With this round concludes the Forest of Avarice OCT. I'm thankful for all the contestants and judges who made this possible.

And now, after a long delay, the winners.

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FIRST PLACE:

• Originality: 54/75
• Story: 63/75
• Design/Presentation: 72/75
• Effort: 73/75
TOTAL POINTS: 262
~starsparkleshine You can tell a lot of effort went into this one, and with the solid story backing it this would be my personal choice for winner.
~zappakai A bit long, and some of the pages near the end were boring. It might help if you eliminated unnecessary panels and parts.
=HopelessIdiot This was a great entry! Near the end, it got a little redundant. Still, the art went well with the story, and you had a solid plot. Congratulations for winning the Forest of Avarice Tournament!

SECOND PLACE:

• Originality: 68/75
• Story: 72/75
• Design/Presentation: 58/75
• Effort: 63/75
TOTAL POINTS: 261
~starsparkleshine Solid story, most climatic ending of all three.
~zappakai Some panels feel scrunched. I think contrast in line width and in shade would definitely help, at a fast glance characters are hard to discern from lots of busy lines. And don't be afraid of spot blacks!!
=HopelessIdiot This was the most engaging plot I read, and it balanced each character with justice! The only thing I pity is that you didn't have more time to work on your submission, but I believe the story alone makes up for that! Great entry!!

THIRD PLACE:

• Originality: 54/75
• Story: 65/75
• Design/Presentation: 65/75
• Effort: 63/75
TOTAL POINTS: 247
~starsparkleshine I found this the most enjoyable story. It kept my attention well and I just really liked it.
~zappakai The unique panel spacing and floating in black gives your comic a dreamlike quality, which I think works well when Perin's alone and talking to herself (or.. that voice.), but it also sucks the energy out of fight scenes. Reducing the distance between panels would probably help a lot. More panels with more than a character's head and shoulders and more inclusion of backgrounds and other characters would help panel variety and give the audience a better idea of what's going on. Like Tora your panels are very white, but adding tones or blacks to them along with the black borders would make your pages very dark and I wouldn't recommend it unless you have a very big panel. It might help if you considered the path the eye is going to take down the page, because it was easy to overlook sound effects/word bubbles that lay outside the panels because they weren't in that path, either.
=HopelessIdiot First thing's first; I LOVE your style. Your story kept my attention all the way through, and the art flowed wonderfully with the story, I think. If I had a category for "Style," you would get 30/25!!

(If you find any calculation errors in the math, it'll be a very awkward mistake. Please tell me right away! )

Again, thank you all! Prizes will be on their way shortly. For the requests you were promised, just tell the people what you want.