Well, my Battle Royale entry didn’t make it into the competition. I thought I had a chance but I just didn’t make the cut. My boss, however, did make it in! He was ranked #18 out of the top 32 contenders.
Since he was ranked #18 he had to battle #15. They had a 2 round competition with the lower seeded player (my Boss) challenging the higher seeded player. The higher seeded player opted to let my boss “throw the first blow” and within the time allotted this is what my boss came up with this:
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Same idea applies to this round like the entry image. You should create an image from many different images, draw, paint, create something great! I think my boss used about 7-10 different images to create this whole scene. He hand drew in detail in the hair which he was very proud of how it turned out. It does look pretty spiffy!
And after his opponent went — my boss’s second row image was this
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I didn’t want to post the opponent’s images because I can’t get his permission to do so. And these images my boss created can’t be used or sold anywhere and are copyrighted so don’t even think about trying to be illegal with them.
Unfortunately my boss lost the battle to his opponent and therefor the Battle Royale journey is over for him as well. It was a really excellent effort and we around the office think the judging may have been a bit subjective and maybe next year they will have a better idea of how to set the judging criteria to avoid judging based on personal preferences. Basically we think he was robbed!
If you want to view the battle and make judgment for yourself as to who should have won, click the link below and then come back and let us know what you think. I guess it’s better luck next year for us!
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=253612&page=1