Congrats to all the talented individuals who've made it this far! Speaking from experience, now is when the real challenge begins. Granted, I can't speak for much more than the deer-in-headlights frozen-in-fear moment of realizing you've made it through the starting gates into full out sprint against Usain Bolt himself while you're both being chased by a rabid cheetah and you're all on fire.
That pretty much sums up my experience with RPG Superstar. Also really poor drawing skills. But I've already talked about that at length.
I didn't get to vote as much as I'd have liked this year. The switch to the summer-fall season works great for some. Doesn't work so great for a beach bum who has no desire to sit around voting on stuff when there's beach bumming to do. Even if that beach bumming involves sitting behind my house and imagining the beach was much closer and the parkway was traffic free. Toll free too, if we're really getting into hopes and dreams.
But that's not the point. The point is, there's a few keepers I loved that made it through to the end. A few of those belong to people I know, and I'm glad to see them make it! I shall be quietly rooting for them from the sidelines. I'd actually sort of prefer if everything were anonymous until the very end... adding names to things makes it feel like a popularity pissing contest. Point is, you know who you are, and I'm wishing you the best of luck! (Assuming, of course, you even read this. Which you probably aren't. It's okay, I wuv you guys anyway.)
In time, I'll probably go through and review all of the items that made it to the top. It feels like the proper thing for a wannabe-freelancer and previous-Top-32-disaster to do for fellow contestants. I'll probably just do it here, where I can cover all of them in one giant wall of text. Also where I can hide from the veiled civility of a public forum. I'd much rather we all just yelled at each other all the time. It's much more Jersey.
Personal aside: I did not make the Top 32 this year and I couldn't be happier. I hate competition; I do not perform well under pressure.
Just under deadlines.
I'm fairly certain the best piece of writing I ever made was a caffeine-fueled college paper about Dracula that kicked complete ass and I only really vaguely remember the specifics of. I do know, however, that it was amazing. I'm not even sure my professor knew what was going on there. Now, if said paper were being measured against the merits of fellow students? It would have have been a colossal failure.
Plus, RPG Superstar is so much visibility. I'd much rather play from home, where there's no pressure and I can fiddle about as much as I want, ignoring all the rules.
Real pirates don't need rules, so neither do I. Hell, neither should you.
But not you people in the Top 32. (And you alternates!) You should totally follow the rules. Now go and win this thing!
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