The Next Great Starship, Star Citizen’s New Modding Competition Blasts off on YouTube January 31 - [Comm-Links](https://api.star-citizen.wiki/comm-links) - The Next Great Starship, Star Citizen’s New Modding Competition Blasts off on YouTube January 31 The Next Great Starship, Star Citizen’s New Modding Competition Blasts off on YouTube January 31 ================================================================================================ Undefined Undefined None [Previous](https://api.star-citizen.wiki/comm-links/13762) [Next](https://api.star-citizen.wiki/comm-links/13767) Content ------- English Los Angeles, January 31, 2014 – The Next Great Starship™, the modding competition that gives fans a chance to create a space ship to be used in Chris Roberts’ upcoming epic space sim game, Star Citizen™, is just about to get real for 24 teams. The series kicks off on YouTube, January 31, and a handful of teams will be eliminated by judges at the end the first episode. Sponsors for the competition include Alienware, AMD, Autodesk, Crytek, Cologne Game Lab, Maingear, Wacom and YouTube. The Next Great Starship airs Fridays at 6 pm Eastern/3 pm Pacific. Fans are encouraged to join the Roberts Space Industries YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/RobertsSpaceInd to watch. Star Citizen is the creation of Roberts’ Cloud Imperium™ Games studio, headquartered in Los Angeles. A total of 270 teams representing 65 countries entered the competition. The judging panel includes members from Star Citizen’s art, design and animation teams, in addition to Chris Roberts himself. Celebrity judges will appear in later episodes. The judges already have narrowed the initial list of entries to the top 24 teams. Over the next three weeks that number will shrink even more with judges picking 15 finalists and the community having an opportunity to vote for one team that will make it into the final 16. Every week after that, each team will provide work-in-progress videos to the panel and face the possibility of elimination (judges can save teams and the community also has a vote on who stays and who leaves). It all culminates in The Next Great Starship finale airing on June 7 from Los Angeles where the champion team will be crowned and awarded $30,000 in cash in addition to many other great prizes (see below). “The quality of the entries has been amazing,” said Chris Roberts, co-founder and CEO of Cloud Imperium Games. “And we had quite a variety of entrants including a husband and wife team, a father and son team, several high school level teams, automotive designers, bartenders, DJs, filmmakers and of course several professionals from the gaming industry. It just shows the breadth of our fan base and the numbers themselves show the excitement that our community is bringing to this competition. I can’t wait to see the final result and fly the winner’s ship in Star Citizen myself.” Prizes: GRAND PRIZE : $30,000 in cash for the team members. Your Great Starship is included in Star Citizen and each member of your team receives the first production models off the press! As well as Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite, Maya Premium and one high-end AMD based system with Radeon R9 290X (for each team member) SECOND PLACE : $10,000 in cash for the team members. Alienware laptop, Autodesk Maya 2014, AMD Radeon R9 290X (for each team member) THIRD PLACE : $5,000 in cash for the team members. Autodesk Maya LT, AMD Radeon R9 290X (for each team member) SPECIALTY PRIZE : (to the most valuable player out of the remaining contestants among the final three teams voted on by the judging panel): One Cintiq Companion, the new Windows 8 “Make the World your Studio” tablet from Wacom FINALIST TEAMS 4 THROUGH 16 : $250 in RSI Credits (non-transferable/non-refundable) Star Citizen is a crowd funded game that officially launched on October 10 of 2012. Since that time Roberts’ company has raised more than $37.5 million from backers all over the world making Star Citizen the top ranking crowd funded project ever. About Cloud Imperium Games Cloud Imperium Games Corporation and its subsidiary Roberts Space Industries was founded in April 2012 by renowned game developer Chris Roberts (Wing Commander, Freelancer, Privateer) and his business partner and long-time international media attorney Ortwin Freyermuth. Under Roberts’ leadership using his long-standing relationships in the game space, Cloud Imperium quickly assembled a top tier development team for the creation of art assets, story elements, and an extensive prototype for its first game Star Citizen. Star Citizen is being marketed and launched via www.robertsspaceindustries.com. Cloud Imperium’s strategy is about customer acquisition through established game designer fan bases. More information about the company, including jobs and contact information can be found at www.cloudimperiumgames.com. Contact: David Swofford david.swofford@cloudimperiumgames.com 512 750-9098 Star Citizen, The Next Great Starship, Cloud Imperium and Roberts Space Industries are trademarks of Cloud Imperium Games Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Los Angeles, 31. Januar 2014 - The Next Great Starship™, der Modding-Wettbewerb, der den Fans die Möglichkeit gibt, ein Raumschiff zu bauen, das in Chris Roberts' kommendem epischen Weltraumsimulationsspiel Star Citizen™ verwendet werden soll, steht kurz davor, für 24 Teams Realität zu werden. Die Serie beginnt auf YouTube am 31. Januar, und eine Handvoll Teams werden von den Richtern am Ende der ersten Episode eliminiert. Zu den Sponsoren des Wettbewerbs gehören Alienware, AMD, Autodesk, Crytek, Cologne Game Lab, Maingear, Wacom und YouTube. The Next Great Starship sendet freitags um 18.00 Uhr Ost- und 15.00 Uhr Pazifik. Fans werden ermutigt, dem Roberts Space Industries YouTube-Kanal unter http://www.youtube.com/user/RobertsSpaceInd beizutreten, um ihn zu sehen. Star Citizen ist die Gründung von Roberts' Cloud Imperium™ Games Studio mit Sitz in Los Angeles. Insgesamt 270 Teams aus 65 Ländern nahmen am Wettbewerb teil. Die Jury umfasst neben Chris Roberts selbst auch Mitglieder aus den Kunst-, Design- und Animationsteams von Star Citizen. Prominente Richter werden in späteren Episoden erscheinen. Die Jury hat die Starterliste bereits auf die ersten 24 Teams eingegrenzt. In den nächsten drei Wochen wird diese Zahl noch weiter sinken, da die Jury 15 Finalisten auswählt und die Community die Möglichkeit hat, für ein Team zu stimmen, das es in das Finale 16 schafft. Jede Woche danach wird jedes Team dem Panel Videos über die laufenden Arbeiten zur Verfügung stellen und sich der Möglichkeit der Eliminierung stellen (Richter können Teams retten und die Gemeinschaft hat auch eine Abstimmung darüber, wer bleibt und wer geht). Alles gipfelt in der Ausstrahlung des The Next Great Starship Finales am 7. Juni in Los Angeles, wo das Champion-Team gekrönt wird und neben vielen anderen tollen Preisen (siehe unten) 30.000 Dollar in bar erhält. "Die Qualität der Beiträge war erstaunlich", sagte Chris Roberts, Mitbegründer und CEO von Cloud Imperium Games. "Und wir hatten eine ganze Reihe von Teilnehmern, darunter ein Ehepaar, ein Vater-Sohn-Team, mehrere High-School-Teams, Automobil-Designer, Barkeeper, DJs, Filmemacher und natürlich mehrere Profis aus der Spielebranche. Es zeigt nur die Breite unserer Fangemeinde und die Zahlen selbst zeigen die Begeisterung, die unsere Community zu diesem Wettbewerb bringt. Ich kann es kaum erwarten, das Endergebnis zu sehen und selbst das Siegerschiff in Star Citizen zu fliegen." Preise: GRAND PREIS: 30.000 $ in bar für die Teammitglieder. Dein großes Raumschiff ist enthalten in Star Citizen und jedes Mitglied Ihres Teams erhält die ersten Serienmodelle von der drücken! Neben der Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite, Maya Premium und einem High-End-Gerät ist auch die Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite enthalten. AMD-basiertes System mit Radeon R9 290X (für jedes Teammitglied) ZWEITER PLATZ : $10.000 in bar für die Teammitglieder. Alienware Laptop, Autodesk Maya 2014, AMD Radeon R9 290X (für jedes Teammitglied) DRITTER PLATZ : $5.000 in bar für die Teammitglieder. Autodesk Maya LT, AMD Radeon R9. 290X (für jedes Teammitglied) SPEZIALPREIS: (an den wertvollsten Spieler unter den verbleibenden Teilnehmern unter den letzten drei von der Jury gewählten Teams): Ein Cintiq Companion, das neue Windows®. 8 "Make the World your Studio" Tablett von Wacom FINALIST TEAMS 4 THROUGH 16 : $250 in RSI Credits (nicht übertragbar/nicht rückerstattbar) Star Citizen ist ein von der Menge finanziertes Spiel, das offiziell am 10. Oktober 2012 gestartet wurde. Seitdem hat Roberts' Firma mehr als 37,5 Millionen Dollar von Unterstützern auf der ganzen Welt gesammelt, was Star Citizen zum bestplatzierten Projekt aller Zeiten macht. Über Cloud Imperium Spiele Die Cloud Imperium Games Corporation und ihre Tochtergesellschaft Roberts Space Industries wurden im April 2012 von dem renommierten Spieleentwickler Chris Roberts (Wing Commander, Freelancer, Privateer) und seinem Geschäftspartner und langjährigen internationalen Medienanwalt Ortwin Freyermuth gegründet. Unter der Führung von Roberts, der seine langjährigen Beziehungen im Spielebereich nutzte, stellte Cloud Imperium schnell ein erstklassiges Entwicklungsteam für die Erstellung von Kunstwerken, Story-Elementen und einem umfangreichen Prototyp für sein erstes Spiel Star Citizen zusammen. Star Citizen wird über www.robertsspaceindustries.com. vermarktet und eingeführt. Die Strategie von Cloud Imperium zielt auf die Kundengewinnung durch etablierte Gamedesigner-Fanbasen ab. Weitere Informationen über das Unternehmen, einschließlich Jobs und Kontaktinformationen, finden Sie unter www.cloudimperiumgames.com. Kontakt: David Swofford david.swofford@cloudimperiumgames.com 512 750-9098 Star Citizen, The Next Great Starship, Cloud Imperium und Roberts Space Industries sind Marken der Cloud Imperium Games Corporation. Alle anderen Marken sind Eigentum ihrer jeweiligen Inhaber. Los Angeles, January 31, 2014 – The Next Great Starship™, the modding competition that gives fans a chance to create a space ship to be used in Chris Roberts’ upcoming epic space sim game, Star Citizen™, is just about to get real for 24 teams. The series kicks off on YouTube, January 31, and a handful of teams will be eliminated by judges at the end the first episode. Sponsors for the competition include Alienware, AMD, Autodesk, Crytek, Cologne Game Lab, Maingear, Wacom and YouTube. The Next Great Starship airs Fridays at 6 pm Eastern/3 pm Pacific. Fans are encouraged to join the Roberts Space Industries YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/RobertsSpaceInd to watch. Star Citizen is the creation of Roberts’ Cloud Imperium™ Games studio, headquartered in Los Angeles. A total of 270 teams representing 65 countries entered the competition. The judging panel includes members from Star Citizen’s art, design and animation teams, in addition to Chris Roberts himself. Celebrity judges will appear in later episodes. The judges already have narrowed the initial list of entries to the top 24 teams. Over the next three weeks that number will shrink even more with judges picking 15 finalists and the community having an opportunity to vote for one team that will make it into the final 16. Every week after that, each team will provide work-in-progress videos to the panel and face the possibility of elimination (judges can save teams and the community also has a vote on who stays and who leaves). It all culminates in The Next Great Starship finale airing on June 7 from Los Angeles where the champion team will be crowned and awarded $30,000 in cash in addition to many other great prizes (see below). “The quality of the entries has been amazing,” said Chris Roberts, co-founder and CEO of Cloud Imperium Games. “And we had quite a variety of entrants including a husband and wife team, a father and son team, several high school level teams, automotive designers, bartenders, DJs, filmmakers and of course several professionals from the gaming industry. It just shows the breadth of our fan base and the numbers themselves show the excitement that our community is bringing to this competition. I can’t wait to see the final result and fly the winner’s ship in Star Citizen myself.” Prizes: GRAND PRIZE : $30,000 in cash for the team members. Your Great Starship is included in Star Citizen and each member of your team receives the first production models off the press! As well as Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite, Maya Premium and one high-end AMD based system with Radeon R9 290X (for each team member) SECOND PLACE : $10,000 in cash for the team members. Alienware laptop, Autodesk Maya 2014, AMD Radeon R9 290X (for each team member) THIRD PLACE : $5,000 in cash for the team members. Autodesk Maya LT, AMD Radeon R9 290X (for each team member) SPECIALTY PRIZE : (to the most valuable player out of the remaining contestants among the final three teams voted on by the judging panel): One Cintiq Companion, the new Windows 8 “Make the World your Studio” tablet from Wacom FINALIST TEAMS 4 THROUGH 16 : $250 in RSI Credits (non-transferable/non-refundable) Star Citizen is a crowd funded game that officially launched on October 10 of 2012. Since that time Roberts’ company has raised more than $37.5 million from backers all over the world making Star Citizen the top ranking crowd funded project ever. About Cloud Imperium Games Cloud Imperium Games Corporation and its subsidiary Roberts Space Industries was founded in April 2012 by renowned game developer Chris Roberts (Wing Commander, Freelancer, Privateer) and his business partner and long-time international media attorney Ortwin Freyermuth. Under Roberts’ leadership using his long-standing relationships in the game space, Cloud Imperium quickly assembled a top tier development team for the creation of art assets, story elements, and an extensive prototype for its first game Star Citizen. Star Citizen is being marketed and launched via www.robertsspaceindustries.com. Cloud Imperium’s strategy is about customer acquisition through established game designer fan bases. More information about the company, including jobs and contact information can be found at www.cloudimperiumgames.com. Contact: David Swofford david.swofford@cloudimperiumgames.com 512 750-9098 Star Citizen, The Next Great Starship, Cloud Imperium and Roberts Space Industries are trademarks of Cloud Imperium Games Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Links ----- Text URL http://www.youtube.com/user/RobertsSpaceInd [ http://www.youtube.com/user/RobertsSpaceInd ](http://www.youtube.com/user/RobertsSpaceInd) The Next Great Starship™ [ https://robertsspaceindustries.com/contest/the-next-great-starship ](https://robertsspaceindustries.com/contest/the-next-great-starship) Star Citizen™ [ https://robertsspaceindustries.com ](https://robertsspaceindustries.com) Cloud Imperium™ Games [ http://www.cloudimperiumgames.com ](http://www.cloudimperiumgames.com) Images ------ 0 No images available. 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