Possible upcoming Contests planning thread

[Deadfire]

Well I've been thinking again and may as well give you all a thread for giving the staff some ideas and such for contests. What I'm thinking right now is

1. A sig/wallpaper/fanart contest of some sorts. possibly around the theme of winter and/or holidays

2. A bigger contest much like my now defunct "GW survivor" contest

Rewards for these contests should be thought of as well, making sure they parallel with the work that has to go into winning them.

I do have a few thoughts of my own for these two but I'm shut up and let you guys give me ideas before I go off.

[Board of Command]

I say you guys host a small contest. Make the reward the choice between colored name or custom title.

[Jadugar]

It’s a lovely idea from DeadFire. I love contests. Lets make one happen.

Can we stretch one far enough to match the end of Naruto Fillers ( just wishful thinking)?

Sig/Wallpaper/Fanart contest :

I have been here on Gotwoot long enough and in my time, I have seen a few sig/wallpaper/fanart contests. They weren’t anything special. I don’t know why that was. Maybe people didn’t take that much interest in them or the contest didn’t involve people from outside sig making community. There are only one or two good sig makers on gotwoot. Ok, maybe there are more than two but not many. What I am saying is that a sig contest would be only catering to a few people. The gap in the level of skills is very big.

You need to come up with a better idea or a completely different theme.

Here goes nothing……….

1st Suggestion :

I don’t have anything against sig makers but I want to see a contest where the contestants who have never made a sig in their life would take part. Yes, a newbie sig contest. This way all the contestants would be on the same level of Photoshop. The hard thing would be to find people who would be willing to participate. I am sure we can find people wouldn’t miss a fun opportunity like this.

2nd Suggestion :

The ugliest looking sig :

If you still want to go with professional sig makers then change the normal rules. Yes, I/we have seen what people can do with lovely renders but lets see if they can make something that is the most horrible thing to look at.

2. A bigger contest much like my now defunct "GW survivor" contest

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No ideas as of now but I will post one as soon as something pops in my head.


Rewards :

I say you guys host a small contest. Make the reward the choice between colored name or custom title.

That’s good enough.

But I want to see some punishments in there as well for the loser/s. What can I say I am cruel?



<Insert DeadFire’ disclaimer here( you know the one I am talking about).>

P.S Kudos to BOC fro making a sig composition guide. I have been meaning to thank him for a while now. I guess I will do it here.

[Kraco]

2nd Suggestion :

The ugliest looking sig :

If you still want to go with professional sig makers then change the normal rules. Yes, I/we have seen what people can do with lovely renders but lets see if they can make something that is the most horrible thing to look at.

XanBcoo already won that contest...

But yeah, in general level there could be some credit to the idea of smaller contests. Maybe people, both organizers and the contestants, can get weary of events spanning half a year. Although it may feel unfair to give grand prizes for a few hours of work. And like Jad said, a simple sig contest prize would almost automatically go to one of the relative few people pushing out quality sigs all the time. It could be a bit rigged.

Personally I think contests that are open to as many people as possible are the best, like Jad said. Something that requires imagination but only low-moderate skills of any kind are absolutely necessary. And since this is an anime forum, I tend to think it would be best the contests had something to do with anime. We all know KitKat would win the baking contest, so far-fetched themes like that are biased.

[Deadfire]

I agree with Jad and Kraco here as well, contests that are open to as many people as possible are the best. With a sig contest the members that can do it is some what limited. As well if something was to be given to them because they have PS skills, I may as well give prizes for other skills that others have.

Now

I personally liked the signature contest where two people would be making a sig for someone to actually use. Back then we did it for people who had the ugliest sig but technically we could've done it for anyone if they volunteered. And then that person would vote for the better sig and he/she gets to keep it while the winning sig-maker moves onto the next round. The reward can be a custom title or something.

Gotwoot Makeover, I remember that as well (as I was one of those that had a really bad sig, in those days) it was challenging because not only did the person that the sig was made for have to pick the theme, but they got to pick the better one.Like the above example though most likely those skilled in PS will win.

How about this. We do the sig contest on a 3 tier system, Beginner, Experienced, Expert. That way anyone can pick their skill level and be facing those that are at the same skill level. We can have a sign-up thread made so people can see if a person needs to be in a different tier or not. For the contest something like 3-4 rounds with a poll to see the winner. Each round however gives points for the places a member gets. Something like 5 points for 1st, 3 for 2nd, 1 for 3rd, and after the 3-4 rounds we tally the points and compare it. It's possible that the overall winner is one that in any of the tiers with the most points.

Each round would have a theme made before hand however not revealed to those playing (as they could start on the sigs before hand before others and come out on top because they had more time to work on it) however taken out of a pool of suggested themes.

Prizes can be custom titles for those who win at their tiers and custom color for that person that is the overall winner. (I'm going to be looking into the possibly of having a bigger sig and/or bigger avatar, I can't make any promises but it's a idea)

As for the bigger contest Woofcat is on the right track as well as Kraco it has to be something simply everyone can have a equal footing on. Trivia is one option (As much as I like to use IRC, some may not or will not use a client for this, so not exactly equal)

[Knives122]

Sig contests are getting pretty boring. I say go with something everyone can participate in and not just have it revolve around sig making.

[XanBcoo]

XanBcoo already won that contest...

I guess this claim to fame is as good as any, eh? I'll take it.


As far as another contest goes, I'm all in favor of having some sort of MS Paint competition. I think that limiting resources usually brings out the creativity in people. Either that, or we'll just get a lot of crap. I have a vision of a messy submission consisting of non sequitur panels depicting crude stick figures, trying to pass itself off as "comedy".

We could avoid that by having specifically themed submission guidelines instead of open-ended ones, such as (and I know I'm totally ripping off of a staple SA concept here..) "anime characters deal with everyday life", or something similar. That's my suggestion.


I also completely disagree with a trivia contest, for an obvious reason. We're all using the internet here. All anyone would need to do is keep a wiki or a good anime page open as a sure-fire backup to any question. The only skill it would test would be information retrieval, something that could only properly be measured in a short time limit on IRC, which a large number of users (including myself) don't really use.

[Spiegel]

(and I know I'm totally ripping off of a staple SA concept here..)

Your a Goon....?

Sorry that was a little off topic, but to redeem myself I have seen the staple SA concept and it is greatly amusing. I wouldn't mind seeing it here. Maybe being outside the twisted world of SA we might be able to find some new creativity and fun ideas.

[Board of Command]

2nd Suggestion :

The ugliest looking sig :

If you still want to go with professional sig makers then change the normal rules. Yes, I/we have seen what people can do with lovely renders but lets see if they can make something that is the most horrible thing to look at.

I already won that, and it's worse than Xanbcoo's, if you know what I mean

Click here if you don't...

P.S Kudos to BOC fro making a sig composition guide. I have been meaning to thank him for a while now. I guess I will do it here.

Thanks. Glad to know there are people that appreciate the work. I might write up Section 4 tonight if everything goes well (school work ).

[NM]

I personally liked the signature contest where two people would be making a sig for someone to actually use. Back then we did it for people who had the ugliest sig but technically we could've done it for anyone if they volunteered. And then that person would vote for the better sig and he/she gets to keep it while the winning sig-maker moves onto the next round. The reward can be a custom title or something.

[Board of Command]

Hey WTF mate? Nobody made sigs for me back in the day.

[Archangel]

Contest ideas:

- A sig contest where you provide rules that have to be kept while still letting the maker have free will on how he would design the sig. For ex. you would provide us with the anime we would have to base on or the character even ( It would be even cooler if it was a recently deceased yet loved character of some anime ) . You could also just have small rules like the colors it would have to be made in or some other ones so the sig makers had to change they're style even if just a little.

- The same thing, only with wallpapers

- There's always the classic "worst wallpaper" contest that is always fun but the voting should really consist in just all the mods so there's no cheating while voting lol

Any other contest idea would b good cause i like contests but i strongly disagree with any for of contest that doesn't accept all the members like the newbie idea since i think that all should b allowed to join the fun.

[Archangel]

Since summer is coming up how about a good old fashioned sig contest with a summer theme? Looks like some old member are coming back for a while so it would be fun to do this right now so they can join too.

[Buffalobiian]

What sort of contests have we had in the past? I've only ever heard about sig contests here.

[Junior]

Not another sig contest. D:

Isn't there more options? oooooh, how did the Survivor contest work?

[Idealistic]

How about first person to guess my real first name? Obviously I won't be able to participate.... Unless one of the mods says it's ok... =D

[saman]

i still like my crossword/word search puzzle idea. sig contests are cool too, but when someone with considerable talent and experience participates *coughlucifuscough*, there's not really much competition after all.

[Assassin]

what was your crossword search puzzle idea?

Heres the deal. Use this thread to post possible contest ideas. Just a summary of what you have in mind, what the duration mite be (days, weeks, months?) etc. If the mods (which so far is probably just me) think its worthwhile, we'll let you know and you can PM a detailed description of how it mite work, possible prizes, and anything else you mite consider useful.

Please try to keep things original (i dont wanna see 14 versions of GW:Survivor), and give some thought to your proposal. If you suggest something completely idiotic (for example, a contest to see who's gonna be the resident 'fat kid') just for the sake of posting i'll probably end up temp banning you.

[saman]

what was your crossword search puzzle idea?

or, i dunno, maybe an anime-related crossword. everyone likes crosswords. maybe even a word search without a list, and the person who finds the most correct words by the deadline wins. i tried a contest like that once, and i was obsessed with the thing for two days, but i didn't win because there were so many submissions

okay, so maybe i just really like crosswords and word searches. the description that i gave was of a really detailed puzzle, with probably about fifty or so words, and thousands of submissions, but we don't need anything quite so elaborate. or maybe just a little crossword with answers relating to gotwoot, not even anime. i dunno, it's really the only idea i can think of that's not stupid and that everyone can participate in if they want.

[KrayZ33]

How about an AMV-contest?

I don't know if the "gotwoot" community is big enough to find enough contestants for this... because it might be a lot of work.

I haven't made an AMV myself in my life, so I'm probably suggesting something totally stupid... but I love music and I love anime and on youtube are some really really nice animated and edited AMVs, it would be awesome if someone from gotwoot adds another awesome AMV to the list :P