Congratulations to the NVIDIA contest winner, XFoXBoRX!

Posted by gearvOsh on September 1st, 2010 filed in StarCraft News

What a fun contest this has been! We had a total of 17 entrants in our Win an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Heart of the Swarm storyline contest! I would like to start off by thanking NVIDIA for providing the video card as a prize and secondly would like to thank all of you participants (and readers) for entering. We had a lot of fun reading all the storylines and possible scenarios for Starcraft 2; and for all you know, the SC2 dev team might of seen some of them! But lets get down to business shall we. It was really hard to pick a finalist, but it finally came down to the entry score (more on the point system below). The entry with the highest score and the winner for the grand prize is...

XFoXBoRX with his story Race against time for a total 30 points! Congratulations!

For a user whos secondary language is English, he did a superb job on his entry! With an extremely detailed outline for missions, objectives, campaign elements and a wonderfully logical and reasonable story to boot, this entry deserved the grand prize. It has also got some tasty dialogue and cinematics!

Point System
Each entry was judged with a point system in the categories below. The highest total of points an entry could earn is 35. We wanted the storyline and creativeness to be worth more, so the possible points in those categories are higher than the rest; the other categories simply acted like bonus points.

• Creativity - 10 points
  Was the story creative and original? Was it logically possible and not too random? Was it boring or intriguing?
• Storyline - 10 points
  How well does the storyline mesh with WoL and LotV? Was it logic and reasonable?
• Characters - 5 points
  Where the characters interesting, unique, etc. Did they add new chars, or re-work old ones?
• Campaign Elements - 5 points
  How well thought out were the mercenary, lab, research, etc replacements. Did they add their own mechanic?
• Mission Elements - 5 points
  Did they create missions and objectives? If so, how thorough were they designed.

Runner Ups
The following users made it to the finals (each staff member had a different top 5).

0JesPol0a, kerberos_39, Orloth, Cr4zyJeff, Aedus, MEDEVAS

Fun Facts
Some interesting things we noticed within each story.

• About 85% of entries used the SC1 special units as the SC2 mercenaries.
• More than 30% of entries killed Jim Raynor.
• More than 60% of entries included Duran.
• More than 50% of entries used the Leviathan or Hive as a campaign lobby.
• Cr4zyJeff brought back Tychus as an infested bad guy.
• MEDEVAS was the only entry to kill Matt Horner.
• Aedus was the only entry to earn bonus points for artwork.
• A few entries infested Valerian Mengsk.

I highly recommend everyone else read the stories... there was a ton of great writing and ideas!

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