Quote - Quote: Me: "Don't worry Tony. I have a little bit of experience in this. I've won 7 competitions in the last year, six of them using Bryce."

Quote: Unacceptably unfriendly host: "LOL, that was even funnier."

It would have been funnier still if I had added that I had no friends whatsoever at the time... except for one woman... and I was never totally sure about her...

In short, if your work is good, or your concept sound, most people will go with that and unless people are trusted to vote properly, you might as well just abandon the competition right here. At the end of the day, it should be just a bit of fun and part of the learning curve.

Repeat: ...all that really counts is that you get a good picture out of it...  plus answering the competition criteria sets us all a personal challenge, which is great.

If you see me as an unacceptably unfriendly host, because I laughed when you said people here are only interested in voting for the art, then you've got the wrong end of the stick. Your comment made me laugh simply because I know it's not true. I've no idea why you would want to take it personally. This is the thing about forums, it's easy to take things the wrong way depending on what frame of mind you're in.

I agree that the end product is what counts, if you read my previous posts you'd have seen that, I have no argument there, but that doesn't discount the fact that some people will vote for their flavour of the month; regardless of wether their art deserves it or not.