryptowerk
2nd place - Helena Yu
3rd place - Tjtonmoy

[pinky1234]

Contest 1
1st place - aoluain
2nd place - TxCryptoKid
3rd place - cryptogreatdane

Contest 2
1st place - Helena Yu
2nd place - Remsjack
3rd place - xSlyy

[xSlyy]

I haven't had this much fun doing arts and crafts since preschool. Thanks for hosting this Smoothie!
Here are my votes.

Contest 1
1.) CryptoGreatDane - I showed this to my family and everybody enjoyed it, it was... cute said most. "Oh no! My coin is buyer funded"  
2.) MoparMiningLLC - Very neat 3D print especially for the occasion which seems to double as a hidden Lealana stash. Points for creativity!
3.) MarkZellers - The story associated with this is very heartfelt and personal. Points for orange pilling the younger generation.

Contest 2
1.) TxCryptoKid - That has to be the most insane Liquid collection I've seen yet. What a set!
2.) aoluain - As a fan of aoluain's coloring books, I love seeing a Christmas design from them.
3.) HelenaYu - Great coin artwork and Bitcoin Donuts, enough said.

Happy New Year all. I hope everyone can close this year out with great memories, lessons learned, and a positive mindset for 2023.
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[bitbollo]

Contest 1
1st place - aoluain
2nd place - Kryptowerk
3rd place - cryptogreatdane

Contest 2
1st place - TxCryptoKid
2nd place - Mbitr
3rd place - Tjtonmoy

Happy New Year to all of you fellow collectors and bitcoiner!

[Mbitr]

Thanks again smoothie for the opportunity and for an awesome contest 

My picks…

Contest 1
1st place - cryptogreatdane
A lot of effort put into this AND very cool 
2nd place - MarkZellers
Again, a lot of effort AND a real family affair 
3rd place - MoparMiningLLC
Love the Hawaiian touch

Contest 2
1st place - xSlyy
I imagine this was rather tricky to do - well done 
2nd place - Helena Yu
A beautiful and intricate design
3rd place - TxCryptoKid
An amazing collection 

Good luck to all the contestants and most importantly….. HAPPY NEW YEAR

[Cryptogreatdane]

What a great holiday contest. A big thank you to Smoothie and all the participants. Lots of creativity and effort to spread the holiday cheer and incorporate physical bitcoin into the Christmas spirit. Love how this community is growing and working together for the advancement of physical. Here is to an awesome start to 2023.

Contest 1

1. Mark Zellers- Original pastel artwork with great theme
2. Mopar Mining- New world craftsmanship.
3. Saxoshi- Love the holiday feel and colors

Contest 2

1. Tjtonmay- Original drawing with heart
2. XSly- Snow globes are hard to work with
3. Cygan- The holiday collection of collections