Possible upcoming Contests planning thread

[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.

[XanBcoo]

Your a Goon....?

Possibly someday. I lurk every now and then. Both SA and 4chan spawn some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen on the internet, in my opinion.

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.

That's pretty much what I was getting at. I think it'd be pretty fun and interesting to see what people from this forum can come up with. The results will probably be similar to those of the first contest in Gotwoot Survivor (the caption contest), which seemed to be the most successful.

[saman]

hmm, i think it'd be neat to have something different. maybe a scavanger hunt of sorts, where people are given a specific clue, and then they have to go around the forums to look for more clues and collect pieces of a bigger picture, and the person who gets all the pieces together using the clues wins.

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

[Deadfire]

hmm, i think it'd be neat to have something different. maybe a scavanger hunt of sorts, where people are given a specific clue, and then they have to go around the forums to look for more clues and collect pieces of a bigger picture, and the person who gets all the pieces together using the clues wins.

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

Those are interesting ones. willing to expand on them? like how they work and how they run/ran. Like how did a word search without a list work a person just gives a clue to a word they are thinking of and everyone tries to guess it?

That would sort of work as we could have something like name that anime using the screen shot or writen clue...

[saman]

well, the word search contest i did had an our lady peace theme (a canadian band). it was pretty big, and it included lots of words relating to our lady peace, everything from old producers to song names to people in their videos. lots of research. there was no list or hints or anything, and the person who found the most words (that were actually included) on their own won. i don't know how that would work relating to anime; maybe just pick one show that everyone watches as a theme.

as for the scavanger hunt, i was thinking, there would be a few frequent posters on the board picked and links to different clues would be hidden in their old posts. the mods would start off giving one clue about where to find post #1, which would include a link to a page that had one piece of a particular picture divided into pieces, and the clue for where to find post #2. then post #2 would have another link to another piece of the picture and clue #3, and on and on until someone found all the pieces and put them together and submitted it, hence winning the contest. how's that?

erm, if it seems like i've been thinking about this a lot, it's because...i have. o.O

[woofcat]

I like the old post idea, because the hints could be like "garaa vs sasuke" and a mod would find an obscure post about it and edit in the next clue. it would be spiffy.