Thank you, Jo.
Take care and get well soon.

Good morning and the results are ready! I will post them shortly, but let us announce our winner of Round 2....

drum rolll....... drum roll..... drum roll...
And put your hands together for

..........................................@simsample !!!

First of all, a big thank you, Jo and Cat. You both did a tremendous job and all our scores are pretty close together. Contestants, please take note, the fire marshal is watching you!

SCORES

Modder - 57



simsample - 64



simmingregency - 55



Aysarth - 56.5



pinkdynamite - 56.5


Craft90 - 54.5



shastakiss - 61



AndrewGloria - 51



Phantomknight - 56



Pollino - 62.5



Pebblerocker - 58.5



Monsieur Oshima - 56



Meowingcookie - 54



simsfreq - 51.5

To all our contestants

Thank you again for your wonderful entries. Even if you did not get the highest score here, I am certain that every single lot can easily be uploaded on MTS, and that says something about how well you have done again!

Some things I have noticed where points are thrown away at times:

1. Try to use the whole space on the lot. If you look through our entries, you will notice how some builders make it look easy and natural. It can make a huge difference in the end.
2. Pay attention to tiny details, e.g. is there is fire alarm in the kitchen? Even if it is not in the requirements, it seems logical? Especially in a restaurant!
3. Spend the budget! There are no points for saving money. Spend it on everything.
4. All areas have to look good. Having an extremely pretty outside is cancelled out by a boring inside. Choose your furniture to fit in with the rest of your lot.
5. Using decor always help. Not everyone is fond of clutter, but one nice painting or one big flower arrangement can brighten up a room.
6. While 2 bathrooms just about make the cut in this round, 1 is not enough. When you build a lot, think of how many sims may need to use bathrooms: owner, staff, clients, perhaps waiters too! Bathrooms should look neat and clean at least.
7. The outside - some gardens are just green grass, it needs a bit more. At the same time, be careful of too many plants needing maintenance, business owners don't have the time to do that. But a tree or 2, a couple of hibiscus trees, things that don't need a lot of maintenance.
8. Place your objects, when needed, in ways that will fill up empty spaces.
9. A floor plan should take into account how big the rooms need to be, how far sims have to walk to the bathrooms, etc.
10. Choosing doors, windows and fences carefully - some simply work better than others.
11. Have fun

Yabba Dabba Doo!
Great job SimSample

...man, this is a close race!
Ya'll are cranking out some amazing builds - keep up the great work.

@pinkdynamite - Please check your comments again, I accidentally left a paragraph out there, and it is one you deserve to see

Is there anyone out there who wants to help to judge the last 2 rounds? I don't know if and when HarVee will be back, or if he will be back at all.

I had a simmer who offered, but now has been called up for jury duty in RL, and it would be nice to have somebody other than the host judging I did not want to ask that late in the 2nd round, but the third round has just started, with no entries in yet.

You will get 5 days to judge, and have to judge building skill, interior, exterior and playability. (The 5 points for requirements is done by the host).

Anyone who has experience as a judge or has built a variety of lots is welcome to let me know - Pretty please?

Hello everyone, I am having a very bad lupus flare up accompanied by fibromyalgia and am in just no mental and physical state at the moment for the next build. I hope to recovery enough by next week to actually be able to build something for Round 3. But if I can't I will let @Justpetro, our host, and judges know.

Sorry! But I was having fun!

Thank you Petro and thank you to all of the judges! Really, my skill is crap and my lot only looks good because of the CC, and the rest of the entrants were so good! Also, I kidnapped the judges and threatened to hack their games and put Sim Sample in all of their hoods, unless they gave me good scores.

Edit @simmingregency Oh, no, sending you hugs! How awful for you.

@simmingregency - Get well soon and take care of yourself first. I hope you can make it, because we will miss you a lot! I hope you can stay in bed until you feel better.

For the rest of our contestants: It is hard to judge so many good entries, it is honestly tiny, tiny things that make the differences! Sometimes a floor plan is just that slightly better, that roof is just a tiny bit nicer, this one just has nicer decorations and that one chose perfect lights. Learn from it but do not give up, you are all terrific and many of you have improved. For those that have not, that is also probably due to simple things, and games crashing, etc. I would download every lot for my own hood and use them in abundance myself

Before I get too knocked out to write anything sensible, let me say,

Thank you judges for your tips as always! And I have to confess, I had actually put a fire pit in the middle of the kitchen with a suckling pig roasting over it then I remembered, that sunni cloned the roasting pig from the punching bag and I didn't want to encourage my waiters and staff punching their work time away.

And I of course forgot to replace the fire pit with a "normal" firepit.

My apologies

While I mend body and mind in bed, I congratulate everyone for their awesome builds and good luck for the next build!

(I hope to recovery in time to contribute to the headaches our judges are scheduled to have )

Lots of love to everyone!

Congratulations to simsample!

And hope you recover soon, simmingregency.

Tiny things I still love that lot of yours a lot, and that entrance knocked me over every time I looked at it

You are too kind.

Let me end my day with a bit of inspiration for everyone: some pics of special things:

A picture of harmony:


A splash of colour with pretty plants:


That entrance:


These lanterns:


This bar in the basement:


the staff bathroom:


Pretty Kitchen:


Good-looking back garden:


Pretty bathroom:


That painting behind the podium:


Behind the bar:


Red lights:


Pretty, tiny and functional:


Lovely colour scheme and variety:



I hope you enjoy my selection of highlights, there are many more, but I picked some of the ones I like

Thanks to all the judges for your helpful comments, I don't envy your job at all.

Well done to my fellow contestants, and congrats to simsample for winning this round.

Best of luck to everyone in round 3!

Thank you for the feedback everyone! I've got a few things I wanted to reply to from my feedback.

Judge B noted that I didn't mention I used an invisible podium but I actually did state I used one at the top of my extra images section. The slightly weird choices such as the toilet and staffroom are attributed to me working in fast food for 6 years so I based this store on the one I worked at. (I've been free since 2021 lol)

Judge C mentioned I needed more toilets but we really did have only two toilets and no employee bathroom. They were disgusting and I had to scrub them and throw buckets of hot water on them every night. Only positive about them was they were unisex and both wheelchair accessable.

Our "rest area" wasn't actually even an inclosed space and was just the space between two walk in fridges and a shelf. The tiny room would have been luxury to me XD. My rest area in my previous entry was small too but based on my current workplace down to the cabinet placement and mini fridge.

I really struggled with budget on my entry. I had planned to add a drive thru and playground but I couldn't work it in the budget. I did forget the smoke alarm though oops.

I also appologise for the egregious use of orange lol. I had created the franchise about a year before this contest for Pleasantview which is when I made the deco stuff and orange was the colour I chose for it then.

I'm glad also none of you noticed my images were slightly squashed this round as I broke my monitor and had to switch to a different one. I forgot to turn square pixels on and didn't realise until after.

I hope you feel better as soon as possible. <3

>cough< @Justpetro do you want to change 'dispositional' on the last one to 'Disproportional' >cough<

Thank you everyone for your love and well wishes! I feel most blessed!

Done Please tell me if you notice more typo's or mistakes

@Meowingcookie
The only real problem with your lot is the lack of landscaping, and I have to say, a playground will look great there too.
The road is well built and your floorplan is excellent, as is that nifty roof.
2 out of 3 judges liked the orange But it will look nice if you break it up a little bit as well, perhaps with a cream or beige brick wall, or even, especially inside, with a black concrete or painted one.

The cc is very pretty!

The ORANGE is... apropos - it completely suits the fast food atmosphere. Therefore, I really didn't have a problem with it.
{{{shudders violently}}}

Even if the RL establishment only had 2 terlits (which I'd think the Health Department might make note of...) the sims are going to need more than that.

If you are going to upload this lot (which I think is a great idea!) you might want to try adding a drive-through? and some play equipment for the little ones. I mean, forget the budget - now that the round is done, and have some fun with it!

That roof though? Perfection!

That's presuming that they aren't trying to recreate the RL fast food experience for their sims. XD

Well, I thought that was exactly what she said she was trying to do...
BUT this is a contest for TS2, so sims themselves need to be happy with it.