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ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE MASCOT CONTEST!
Hello everyone! It's been a grueling 3 months since we opened the mascot contest, and 1 since we closed it! I know most of you all are excited to finally see the winner of this contest, because I'm really excited to finally announce it myself!
We got 13 unique entrants and 16 designs to look through! I was really overwhelmed with the response for such a small contest. We want to stress to everyone how hard it was to pick from so many great applicants. For these reasons, we had a score card for our guest artist judges! The scoring system was based on Visual Appeal, Apparent Age of the Mascot, How Well Appearance linked to the Bandori.Party website, and memorability. Each category had a certain integer associated with the answers taken from the artists. Meanwhile, active staff members were asked to rank their top 3 and give reasons to their vote, and were added to artist score cards as bonus points. Additionally, names were removed from all entries to prevent a bias if there should have been any connection between the staff, artists, and art judges.
You can view all of the entries here!
Without further ado, our winner of BOTH Artists Choice & Staff Pick, and our mascot for Bandori.Party is...
ENTRY 4 - BY USER NEROMAO!!!
Design is not final, however. There will be modifications made by our official artist. The winner is aware!
The end of this contest means a new one will begin, because I think our Character Needs a name, don't you? You can submit names here until 15 September. This will be a for-fun event and final voting will occur after the names are screened by the staff for the top 4 names! You can submit as many names as you would like, just submit each name separately. Thank you!
We have some comments on the winning design presented by our staff and guest artist judges to go along with the announcement!
Our first judge is Amber Avara, a webcomic creator who's addicted to character design! Her comments were as follows with the announcement of the winner: "The winning design is very cute and definitely reads as an idol girl character! I'd personally work a little more on "branding"--parts of the other designs that I thought were really successful was the use of the yellow star, if that could be incorporated into this final design I think it'd be a perfect match! She's got an oldschool vibe that's nostalgic in the good way--reminds me of classical magical girls like Cardcaptor Sakura. Overall, a very cute character! Congratulations!"
Our second judge is D. Artemisatto, who collaborated with Natasha Allegri on the design for Vocaloid Ruby. She had this to say to the winning design: "A very lovely design, not too serious or too informal, nor does it feel too Idol-like by itself, but as a manager indeed. I feel it picked the webpage elements nicely, plus added some interesting accessories like the usb cords as hairpiece and tablet relating it to the digital nature of the game and the online community. As a character I can link it to the franchise both as a mascot and as a demographic, she doesn't feel too old or too young, but someone anyone can relate to."
Third, we have Jadii, a very prolific colorist and artist from Ireland who's had a following on dA for sometime. Her comments to the winner: "I think this design is the perfect middle ground between too simple and over designed. It has an excellent balanced colour scheme, structure and plenty of well thought out small details that bring the design together. There were many good designs I liked but I think this is a great representation/mascot for Bandori.Party!"
Our fourth and final judge will be the final designer and artist for the winning design, Brella! "Congratulations on the winner! It's my pleasure to be able to draw their character as the chosen Bandori Party mascot. She was one of my favorite designs of the bunch as she was a clear reflection of the website's purpose, and design aesthetic. I see the vibe of someone who's intelligent, responsible, enthusiastic, and youthful."
The staff comments on the design begin with mine. Personally, I just had a feeling with this one. Her color scheme of course was very indicative of the franchise and our very own site, and I love that she's basically a gijinka of the database! Ambi commented on the fact her character data was "android" over human, changing the game for her completely when it came to voting. The artists comments on the use of memory storage also really stood out, as well as the color scheme (again!) and the use of a dark brown/red over a complete black in the design.
Our final staff comment comes from Passionate, "Though I didn’t expect a non-human entry in this competition, it was a rather unique entry that definitely caught my attention! I personally have very little experience in judging mascots and such (this is my first time being a main judge, to be honest), but out of all the entries (which were all very appealing, by the way!), this was one of the most visually appealing. Not only was the colour scheme of this entry was fairly easy on the eyes, it also matched very well with colours of Bandori.Party, as well as the concept of Bandori.Party’s mission - a fan-made database for BanG Dream, made by fans, for fans! Starting from the unique concept, to an appealing colour scheme, and above all, reflecting the purpose of Bandori.Party, this entry was definitely one of the strongest, and was in no way undeserving of being the winner! Congratulations!"
The two other staff members involved in the voting declined to comment or couldn't be reached.
Thank you again for everyone's submissions. I really had no idea how this would turn out. I was getting kind of anxious that this event would be a total flop or we wouldn't be able to see it through. Thank you all for submitting, and thank you all for viewing and supporting Bandori.Party so far. Hope to see you again soon!
LatidoReMe
Battle of the Bands v3
Groupie Form | Discord Server | SubCaptain Form
Dates: February 10th, 11th, 17th, and 18th UTC
After many adjustments and improvements, the staff of Bandori.Party are proud to announce the 3rd Battle of the Bands! If you're already familiar with the BoB and how it functions, then we suggest you hop on down to the end of this news post to view the changelog. If you think that Bob is just somebody's name, then we urge you to continue reading, so you can get a gist of what this event is all about!
General Outline
The Battle of the Bands (nicknamed the BoB) is a special event hosted by the staff of Bandori.Party and other community members! The main idea of the event is to rack up points for the band you represent! After filling out the registration form, Discord Staff will assign you to a team based off of personal preference, skill level, and availability. Once sign-ups are complete, the BoB will commence! Through official matches and missions, you’ll earn points for the team you’re representing. Once everything is over, the final results will be calculated, rewards will be handed out, and that’s that! Sounds simple, right? That's because it is!
How does it work?
1. Before the BoB begins, you'll be assigned to a team as either a Groupie or a SubCaptain.
2. Before the first round of matches begin, hang out on the server, get to know people, and just get hyped for the BoB that is about to start!
3. Once the BoB starts, there are two ways you can gain your team points! The first way is by head on over to bob_matchmaking channel during an enemy captain’s scheduled block time to begin playing matches for your team!
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When the @ here signups message pops up, react with your team logo for a chance to rep your team!
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Using our trusty bot zippy (Tatsumaki), we randomly choose between you and any other of your teammates who signed up to play that match! We also use zippy to randomly choose a song theme for the round, and then all is set!
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If you got picked, then once @ ed by the captain with a room code, you enter the private multilive room code provided and begin the round! You either choose a song from the theme or select [Any], and then you give it your all in the live! Once the live finishes, you’ve completed a match! You don’t have to do anything else to earn your team points for this match.
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After that captain’s block(s), they will calculate the results (check out Scoring System for details), and post them ASAP! With those results, you’ll get to see how many points you contributed to your team.
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Ta-da! You’ve played an official match of the BoB, and earned your team some points!
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The other way to earn points is through the Missions System! It is elaborated on more down below, but every day a few missions are given to team members to complete, and upon success you will reward your team some points! It’s a very simple but fun way to contribute to your team even if you don’t have time to play a lot of matches, so we suggest you check them out as well!
4. The BoB will continue for 2 days until the break! During the break you get to relax, hang out, or just wait for more matches, until finally #3 resumes until the end of the BoB.
5. Once the BoB has ended, the final results will be calculated and posted ASAP. All participants will receive a participation badge, and the winners will get a special winners badge too! With that, this BoB will conclude, and you’ll be left to enjoy our server until the next one
How is this judged?
The scoring system is based off a “Perfect Million” scoring system, where each player will be scored out of one million points based on their performance. More details and formulas are available here. Players will also receive bonuses to their score based on their chosen difficulty and combo.
The changes to the scoring formula were made based off the results from previous matches. This time, you won’t be able to beat people with just the difficulty bonus - so be sure to be playing at an appropriate difficulty!
Players are then ranked based off of their score from the above scoring system, and awarded according to their rank. The point system toward the member’s bands are broken down as such:
1st Place → 50 pts.
2nd Place → 40 pts.
3rd Place → 30 pts.
4th Place → 20 pts.
5th Place → 10 pts.
If a member of the team is exhausted by the end of the run, there is a deduction of 15 points (not score!) to that run - however, you cannot get negative points from a round. So please, be sure to be playing at a difficulty you can manage! At the same time, there will also be a bonus of 1 point on Easy, 2 points on Normal, 3 points on Hard, and 5 points on Expert should a player achieve a Full Combo, so keep this in mind!
Missions
Introduced during the last Battle of the Bands, missions are a way to gain points for your team outside of official matches! The IE team (the people in charge of missions) assigns groupies challenges each day at 6PM UTC in #missions_info, and upon completion they are awarded extra points for their team!
What types of missions are there?
- Individuals:
These are daily missions that an individual can complete! They’ll be announced everyday at 6PM UTC, and groupies will have 24 hours to complete them! These missions have difficulty levels, and a groupie can complete only 2 of these a day. Ex. [Hard] FC Determination Symphony on Hard+
- Group:
These are daily missions that 5 groupies can complete together! They’ll be announced everyday at 6PM UTC, and groupies will have 24 hours to complete them! These missions will reward 5 points to each individual, and there will only be 1 of these missions a day. Ex. [Medium] With a team of all unique HHW centers, have at least 2 groupies FC Don’t be afraid
- Mini-Group:
These are daily missions that 2-3 groupies can complete together! They’ll be announced everyday at 6PM UTC, and groupies will have 24 hours to complete them! These missions will reward 5 points to each individual, and there will only be one of these missions a day. Ex. [Easy] With centers of Kokoro and Kaoru, clear ロメオ with everyone having at least a 237 combo
- Extended:
These are missions that are available from the start of the BoB, and will end 24 hours from the last missions announcement! There are 9 missions total in this category--3 of each difficulty--and a groupie can complete up to three of these! Each difficulty of mission will reward the same amount of points, however a bonus is given if a groupie completes all missions of a difficulty, with the bonus scaling to difficulty. Ex. [Hard] FC Don’t Say Lazy on Hard+
How to submit missions?
Go to #missions_submissions, and make a post with the following:
- The Mission Type and Identifier (ex.Individual Hard)
- The User(s): (ex. @ LatidoReMe, @ Passionate, and @ Trashi)
- The Specified Screenshot: each mission will have the specified screenshots needed to prove completion. Either insert a link to them or upload them directly with your posting so that we can verify you completed the mission
We’ll react with either a
Banned Cards
All cards with Perfect Lock skills are banned from being your center in this event, as they'd give an unfair advantage to certain players.
To figure out whether your center has a Perfect Lock skill or not, go to the Cards section of our site and filter cards based off the Perfect Lock side skill (represented by the lock icon)
Frequently Asked Questions
For a more in-depth FAQ, go to our BanPa BoB Playguide and scroll to the bottom.
ChangeLog
For vets of the event, here's a change log:
✨This time we're focusing on scheduling blocks around highest user activity ⏰ 👥
✨There'll be a Mission System revamp 📝
✨Less mod matches 🕵
✨Team chats are back 💬
We hope you'll like the changes we made for BoB V3!
violetR
Let's Celebrate! Collectible Launch Giveaway!
Welcome back, guys! I know it was a very tough week for everyone who waited for the results of our giveaway. Never fear, we're here with the goods. For Twitter, we had three different ways to win. First, you could get a lot of retweets and likes and win popular pick! Secondly, you could attach a link to your profile and be in the running for staff pick. Thirdly, there was a random draw prize for anyone who entered with gleam.io and had a valid tweet (as in, not deleted).
THE POPULAR 'PICK' WINNER IS MAYAEVES
Congratulations! Combined likes/retweets were at 340, making it a very close call with another participant. Never fear, however, as we will be also giving the runner-up, Shinoburedo the other pick can badge as well! You both did really amazingly, and we were wow'd! MayaEves will be the winner of the Maya pick badge, and Shinoburedo the Moca!
OUR STAFF'S FAVORITE PROFILE IS TRASHI
Congratulations! The staff was impressed by your custom pixels, neatness, and detail that you paid to your profile on the site. It's definitely a shining example of what we love from our community members. Trashi will be winning either a Saaya or Yukina rubber strap!
We had multiple profiles in our runner's up, who also show a great profile in some way, shape or form. You should check out their profiles as well! We had NicoYLM, Yunii, Cynonic, and DevilDash in the running.
OUR RANDOM STAR IS BOWFANATIC
The winner of the Arisa Ichigaya can badge is Bowfanatic! Congratulations! We really appreciate your entry and the sharing of your love for Bpa and Bandori itself~!
If you win and you want to swap prize with another winner, ask them and let us know!
OUR RANDOM FEEDBACKER IS IDOLTRASHUU
Thank you for your feedback on our site. We'd love to pay back your help with a icon/header set provided by BrokenMadnessu!
If anyone else still has feedback on the site, feel free to let us know about it here!
NOW WHAT?
If you've won a prize, please DM our Twitter Account with your information and the prize you're claiming if you made a change or had a choice in your prize. Everyone has 48 hours to claim their prizes. Thanks for joining us on the launch of collectibles and we really hope you'll stick around when we roll out activities and GBP EN comes out.
violetR
CONTEST CLOSED-- SEE WINNERS HERE!!!
Let's Celebrate! Collectible Launch Giveaway!
Hi all, aren't you super excited about the collections and activities being implemented on the site? We sure are! We're so excited, we're holding a few contests and giveaways for the occasion. Read below for some different ways to enter and prizes we have included for this fantastic occasion! You can enter the contest in all 2 areas of entry if you'd like to bolster your chances. However, you can only win a category once. If you win in multiple, the runner-up in that area will be getting the prize. YES, THIS IS OPEN WORLD WIDE!
Twitter Giveaway
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Add your cards to your collection from this link.
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Customize your profile to fit your style: settings.
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(Optional) Add your list of participated events, played songs, and favorite cards.
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Enter through gleam.io for the random entry category. Then reply to the tweet generated from gleam.io with a profile link and any extra stuff you want to include (photos for example) to wow the Staff for staff pick!
Note: If you include images, only use official artworks, artworks you own, or fan artworks that are approved by the artist and credited.
Prizes
- Most popular
The tweet with the highest number of likes + retweets (combined) will get 1 Maya Yamato -OR- Moca Aoba pick.
- Staff favorite
The nicest profile handpicked by staff (with cards & details filled, links added and nice presentation at the top) will get 1 Saaya Yamabuki -OR- Yukina Minato rubber strap.
- Random
One tweet will be selected randomly. The winner will get 1 Arisa Ichigaya badge.
If you win and you want to swap prize with another winner, ask them and let us know!
Feedback Giveaway
If you want a simple approach, you can leave a line about what else you think needs to be on Bandori.Party, how you feel about the site, or if you wanna let us know we're awesome and the site is worth crying ourselves to sleep in exhaustion sometimes (I'm joking) (but really). We will choose 3 random people that submit valid feedback from the form. What's valid feedback? Anything longer than 4 sentences and isn't just a random "owo what's this" or a spammy link to check out your Myspace account or whatever.
Fill it out here.
Prizes
A custom twitter icon/header combo for your profile by BrokenMadnessu!
