The competition 2015 is over, thank you to all participants, contributors and voters!

before i contine wit the results, some statistics. The entry count with 231 entries in total reached a new high. The participation in the voting reached an alltime high as well, 5800 counted votes which gives an average vote count of 25 per image.

so, lets come to the official results, and we invite "brasnacte, pulsar and  kraftwerk" to the stage.

you three rocked the competition:

1 Still Frame, user Pulsar69 won the "average" and the "total" voting placing all his 3 entries in the top3! congratulations pulsar69!
   "Vintage" and "Somewhere in Africa" won the Still Frame competition

2. Film, user brasnacte convinced the people with his single entry "Divergent Evolution" reaching 1st place in both: total votes and best average rating! congratulations brasnacte!

3. BW Image, user Kraftwerk playing in the competition since 2010 takes it all in the bw competition, where an interesting effect happens, the same 3 images occupy both lists, the best average and the total ratings, so kraftwerk wins with Fractal Architecture" and "Beelzebulb" this section. congratulations Kraftwertk


and here we go with the top 3 in each category, the colums are:

rank, image, username, title,

Entries Still Frame

thumbfilename memberName title rating totalratings averageRating views pulsar69 Vintage 180 43 4,1860 350 alexl Trees 163 38 4,2895 263 Zakar Osberg Infinity 161 42 3,8333 291

thumbfilename memberName title rating totalratings averageRating views pulsar69 Somewhere in Africa 158 35 4,5143 483 pulsar69 Gehenne 161 37 4,3514 337 alexl Fractal 125 29 4,3103 233

Entries film  Film

thumbfilename memberName title rating totalratings averageRating views brasnacte Divergent Evolution 125 27 4,6296 391 KRAFTWERK From the depths of the C - Fractal organic intercourse 116 27 4,2963 335 gforce45 Bubblegum Daydream 108 27 4,0000 267

thumbfilename memberName title rating totalratings averageRating views brasnacte Divergent Evolution 125 27 4,6296 391 pulsar69 Technotopia 105 24 4,3750 357 KRAFTWERK From the depths of the C - Fractal organic intercourse 116 27 4,2963 335

Entries black and white

thumbfilename memberName title rating totalratings averageRating views KRAFTWERK Fractal Architecture - the Julia Opera 125 30 4,1667 238 Zakar Figurehead 122 29 4,2069 149 KRAFTWERK Beelzebulb 113 26 4,3462 375

thumbfilename memberName title rating totalratings averageRating views KRAFTWERK Beelzebulb 113 26 4,3462 375 Zakar Figurehead 122 29 4,2069 149 KRAFTWERK Fractal Architecture - the Julia Opera 125 30 4,1667 238

 :dontcare: :thumbsup1: :mandy: :troll: <- Only B/W smileys I could find!  O0

Congratulations to all participants, and thank you for your support! Two Black and white mugs  :beer: :beer: are more than one colored! :)

Glad so many of you liked my works.

Great show Christian, with many great contributions this year, I handed out many fivestars myself...

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The fractal ordinance of the distinguished Fractal Forums audience has spoken big time, and a super congrats, to all the participants, you are all winners!
It was the greatest competition ever! We loved It!
A special congratulations to those who got into the top ten Master works in the Fractal Forums 2015 contests!


This was a totally global international, competitions of the best of the best, participants came from all countries and participated in a real good strong competition and made it a proud achievement in fractal history!  
 To all the top ten winners in all entries categories congratulations!

Great job!



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Glad to see Brasnacte winning the film section, that guy is so much better than everyone else at making fractal animations that it's barely a competition. Highly recommended that everyone check out his Youtube page to see his other works.

Bravo!!!!!!! an amazing show of talent and creativity... I can't wait to see what next year's contest might reveal  :beer: :beer: :beer: to all the participants and voters.

Wow - such an honor-

also congratulations to pulsar69 and kraftwerk- excellent work there.  And others as well.
I'm glad I and others pushed to change the voting system- the difference between the two proves to be huge- and although the #1 winners remain the same, it's not the same piece that won.
Especially in the still frame section, the top three is a totally different one, with the ones on the right representing quality much more then the ones on the left.
Compare PJ's Gehenne to Zakar's Osberg Infinity - the same amount of 'total stars' but the averages couldn't be more different.
Then take Alexl's 'Fractal' who's thumbnail is not exactly clickbait (hence the low number of voters). This piece wouldn't have stand a chance in the old system, but now it's in the top three because the piece is actually really good when watched fullscreen and has unexpected merit.


@Fitz: thank you for the kind words and recommendations :)

Julius

Congratulations to all!!

Probably worth noting that all the links in the extended results for the still frame categories are broken.

i see, will correct it, thank you for mentioning

I would like to thanks Ckleinhuis and Fractal forums staff for the contest and i am very
happy to see the increasing numbers of participants and vote (and quality rising !)

I would like to thans Weavers for all those incredible comments !

I would like to thanks developpers, Jesse, Darkbeam and others for their works because
if i had to draw with hands, i will probably be the last ;)

I would like to thanks artists like Lenord (len), Kraftwerk, batjorge, haltenny, dortus Gunst, Gary webb, and many others
for their inspiring work, because i learn much from their own works !

I would like to thanks, all active members from Mandelbulb maniacs (facebook group), Ricky, barbara, Rosemary and more, for sharing tips, tricks and parameters that greatly help me to learn more with Mb3d.

And last i would like to thanx and congrats all participants from the contest, Brasnacte and Kraftwerk for their well deserved victory !

And like Johan says, Two Colors mugs are more than one B/W (and perhaps than 2 B/W, Joke ! )

 O0  :beer: :beer: And I am happy to hear I have inspired you, well deserved win, even if one of your other works was a bigger favourite to me (Gehenne was a very surprising image (in the positive way!) very different and inspiring! ;)

Congratulations to you and brasnacte too!!!

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Congratulations to all winners.

Congratulations to all the winners.  It was great, so much variation and superb quality in each category.  It was an honor and a pleasure to be able to see all this beauty.

Thank also to all those who make it possible to have this yearly event, all the time and effort they put in this contest.  And I also like thank those who gave me a vote, very nice indeed and well appreciated I will try better next year ;)  But thanks again and I like to  offer you therefore all a cold liquid at you choise :)  :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

Congratulations to everyone who participated.

This was the first time I participated and I'm sure I will do next year. (I hope I will be able to, I will have exams)

Congrats to Pulsar, Julius and Johan. Well deserved winners. Happy mugging! ;D

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to Master of Fractal Ceremonies cKleinhuis for organising the competition.