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Postby **Ashley** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:17 pm

Folks, it\'s been a crazy 6 months for most of you. First off, let me again apologize for letting this run so long overdue; it was never my intention to, but, I can\'t change the past so I can only apologize for it.

And before I make the official announcement, I would like to take a moment and thank:
1) Our super special guest judge, MyrrhLynn, whose help in this massive undertaking cannot be over emphasized or appreciated.
2) The one and only Cap\'n Nick who so graciously volunteered to do all the programming necessary for the voting pages and who made my life much, much, much easier.
3) The CAA staff for voting in the first rounds

And now, without further ado, I am pleased to announce the new CAA mascot is:

DDUK!

Congratulations! It was a tough call and each of our contestants definitely put a ton of time and work into their entries so I can\'t thank you all enough.

As the winner, DDuk\'s design will soon be featured in our Cafepress store, and with any other future advertisements/artwork, and will receive a $10 gift card to Amazon.com

Postby **Okami** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:43 pm

Awesome. Simply awesome \o.o/

Postby **Radical Dreamer** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:02 pm

Very nice! Congratulations, Dduk!

Postby **ChristianKitsune** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:02 pm

HEHE AWESOME JOB! ^_^ I really loved this design! It's cute, yet manly, and awesome! ^_^ ANd he really fits!

Yay! Congrats, DDuk!

Website · Postby **bakura_fan** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:43 pm

yea! congrats! ^_^

Postby **Kenshin17** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:03 pm

He rocks that hat, and thus, he wins.

Very nice.

Postby **K. Ayato** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:37 pm

I love it! :jump:

Good job!

Postby **meboeck** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:10 pm

Congrats, Dduk! Awesome job!

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:37 pm

Congratulations!

Postby **Jingo Jaden** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:38 am

Congrats!

Postby **kryptech** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:02 am

Very cool!

my last fm profile! · Postby **rocklobster** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:06 pm

COngrats Dduk! I like the entry a lot. Now let's put the mascot to work!

Postby **Noblewreck** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:08 pm

[color="Lime"]Dduk, congratulations. When I saw your entry I knew it was serious competition. Congrats. I hope to see it around an anime convention and the like. Yeay CAA![/color]:thumb:

Postby **chibiphonebooth** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:21 pm

Noblewreck wrote:[color="Lime"]Dduk, congratulations. When I saw your entry I knew it was serious competition. Congrats. I hope to see it around an anime convention and the like. Yeay CAA![/color]:thumb:

wait. so... we weren't serious competition?

Postby **MyrrhLynn** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:16 am

Ack! Ash next time warn me you when you are going to make the post! X_X XD

For anyone who is curious the judging worked like this:

Round 1 - the whole CAA staff got a chance to vote and the top winners of this were put into round 2. This helped a lot because there were TONS of really good entries, and since the whole staff was voting we got a wide range of opinions (different ages, guy vs girl) all looking at them. This meant that we didn't get just one person influencing the final decision and we would end up with results that appealed to everyone. This was a really tough round though, and I personally aganized over which ones to vote on because there were SO many good entries it was difficult to pick just a few.

Round 2 - A smaller group of us looked at the winners from Round 1 and made the decision based on artistic-ness and some very business-y sounding criteria.

As one of the "secret" judges Ash asked me to remain neutral which meant I couldn't peak at the entries beforehand, so the first time I saw them was in round 1 (and I had no clue who drew what). Which is the main reason I've been missing a lot from CAA these past few months, I was avoiding the temptation to peak in the entries thread. XD

Anyway, that whole speech was to let all of you know that we tried to be as fair as possible throughtout this whole process. Sorry it took us so long to get you the results.

Oh and I would be very happy if Dduk could clear up exactly what this entry is. It's true identity was a mystery to us judges.

It looks like a fox, but it has a cat tail, so we couldn't decide.

Postby **Ashley** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:40 am

Sorry Myrrh-chan! >_<

But thank you for your helpful explanation of the process! And I\'m sorry we had to keep you from CAA so long. ^^;;

Postby **Amzi Live** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:21 pm

Awsome!Where is the Cafepress store?I want to get me a T-shirt.

Congrats!DDuk!

Postby **Kuro-Mizu** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:35 pm

Congrats DDUK!

it woulda been cool to know who the runner ups were (winners of the first round)

edit-

We should have another official contest. have all the artists here draw the mascot! that would be cool to ^_^

Postby **Noblewreck** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:39 pm

chibiphonebooth wrote:wait. so... we weren't serious competition?

Chibi, your Techno Angel and Muscle Panda showed awesome talent girl, whachu talk about?:thumb:

Postby **ShiroiHikari** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:18 pm

Very cute and unique. :3

Postby **mechana2015** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:34 pm

Wreck, your statement made it seem like you didn't put much stock in the other artists, except for DDUK. I think that's why she said that.

Postby **ChristianKitsune** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:21 pm

mechana2015 wrote:Wreck, your statement made it seem like you didn't put much stock in the other artists, except for DDUK. I think that's why she said that.

thats what I think she mean too XD

Postby **tokiklok** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:42 pm

congrats

Postby **ilikegir33** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:45 pm

Congrats Dduk!

Postby **Noblewreck** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:05 pm

[font="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="2"][color="Lime"]Chibi you have awesome talent. The CAA Mascot Contest was a great display of talented and gifted artists; serious competition one and all.[/color][/SIZE][/font]

Postby **KhakiBlueSocks** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:08 am

Noblewreck wrote:Chibi you have awesome talent. The CAA Mascot Contest was a great display of talented and gifted artists; serious competition one and all.

Well, at least we tried, my friend! ::high fives::

Congrats Dduck! Thanks to you, we finally got a mascot we can be proud of!

Postby **Noblewreck** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 7:12 pm

[color="Lime"][SIZE="2"][font="Comic Sans MS"]KhakiBlueSocks,
::high five:: Thanks for the idea for the War Weary Bible Student.

If its Okay with you I may like to use it as an alternate avatar sometimes.

DDuk,
Again, Congrats. You rock.

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Postby **KhakiBlueSocks** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:59 am

Noblewreck wrote:KhakiBlueSocks,
::high five:: Thanks for the idea for the War Weary Bible Student.
If its Okay with you I may like to use it as an alternate avatar sometimes.

DDuk,
Again, Congrats. You rock.
:rock:

No problem at all! Thanks for yanking the idea out of my head and putting it down on paper! I'm better with a camera than a pencil. And it's no problem at all to use it as an avatar! Just make sure you keep posting in the "Avatar Caption Game"

BTW, Will our new mascot be used anywhere on the forum?

Postby **Ashley** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:26 am

BTW, Will our new mascot be used anywhere on the forum?

We may possibly try to work him/her/it into the site design/navigation bar, but no promises. ^^

Postby **HyperSock** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:20 am

Oooh, nice! DDuk! HOOPAH!!

The winner of the CAA Mascot Contest is...

The winner of the CAA Mascot Contest is...

Awesome Competition.

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