Sonic Hacking Contest 2013 RESULTS

After a week of playing the hacks, watching hacks be played and voting for the trophies, this year's Sonic Hacking Contest has now come to an end. Now for the stuff everyone has been waiting for - the results!

Judged Trophies

Hidden Palace Trophy - 1st Place

The S Factor: Sonia and Silver by Aquaslash & Pals

Wood Zone Trophy - 2nd Place

Sonic Generations - Unleashed Project by Dario FF, Chimera, TwilightZoney, etc

Dust Hill Trophy - 3rd Place

Metal Sonic Hyperdrive by MKDarkon

Green Hill Trophy - Level that plays most like a Sonic Hack

Sonic 3: D.A. Garden Edition by D.A. Garden

Windy Valley Trophy - Hack with the best level art

Metal Sonic Hyperdrive by MKDarkon

D.A Garden Trophy - Hack with the best music

The S Factor: Sonia and Silver by Aquaslash & Pals

Lava Reef Trophy - Best level layouts in a hack

Sonic 3: D.A. Garden Edition by D.A. Garden

Genocide City Trophy - Most difficult Sonic hack

Sonic 1: The Harder Levels by The Harder Levels Project

Generations Trophy - Best Sonic Generations (or 3D) Entry

Sonic Generations - Unleashed Project by Dario FF, Chimera, TwilightZoney, etc

11000101 Trophy - Best technical / proof of contest hack submitted

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Network by Morph

Fang Trophy - Best new enemy submitted in a hack

An Ordinary Sonic ROM Hack by Cinossu

Eggman Trophy - Best new boss or mini boss submitted in a hack

Sonic Winter Adventures by vladikcomper

Spin Dash Trophy - Best new ability in a hack submitted

The S Factor: Sonia and Silver by Aquaslash & Pals

Carnival Night Trophy - Most innovative game play in a hack submitted

Sonic Classic Heroes - Rise of the Chaotix by flamewing

Emerald Trophy - Best special stage in a hack submitted

The S Factor: Sonia and Silver by Aquaslash & Pals

Robotnik's Revenge Trophy - Best new concept in a hack using existing concepts as a backbone for a hack

Sonic the Hedgehog Never Stop Running by Cinossu

Casinopolis Trophy - Most entertaining / fun hack submitted

Sonic Classic Heroes - Rise of the Chaotix by flamewing

Polygon Jim Trophy - Most unique hack submitted

An Ordinary Sonic ROM Hack by Cinossu

Tails Trophy - Most improved hack from last year's contest

Metal Sonic Hyperdrive by MKDarkon

Community Trophies

Hidden Palace Community Trophy

Sonic Generations - Unleashed Project by Dario FF, Chimera, TwilightZoney, etc

Windy Valley Community Trophy

Metal Sonic Hyperdrive by MKDarkon

D.A. Garden Community Trophy

Sonic Winter Adventures by vladikcomper

Lava Reef Community Trophy

Metal Sonic Hyperdrive by MKDarkon

11000101 Community Trophy

Sonic Adventure 2: Battle Network by Morph

Polygon Jim Community Trophy

An Ordinary Sonic ROM Hack by Cinossu

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Thank you to everyone for taking part in this year's contest - definitely one of the best we've had for quite a while to be honest. I would like to thank our judges who worked hard on getting these entries judged as quickly as possible - Cinossu, D.A. Garden, MegaGWolf, Mercury, Shadow Fire and SuperEgg along with myself. It is also thanks to Cinossu for providing the website used for the contest along with the graphics made for this event. Thanks to MegaGWolf and SomecallmeJohnny for their streams, they were very popular and it's something we'll definitely have to return for next year's contest. Also thanks to DalekSam, Donnie, Dude, Erika, GeneHF, MarkeyJester, Reverie, SeanieB along with many others for their help and support to keep the contest week running as smoothly as possible. I'd also like to thank Ayla for helping get this contest set up, unfortunately personal issues had prevented her from being able to participate in the contest but I'm sure she will be happy to see that the contest went well even without her being around.

And now this year's contest has officially come to a close. We'll be reviewing this year's contest to see what worked and if anything needs to be changed for our next contest, you'll see a thread about that near the end of this year. Thanks for participating!

 

http://shc.sonicresearch.org/results
For those of you who won, have some banner art proclaiming your fame! Congratulations to all of you.

 

Copy and paste from SonicRetro.

Well, here's my review on the contest this year.

First of all, what a turnout! There was some great hacks out there, and became one of the toughest competitions to date. Congratulations to the ones who won trophies this year, and I think all the results were almost right (no one is ever going to agree 100%).

As for the contest, it went really well. There were podcasts and lots of information almost everyday. The podcasts itself seemed a lot more professional than last years and there weren't so much joking around. And a streaming session from MegaGWolf and SomeCallMeJohnny was an nice addition. And I think Josh also helped out with streaming some hacks. It was very nice to tune into something visual. There was plenty of entertainment and information this year which would be welcome again. Okay, there was one or two hiccups, but you know the saying, "Nothing ever goes according to plan". And the way Spanner handled things was professional. He was always there to give us a daily update and to make sure everyone was in the clear about things. And Cinossu, hats off to you sir for making the site. Can I shake your hand? It was very well made and a huge improvement over last years. It flowed really well, simple and easy to understand, designed well, it seems you thought of everything. Except for the servers going down for a day, but you're not to blame for that. Thank goodness SSRG was around to help, hey?

It seemed that you really took our notes down from last year and improved on it. That being said, it seems there was one important thing you ignored from what we all suggested last year; the results show. Whilst it was definitely more professional, you took too long. Last year, you took ages going through one trophy to another. It seems you ignored our suggestion and went the complete opposite direction and took even longer than last year. You were on the Sfactor subject for almost 30 minutes before moving onto another trophy. Halfway through the results show, I switched off, because it got boring. It was a nice idea to visually show the hack that won this and that trophy, but it wasn't necessary. We've seen the streams already, and we can play the hack for ourselves again to see why they won this particular trophy. I'm not saying you shouldn't chat about it, but I think 2-3 minutes is plenty of time to say why you think this hack won this trophy, then move onto another.

Anyway, that's my review. It really brought a lot of the community together, and was an exciting week. I'm already looking forward to next year's contest.

 

I think we all knew that the sonic.exe hack was going to win the Polygon Jim trophy. I'm really suprised Green Snake didn't get the Tails trophy, considering that it went from garbage to awesome in 1 year.

 

Here is the live results video if anyone wants to look at it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id5QHUIEMRo