SSD Contest

[Beam]

At the beggining of V3, there was a contest to create a signature appealing to the new version of SSD. This was probabely the most active thread in terms of response and popularity.

Why? Because it was easy to complete. Create your image. Post it on the board for all to see. And a poll came out to vote for the best winner. Winner got a custom title.

Here is what i suggest, at the beggining of Version 6 release a similar contest. Follow all the rules. Including the section in the bold. And then get to the voting part. The poll is flawed becuase someone can continousely register new accounts and vote. So people post there votes and give reasons. It's hands-on it's fun and it will be popular w/ the activity version 6 will bring. Possibely put it in the Cohesion Battles Board. Make it official and if you don't have someone to run it i'll do it.

One of the main things that gave SSD the soul in V3 was this contest. It's time that SSD gets it back. I understand that you say that we've tried contests. But those all were tournaments or matches which you could not see your opponents entry with only one judge and not letting the community on a community based forum to post the results.

I know it might be early thinking about this now but if you decide to do it please save it for Version 6's release. And please don't tell me to start it on my own, for if it's not official people won't be interested. If there are sign ups it will take too much waiting.

This way you can check up on it and this won't cause blame towards the staff. Simply put a deadline for the entries to be turned in, and a deadline for the voting. Also you may say this is like sotw, well i personally believe that SSD has moved beyond signatures, possibely create 800x600 art pieve, and the fact that this is not an every day thing might help that out.

Also beyond that I would just like to say that the prize could use some thought, rather than a custom title's which are given out for winning sotw.

I hope you take my suggestion, and if you don't it's all smooooooooooth sailing

[Kay]

Wow. Well compiled speech there Beam.

I think that even though I can't participate in this, it would be a great idea to pursue.

[Beam]

kc2 said:

Wow. Well compiled speech there Beam.

I think that even though I can't participate in this, it would be a great idea to pursue.

Thanks for supporting me Kay,

I hope they listen

[Assassinator/Young Everest]

Well, I'm listening. There was already a plan for a contest at the beginning of v6 but we didn't know what to do. Thanks for the idea, we'll see what happens.

ps. It won't go in the Cohesion Board. That was for one tournament only

[dlt]

Sounds good... nice idea beamy!

[Admin]

Hmm, not a bad idea, although I take every contest with some caution because they don't always work.

I could put this as a SOTW sometime, that would appeal to a wider range I think, but the actual idea of creating something around SSD V6 seems rather difficult, what kind of things could one put into a larger image?

[Luke]

admin said:

Hmm, not a bad idea, although I take every contest with some caution because they don't always work.

I could put this as a SOTW sometime, that would appeal to a wider range I think, but the actual idea of creating something around SSD V6 seems rather difficult, what kind of things could one put into a larger image?

If you put it as just another SOTW it wouldn't really end up too offical. If you leave it out all by itself in the open, like let's say as an announcement, more people would participate.

But overall I'm liking the idea of a clean fresh contest somewhere in the near future.

[Beam]

admin said:

Hmm, not a bad idea, although I take every contest with some caution because they don't always work.

I could put this as a SOTW sometime, that would appeal to a wider range I think, but the actual idea of creating something around SSD V6 seems rather difficult, what kind of things could one put into a larger image?

Well, I am unaware of what the theme of SSD V6 will be, for example this is more of a vectorish light theme. SSD V3 was more like a grungy broken up theme. V4 had an aqua feel (you did an sotw on it). V2 was high tech. Oliver if you would like I could think about it a while longer and come up with more details. Such as board and prize. Or maybe another big idea that just popped into my head

Anyways I think that the rest of this should be done through pm or I could have a staff member relay it to you through MSN. But Oliver if you have any doubts about this and the entries. With V6 the activity will shoot up and this will help, and let me remind you this is much more user friendly than our newer systems. Do you guys remember LFX's contest at the beggining of the battle board that went on 7 pages. It was the same just people didn't vote LFX got to choose. This is alot more community based graphic contest on a community based graphic board but i'll pm you further ideas and details, and if you want me to write up the contest rules and deadlines for you to post that would be fine, but it needs to be OFFICIAL that is what turns people on.

And SOTW is way too common and boring. This needs advertisement as well. All of this will be compiled and sent to you soon

[Admin]

Yeah feel free to post or pm some other details, things like time limits, prizes, how it's judged and what people are actually going to do.