Possible upcoming Contests planning thread

[Ryllharu]

The problem with sig and AMV contests is the barrier it imposes on a lot of the members of the community. Generally, sig contests don't work when half the would-be entrants don't have photoshop (or equivalent). Suddenly, someone who would have participated in some unknown upcoming event has to overcome the hurdle of the amateur learning curve. Instead of, "That might be fun," you get, "I have to learn [program] in order to even try, and a lot of people already know it, I better not bother." It wouldn't be a problem if everyone was on a level playing field and had to start from the beginning, but in cases where the contest is evaluated by peers on a quality basis, those with experience will win out.

AMVs are just that much worse.

The reason GW: Survivor was successful was because the events were so stupid and accessible. Write a Naruto filler episode is something anyone can do, editing images with MS Paint (or Apple/linux alternative), etc.

The key to creating a good event is accessibility. You want everyone to participate, and be capable of participating. Not just those with countless hours of experience under their belts.

Keep that in mind while thinking up events.

[Abdula]

Sounds good and more importantly sounds doable. Making a crossword puzzle doesn't take up any time and determining a winner will be easy enough. I really like this idea, just need to figure out whether the puzzle will be focused on a specific anime or just animes in general. Maybe we could pick a few of the more popular anime and increase the difficulty as things go on and then throw in a few more obscure animes to make things interesting.

[Archangel]

Well if sig contests are difficult to make because of the difference in ability how about we go on the opposite direction and make a "worse sig ever" contest. I've been on one b4 and it was alot of fun

[Kraco]

Bah. Xan would just remove the grinning apples and reveal again that ugly yellow whatever in his sig, and he'd win any ugly sig contest automatically.

[NM]

Let's try and stay away from sig contests...nothing against them but I do want to see a GW event where everyone can participate in. There must be something we can think of to top GW Survivor guys.

[Board of Command]

A sig contest would be pointless since I win by default.

[shinta|hikari]

The crossword idea isn't so bad. How about an anime based quiz game, like those found in some quiz websites. Creativity and humour can be the criteria, and I don't think it has a very difficult learning curve.

[saman]

or a "guess that anime/manga" game, where you post a whole bunch of pictures from different anime or manga, and then whoever guesses the most titles right wins

[Assassin]

All perfectly good ideas, but just ideas so far. If someone wants to work it out in detail i'd be happy to lend a hand organizing it. I particularly like the above suggestion. Instead of showing characters, we can show 'parts' of characters, like a uniform, a weapon they mite carry, maybe where they live if its something distinctive. That would make it more challenging.

[XanBcoo]

Instead of showing characters, we can show 'parts' of characters, like a uniform, a weapon they mite carry, maybe where they live if its something distinctive. That would make it more challenging.

Showing silhouettes of characters would be good too. Just a blackened out character against a background. There should also be a good mix of old and new series from which we pick the characters.

I think we should run with the guessing game suggestion. I don't really like the avatars idea at all, no offense DBZ, and the crossword one seems kinda boring to me.

[Archangel]

Showing silhouettes of characters would be good too. Just a blackened out character against a background.

It's been done before

We should have a photo shoot contest. Name an item, and the best/creative picture featuring the item should win. It can be anything, say a game controller, your mp3 player, anime related cosplay items, etc....

Fucking brilliant! Why the hell isn't psyke an mod anyway? PSYKE FOR MOD!!!!

Simple, doable and loads of fun. I'm guessing that even if u don't have a camera most of us have at least access to a camera phone so just about anyone could participate. I'm 100% for this idea.

[Psyke]

Fucking brilliant! Why the hell isn't psyke an mod anyway? PSYKE FOR MOD!!!!

Thanks but I'm definitely not mod material.

There should be a set of rules with such a contest, such as whether photoshop editing is allowed, etc. I'm too lazy to think through the details though....

[Ryllharu]

Fucking brilliant! Why the hell isn't psyke an mod anyway? PSYKE FOR MOD!!!!

Tone it down a bit Arch, Psyke already has a wife


Back to Psyke's idea and adding in Xan's contribution, we'd have to be careful about "what they have" when it comes to recreating a scene. I mean, Legos or your particular country's equivalent (Army men, Stickle bricks etc) is fine, but a fair amount of us anime viewers have figurines.

Now I think I'd be very amused seeing Psyke's recreation of the End of Evangelion using Red Super Sentai, but it wouldn't be all that fair for someone who was using crumpled napkins and toothpicks.

[saman]

sounds good! let's do it!

...is what i would say if i had the authority to say so. but really, i'd love to organize something like that, as long as one or two of the mods also gave suggestions on what to include. i wasn't around for gotwoot survivor, so i don't know how you guys handle would cheating or comparing answers, or how answer submissions would work

[Death BOO Z]

maybe a 'guess who' game?
you make a special post with 20/50/100 avatars in it. and you have to name which avatar belongs to which user.
the one who scores the most (recognizes the most avatars) wins.
there should be a time limit, though, or maybe make it real-time through IRC

[Kraco]

Heavily time limited contests would be troublesome because people are from different time zones or in general have different times of the day they can access the forum. So, it would only serve those who happen to be online at that particular moment and have some free time right then.

[Animeniax]

We could have a contest to see who can stay away from the forums longest, or who can stay on longest. You'd have to post every 30 minutes to keep the streak going.

[Psyke]

We should have a photo shoot contest. Name an item, and the best/creative picture featuring the item should win. It can be anything, say a game controller, your mp3 player, anime related cosplay items, etc....

[Animeniax]

That's the best idea I've read and its pretty original too. I'm not sure how many photography aficionados there are here. I've always wanted to be one, but don't have the camera for it yet. I'd participate in this contest though.

[Archangel]

No photoshop editing or we'd be right back where we started

For what should be photographed the mods should come up with a list of items that everyone has available to them and put them on a poll for the forum members to decide

We'd have full freedom on the choice of the background and everything else except that the said item would have to be present in the photo

Next... we'll i'll keep posting stuff i can't think of i guess