Alienware Dream Contest - Judging Begins

Good luck everyone, I haven't seen Patrick's in an actual dream but if his screenshot is anything to go by their gonna be hard pressed to not hand that PC over to him.. It looks exceptional...IMO.

Good luck everyone!

i hope i win

oh man! i already won because i have all these on my rig

Contest probably would have had a bit more entries if it weren't limited to people running Vista Ultimate...

that doesn't make sense to me since dreams only run on vista ultimate.

The explaination for reply #4 has got to be good, I may even write it done and save it.   

Good luck! There are some amazing dreams in the contest!

Some real beauties there.Good luck everyone.  

Good Luck everybody    They all look good to me     

Good luck everyone  

I thought the results were out by the 5th? not "the end of next week". Sorry I'm not complaining just curious if this was a typo or which is correct.

judging is this week.  We were closed for the holidays until January 2nd, and we wanted to give our judges time to review all the submissions fairly.

If I get the results back early, I'll post early, but no promises.

Actually that's pretty much my point right there. Seems to be that's quite a small group of potential entries. Furthermore, it's not that Vista Ultimate users are the only that can run dreams, but they are also the only one's that can make them which is where my main point would lay. The general purpose of a contest is generally to generate as large of a group of content as possible to draw in attention to a product, I'm just not sure if this contest was effective in doing so for Alienware or Stardock.

MindlessPuppet the sole purpose of this contest was to create a dream. How do you include anyone who does not run Vista Ultimate. I beleive Alenware was looking for a dream to include on one of their upcoming computers (just my quess). They set up the contest with Stardock for a very specific purpose.

yeah i like!

Best of luck to everyone!

Would seem logical that it would have been more beneficial to Stardock to wait until Deskscape 2.0 for such a contest, that way allowing for a larger group of users/content makers. As for Alienware, wouldn't it have made more sense to hire someone as they have in the past? And if their goal was to get a quality Dream to distribute with their PCs do you believe it to be accomplished (considering the work The Skins Factory has done for them in the past)?

And yes, you're right, the purpose was to make a dream, not being able to run one. At this point I would venture to guess most of this (and pretty much every) community still run XP. However, that doesn't stop them from being able to create Vista content for windowblinds, iconpackager, etc but dreams are a different story. Furthermore, the nature of Dreams really makes them something that wouldn't need to be tested in Vista Ultimate, anyone with a media player who can locate the loop button could have taken a shot at the contest if Dreammaker were allowing.

If you haven't gathered, I still run XP, aside from the all too well-known compatibility issues the main reason I won't run Vista is my PC is a budget rig and the performance hit would be too much to bare with Vista (which I own, used for about 2 weeks, and formatted for XP). I would have loved the chance (and a damn good one it seems) to win a new PC. This contest was so asinine it's almost insulting. But don't take my word for it, the number of entries speaks for itself, contests with $4500 in prizes tend to generate a bit more quality participation than what's seen.

I believe the only thing that entered into the decision for the contest was this is what Alienware wanted to do. Now that's just my opinion, I don't speak for Alienware or Stardock.

I'm getting the feeling that you didn't think to much of the contest.  :NOTSURE: 

Good luck to all the entrants!

MindlessPuppet - Your reasoning is why Alienware and Stardock are industry leaders and your running a budget rig.

Now really what kind of response is that? Are you an industry leader in your field? If not, must be cause of the that post.

Wow, so much text for a contest that is over with and the selection of the winners is taking place. Mmmmm, got to think about this. There is a purpose for everything in the universe. I know, I must need to apply some fuzzy logic here.   

fuzzy logic is currently being applied to judging. So shhhh, be quiet, I'm thinking...

I had a thought one time.

Yes.