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[mcjmetroid]

Here's a funny one:

Back in October, clothing brand Uniqlo hosted a competition which asked Pokémon fans to design a new t-shirt. The winner was to receive a lovely $10,000, a special trophy, invitation to an award ceremony in Tokyo, and even an invitation to the 2019 Pokémon World Championships.

Earlier today, that very winner was announced. Chinese artist Li Wen Pei took home the cash by submitting the Magikarp and Gyarados design you can see below. As an added bonus, the shirt was also revealed to be wearable in the upcoming Pokémon Sword and Shield games for Switch; incidentally, this appears to give more weight to the idea that character customisation will indeed play a part in the new games.

With this design

But Alas he had sold the design previously before he entered the competition

For example here:

annnnd here's his comment on Chinese Social Media which probably made it worse.

“Hello everyone. I sold a small number of smartphone cases with the same artwork (before I submitted it for Pokemon UTGP 2019). Unfortunately there are pirates who have pirated my artwork. Therefore please do not share the pirated goods.”

Random: $10,000 Pokémon Competition Winner Reportedly Found To Have Violated The Rules

Update: They have now been disqualified

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[Spukc]

Y I K E S TM

 

[mcjmetroid]

I believe Resetera are saying the "bastard" deserved what he got but I kinda feel bad for the guy

 

[Mistershine.]

Looks like team Pei is blasting off again...

 

[Pejo]

I believe Resetera are saying the "bastard" deserved what he got but I kinda feel bad for the guy

Agreed. If we can believe that he's telling the truth, it's a shit situation for him. I guess the order of events were:

• He "designed" the art (looks like it was heavily influenced by monster hunter, but i digress)
• He sold a number of cell phone cases with the design
• Someone lifted the design (this is China, so seems plausible)
• He entered the design in the contest.
• This mess

The only thing that makes me less sympathetic is that it stated in the rules that the design couldn't be published anywhere previously. Seems a modification of the design would have been enough to save him here. Still sucks though.

 

[mcjmetroid]

Agreed. If we can believe that he's telling the truth, it's a shit situation for him. I guess the order of events were:

• He "designed" the art (looks like it was heavily influenced by monster hunter, but i digress)
• He sold a number of cell phone cases with the design
• Someone lifted the design (this is China, so seems plausible)
• He entered the design in the contest.
• This mess

The only thing that makes me less sympathetic is that it stated in the rules that the design couldn't be published anywhere previously. Seems a modification of the design would have been enough to save him here. Still sucks though.

He might have been ok had he not sent out a message telling people that he sold the design on phone cases before.

 

[MagnesG]

He might have been ok had he not sent out a message telling people that he sold the design on phone cases before.

People can still call out for it had he being quiet, which can be worse. It is what it is, dude sent a commercialized design and get disqualified.

 

[Yugrio1212]

Dang

 

[Fake]

Christ. Well, rules.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

Poor guy.

 

[Thabass]

Poor guy, but yeah, rules are rules.

I believe Resetera are saying the "bastard" deserved what he got but I kinda feel bad for the guy

I looked for this thread over there and didn't see it?

 

[deriks]

 

[Vawn]

I believe Resetera are saying the "bastard" deserved what he got but I kinda feel bad for the guy

Those people foam at the mouth for the opportunity to kick someone when they're down and to judge others for anything they can find.

 

[mcjmetroid]

Poor guy, but yeah, rules are rules.



I looked for this thread over there and didn't see it?

I had seen it from a comment on nintendolife. I'm not sure myself I don't go on the forum anymore.

 

[Mochilador]

Damn, that really sucks.

 

[Tesseract]

more like li lose pei

 

[Chairman Tickles]

Those people foam at the mouth for the opportunity to kick someone when they're down and to judge others for anything they can find.

They're just prolific racists and sexists. They despise East Asians and White males.