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I'm pretty disappointed with my rating at the 11 Second Club. I think it's pretty obvious that I wasn't going to win, but I was hoping to make it into the upper half. Based on what I saw while I was rating, I should have. But it's kind of difficult to say where it should land if it's not in the top 10%, since the rating from 1.5 to 4 the lower half and 4 to 8 cover the upper half. It's clear a lot of people don't really pay much attention to their ratings. I got some good comments, and some of the work that was rated better than mine obviously wasn't finished.

But there's no other competition website that I know of, so I'll just keep trying. I've got some ideas for improving this month, but it might be a couple months before I can break into the upper end and not have to worry about falling in amongst the garbage. I think unless you're in the top 10%, you really can end up anywhere. I think a lot of people go through and give random 1-3 scores for stuff that isn't their own anyway. The top scorer only had 7.86 stars, out of 11 possible. It was really visually appealing, and well animated, so I'm glad it won. But still, less than 8 stars for the winner? I think maybe they need to rethink their rating system.

Ok, enough complaining. I'm having a lot of fun with the Dominance War V challenge, unfortunately I think I'm really pushing the 6 second limit and running a little too fast right now. I'll have to cut out a couple moves to get it flowing properly. I finished a blocking test on Saturday.