Ex R1: Honorable Mentions

The honorable mentions for Round One of the Exchange. Congratulations everyone! Fantastic job.

This time it worked out nicely, with five HMs for winners and five HMs for unfortunate losers. Plus one extra, haha. I think we'll keep this basic format. Five and five seems like a nice round amount.

Mind you, these are in no particular order. I just kind of rifled through the judge comments and my notebook in the order I read, so it's some sort of random I swear.

THE VICTORIOUS


THE DEFEATED


THE HARDEST MATCH EVER
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In other news, holy wow that came out a lot better than I had expected. xD; I did all the graphicing and such using Photoshop CS2 if anyone actually cares, all done with brushes from the artists credited below. Also *Kitty-Quixotic made the logo forever ago and I slapped it on there for good measure. 8D Rock on.

NOW TO TOP IT FOR ROUND TWO, MUHHHH.

Key brush courtesy of ~paranoidstock
Gate brush courtesy of =E-Stock
Flame brush courtesy of ~darkdana666
Ice brush courtesy of *Shiranui