The Last Poster Wins! [v21]

[Noblejanobii]

What a bust.

I got there early and it was pretty quiet, but people really liked my faerie dragon costume (I went by the alias Puff the Magic Dragon). When it came judging time, the wire for the inflatable wings got snapped again (I swear, this is the third time it's happened), but I figured I'd just make due without them fully inflated. Despite that mishap, I still figured I had an extremely strong chance at winning considering I had a full-fledged mascot costume while no one really had anything even close to that. Meanwhile, the DJ there totally thought I had the best costume (he was a pretty cool guy and tried to get people excited despite the place being pretty quiet that night). Still, I spent the whole night trying to be a good sport by dancing and being the most active person there the entire night. Let me tell you, dancing in a mascot costume gets HOT. I figured it would be worth it, though.

Instead, the judges give it to some weird girl in a typical, easily-brought-off-Amazon Cinderella costume. They totally didn't take the judging seriously and weren't fair about it at all. The first guy gave me a 7, the second guy gave me an 8, and the last guy gave me a ?. Oh no, then he changed it to a 7. Huh? So, 23 in total. I figured maybe they were just using a very tight-fisted system or rubric where nobody gets perfect 10s, so I didn't think anything of it at first. Then, people in average, run of the mill costumes went up. ALL of them got scores higher than me. ALL OF THEM. What. the. hell. Some of them even got an 11/10 score which made it clear this was just some very lame and stupid joke.

I was going to buy a drink and grab dinner there, and I'm glad I didn't. I didn't even stick around to pick up a free t-shirt. I wouldn't even want to wipe my butt with it.

If it makes you feel any better I lost to a UPS driver.

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

That sucks, Neo! Sounds like it wasn't a very professional competition.

You guys should post pictures anyway! :D

[Noblejanobii]

Here's the pictures:

Spoiler:

[Neo Emolga]

If it makes you feel any better I lost to a UPS driver.

Faith in humanity now completely lost.

My brother had a bad day also. They lost badly at the bar trivia game and he found out his offer on the house he wanted was supposed to close, but that's falling through now, too.

He came up with a good remedy, though. We all should reinstall Grand Theft Auto right now.

That sucks, Neo! Sounds like it wasn't a very professional competition.

You guys should post pictures anyway! :D

I really thought this was a legit contest because of the prize. They would be better off just raffling it than doing crap like this. At least then I would know not to bother putting effort into trying to compile the best contume I possibly could and just go with something cheap and easy.

My brother took a photo the other day. I'll have him send it back to me and I'll show you guys.

[Noblejanobii]

Faith in humanity now completely lost.

My brother had a bad day also. They lost badly at the bar trivia game and he found out his offer on the house he wanted was supposed to close, but that's falling through now, too.

He came up with a good remedy, though. We all should reinstall Grand Theft Auto right now.

Yeah sucky halloween. And I'm also now even more sick than I was yesterday. Skipped both my classes today and now how to deliver my persuasive speech during my teacher's office hours. GREAT. JUST GREAT. Hoping to deliver Thursday.

[Chakramaster]

Sorry to hear about what happened Neo. It sucks, but I think a lot of systems like that are rigged these days. It's unfair to everyone, while only certain people get the benefits. It applies to contests like that too sadly. Whereas something really creative gets turned away because of "insert bad excuse here." They just make them up. If the contest holder's kid or their grandkids are in it. Well, consider them an auto in. It's sad contests are being held so poorly now.

[Noblejanobii]

Sorry to hear about what happened Neo. It sucks, but I think a lot of systems like that are rigged these days. It's unfair to everyone, while only certain people get the benefits. It applies to contests like that too sadly. Whereas something really creative gets turned away because of "insert bad excuse here." They just make them up. If the contest holder's kid or their grandkids are in it. Well, consider them an auto in. It's sad contests are being held so poorly now.

You said it man.

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Here's the pictures:

Spoiler:

Wow that's an awesome costume! Sucks you didn't win. I love the raven :)

[Noblejanobii]

Wow that's an awesome costume! Sucks you didn't win. I love the raven :)

Thanks. The raven was a last minute addition. Someone else brought it as a decoration for the party, saw my costume, and gave it to me. It was great. Now all I need is a tea cup.

[Neo Emolga]

Sorry to hear about what happened Neo. It sucks, but I think a lot of systems like that are rigged these days. It's unfair to everyone, while only certain people get the benefits. It applies to contests like that too sadly. Whereas something really creative gets turned away because of "insert bad excuse here." They just make them up. If the contest holder's kid or their grandkids are in it. Well, consider them an auto in. It's sad contests are being held so poorly now.

Totally this. TOTALLY THIS. I think next year, I'm just going to dress up as something easy going and not try to bother with any contests, because so many of them are rigged or skewed to benefit people that don't deserve it.

Anyway, here's what my costume looked like:

Spoiler:

Trust me, it wasn't easy (or cheap) to get all that together! I had to work in a whole lot of tweaks and adjustments to get all that working!

Really, I just don't get how and why something like this lost to a common Cinderella costume purchased off of Amazon. What a lame night, I'm definitely not going to that place ever again.