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Posted By L.E. Croft on December 18, 2011

The results are in, finally!

The winners for our first Raiderfest music contest are:

1st Place: Tribute to Tomb Raider by Dean

2nd Place: Tomb Raider Orchestral Theme by Adriaan

3rd Place: Tomb Raider Meets Indiana Jones by Thomas K.

Congratulations and good job! All of the entries we received were great and it certainly was a tough job for all of our judges to pick the very best. You can check out and listen to all of the entries here. Thank you all for submitting your entries and choosing to participate. I hope that we’ll be hearing more work from you in the future.

A big thanks goes out to all of the judges for the contest. I really appreciate all of them taking the time out of their busy schedules to participate and help make this contest a success.

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Posted By L.E. Croft on December 4, 2011

Yes, yes I know I’m a bad terrible person. Damn me for being busy and unable to keep up with the site.

I do have good news though. I should (crossing my fingers, praying to the gods) have my last judge’s scores by December 12th. Now, if I do not receive them and my last judge has to bail again, I am going to proceed without her scores. At this point it’s not fair to ask any of you that entered the contest to wait any longer especially when I’m not able to constantly post updates at this time. In truth I’m tried of waiting too, and frankly if I was in your shoes I would probably feel the same way that you do.

Now I do understand that you’re all frustated, you’re cranky and angry, and probably hating me, but I ask that you please be patient with me. I know that it’s been annoying not having constant updates. Trust me I’ve been there I know what it feels like to be waiting in anticipation for something and then not hearing a damn thing about it. I get it. However, I do have a life outside of this website, a life that has been very demanding of my attention and time over the last few months. I know all of you can understand that, because you all have lives too. Things happen, and they take our attention away from the things that are still important but on the grand scale of our daily lives end up at the bottom of the list. It’s unfortunate because I would love to be able to spend more time updating this site, and posting updates every week. It’s just not possible right now and I really appreciate all of you understanding that.

I’m going to be good and I will have the next update for you the week of December 12th. Whether I hear back from my last judge or not, there will be an update and this update will be announcing winners.

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Posted By L.E. Croft on November 15, 2011

Yes I know you’ve all been pulling your hair out, especially over the lack of updates recently which I apologize for. Aside from waiting to hear back from my last judge, life happened and I had a several things I needed to deal with recently that prevented me from being as attentive to the site as I needed to be.

A couple of you did send me emails enquiring about how much longer it was going to be before winners were announced. Well… it’s going to be probably another week to two weeks. My last judge finally got back to me, and she needs some more time to properly review all of the entries. She is a professional composer so she has been very busy. I’m actually very honored that she still wants to participate as a judge in spite of her busy schedule. So, I’ve given her the extra time she has requested to review the entries.

With that said, a new update will likely not occur for another week to two weeks. Hopefully it will be sooner than that, but given the circumstances more than likely it will be a while longer. Since this is the first time I’m hosting something like this I did expect certain setbacks to occur, however, I am amazed at how successful this was and that the setbacks have been very minor compared to the difficulties I had thought would occur.

Once again I thank you for your patience, and for those who had emailed me I appreciate the gentle nudge. At this point I would have expected you all to come after me with pitchforks and torches, so I appreciate the restraint. I assure you that the waiting will be over soon and winners will be announced.

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Posted By L.E. Croft on October 17, 2011

Two of our judges are still reviewing the entries so it’s going to be anywhere from a few more days to another week before I receive their scores. Once their scores have been received I’ll then be able to determine winners or if we need to have a tie-breaker round of judging. The averages of each entry are looking pretty consistant so I don’t think we’ll necessarily have to worry about a tie-breaker, but it is still a possibility.

I thank you for you continued patience and I hope I can end your agony sooner rather than later.

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Posted By L.E. Croft on October 10, 2011

I’m still waiting on a few of our judges to finish reviewing and scoring the entries. I’m unsure about how long it’s going to take, so it could be anywhere from a couple of days to another week before I’ll have another update for you.

There is a chance that we may have to review some entries again in order to break a tie. If that is the case I will let everyone know in the next update. Hopefully it won’t be much longer, I know those who entered the contest must be on the edge of their seat with anticipation.

I thank you for your patience.

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Posted By L.E. Croft on October 7, 2011

We are still judging the entries. I’m hoping that everyone will have their marks in this weekend, but there is a possibility that the judging will go into overtime. We received a lot of really great entries so the task of picking the best hasn’t been easy.

I will be posting another update around Sunday when I know for sure if it’s going to be a bit longer before winners are announced. I thank you for your patience.

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Posted By L.E. Croft on September 24, 2011

Raiderfest 2011 Music Contest is now closed. If you didn’t have the chance to submit your entry, don’t worry there’s a good chance that this won’t be the last music contest. I’ve set up a new poll and would like to hear what you think, should IndyCroft.com host a Raiderfest Music Contest every year?

Also since we had such a great turn out for the contest, and a lot of the entries were really amazing, this has inspired me to create a new section for IndyCroft dedicated to fan music. So if you’re bummed that you weren’t able to finish your entry in time, or you had multiple tracks you wanted to submit, you can still share them with IndyCroft and let the world hear you tributes to Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider. More details on this will be coming soon.

I also have the poll results from our last poll: “How do you feel about the new Tomb Raider game?”

Total votes: 160

76% (122 votes) of you said “It’s Tomb Raider, it’s going to be awesome!”

16% (25 votes) of you said “I may play it, but won’t decide until more info is released.”

4% (7 votes) of you said “It’s going to suck. Period.”

4% (6 votes) of you said “Not a Tomb Raider fan, but I’m interested in playing this one.”

0% (0 votes) of you said “No interest whatsoever.”

Well at least 122 of you are excited about the new game. You can continue to discuss your thoughts and feelings about the new game at The Raiders’ Realm (yes it’s a ghost town so of course I have to throw in that little advertisment).

The last couple of months have been really chaotic and stressful so updates to the site have not exactly been on my list of priorities. However, things are slowly calming down a bit so I’m hoping to get back to work on the site. Aside from the proposed fan music section, there’s tons of other updates I have on my list. So hopefully over the course of the next few months I can get everything done.

Thanks again for your patience and continued support.

-L.E. Croft

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Posted By L.E. Croft on September 21, 2011

THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.

Just a friendly reminder, the deadline for the Raiderfest music contest is quickly approaching. Deadline is SEPTEMBER 23rd.

The contest will be closed 11:59pm PST September 23rd. Entries received after that will not be accepted. So don’t wait until the last minute to submit your entry!

I have been replying to the submissions received so far, so if you have not received a reply please try emailing me again to make sure your entry has been received.

Good luck to everyone!

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Posted By L.E. Croft on August 9, 2011

Okay so I’ve been MIA for the last month or so. Unfortunately some personal issues arose recently that required my immediate attention and inevitably forced me to be away from the site for a while. I am happy to report that everything with Raiderfest is proceeding as planned, however, because of certain circumstances on my end I am extending the contest deadline.

So instead of the deadline being August 22, it is now September 23. This is actually to everyone’s benefit because I’m giving you an extra month to get in your entries, so a little less stress for everyone.

To those of you that have already submitted your entry and have not heard back from me yet I assure you that I will be responding to all of you this week. If you do not hear from me then it’s probably a good idea to email me to make sure that I did receive your entry. I know some people were having trouble accessing my email address information, if you’re still having this problem I’m working on getting that fixed. Would have liked to have done it sooner, but life happens and all you can do is move with it.

Also I’m going to try and get some updates done to the site over the next few weeks. I know several people submitted fan fiction for the library. I want you to know that I haven’t forgotten about you and I will be posting your stories soon.

I really appreciate your patience and for sticking with me.

- L.E. Croft

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Posted By L.E. Croft on June 11, 2011

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