Shirt.Woot

i was cheering for the skull, this is a disappointment, so are the runners up. blah.

Congratulations on the Win!

I feel like the shirt template made the shirt less appealing compared to the actual shirt it was shown on in the entry. The template makes the design look too big and just not right.

kbabs wrote:my first woot shirt (or shld I be saying shirt.woot?!) from down here in NZ. love the red. now I just have to wait and see really how long it takes to get here... (and what USD rate I get charged....)

Well, it can't take longer than Smartpost, where packages sit for a week at a time without moving.

definitely in for one.

pixel art is awesome.

Does this shirt remind anyone else of the game "LOOM"

I'm not feeling this one, not to hot on the theme either. But congratulations are in order to riffmaster18.

zyxomma100 wrote:Ooh. Not bad. I'm on the fence with this one.

Around here, people shoot things that are on the fence.

AHH! I look like the Koolaid Man in a red shirt. Crooooooooow!

Kris10Joy7 wrote:Ayyye...is ugly back in style again? It would seem so based on this week's selection.

My thoughts exactly...

Congrats riff! And I love the Red Squares reference...

Hideous.

This reminds me strongly of Van Gogh's Starry Night. I like both of them but am just not a fan of the pixelation theme.

GGWilliams wrote:This reminds me strongly of Van Gogh's Starry Night. I like both of them but am just not a fan of the pixelation theme.

Oh dear.. here we go again.

Great design considering the contest rules, but does this really translate into a cool shirt? I'm afraid not.

wow, I'm really surprised that this shirt and ones like it are popular. I don't find the style very appealing at all. More power to you guys, though.

I love this and I don't at the same time. I'm all about the red shirt and trees...but I'm not liking the blown up design. Wish it were smaller or less pixly! I'll think about it...

love it.

N41!

so many treees on these shirts

Not bad, just not for me. And TDK was awesome last night.

GGWilliams wrote:This reminds me strongly of Van Gogh's Starry Night. I like both of them but am just not a fan of the pixelation theme.

seriously, they rejected 4 designs that revolved around that.

2thFairy wrote:Around here, people shoot things that are on the fence.

*giggles* So true.

ruthsdad wrote:It was the theme of the derby.

Really? You skim that much?...It's already been explained to him, and he already replied to the person who explained it to him.

Watch this have already been said.

That's not what I meant. The picture is cut off at the edges due to Woot's printing policies. Notice how the orange waves just end on the sides? I think that detracts from the piece.

male piece of carp

2thFairy wrote:Around here, people shoot things that are on the fence.

hee-hee! where do you live 2thFairy?

Congrats to the artist, of course. Woot voters are a tough crowd.

On another note, IMO, the whole theme of this derby was odd, and not in a good way. Most of the designs (with the exception of KLSWoot's and a few others who managed to find a way to make nice art) are inherently unattractive based on the fact that they look like .jpg's that have been enlarged far too much. I'm bemused by all the enthusiasm - I don't understand how that look could be considered attractive.

this won the derby...?

yikes, didn't even expect in the top 5

Cool picture, sweet shirt.. congrats!

I'm surprised there is so much negativity considering this shirt was submitted well after the other 3 that ended in the fog, and still busted up the ranks and took first.

Booperelli wrote:Cool picture, sweet shirt.. congrats!

I'm surprised there is so much negativity considering this shirt was submitted well after the other 3 that ended in the fog, and still busted up the ranks and took first.

As others have said, I think it's more the theme than the designs themselves. It's hard to make a good pixellated shirt without video games or computer graphics.

juststew wrote:i truly can't believe this won the derby...anything special here is completely non-existent. seriously one of the most plain and boring shirts i've ever seen.
insert witty quote here"___________"Looks like a blown up Icon Sarge!"_________."

I did.

eHalcyon wrote:As others have said, I think it's more the theme than the designs themselves. It's hard to make a good pixellated shirt without video games or computer graphics.

exactly! the derby rules last week were not well thought out at all

not a fan....

Booperelli wrote:Cool picture, sweet shirt.. congrats!

I'm surprised there is so much negativity considering this shirt was submitted well after the other 3 that ended in the fog, and still busted up the ranks and took first.

I suspect that the popularity of this shirt is mainly due to riff's three other shirts being rejected - no offense to riff, but I don't see the appeal of this design, except in that shirt.woot voters have a history of supporting designers whose popular designs are rejected. I think the sales figures will show that the designer was a lot more popular than the design.

Definitely not going to be picking up any w00t shirts this derby weekend. yikes.

if this cost 50 cents, I might think about buying it...if it had 2 quarters in the pocket. Pass...

Every time I look at the design, my eyes strain to try to view the image in it's unpixellated form... terrible idea for a derby. I can never remember a time in my history of watching Shirt.Woot that the first place winner has lasted past 9am, let alone the ENTIRE DAY.

this derby would have been awesome with game references ...

1st place in Derby #51: Pixel Grid, with 588 votes
Woots sold: 483


One for the record books?

eHalcyon wrote:1st place in Derby #51: Pixel Grid, with 588 votes
Woots sold: 483


One for the record books?

Yep, that's what I was thinking too. I know someone occasionally collects past shirt sale information, but I'd love to see a Guinness Book of Woot Records which keeps track of things like this.

eHalcyon wrote:1st place in Derby #51: Pixel Grid, with 588 votes
Woots sold: 483


One for the record books?

It is. This is not only the lowest selling winner ever (and probably one of the ten worst selling derby shirts ever, if not the worst), but it has the dubious honor of being the only derby print to ever sell fewer shirts than votes (which is to say that if a shirt got X votes, every other print has sold more than X+1 shirts)