That... that wasn't part of the rules of the tournament Wei. No one signed up for this battle agreeing to suffer a punishment upon failure. Sure the icon swap is a funny joke, if they could change it back, say once voting is over. But forcing people to draw a comic to change it back? I don't think that should be allowed. Even if the means to get rid of it is literally "do another battle, since that's what we're here to do."
If we agreed to that at the beginning, it would be fine. But no one did. Yes, this tournament was probably one of the hardest attempts void has done on requiring a complete comic. But the motto "death before default" is supposed to encourage attempting even in the face of failure. That only works because there is no direct consequence on the site for trying and being unsuccessful.
If this is something the mods agreed to implement, then you guys need to put an announcement up about this and make it a gradual change. I personally wouldn't mind some amount of consequence to unsuccessful attempts... somehow... but I still haven't yet come up with a means to do so that doesn't simply discourage people from ever drawing here, or anywhere else.
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Colbitzer
@ 3:32 PM Apr 17th