Welcome!
Welcome to the first Hirst Arts Design Derby (HADD). This contest is the first of it's kind relating to Hirst Arts designs. This derby is a contest designed to help generate new ideas and reveal hidden aspects of the use of and for Hirst Arts Silicone molds.
This entire derby is sponsored by VOIDGAMERS.COM. Other than endorsement, neither Hirst Arts, nor Bruce Hirst have any participation in execution of or the moderating of this contest.
Objective:
There is one major objective to sponsoring this derby, and that is to help promote the creative nature and inspiration of those who build and design using blocks created from Hirst Arts Silicone Molds.
The side benefits for such a derby is to help motivate you to new heights of inspiration and documented concepts of design. Sharing your designs will also bring you recognition and a sense of self satisfaction of designing and creating a new piece of miniature architecture.
Overview:
There are three classes of entries - small, medium and large projects.
Each project category has a predefined limits to help categorize which class a project may fall into.
Small Projects: Minimum of 50 blocks - Maximum 250 blocks.
Medium Projects: Minimum 251 blocks - Maximum 400 blocks.
Large Projects: Minimum 401 blocks - Maximum 700+ blocks.
Examples (based on official Hirst Arts designs):
An example of a small project - The fireplace from the small brick mold ( 77 blocks ), The tomb (195 blocks minus the roof)
An example of a medium project - The Wizards Tower (318 blocks), The Dragon Inn (321 blocks minus the roof)
An example of a large project - The Cathedral (Lots!), Towers of the teeth (Lots!), A castle (even more...)
The roof tiles from the three different molds can comprise of many different sizes and number of pieces, and so do not count towards the overall count of the number of blocks in the finished category. However, it is best to count them into the description of your design so that each person looking to use your design can plan ahead with the number of castings that they will need to build the item itself.
It is also necessary to exclude the roofs of buildings that may require them based on the fact that you can make a roof without using one of the roof tile molds. It would be unfair that one person's project be classified in a different category from a similar project that didn't have to count roof tiles.
The same facts hold true with the wall builder mold. If you are planning on using it in your project, great it is perfectly legal. However, you will need to count each brick in the design to account for someone who would need to cast individual bricks to replicate your pattern(s).
It is also noteworthy that the floors in any building or design is also counted. Since a floor can be produced in a number of fashions from Hirst Arts blocks, and no specialized mold is required, they will be included in the project total count of casted blocks.
Regulations:
Final Regulations - 09-01-2001
The following rules and regulations will apply and are subject to change based on communal contestant review and or correction from mistyped instructions or for more concise clarification. These rules are also set about as a guideline so there will be some loose interpritations, which I (Scott Spieker) will govern their intentions and meanings if any misunderstandings are created by them.
Each contestant can enter as many designs as they wish in any class in which their project falls. The more entries, the better the chances of winning, but each entry will be judged seperately from any others which have been submitted. Therefore, a winning design will be based on it's own merits rather than as a part of a larger project or design.
As this is a design contest with the primary focus on using the Hirst Arts blocks, the project should focus on the design aspect of the project rather than the finished product (however that does help to illustrate the design). The use of additional materials for the finished project is entirely acceptable, such as flock, a base, bushes and trees, balsa wood floors, etc. But to have a design based solely on the additional materials would be unacceptable. For example, a graveyard where the Hirst Arts blocks are used as headstones or a model kit is adorned with blocks to spice up the finished look. The previous two examples do make a nice use of the blocks, but they do not demonstrate a new design concept based on the blocks.
Each entry is intended to be a new design or a addition to an existing design. Examples of an addition to an existing design would be: the addition of the bell tower to the gothic church as one design. The addition of a second level to the dragon inn. The building of the Parthanon or the Temple of Jupiter using the Roman Temple design plans.
Entry Submissions:
In an effort to keep everyone working on and completing their designs, each entry will be submitted privately. By the term privately, I mean that the submissions are not shared with the rest of the contestants nor anyone else until the submission dead-line is completed. At which time all submissions will then be revealed for review by the other contestants, and the public, however only the contestants will be eligable to vote.
Entry Voting & Scoring:
Once all of the submissions are revealed, voting will proceed for a window of time agreed to by all of the contestants, for example - two weeks. Each contestant will have one vote for each category. Once the vote is cast, the vote cannot be changed. At the end of the voting period, the design with the highest number of votes in each class will be the winner of said class.
All votes are final, and all tallied totals are final and are not subject to refute by other contestants once the voting window expires. The only exception to this rule would be if some form of technical problem were to arise from the use of the web site or the design of the electronic voting process.
I (Scott Spieker) reserve the right to break any and all such ties in votes if such a scenario should occur.
Prize Awards:
Each class will be awarded a credit for one mold of the winner's choice from Hirst Arts. Each winner will then send their mailing information as well as their mold prize selection to Scott Spieker of Voidgamers.com. Voidgamers.com will handle the ordering and shipping of the molds to the winning contestant within a reasonable period of time (1 week) of the close of the contest.
As an added bonus, an other devout supporter of Hirst Arts has offered up an additional mold for the overall winning design. A design in any class which has the most overall votes will also be the overall winner and be the recipient of this additional mold sponsored by Mitch Michaelson (Terrainisaur). Mitch has given me (Scott Spieker) the responsibility of ordering and handling the mold awards, including his own contribution. Of course, this additional award makes Mitch uneligable for winning the overall prize.
Please visit Terrainosaur's web site for his sponsorship information at: http://terrainosaur.freeservers.com
Entry Requirements:
A design will need to meet the following minimum requirements for the entry to be included in the contest:
1 - Photos of the completed project/design. Different angles of the design, showing as much detail as possible. For those of you without a digital camera or access to a scanner, paper photographs are also accepted and will be scanned for inclusion in the web site voting process if you want to mail your submission to me. Please contact Scott Spieker (scspieker@yahoo.com) for mailing instructions.
2 - A description of the molds used to create the design.
3 - The exact or close approximation of the number of blocks used to create the design. These numbers help to put the project/design into the correct class for voting purposes.
4 - A documented description of the construction of the design including special materials used in the process. For example, if you used sand paper, sprayed parts with water for some special purpose, filed blocks to a different size or shape, etc.
Photographic examples of the design/construction process are very helpful and appreciated, but not entirely necessary if the description explains the steps well enough. The documentation should be included in a text format friendly with most computers - i.e. Ascii text (preferred), Microsoft Word, RTF, HTML (preferred), etc.
5 - Your permission to use your designs, and digitially publish them within the VOIDGAMERS.COM web site royalty free. You, as the designer, will retain credit for your design by making a submission to this contest, you are consenting your permission for this purpose. The point of the design derby is to share your ideas with others who could and would want to use them to build similar designs.
6 - Each contestant will need to register as a user of VOIDGAMERS.COM to submit their design(s) and to register their votes. This registration information will remain confidential and will not be shared or sold for any reason. Your registration will then allow you to submit new items to any section of the VOIDGAMERS.COM web site.
Derby Dates:
The dates for the acceptance of your submissions will be November 1, 2001. The submission window will last fifteen (15) days to November 15, 2001. Voting will begin 12:01am Friday, November 16, 2001 and last until 11:59pm Friday November 30, 2001.
The winning designer in each class will be contacted informing them of their winning design, and asking for their personal shipping information within 5 business days of the end of the voting window. At which time their selected mold will be sent to them directly from Hirst Arts, or from Voidgamers.com whichever is appropriate at the time.
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