By Care

While ReVo’s mission is primarily to provide for role-play and role-players, we know that there’s more to it than just the game. In addition to writers, our community of creative minds includes coders, fact masters, and graphic designers. In this issue, we’re spotlighting the latter with Care’s continued coverage of Clash of the Artists.

In April, Grafica hosted the second annual Clash of the Artists event. For those who don’t know what the Clash of the Artists is, it’s a live battle between two artists. After rolling for themes, elements, and models, they complete a graphic challenge – usually avatars. The finished pieces are then put up for a vote on the Grafica – Clash of the Artists board, and after five days, the winner is announced.

This year, with the help of Qristal and Addiction, the Clash had a new scoring system. The system added win percentages rather than relying wholly on how many battles were completed. It was a nice change. Qristal took on the percentages, while I handled the voting and most of the board work.

For the live event, I had the help of Nicole, Mikhaela, and CD, which made sure it went as smoothly as possible. Of course, the event itself was the brainchild of a late night of talking between Demonatrix, Adept, and myself.

We had a great turn out this year, with some new artists stepping into the ring. Curiosity, Lady Edfeil, Asteria, Rutger, Addiction, Jenna, kitten, Covet, Miss Mickie, Caedam, and many others joined in the fun. We had a hundred different models that could result from a roll, as well as ten elements and themes. The outcome was so close that Aeternum was one battle away from taking it, but the addition of a new rule that required competitors to be present for two nights and complete eight battles kept him from holding the lead. That left Rutger in third place, with all the corresponding prizes.

The final battle royale was between kitten and Miss Mickie. Miss Mickie was in the lead until it came down to the last battle, which left kitten as the winner of this year’s Clash of the Artists!

A big thank you not only to the participants, but to Qristal and Addiction for their assistance with tweaking the system. And if you missed this year’s fun, you can still find everyone’s work on the Clash of the Artists board at ReVo!