Round 4 - March 25 to March 31

Fourth Round of the 2015 Challenge!

This round is the first of the elimination rounds. We had 27 contestants who entered during the first 3 rounds and I would like to thank all of you for your participation and efforts.

Here's the list of those who made the top 15!

Lavi !zXeFjI1hKc
fantastic !/thrViR13Y
quaff !APT0oioJvY
Chalice !!a7Six4EVOK+
Foxtrotsky !Y2oQ/xnwmc
SpookyChef
GHobo !HrKSCSXHa2
ngi_eggy !9DucdCUCZ
pon !g5GTSHLbXY
Spork !gVOKCoJgwg
chapta
low standards !4wNmU.Xhok
Sayu !f1EBGzZP3A
MoarCowbells !!qd5P4UpU5Zi
Ciabatta !Wur2iJ/O4M

Borneo, Cholula and AntiAcid helped me behind the scenes and thus cannot be declared winners, though I'll be tracking the scores of any dishes submitted for fun :-)

Other eliminated contestant may post dishes for consideration if they wish to continue playing along, but votes will not be tallied for them.

Regular rules (timestamps and identifiers) still apply. Should any of the top 15 contestant wish to bow out, please get in touch with me so that I may bump up one of the others in your place!

Please read the voting guidelines below. This round will go until March 31.

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VOTING GUIDELINES

Voting follows an 'Iron Chef' style scoring system. This means you, the people of /ck/, will judge each entry individually instead of deciding on what you feel is the "best" dish.

Dishes are scored out of a total 20 points, based on 4 categories (worth a maximum of 5 points each); Presentation, Originality, Appeal and Challenge Goals. You may award 0's if you feel the contestant did not meet your expectations for a category.

-Presentation: The appearance of items on the plate; plating skills
-Originality: Creativity in composing the dish
-Appeal: How appetizing the food looks/whether or not the dish appeals to your personal taste as a voter
-Challenge Goals: How closely the entry followed the challenge goal(s)

The distinction between Presentation and Appeal: If someone submits an artfully arranged but burnt steak as an entry, it may score high in Presentation but low in Appeal.

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Copypasta Scoring Format for Lazymodo

Presentation: /5
Originality: /5
Appeal: /5
Challenge Goals: /5
Total: /20



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The theme of Round Four is...

World Cuisine!

This is a roll round! So post one and use the last digit of your post number to pick your cuisine :
0 : French
1 : Caribbean
2 : Greek
3 : Moroccan
4 : Mexican
5 : Thai
6 : Scandinevian (Norvegian, Swedish, etc)
7 : Spanish
8 : Argentinian
9 : Indonesian

While you're perfectly welcome to make a large spread of food, please make sure there is clearly a "main dish" because that is what people will be voting on.

Two persons will be eliminated after this round and a special prize will be awarded to the winner!

The thread is up here : http://boards.4chan.org/ck/thread/6355984

2015 - Round 3 Recap

Recap of round 3. The theme was beans.

Round 3 - March 18 - March 24

Congratulations lavi !zXeFjI1hK for the high score last round! Please get in touch with me for your prize.
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If you're interested in competing, there are a few simple guidelines we ask you to follow. Your entry will be disqualified otherwise.

-Please timestamp your submission! Detailing the cooking process/posting a vertical is encouraged but not required. If posting multiple photos, you don't need to timestamp each one, as long as the final submission photo is timestamped.

-You MUST use a unique identifier; if you don't want to use a tripcode, you must have some other way to distinguish yourself from the other contestants, such as a cute bird or scary statue in your timestamped entry, as long as it's clearly visible and you use it consistently.

Voting will be carried out in this thread. Please read the voting guidelines below.

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VOTING GUIDELINES

Voting follows an 'Iron Chef' style scoring system. This means you, the people of /ck/, will judge each entry individually instead of deciding on what you feel is the "best" dish.

Dishes are scored out of a total 20 points, based on 4 categories (worth a maximum of 5 points each); Presentation, Originality, Appeal and Challenge Goals. You may award 0's if you feel the contestant did not meet your expectations for a category.

-Presentation: The appearance of items on the plate; plating skills

-Originality: Creativity in composing the dish

-Appeal: How appetizing the food looks/whether or not the dish appeals to your personal taste as a voter

-Challenge Goals: How closely the entry followed the challenge goal(s)

The distinction between Presentation and Appeal: If someone submits an artfully arranged but burnt steak as an entry, it may score high in Presentation but low in Appeal.

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Copypasta Scoring Format for Lazymodo

Presentation: /5

Originality: /5

Appeal: /5

Challenge Goals: /5

Total: /20

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The theme of Round Three is...


Beans!

We did rice last year, only fair that we should offer a round of /ck/’s second most recommended food to buy.

While you're perfectly welcome to make a large spread of food, please make sure there is clearly a "main dish" because that is what people will be voting on.

This is an open round, meaning that anyone can enter. Elimination begin next round, where the top 15 contestants will be announced!

Thread : http://boards.4chan.org/ck/thread/6334204

2015 - Round 2 Recap

Recap for Round 2! Theme was BBQ.

Round 2 - March 11 to 17

If you're interested in competing, there are a few simple guidelines we ask you to follow. Your entry will be disqualified otherwise.

-Please timestamp your submission! Detailing the cooking process/posting a vertical is encouraged but not required. If posting multiple photos, you don't need to timestamp each one, as long as the final submission photo is timestamped.

-You MUST use a unique identifier; if you don't want to use a tripcode, you must have some other way to distinguish yourself from the other contestants, such as a cute bird or scary statue in your timestamped entry, as long as it's clearly visible and you use it consistently.

Voting will be carried out in this thread. Please read the voting guidelines below.

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VOTING GUIDELINES

Voting follows an 'Iron Chef' style scoring system. This means you, the people of /ck/, will judge each entry individually instead of deciding on what you feel is the "best" dish.

Dishes are scored out of a total 20 points, based on 4 categories (worth a maximum of 5 points each); Presentation, Originality, Appeal and Challenge Goals. You may award 0's if you feel the contestant did not meet your expectations for a category.

-Presentation: The appearance of items on the plate; plating skills

-Originality: Creativity in composing the dish

-Appeal: How appetizing the food looks/whether or not the dish appeals to your personal taste as a voter

-Challenge Goals: How closely the entry followed the challenge goal(s)

The distinction between Presentation and Appeal: If someone submits an artfully arranged but burnt steak as an entry, it may score high in Presentation but low in Appeal.

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Copypasta Scoring Format for Lazymodo

Presentation: /5

Originality: /5

Appeal: /5

Challenge Goals: /5

Total: /20

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The theme of Round Two is... BBQ! Very loosely defined for the purpose, so either high and fast grilling, low and slow smoking are fine. Or faking it with a griddle pan and an oven. Or an open fire. Or even slaterhing something in sauce, as long as you can in good faith call it BBQ it flies. While you're perfectly welcome to make a large spread of food, please make sure there is clearly a "main dish" because that is what people will be voting on. This is an open round, meaning that anyone can enter. Elimination don't begin until after Round Three. This is also a prize round! The one how gets high score gets the first prize of this year's challenge!

Thread : http://boards.4chan.org/ck/thread/6313093

2015 - Round 1 recap

Thank you to all who submitted an entry! And congratulations to pon !g5GTSHLbXY for the high score!

And tip of the hat to !!cpmMD0AhXMb for his entry that came in after the cut-off.