First off, before we announce the winner of the competition, we would like to take this opportunity to apologize for the technical issues that forced the website to be inaccessible for almost half the day which resulted in making it hard to vote. Also, after reading through some of the comments from our readers at the entry voting post, we realize that some of our readers were pretty unhappy with the way we ran the competition and how we changed from a ‘Most Creative Entry’ to a ‘Most Votes’ winning criteria. Once again, we would also like to apologize for that and take this opportunity to explain ourselves.
We made the change of the winning criteria is because, after much deliberation with the team at Masses, we realize that deciding which entry is the MOST creative out of everyone else, would not be a very nice thing to do as we ourselves were going to be the judges and it would seem very biased. On top of that, creativity is a VERY SUBJECTIVE thing, and by choosing which is more creative than the rest, would be indirectly saying that everyone else is less creative than the winning entry. Due to it’s subjectivity, choosing a winner would be something very unfair for us to do. We than came to an understanding that at that point, the voting system would be the safest and the best option in choosing a winner.
We also notice that in the comments section, a reader has said that our website was hacked until our server has crashed, another reader also said that the website was deliberately crashed in order to secure the top spot, whether done by us,Masses, or done by somebody who just wants to win that badly. We would like to clarify, that the real issue as to why the website was down for more than half the day, was because, the good guys of the server’s support department decided to perform some maintenance on this very ‘auspicious’ day seeing that it is the last day to vote and all. Here is the screencap pic of the email that was sent to us by the server’s support department.
We are not trying to make excuses, and we are definitely not trying to find another scapegoat to take the blame, we just want to be as honest and direct as we can possibly be with our readers,and to tell it as it is. That is why we have taken the time to explain what has happened and why we did certain things the way we did, in hopes that you, our readers, can accept it.
We would also like to say that we are new, still growing and definitely still learning, that’s why we appreciate your comments and opinions, and would like to thank each and everyone of you who took the time to comment and voice out your opinions. Continue to do so, as it would really help us to stay connected and to know what’s on our reader’s minds. Once again, we apologize to all our readers for all our faults and the inconvenienced caused and hope you all will continue to grow with us.
With that said, we would like to thank the Stussy Kuala Lumpur Chapter for sponsoring the STUSSY x BAPE x GSHOCK ‘ILL COLLABORATION’ Frogman Watch for this competition and we would like to congratulate entry #9 – Jayj Liew (Facebook name) on winning the STUSSY x BAPE x GSHOCK ‘ILL COLLABORATION’ Frogman Watch.
PS: If we were to run more competitions in the future, how would you suggest the rules should be? Let us know in the comments section.
