"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> In article <417975df@news.povray.org> , "Phlip" <phl### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>
> >> No, that is not it.  We are currently discussing the images that have been
> >> submitted.  There will be news soon.
> >
> > Mine was a pessimistic software engineering estimate. ;-)
>
> Well, as it turns out we may well have underestimated the time needed to
> create as impressive images as we had imagined...
>
>     Thorsten

It sounds like you have just seriously insulted every artist who
participated in this contest.  I hope that I am misinterpreting your
comment.  I'll be the first to admit that I doubt my image was good enough
to win the competition, but I did put in quite a lot of work.

If you didn't get the quality and/or number of images you expected, you
might also attribute that to several other possible problems.  Perhaps word
didn't spread about the contest as far and as quickly as you wanted.  I
don't know exactly when the contest started, I think I only discovered it
about halfway through the allotted time.  There also hasn't been a lot of
activity on the home page for the contest.  Finally, this is the first time
I've heard of this contest, and the first time out, you almost never get
the turnout you'd expect.  I'm sure that next year's contest will get a lot
more entries, especially if you offer similar prizes.

I hope that you will clarify the remark you made above quickly so people
won't jump to the wrong conclusions.