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Wicked cool! We all love a little greed. =D No text? Awesome!

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$oh boy!!!!!

Way to raise the quality of submissions Woot! Love the idea that you will provide quick turn around to submitted daily ideas too. That's great!

Greed without dollar signs or currency symbols. Interesting challenge!

Wow, extra greedy motivation now...might convince some folks to do more work for woot!

YES!!! Awesome of you guys to share the wealth. And another cool derby theme. I think you're finally getting the hang of this shirt business stuff.

Awesome derby! Love the lack of currency symbols. Should lead to some creative stiff.

And this now means that I will NEVER win. I'll keep trying though.

Schrobblehead wrote:And this now means that I will NEVER win. I'll keep trying though.

never say never. I think you've got the skills to get there.

Interesting... and I like the added incentive...

Schrobblehead wrote:And this now means that I will NEVER win. I'll keep trying though.

I know how you feel. D= And this also means I'll probably be buying more shirts. <_<

Schrobblehead wrote:And this now means that I will NEVER win. I'll keep trying though.

While i'm sure this will raise quality of submissions. I don't think it will change the voters. I think we're going to wind up with the same kind of winning designs each week no matter what prize they put out. That is, unless 600 20 year olds happen to buy shirts and start voting every week.

AttilaTheMom wrote:never say never. I think you've got the skills to get there.

That's very kind of you, but I've seen the shirts that get made when there is this much money is to be made. I wouldn't even attempt to submit at threadless or DBH.

eyeslikesugar wrote:I know how you feel. D= And this also means I'll probably be buying more shirts. <_<

Good point. I like the theme, but I hope we don't see 18 variations of the same shirt again.

Schrobblehead wrote:And this now means that I will NEVER win. I'll keep trying though.

I'm with you on this one

I instantly have lots of great ideas, but... <sob> they're all beyond my talent level, which is near to none. <another sob>

Should be some great designs cropping up, though. Let's hope those are the ones in the fog!

jamescho84 wrote:While i'm sure this will raise quality of submissions. I don't think it will change the voters. I think we're going to wind up with the same kind of winning designs each week no matter what prize they put out. That is, unless 600 20 year olds happen to buy shirts and start voting every week.

You may be right this week, but in the long run I think this will change the equation a lot. They should have banned pirates because I really don't want to see even one shirt about pirates' booty. Now that I said that I'm wondering if I should make that to have a chance to win? Nah... maybe.

Heh...twice the money, twice the backbiting. Please prove me wrong, people.

cwarrington wrote:With the increase in payout, maybe Jimiyo might rejoin us?! maybe...

One can only hope! =D

mwiseman wrote:Heh...twice the money, twice the backbiting. Please prove me wrong, people.

I hope you're right, because I did notice an increase the last time they raised the payout. Let's all agree now to be nice to each other, yes? It's not that hard.

Greed. Hard to illustrate without $ signs.

You know, I read somewhere that creative activities (read t-shirt design) are usually damaged in their creativity by money rewards. So, I am taking the stance that I am really only entering these derbies for my own internal satisfaction...







just kidding.

Do you think a plain green shirt could win? Im going for it.

jamescho84 wrote:While i'm sure this will raise quality of submissions. I don't think it will change the voters. I think we're going to wind up with the same kind of winning designs each week no matter what prize they put out. That is, unless 600 20 year olds happen to buy shirts and start voting every week.

Isn't there a chance that we will see even more people entering simple, popular things like Pacman and memes for a chance at the bigger bucks?

mikectc wrote:Do you think a plain green shirt could win? Im going for it.

they already sold one of those, so it'll get rejected.

Josephus wrote:they already sold one of those, so it'll get rejected.

Really? That's weird. What was the context?

mikectc wrote:Do you think a plain green shirt could win? Im going for it.

um, yeah, they did that one already.

mikectc wrote:Really? That's weird. What was the context?

They called it Green Space, so they could sell their overstock of green tees.

ansharp wrote:Isn't there a chance that we will see even more people entering simple, popular things like Pacman and memes for a chance at the bigger bucks?

i think pacman (unless obvious parody) will be rejected. So will any meme that gets abused (and we may see a new rule 32 for those).

yeeter wrote:Greed. Hard to illustrate without $ signs.

You know, I read somewhere that creative activities (read t-shirt design) are usually damaged in their creativity by money rewards. So, I am taking the stance that I am really only entering these derbies for my own internal satisfaction.
just kidding.

That's a nice theory, but I'm sure it is also driven by competition and the need to find a way of doing something differently. Sure there are other motivations, but extra money should increase the number of quality competitors making the whole thing far more competitive.

Schrobblehead wrote:And this now means that I will NEVER win. I'll keep trying though.

I love the burger. You could get it printed at zazzle.com very, very easily. Of course, there's that waiting period... *sigh*

I'd order it if you did that. I know lots of other people would, too.

"Greed. Hard to illustrate without $ signs."

Yeah, no kidding. Are we allowed to have the image of an actual dollar bill if it doesn't have dollar signs on it? Like just a green rectangle with a circle in the middle? That's kind of the universal symbol of a buck.

easeandgrace wrote:I love the burger. You could get it printed at zazzle.com very, very easily. Of course, there's that waiting period... *sigh*

I'd order it if you did that. I know lots of other people would, too.

Thanks. I have plenty of time to check into it.

Schrobblehead wrote:That's a nice theory, but I'm sure it is also driven by competition and the need to find a way of doing something differently. Sure there are other motivations, but extra money should increase the number of quality competitors making the whole thing far more competitive.

But the voters haven't changed. A cartoon pirate on a charcoal shirt is a fast thousand bucks. To get better quality over the finish line w00t has to be more aggressive with rejections. A simple "That isn't good enough" rejection is the only way as the rules and voters are now.

Good news for the designers!

Lighter wrote:But the voters haven't changed. A cartoon pirate on a charcoal shirt is a fast thousand bucks. To get better quality over the finish line w00t has to be more aggressive with rejections. A simple "That isn't good enough" rejection is the only way as the rules and voters are now.

I was trying to ignore that part

I was going to say that if voters want caroon pirates competition will at least give them a variety, but the ravens proved me wrong.

superspryte wrote:Remember that Canada is now also part of the shirt.woot world.

I live close to the Canadian border, and I can assure the Canadians I know would recognize a symbolized dollar. :-)

Yay. Thank you for the increase woot.