/ck/ challenge - Winner and post-mortem

[BubbleBurst No.6505855]

Thanks to all who participated in this year's /ck/ challenge! I will be posting the winner in my next post, as well as the final scores, metrics and such :-)

I will begin uploading verticals unto the booru hsortly. Should anyone want to make amendments to theirs (or make new ones!) either send them to me by email or post them here.

This thread will also be the feedback/post-mortem session thread, so please, comment away! Things to change? Praises? Bitching? It all goes here.

[BubbleBurst No.6505856]

As the general vote was to make the final round a sudden death round, congratulations to Spork !gVOKCoJgwg for the victory!

Please get in touch with me for your prize!
bubbleburst.challenge [over at] gmail.com

[BubbleBurst No.6505872]

>>6505856
Final score card.

[BubbleBurst No.6505888]

>>6505855
Total number of entrants : 27
Total number of votes : 178
Verticals made : 23
Prize Sponsors : 4 - Thanks so much guys!
Prize winners (individuals) :5, we didn't get repeats, nice distribution this year.

[Cholula No.6505952]

>>6505856
Congrats Spork!

I liked the round themes a lot this go around but I really wish we would change the final round from signature dish to something more creative or interesting. I feel like the last round is always anti-climatic because no one really has a "signature dish". I feel like we have all of this energy going into the final and it just peters out and isn't really special. No idea what we would do instead though...

Thanks again for putting this together BB, you did awesome as always!

[BubbleBurst No.6506155]

>>6505952
How would you classify the final round? Make it a wider theme?

[Anonymous No.6506173]

>>6505952
Just a lurker but I'd agree. The final could be the recreation of a famous chef's signature dish. There could be options. Open skies always make creativity hard. It's like telling an artist to draw anything. Or a comedian to say something funny..

[Anonymous No.6506269]

>>6506155
maybe final round could be a 3 course meal?

congrats spork!

[Anonymous No.6506326]

>>6505952
>I feel like the last round is always anti-climatic because no one really has a "signature dish".
Speak for yourself! One can always make something special.

>>6506269
Seven courses, must include cheese plate.

[Chalice !!a7Six4EVOK+ No.6506729]

Thanks again for hosting another year Bubble and to all those who participated and voted. Will probably see you all again next year.

[Pyewacket !!YZj+4sLADGJ No.6506739]

>>6506326
>Seven courses, must include cheese plate.
You may be on to something there. Not seven courses, though, that's too much. Maybe just a four course meal. Just to shake things up next year.

>I feel like the last round is always anti-climatic because no one really has a "signature dish".
>Speak for yourself! One can always make something special.

Yeah, both the dishes I won with were dishes that I make regularly and for company and friends, so I'd say that's a signature dish.

Also, Congratulations to Spork!

[Anonymous No.6507103]

Bump

[Anonymous No.6507146]

Way to go, Spork! You have done Katie the Penguin of Doom proud!

[Cholula No.6507744]

>>6506739
>>6506326
I do like the idea of a three or four course dinner! That could be fun. Perhaps it would have to be themed somehow to make it more interesting...

[Spork !gVOKCoJgwg No.6507847]

Thanks guys, was fun. Look forward to seeing you all next year.

>>6506326
>>6506739
>>6507744
Yeah, I like this, this'd be cool.

[Anonymous No.6507924]

>>6507847
Hey, congrats Spork

>>6505872
Lavi almost had it in the bag too

[BubbleBurst No.6508729]

>>6507924
Yup. Which is why I was sad lavi had to pull out on the last round. Real life wins over Internet competition, but still.

[Anonymous No.6510060]

We need Pyewacket back. I understand she doesn't want to kick everyone's asses year after year and turn this into the "who comes in second behind Pyewacket /ck/ Challenge", but let's face it, she brings up the level of competition.

[🐖🐖🐖Borneo🐖🐖🐖 No.6511326]

>>6506739
>Maybe just a four course meal
3-5 courses sound good.
Maybe increase the round length to ten days to two weeks. People seem to get really short on time. Plus get mod to sticky it, since the board moves so quickly these days

[Anonymous No.6513049]

>>6511326
>the board moves so quickly these days
Look at that S-car go!

[lavi !zXeFjI1hKc No.6513516]

>>6505856
Congratulations, man! I loved that pork belly.

>>6506269
>>6507744
I agree about the last round, it should be more challenging and special.
Really sorry I couldn't manage to do the last round, but I still had fun and saved some interesting recipes. Thanks to all for taking part and Bubble for organizing everything!

[BubbleBurst No.6514002]

>>6513516
You're welcome :-)

>>6513049
lol

[Anonymous No.6514036]

Followed this from the sidelines and loved every bit of it.
Good show, folks, and congratulations.

[BubbleBurst No.6514213]

Fantastic, do you have a version of this one with the quantities/steps?

[BubbleBurst No.6514246]

>>6514213
GHobo, same thing, can you add captions to this one?

The others have been uploaded to the booru.

[Anonymous No.6514363]

>>6513516
A black hole devouring a companion yellow dwarf, or possibly a spider.

[Anonymous No.6514486]

I laughed

[Anonymous No.6514607]

Is it too late to submit my entry?

[Anonymous No.6515420]

>>6514607
yes

[Anonymous No.6516247]

>>6514213
>>6514246
I think you should go back to the old system of requiring verticals and recipes and other details of the food be posted. It's difficult to judge food based on nothing more than one or two blurry photos. at least with a recipe and some preparation information, people can say, "well, that's a fucking weird flavor combination". Like when someone posted that banana with cheese earlier on.

Increasing the requirements also would mean, I think, that people would take the whole challenge more seriously and not drop out at random throughout the contest. I'd much rather see five people willing to beat each other to death with ladels in order to win the coveted Apron rather than twenty people who can't even be bothered to post a photo once a week.

[Anonymous No.6516255]

>>6514213
>>6514246
I think you should go back to the old system of requiring verticals and recipes and other details of the food be posted. It's difficult to judge food based on nothing more than one or two blurry photos. at least with a recipe and some preparation information, people can say, "well, that's a fucking weird flavor combination". Like when someone posted that banana with cheese earlier on.

Increasing the requirements also would mean, I think, that people would take the whole challenge more seriously and not drop out at random throughout the contest. I'd much rather see five people willing to beat each other to death with ladles in order to win the coveted Apron rather than twenty people who can't even be bothered to post a photo once a week.

[Spork !gVOKCoJgwg No.6516403]

>>6516255
If that happens, I'd say it'd be a good idea to make the rounds a bit longer to give people more time and flexibility planning and cooking.

[Anonymous No.6516429]

>>6505855
ONE MORE ROUND!

[BubbleBurst No.6516532]

>>6516255
Verticals were never required? But I get what you're saying.

[Anonymous No.6518558]

>>6516255
>>6516403
The first year, some stages were elongated to last 2 weeks. Also, only one elimination per stage.
In the post-challenge thread, most contestant agreed that it was way too long (about two or 3 month in total). Also, the score system was made so some could skip a few weeks and still be in the challenge.

Now, it's way faster, and more challenging. It's hard to come up with a good idea, find ingredients and realise it, especially if it's the first time you cook it.

We xould have something in between. And monthly challenges too, that was nice.
And less snow during the grill thread.

If we could have plenty of motivated Anons, that would be nice too. I think this is the main problem...

[Anonymous No.6519325]

>>6518558
>And monthly challenges too, that was nice.
That was Squee's thing. I haven't seen him post (using his trip) in over a year.

[Antacid No.6519486]

Congratulations Spork.

I'd love to sponsor a coffee mug next year (and by sponsor I mean sponsor and buy a coffee mug).

I am probably in the minority, but I worry the challenge takes too long. There were weeks I did not check the thread. I also would understand if there's nothing we can really do about it.

[Antacid No.6519493]

Also, having it in the Summer or Fall would be nice. I imagine some competitors would like to use stuff from their own garden.

[BubbleBurst No.6520112]

>>6519486
Drop me a line next year for the mug :-) it'll have to be coffeepress or similar however. The cool custom orders ones are a 75 units minimum order :-p

[Anonymous No.6520428]

>>6519493
We could have a bunch of rolling challenges, all running at the same time, to wipe the Chipotle threads off the face of the board.

Let's take back /ck/! Who's with me!??!?!??!

[BubbleBurst No.6521479]

>>6520428
You can pick up the monthly Squeeze was doing. Or someone else was doing a weekly dish of the week thing.

[Cholula No.6521504]

>>6521479
If things slow down for me at work I'll try and do a monthly contest similar to how you do this one... would give a prize with each one so it would probably have good participation

[BubbleBurst No.6522437]

>>6521504
If you have the money, go for it :-) i'm too broke for that ;-)

[Anonymous No.6523201]

>>6521479
No, no, no, I mean running dozens, even hundreds, of challenges concurrently! We'll drive the Joey and Chipotle shitposers right off the damn bottom of the board!