GG 2023 Golden Goblin 2023 - Voting

[Fimm McCool]

Wow! What a great turnout this year. Thanks to everyone who entered, it all looked glorious. This is just a formality as you have all won. Nevertheless, let the polling commence!

Please do click on the image captions to view the original submission entry for more detailed and extra photos of each entry as these summary photos hardly do justice to the greatness on display!

Zoat

Wizard

MM11 Dwarf Commander

Frits von Blom - Underhive Scum

Rotstagger the C(areless)18 Zombie

Chaos Warrior

Space Skeleton

Slann Mage Priest

SciFi Warrior

Vermin Lord

C46 Milita

Drunken Chaos Dwarf Artist

Gore-Strom Dragon Ogre

BBC7 - Heroic Fighter

Drengi Dwarf Fighter

Signum

Jort Dwarf Champion

Goblin Knight on Cockatrice

Bellow-hoof Thunderhead Bloodthirster

Daemonette of Slannesh

 

[RogueCommander]

Thanks a bunch for making it such a cool experience for all of us. Can't wait for the next one and to see more of that oldhammer magic.

Massive inspiration boost to get more minis painted!

 

[Geroak II]

Thanks to everyone who entered, it all looked glorious. This is just a formality as you have all won.

Absolutely this. Good job everyone.
Not easy to choose just one to vote for.

 

[Golgfag1]

Looking good everybody, going to be hard to choose a winner amongst this little lot.

Paul / Golgfag1

 

[Eric]

Not easy to choose just one to vote for.

I did wonder if we should allow everyone several votes to make it less painful! I'm finding it hard to choose out of my favourites.

 

[Geroak II]

I think a system of giving votes for 3 entries, 5pts, 3pts and 1pt for example, would have been both easier for us (as choosing one is indeed really tough) and possibly made the competition more exciting. But then again a brutal system like this is just fine as well.
In the end ’There can only be one!’

 

[Eric]

Alas that's a bit beyond the built in polling system. I could have done several votes each, however they wouldn't transfer or have different weighting. There is a Question/Answer system built in that allows "up and down" voting of answers (posts) which I did consider briefly for voting, but I was a bit worried with too many entries they'd get a bit lost over several pages so stuck with tried and tested for now!

It can seem a touch brutal, hopefully no one takes it too much to heart. I think all the entries this year have something to offer, I think I've just about narrowed my selection down to three! I should note that if you want to you should be able to change your vote to account for appropriate bribery etc

 

[Geroak II]

This could have been bypassed by posting votes publicly or sending them via PM or, if anonymity was to be retained, by creating three threads, one for each point category. Admittedly none of those options seems to work seamlessly. And quite possibly it would turn this whole thing more serious than it should be. Choosing one to vote and sticking with it is propably the best option.

It can seem a touch brutal, hopefully no one takes it too much to heart. I think all the entries this year have something to offer

I whole-heartedly agree. No one should take this too seriously, it’s all just in good fun. Reviewing is always subjective and the choice of miniature is likely to matter, too.

 

[ManicMan]

This could have been bypassed by posting votes publicly or sending them via PM or, if anonymity was to be retained, by creating three threads, one for each point category. Admittedly none of those options seems to work seamlessly. And quite possibly it would turn this whole thing more serious than it should be. Choosing one to vote and sticking with it is propably the best option.


I whole-heartedly agree. No one should take this too seriously, it’s all just in good fun. Reviewing is always subjective and the choice of miniature is likely to matter, too.

yep, and if it has inspired people to do good works, then that's good enough ^_^ I'm happy enough that I feel I've gotten good enough and feel good enough about my work to show it.

personally, voting like it is now is fine. Well.. I kinda never like polls which either show you the current totals (which this one doesn't) or lets you see the totals so you can change your vote (which this one does) cause.. I don't know, I think it kinda spoils things a bit if you can see others have alot of votes or little and that can bias your own vote.. kinda part of the human herd mentally.. don't follow that much but I know it's there.

As Gordon Burns is still around (though retired) we could try to rant them via Metal agility, Response, Observation, Physical ability, General Knowledge and intelligence? ^_^ (god does that make me feel old... they tried to do it without him.. crap all the way ¬_¬)

 

[Sneekid]

Awesome turnout! Great work everyone and good luck!
As for the voting, I could see the point of having multiple votes - while One Man One Vote (not the Lord Vetinari model, mind you) will no doubt provide a fairly chosen winner, it would be nice to be able to show appreciation for some of the other great entries.

 

[Old Hob]

What a wonderful turnout. That gallery of entries looks fantastic.

It can seem a touch brutal, hopefully no one takes it too much to heart. I think all the entries this year have something to offer, I think I've just about narrowed my selection down to three! I should note that if you want to you should be able to change your vote to account for appropriate bribery etc

I already feel like I've won - I managed to paint a figure that had been kicking around for ages not getting painted. Happy days. It was nice to finally join in with a painting challenge as well, and I've really enjoyed seeing everyone's entries (you never know what you're going to get next). I'll defo enter the next one.

 

[inchmurrin]

Wonderful selection great to see such a big turnout even if it did cause procratination terror deciding on who to vote for.

 

[Fimm McCool]

Last day to vote everybody!

 

[Loose Loser]

Is it a typo? Poll will close 31st of December, she said.

 

[twisted moon]

31st december is what i'm seeing too. i'm going to need all the time available to secure my traditional one vote.

 

[Eric]

That's obviously totally my fault .... I can see Fimm put the 12th in the original post and somehow I totally misread it. Not sure how. I guess we should probably offer a few more days since I screwed up - 15th perhaps? I'll PM Fimm now.

 

[Eric]

Right I've PM'd Fimm since he's the boss man and just for the moment pulled the date back to the 12th Dec, but have suggested an extension to the 15 lest we have a few late voters. Sorry about that ... I shall return to my cave of shame!

 

[Fimm McCool]

No worries. I like to have a deadline before Christmas as it gives a festive feel to the award and means I can get trophies out before the holidays begin. I figure anyone who's going to vote has probably done so in the first week anyhow.

 

[ManicMan]

^_^ wouldn't be 'oldhammer' without some mistakes, eh?

 

[Eric]

Didn't Rick say there is a whole page missing from WFB3 and no one noticed ...