Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:09 am
Uuuummmmmmm, I am confused. What are the teams supposed to do?
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It's for fun I believe.Elephant Knight wrote:Uuuummmmmmm, I am confused. What are the teams supposed to do?
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Well, assuming I fully understand this, each team is responsible with absolutely nothing. However, being a memer of a team means that the person is much more likely to enter, and more likely to enter more, so that he/she, and his/her team, have a greater chance of winning, which will bestow upon him/her a special forum title, and full bragging rights. Make sense? Basically, it's to add a bit of fun and enjoyment to this contest (not that it wasn't already fun) and to encourage more entries. And let me say, I totally love this idea and will be waiting with baited breath on Wednesday.Elephant Knight wrote:Uuuummmmmmm, I am confused. What are the teams supposed to do?
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now If we decide to be really fancy we could put up private forums for each team to discuss battle plansso long as the discussions are private and submission rules are followed.
Fight each other, until only one team remains, dominant on the battlefield, and slayer of all.Elephant Knight wrote:Uuuummmmmmm, I am confused. What are the teams supposed to do?
lord azreal wrote:This is definately gunna make things interesting!
Although I cant think of any way a group of people in a competition with only one winner per catagory can work together.
either way I will be signing up on the 5th
SavaTheAggie wrote: Master Builders, who know what the judges are looking for and have proven their skills as superior, would unfairly weight one team over another. I mean no disrespect to anyone in making this analogy, but you wouldn't want an MLB star on the roster of a little league team.
--Tony
I agree, it's awesome that something is organized for this now, but I am a bit uncertain about something.Bruce N H wrote:Elephant Knight and Lord Azreal raised the question above about what teams would do and how they could cooperate in an individual competition. I think the model to examine is last year's friendly competition between the Polish and Portuguese communities as described in this thread by Hippotam and Tânia. I think we could all agree that they really helped raise the bar last year.
Yes, in my zealousness to remove the other entry criteria, I deleted the whole paragraph which included the restriction against Master Builders. And yes, Master Builders are prevented from taking part. (There's also an unofficial, unwritten tradition that Master Builders don't enter the contest directly after which they won the title).Blueandwhite wrote:SavaTheAggie wrote: Master Builders, who know what the judges are looking for and have proven their skills as superior, would unfairly weight one team over another. I mean no disrespect to anyone in making this analogy, but you wouldn't want an MLB star on the roster of a little league team.
--Tony
Was this criteria removed?
The original competition rules prohibited Master Builders from entering; is that rule still in effect? The current post doesn't seem to mention it one way or the other. I also feel that the MLB star/little league comparison is a bit over-the-top. I seem to recall that past competitions were pretty close. Moreover, Master Builders (and the runner-ups) have proven themselves to be consistent and dedicated builders; something every good copetition needs.
This was most of the entire reason to limit entry to those who have 100 posts and/or one year of membership to Classic-Castle. However, this restriction was removed because of the question of "Fairness" to the people new to the forum. Thank your fellow forum members for that.Aliencat wrote:I agree, it's awesome that something is organized for this now, but I am a bit uncertain about something.
The way I see it, if a team has only one person that didn't enter any entries, the whole team will become Junior Gong Farmers? What if someone was to sign up for a team and then totally disappear from the forums, should the other competitors that have tried their best and entered some great entries be "punished" for that?
I agree that would make things more interesting, but if someone who signed up really is prevented from entering for some unfortunate reason, the rest of the team would get pretty upset with this member, is that really the kind of reaction/atmosphere we would want?
Don't get me wrong, I think this is a cool idea and will do my best to be there on time to sign up, so I can get into a team. Now if only we knew what time exactly to be there on Wednesday...
Thanks, fellow forum members!SavaTheAggie wrote:This was most of the entire reason to limit entry to those who have 100 posts and/or one year of membership to Classic-Castle. However, this restriction was removed because of the question of "Fairness" to the people new to the forum. Thank your fellow forum members for that.
That would be an incredibly good and valid (to me) reason and would make me look like the absolute genius that I am.Aliencat wrote:Is the reason you didn't mention a time on wednesday simply because you don't know yet, or is this because you don't want people to know beforehand what time the sign-ups begin, for the reason of actually "rewarding" people who hang out in chat and be social with other people with the ability to sign up, instead of 30 people loggin in at 5 pm (for example) to all sign up at the same time?
It has been decided that rooms in the chat room will be made available for the teams. This is a much faster method that will not require any dinking with the forum. Team members, of course, are not required to make use of said rooms.rogue27 wrote:Anyway, would it be possible to create a private forum for each team? Based on my experience with other online team-based contests, I've found that a team discussion forum greatly increases participation and motivation.
I do hope these rooms will be passworded so not everyone can just walk into other teams' rooms, right? The admins of each team could PM their team members the password to their room.SavaTheAggie wrote:It has been decided that rooms in the chat room will be made available for the teams. This is a much faster method that will not require any dinking with the forum. Team members, of course, are not required to make use of said rooms.
--Tony