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Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:41 pm
by Bruce N H
Every year the Colossal Castle Contest inspires great building from lots of different builders, but there are always a few people who excel all around. The Master Builder award is given to the individual builder who enters at least six different categories and does the best all-around. This year there were several people with extremely impressive sets of entries, people like [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/events/ccc/vi ... e=Aardwolf]Aardwolf[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/events/ccc/vi ... e=jaapxaap]Jaapxaap[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/events/ccc/vi ... alue=josdu]josdu[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/events/ccc/vi ... eKreations]KyleKreations[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/events/ccc/vi ... ue=marcu44]Marcu44[/url], and [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/events/ccc/vi ... soccerkid6]Soccerkid6[/url], just to name a few, but in the end there can be only one. I'm sure this is no surprise if you've looked at the list of [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/events/contes ... nners.html]winners[/url] and noticed how often one name comes up, but this year's Master Builder is ... drum roll please ... [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/events/ccc/vi ... Dubbadgrim]Dubbadgrim[/url]. Be sure to check out his truly impressive body of work, including those below, and congratulate him on his win.

[url=http://www.classic-castle.com/events/ccc/vi ... Dubbadgrim][img]http://www.classic-castle.com/moc/articles/ ... uilder.jpg[/img][/url]

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Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 10:13 pm
by josdu
Aye, but despite my 'extremely impressive sets of entries' I didn't even get a second place! Congrats Dubbadgrim though, you deserve it! Btw, I thought only the top six entries were judged for MB (somewhere it said: This prize will be awarded to the builder who... has the highest score when their top six creation scores are averaged), is this the case? I guess there's no real reason to doubt it, but just wondering ;) .

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 1:09 am
by nanuck95
Congrats Dubbadgrim! You've joined the ranks of the best of the best! A well deserved win, congrats again.

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 1:39 am
by Athos
I particularly like the centerpiece black castle MOC...

Steve

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 1:41 am
by AardWolf
I would have been shocked if it WASN'T Dubbadgrim :wink: Outstanding job- your quantity of extremely high quality entries made me wonder if you had a time turner or something. Congratulations! No doubt you earned and deserve it!

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 1:53 am
by Bruce N H
josdu wrote:Aye, but despite my 'extremely impressive sets of entries' I didn't even get a second place! Congrats Dubbadgrim though, you deserve it! Btw, I thought only the top six entries were judged for MB (somewhere it said: This prize will be awarded to the builder who... has the highest score when their top six creation scores are averaged), is this the case? I guess there's no real reason to doubt it, but just wondering ;) .
Josdu, those other names, including yours, are listed in alphabetical order. Yes, the top six builds are totaled for the MB. That composite image above is just a selection of some of Dubbadgrim's builds. I tried putting all 17 into a composite, but they would have been too small to see if I'd done so, so I chopped out half of them.

Bruce

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 7:53 am
by Dubbadgrim
Thanks so much everyone, especially the judges for liking my entries! I'm very proud to hold the title of Master Builder for this year, especially since this site played a such a pivotal role in bringing me out of my dark ages.
josdu wrote:Aye, but despite my 'extremely impressive sets of entries' I didn't even get a second place! Congrats Dubbadgrim though, you deserve it! Btw, I thought only the top six entries were judged for MB (somewhere it said: This prize will be awarded to the builder who... has the highest score when their top six creation scores are averaged), is this the case? I guess there's no real reason to doubt it, but just wondering ;) .
Thanks josdu. I'm very impressed with your Tourney run so far, especially so soon after your strong CCC showing.
AardWolf wrote:I would have been shocked if it WASN'T Dubbadgrim :wink: Outstanding job- your quantity of extremely high quality entries made me wonder if you had a time turner or something. Congratulations! No doubt you earned and deserve it!
Thanks Aardwolf, I was lucky enough to have a lot of spare time towards the end of last year which coincided very well with the contest. And I may have done a few pricey orders on Bricklink to add a bit of variety to my entries :sly:
Athos wrote:I particularly like the centerpiece black castle MOC...

Steve
Thankyou Athos, that was a true powerbuild (in terms of time spent on it). Not a lot of flashy techniques but I was quite happy with the result.
nanuck95 wrote:Congrats Dubbadgrim! You've joined the ranks of the best of the best! A well deserved win, congrats again.
Thanks nanuck, congrats on your Haunted Inn win.

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 8:26 am
by marcu44
Congrats to Dubbadgrim! It wasn't a big surprise, but you deserved it with all the time you've spent into this...in my eyes, you've got the talent to make a "classic"-castle style still look cool and enjoyable!

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:39 pm
by soccerkid6
Congrats Dubbadgrim, as soon as you started posting entries I knew you had a good shot at winning this :D

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 6:41 pm
by En_Zoo
marcu44 wrote:Congrats to Dubbadgrim! It wasn't a big surprise, but you deserved it with all the time you've spent into this...in my eyes, you've got the talent to make a "classic"-castle style still look cool and enjoyable!
I second this :)

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 5:24 pm
by Athos
Dubbadgrim wrote:
Athos wrote:I particularly like the centerpiece black castle MOC...

Steve
Thankyou Athos, that was a true powerbuild (in terms of time spent on it). Not a lot of flashy techniques but I was quite happy with the result.
I think that's why I like it. It reminds me of that classic lego style that I like so much.

Steve

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 3:39 am
by KyleKreations
Congratulations Dubbadgrim! You had an incredible performance, putting out the most and undoubtedly the best in the entire contest. I loved the way you took a very different path on some of the categories, and never let your quality suffer despite the many entries you built. A very worthy winner, you should be proud to enter the famed halls of CCC Master Builder!

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 6:44 am
by Dubbadgrim
marcu44 wrote:Congrats to Dubbadgrim! It wasn't a big surprise, but you deserved it with all the time you've spent into this...in my eyes, you've got the talent to make a "classic"-castle style still look cool and enjoyable!
Thanks marcu, congrats on your ship win.
soccerkid6 wrote:Congrats Dubbadgrim, as soon as you started posting entries I knew you had a good shot at winning this :D
Thanks man, congrats on winning the manor category.
KyleKreations wrote:Congratulations Dubbadgrim! You had an incredible performance, putting out the most and undoubtedly the best in the entire contest. I loved the way you took a very different path on some of the categories, and never let your quality suffer despite the many entries you built. A very worthy winner, you should be proud to enter the famed halls of CCC Master Builder!
Thanks a lot Kyle, congrats on the siege win.
Athos wrote:
Dubbadgrim wrote:
Athos wrote:I particularly like the centerpiece black castle MOC...

Steve
Thankyou Athos, that was a true powerbuild (in terms of time spent on it). Not a lot of flashy techniques but I was quite happy with the result.
I think that's why I like it. It reminds me of that classic lego style that I like so much.

Steve
En_Zoo wrote:
marcu44 wrote:Congrats to Dubbadgrim! It wasn't a big surprise, but you deserved it with all the time you've spent into this...in my eyes, you've got the talent to make a "classic"-castle style still look cool and enjoyable!
I second this :)
Now I just have to stock up on yellow and go back to the times before grey bricks :D

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:50 am
by SergeantChipmunk44
Great job! You have a lot of really high-quality creations!

Re: Colossal Castle Contest XIII - Master Builder

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 10:07 am
by En_Zoo
Dubbadgrim wrote: Now I just have to stock up on yellow and go back to the times before grey bricks :D
hehe if u do, u may well send ur now-unused grey bricks my way :twisted: I always seem to run out of those.. :wink: