We have four judges and all four judges will be giving you marks. Each judge will give you a score out of 50. So, your total score will be out 200.

This way, you won't lose marks just because one judge didn't like your graphics.

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Creativity: /10
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Obviously, creativity comes first. Be as creative and unique as possible. This is all up to you.

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Resources: /10
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You HAVE to attach the resources used in it. If you don't, you get a zero here.

Now, here we don't judge whether your resources are good or not (Those come in the 'Quality' criterion), here we judge how well you've used your resources and to check how much of this is done by you and how much you took from the internet.

If you take a random picture from the internet and simply put your watermark in it, you'll lose marks in this section. You could still do that though, we're just saying that you'll lose marks.

But as long as you've attached the resources, you will get some kind of mark.

If you've actually edited the picture and made your own changes to it, or you clubbed a few pictures together, then you'll get marks here.

Basically, it's all about the effort.

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Texts: /10
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Every graphic should have texts. We'll be specifying in each contest what text is to be put.

But in every contest, you'll need to have your username and "The Queenz Community" watermark in it. Yes, it's annoying to have "The Queenz Community" written in your graphics. But we need to make sure that this is made by you for The Queenz Graphic Contest alone.

The marks for the watermark will be given in the text criteria. So be careful.

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Quality: /10
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Now comes the quality of the graphics. Here we judge the clarity of the image, whether it looks neat, whether there are any cropping defects, etc.

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Theme: /10
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Theme includes the color palette, the relevance to the topic and the overall vibe of the graphic.

Follow the prompt and use the right colors. Just read the prompt carefully and you'll get it.

If it's a character aesthetic or movie poster, capture the vibe of the character or movie.

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Ranks:
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Now this is something new which you may not have seen in other graphic contests other than The Rant Graphic Contest which is hosted by iKnow_imAwesome and SexiestAssOutThere

Recently, I took part in a graphic contest where we were asked to make character aesthetics. There was this one graphic which was amazing! There was a lot of effort and creativity put into it and it was beautiful. But they didn't put the character's name and thus they lost marks. There was this other graphic which honestly wasn't that great and there wasn't a lot of effort put into it, but they met all the criteria and they got first place.

As this is a graphic contest, the effort and beauty of the graphics is what's most important. So the ranks focus on this rather than the criteria.

Of course, you'll still have to follow all the criteria cuz the rank alone can't put you in first place. It's 150 marks for the rest of the criteria..

How does this work now? 

Rank 1 will be the lowest rank. NOT THE HIGHEST! Why? Cuz the rank is going to be added to your marks, so higher rank, higher marks. The highest rank will be the number of participants for each round. 
This will purely be based on the judges' preferences and does not follow any criteria. 
But this does not COMPLETELY stray away from the criteria.
The judges will put you in a low rank if you haven't followed the criteria AT ALL. This could only help you in small errors which does not even matter so much.