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Greetings to all Grand Trials watchers and contestants!

The second and final round of the trials officially closed Thursday the 15th of October, and now the judges are deliberating and deciding who will take the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places.

By tomorrow we will announce the winners.

In the meantime here is a list of the criteria that we as the judges are looking for when evaluating each contestants entries:


1.) How does it look?
- How well is it drawn?
- Was the look consistent?
- Is the comic easy to follow?
- Does the paneling makes sense?

2.) How creative is the story idea?
- Is the story original?
- Are the ideas well applied?
- Are the items used?
- Were the dangers of the canyon used?

3.) How well were the canyon rules obeyed?

4.) How did the contestant handle the OCs?
- Were they kept in character?
- Was their specified scale kept?

5.) Does the story have flow?
- Did the comic entires move from one to another smoothly?

6.) What is the level of effort?

7.) Is the story/setting/character behavior believable?
- Is anything too farfetched or overdone?



Pot Prize

The Grand Winner can pick 3 prizes from the Prize Pot. After he/she has decided, the 2nd Winner can pick 2 prizes and the 3rd Winner will keep the last.
The other participants will receive a consolation prize (sketch made by Resizer or chibi done by 5ft-2-Eyes-of-Blue).

- 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize pictures, by Resizer (default prize, cannot be picked)
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize colored chibies, by 5ft-2-Eyes-of-Blue (default prize, cannot be picked)
- 3 month subscription, by Krystalynn03
- 1 short comic, by BridgetTheGamer
- 1 traditional medium picture, by 5ft-2-Eyes-of-Blue
- 1 full picture, by Posiechan
- 1 realistic portrait, by Tenmisu
- 1 colored picture, by Resizer