Pro Tour 2 / Hotel Preliminary Round Results

If Magnus' hotel wasn't all white and was finished, it would have been amazing. I loved it. The hotel structure itself wasn't impressive, but the restaurants and atmosphere were down pretty well.

Rog's was simply awesome. The atmosphere, such as foilage, could have been worked on imo, but the structures were faaannntttaassstttiiiicccc. I loved looking at every bit of wall and brick

Great job.

1. NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
2. what piece were you missing?
and
3.I'm sorry I didn't answer the e-mail, I don't check it that often. I should though.

I sent a new one with the objects exported. I guess I got lucky that Iris had all the objects I used.

Rog

P.S. Here's a screen.

nice, but small

Mmm. I just hope the other rounds prove to be slightly more entertaining.

I agree with the winner here but the hotel isn't that nice.

I'm pretty sure the 2 islands were like The Hotel and the Pool area. I liked that one a lot

Good job to rwadams too.

I sent a new one with the objects exported. I guess I got lucky that Iris had all the objects I used.

   Rog

P.S. Here's a screen.

nice, but small

Small? You realise that's the view taken from the absolute maximum zoom, right? IT'S MASSIVE. But crap. The only one I liked was Magnus', but, don't feel it should have won, as it was incomplete.

2nd to maximum. And yes it's huge.

Personally I didn't like any of them much. Non of them had particualarly attractive colors and form in one package. If the purple on rwadams was either the darker one or the bolder richer one I would love it, but as it is I don't really like it. It amost seems like a black and white picture.

Personally I like the ones from last year better, however the first couple weeks are always a bit weak due to rushing.

ride6

I actually just did a little looking, and do you know the pool is 260 feet long, 150 feet wide, and 5 feet deep? The realism is amazing.

actually... 150 feet wide, well actually 164 feet, would be the length of an olypic sized pool. So, um, that's one big ass pool. That's mangus' pool, right? It needed more lanes (there were 6 I think, olympic pools have either 8 or 10, unless they're wider that 25 yards), but since he didn't have the centered baseblocks, it's ok, I guess..

No, that's rwadams pool, sorry. Magnus' pool is 150 feet long, 70 feet wide, and 15 feet deep, which would be plausible, if it weren't for the 10-foot wide lanes...

Edit: Just so he doesn't feel left out, Mariner's is 100 x 80 x 5.

^over-analytical. do you ever look at the big picture?

The Ritz-Carlton Five Points by rwadams - Excellent entry but it didn't really hold my attention for too long. It seemed too uniformed and had too much repetition for my tastes, but I can see why it won as it definitely demonstrated your some incredible structure-making skills that you continue to display, roger. Congrats on the qualifying entry, you definitely deserve it.

Hotel and Resort El Mediteranea by magnus - Everything that led up to the hotel was great, but the hotel itself was quite a let down. It looked like an overgrown warehouse and seemed quite rushed. Almost like you spent all your time building the out skirts of the hotel and then realized, "uh oh, I better start building a hotel" . Anyway, I think this one had more potential than roger's, but the execution brought it down just enough for second place. Eitherway, nice job magnus and I still expect to see you in PT2.

Grand Marquies Hotel and Suites by marinersfan59 - Colors and textures were my favorite aspects of this entry and especially loved the art-deco corner supports incorporated into the hotel structure. The parking lot was very well-done too. However, I didn't like the foliage, monorail or outlying structures surrounding the hotel. Another solid entry.

yyo - sorry, don't have time to get my LL disk out for this one. my apologies.

Hotel d'Amirillo by trav - Well, a nice effort. It seems to me that you tried too hard which lead to an over-symmetrical lump-of-a-building. The balconies and helicopter pad were nice ideas, but execution lacked. I'd try varying your architecture forms more to create more asthetic value in what you present to the viewer to improve. But still, as usual, I appreciate the effort and you've definitely improved from you last work I saw from you.

Why does everyone care about the pool sizes now? Is there a pool standard? I'd expect the pool depth might have more variation than just 5 ft., but I've been in plenty of hotel pools that don't go much deeper than that.

I haven't looked at the entries yet, but I will later.

nobody cares, chauncey is over-analytical, and I just happen to be an avid swimmer.

though a 165 x 75 foot pool would be the corect olypic sized one in rct. i'd do that and have a diving well that's 75 x 80 or 85...

^over-analytical. do you ever look at the big picture?

Yes. But often times the big picture is boring, and the details are more interesting, and, when that is the case, I look at the details. I found it especially funny that the pool was doubly-olypmic size, and yet, about half as deep as my backyard swimmingpool. That's all. Sheesh.

Besides, how can you not look at the big picture with that entry? I mean, there is no LITTLE picture!

A nice start of The Pro Tour, i must say.

rwadams:
Impressive. I love the theme, it's so different then the usual theme's. The grey mixed together with purple gave it a well captured atmosphere. The structure itself is even better, tall and not blocky at all, you paid a lot of attention to detail and it didn't start to get boring. While is was afraid of that when i first saw the park from the overview, but it turned out great.

Magnus:
Also a very nice hotel, although it was slightly poorer then The Ritz-Carlton Five Points. I enjoyed looking at it, the theme was nice and the architecture was excellent. But something drove me away from the park, i think it's because it was rushed and it was divided into 2 sections...But i still think it's a very nice hotel though, if only you hadn't rushed it then it might have beaten rwadams entry in my eyes. Pitty

marinersfan59:
Nice, especially the structure itself. That showed some skills, it caught my attention, but in the end i think that you didn't pay enough attention to detail (like Metropole has mentioned about the wall's and such...).

Trav:
What was there was nice, but it was extremely little. And the helicopter thing on top of the building ruined it a bit. I'd have suggested a regular roof or a pool, but right now it gave me the feeling of lazyness . The building up to there really wasn't bad, no serious.

yyo:
I have looked at yours as well but i don't know what to think about it really. The little building was good and the foilage too but i didn't really see a hotel. I think that this round wasn't for rct1 since rct2 is a too big competitor because it's so much easier to build massive buildings in such a short time with rct2...

Splash

Hotel and Resort El Mediteranea by magnus - Everything that led up to the hotel was great, but the hotel itself was quite a let down.  It looked like an overgrown warehouse and seemed quite rushed. Almost like you spent all your time building the out skirts of the hotel and then realized, "uh oh, I better start building a hotel"  .  Anyway, I think this one had more potential than roger's, but the execution brought it down just enough for second place.  Eitherway, nice job magnus and I still expect to see you in PT2.

i started the hotel (main building) when i had like 2 more hours to build. (also had to make staff and shops at that time) didn't even want to do the hotel, but then thought i'd have to make like a main building.
anyways it was very very unfinished and the people who know my plans for the hotel might now that it would have been and easy win (if i had like one more month to work on it)

maybe it was wrong to sent it in, but i really thought it'd have a chance, cause i forgot rwadams also made a hotel. (did he ever mention it in this thread?)

and even if i'm be the Kumba of PT2 i will fight to get my place in PT2.

cause i forgot rwadams also made a hotel. (did he ever mention it in this thread?)

Not a word.

Thanks for all the comments. I would have spent more time on the surounding area, but I ran out of time. I underestimated the amount of time it would take to do the details on the main structure, and was rushed just to finish what I submitted.

Rog