Re: BTM Contests

Very nice idea, sound like you have a solid workable system going. I am not
sure if a short time frame, such as a week, would work though. Perhaps a
month to two months. I am formulating my pitch for a contest right now and
should be ready to throw it online soon.

Also, even if it is someone revamping/rebooting their old data, it is still
new data to us. Quality should be the main concern.
-Loki, who needs coffee and AC desperately

On 8/13/07, Matt Hoffman <manta928@?????.com> wrote:
>
> On the matter of an SJ contests... let's not just forget about it,
> let's actually do it!
>
> Would it be possible to set up some kind of web-submission form? Or
> to have someplace online where people can read and judge submissions
> without having to download them all? (I don't know how you guys have
> done this thing in the past, what file formats you prefer, or if text-
> in-email is the preferred medium) And what's the criteria on judging?
>
> You know what might be fun? In a separate corner of the internet,
> some friends of mine and I hold a semi-annual writing contest. The
> way it works is, three people each select an "ingredient" (that is,
> something that must go into the story: a plot element, a character
> archetype, a narrative device, etc.) and those ingredients are only
> unveiled at the start of the contest. From there, writers have one
> week to craft a story using said ingredients, and at the end of that
> week we all read, rate and critique each others' work (a process
> which actually sometimes takes a couple months to complete). The
> three top-scorers get to be the "ingredient" selectors at the next
> contest.
>
> As I was thinking about BTM contests this morning, I wondered if
> something similar might be workable here. Maybe not the exact
> formula, but something like a unified theme that is only given at the
> beginning of the contest (e.g. "design something involving a secret
> Reigar plan to prank the Arcane"), or maybe multiple themes to keep
> the contest diverse in the NPCs/Villains/ships and etc. that are
> submitted.
>
> Then again, that might be more rules-heavy than people are used to
> dealing with here, but it could turn the contest into a vehicle to
> flesh out the kind of information that is currently up on BTM (that
> is, a theme can be selected that helps the site to represent some
> under-represented aspect of the SJ universe). I'm also not sure about
> how you guys feel about the idea that this "theme"-based approach
> would effectively keep packrats like me from dredging up years-old
> text files from the bowels of my computer, polish them up and submit
> them for a contest; it does sort of mandate something written
> expressly for a given contest. Anyway. What does everybody think?
>
>
> On Aug 6, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Terry Bigrigg wrote:
>
> > well i have an extra complete set of SJ comics I could donate to
> > the list as
> > a prize, at least i'm 98% positive that it's a complete set can't
> > be 100
> > until I pull them out of the box and double check. i would like to
> > see them
> > go to some SJ fans rather than let them continue to sit around.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/6/07, Blackmaer <cslundy@?????????.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Ahh, Touche!!
> >>
> >> -Blackmaer
> >>
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