previously in this series of posts: Naruto Special - Make Madara Talk WhOOPdEEdOO Poll and the starting Naruto Special - Make Madara Talk WhOOPdEEdOO contest

yeeah. It's over! finally. It took me a little longer than expected to make this post. Things to destroy, people to kill, you know how it is.

anyway:


How it was decided:

First there was a vote. But that failed. The poll plugin died.

Then there was a second vote. That one didn't fail but there were relatively few voters. So I called in some judges. 1 guy, 1 girl and 1 gender confused. So that was a heterogeneous panel. The judges were super voters with votes each. That's 30+29+28+...+3+2+1 votes. meaning that the entry they liked most got a boost of 30 votes. And the entry they liked least got only 1 vote. The entries in the middle were given a vote proportional to the grade they were given by the judges.

and added to that some extra scaling (just normalising it to a nice round 100 votes for the winner) and you get the current results...

well done! you have won absolutely nothing!! I'll have to try and get your impressions.

and thanks to all participants, voters, readers who votes but not those who didn't vote! Whoopdeedoo!

The poll was closed and these are the results.



note the above links are all 404. don't click on them instead, you can view/download the sorted files below.



anything below this line is not important.

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Ok, now that the contest is closed, we vote for the best entries. Start by clicking "vote" just below to get started. You have up to 7 votes to cast.

Yes SEVEN (7) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 big shiny votes. Choose well.

Given the fairly large number of entries I recommend you download the zip file, view all the entries (there are bound to be some new ones you missed) and delete those you like least. Most modern image viewers allow you to do that in situ. Then choose 7 (or less) from the ones you like most.

Remember, you have 7 votes. Use them all.

And please do not cheat by voting again on multiple computers...

The poll thingy is a bit confusing at first (crappy colour scheme of the site...) but you'll quickly figure it out.

If you are having trouble voting, post a comment below. The poll plugin may still be a bit buggy...

CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. Go here for the vote

CONTEST IS NOW OVER AND DONE. Go here for the results


Ok, the Make Madara Talk WhOOPdEEdOO contest

If you missed the news included in the last chapter, you are part of that benighted sub-species of fandom that does not read the credits pages of hard working scanlators or anything beyond. (Some would simply call you losers, but I think you should be shot dead. repeatedly)

At first I was thinking of including it in the next Naruto chapter. but given the number of entries, it might make the filesize a bit bloated. I've decided to compile them into their own special release. And very probably I'll be making similar contests in the future.

Here are the first few skits for your enjoyment and lulz.

Current participants: melly! Kizaru! Haynes! The_sd16! SuperMicheal! Ketwaroo! Hillja! mab! Cornell! ShinobiKnight! Niobe! Symphony! Artemis!

Contest Deadline:
June 1st 2008 (a nice round date) at midnight GMT


Note: since any new submissions will be added to the same file, you'll be better off just viewing the chapter online. It is still available for download. but viewing online means you have a better chance of getting the latest version. I'll be adding a comment each time (when ever that is) there is a new update.

You can check about the contest details here

Rules:

none really. as long as it's funny and original. There are no limits to the number of entries per participant. And remember, you play to win absolutely nothing at all.

How to send your entry.

First you need to get that frame,

edit it to add whatever you want to it, save it. Only after you've done all that can you send it in.

Upload to any free image hosting service. Here are a couple you can use:

http://imageshack.us/
http://tinypic.com/

Once you upload your image, you should get a direct link you can copy.

Send that link to us via the contact form.


Important: Please specify to which name or nickname you want your work to be credited.
Also, before submitting a new entry check through the already uploaded ones to see if it hasn't been done before (avoid making repeats).

Keep sending in 'em new entries. And if possible, really good ones.

CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. Go here for the vote

Yes, it Christmas in a few days. So I'm not really interested in scanlation right now. As such, I decree that the release of Naruto chapter 383 is postponed to a later date. Don't worry though, it's just a short holiday break. I'll finish it probably before the end of the year. But I can't give a definite date.

Coincidently, This website first came online around christmas last year. So it's a happy birthday to us. (although the NBST itself has been around much longer)

anyway, do christmassy stuff. All of you. Now.


(edit -- It's past christmas now. I gonna try finishing that chapter asap.)

I tweaked around the download page a bit. The old one was kinda annoying, I noticed that yesterday when I downloaded one of my own scans....

Instead of having to click on a download button to start the download, it start automatically after a few seconds. by itself, no intervention needed! Even a nifty count down included!

The only problem is that it's driven by javascript. Now for most people this won't a problem but it might be if you disabled javascript obviously....

Another... consequence of using this new script method is that some browsers seem to think that the download page is trying to spawn a popup when the download starts. Actually its just some server side scripts running to check if you are a "human" downloader and incrementing download counters. I'll spare you the technicalities since I'm not sure why it happens myself.

So basically if you want to download, you have to enable popups. which was pretty much what we've been asking for all along. Our releases are enjoyable, without a doubt. So it's a fair exchange: 1 popup for 1 download.

well actually I'll probably try and fix that other time. And probably un-beta the online viewer in the same pass. But if it can't be fixed, it can't be fixed.

Kinda funny that I remember this only now, but it's Golden Week in Japan. The holiday means most people aren't working in Japan. Most people include mangakas. This means no manga this week.

Most scanlation teams would use this break to catch up on late chapters but here, at the NBST, we don't.

We're still on semi operational status and I've have exams coming up so Golden Week won't be used for scans.

on the other hand, I've written an online chapter viewer. It works for all chapters currently available.
I should update all posts and their download links gradually to include a link to the online viewer.

try this one:

http://www.nbnakama.com/view.php?dir=op454 From the last scan we made.

I figured many read the scans from their work place or don't want to bother extracting the files.
It's still a beta version meaning that there could be a bug or two in there. But it should work good enough.

Well might as keep the place busy to avoid it being overrun by spam bots.



From the last OP chapter i tried to work on but will never finish....





Nothing new concerning the situation of the NBST. We're still... where ever that is we are....
I've been thinking(I do that a lot), that since i don't have enough time right now to work on all scanlation projects, I might as well concentrate on the easiest of them. i.e. Naruto. For once, Mashashi's simpler drawing style is of some use. I might update with a Naruto release so watch this space.

On the darker side(or brighter depending on your alignment), NBForums.net is up. Ain't that cool? Co-administered by No OnE, Krusnix and myself.

Go over there and before you even consider registering, READ THE FUCKIN' RULES. I put them on the registration from for that very purpose.
I can't believe the number of newbs that come on our forums just to affirm their moronic existence.

Also if you want your weekly manga fix, head to mangahelpers. The've been quite active and have revamped their interface quite a bit. A bit too narrow if you ask me...