NE Olympics '16 / August 4th: Mixed Double Sprint

littoral ledges:

I liked the scale and the verticality. However I didn't find the layout especially pretty, although there were some nice elements and interactions. the buildings were decent, but the foliage was a bit lacking and it overall felt a bit bare. Maybe it also felt a bit... blue? IDK if different coaster colors could have worked better. I think some more varied landscaping could have been great- some nice hidden beaches, islands, etc. Like the hideout from the Man with the Golden Gun.

 

pickaxe & buzzsaw

simple but lovely. the layout was really fun and had some cool elements, I really like that choice of track types. good atmosphere and themeing- easy and effective. and again the colored wood seriously changes the aesthetic of the game, I can't wait to start using it- it really throws a massive spanner into the LL toolkit!

 

hunter vs hunted:

the layout is easily the weakest of the round, not really exciting at all tbh- and this round was primarly about the layout I feel. the buildings were OK, nice and overgrown. the foliage was very samey/monotone though, could have used a lot more height and variation to really sell the jungle feeling.

Cheers for the comment cocoa. Simple and easy is what I was going for.. Was fun to make and it didn't take too long either.

 

Littoral ledges:

Pretty interesting and ambitious but also a tad unrefined and awkward looking in places. Mostly due to the layouts being quite stretched out and angular. The rockwork was very good actually, as was the architecture.

 

Hunter v Hunted:

I'm interested in why you chose to build 2 shuttle loops? That's probably the most dull solution you could have come up with. Everything else was decent. I liked the temple and the supporting rides/architecture. Foliage was repetitive as cocoa points out - a broader selection of trees might have helped.

@Cocoa

I appreciate it and yeah, the layout is a mess but I'm never good at making coasters look good. I was actually thinking of going for a James Bond-like theme that would've had more beaches and perhaps even an underground missile but there were a few constraints.

 

@alex

Thank you, I wish I had enough time to refine it given that it was a 2 day build but nevertheless I'm happy with how it turned out, the rockwork was a bit of a pain. My goal was to make this 1940s retro-futuristic art-deco tropical paradise with a little bit of inspiration from Beejer's parks but I had to leave it a bit bare.

any chance of some more comments here?

Littoral Ledges: I wish I had some time to help with this project, but for a quick build and release it was fairly creative. I don't have much coaster layout skills myself, but you tried out something a little different, which was great! More time and input from our team (which was lacking) could have helped create a better atmosphere here, but definitely a great little submission.

 

Hunter Vs Hunted: I like the atmosphere you created here, it's a nice little setting for this small design. Great swampy area, you're heading in the right direction when it comes to foliage. The station was odd though, and I don't really see these coasters as "dueling" coasters, they don't even interlock.

 

Pickaxe & Buzzsaw: This design is almost hard to tell it's LL, getting those colored walls really helps. For using 2 very distinct coasters, you were able to keep the "dueling" aspect pretty good. The general atmosphere was decent too, and always great to have peeps in an LL park, it adds so much more to the parks.

 

Overall, for a quickie contest you guys did great, a bit more time for each of these designs would have made them that much better. Thanks for your work!

To answer some questions about our entries coasters. Most of our park was built in one day. During that session we built nearly a dozen different layouts but nothing working or if it actually working it looked like shit. This was like the second day of the seven days. In the last few hours RWE quickly built the coasters and station so we'd atleast have something.

Littoral Ledges:

This was very neat. I liked the creativity of the park itself. The coasters were a bit wild and the ww/tt objects were quite and eyesore IMO. I think with a little more time this park would've been really amazing.

Pickaxe & Buzzsaw:

Like BSG said I didn't get and LL vibe at all. The atmosphere has pretty good and having peeps is always a plus. You really got the dueling aspect down and they looked great IMO!

Sooooo... results?

I totally didn't see this, thought it had been wrapped up! Apologies. Will be sorted ASAP.

Results

The poll has been closed, the votes counted, and these are the results! The medal table has been updated.

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1st - Parkmenistan

Pickaxe and Buzzsaw by Alex (100%)

7 winner votes (x 2)
5 runner-up votes
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19 votes

Parkmenistan earns 5 points

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2nd - ][topia

Hunter & Hunted by RWE (60%), Bubbsy41 (40%)

3 winner votes (x 2)
5 runner-up votes
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11 votes

][topia earns 4 points

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3rd - Kingdom of Ni

Littoral Ledges by Jaguar (100%)

3 winner votes (x 2)
3 runner-up votes
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9 votes

Kingdom of Ni earns 3 points

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Advice: Don't use the template if you don't update the medal table.

I'm about to upload the new medal table, dipshit. There are a lot of buttons to press and we can't push them all at once.

Hey, I'm not saying you should have updated the medal table, but that you could have deleted the line from the template.

I received 9 votes for this contest, not 6.

Yeah sorry, you are still 3rd though, that was just my mistake.

 

And Version, I didn't delete the line because Liam was updating the medal table.