GFX Clans again --> Battle Board

[M i s s i o N]

It's been a while, I believe it was v3 when the graphics clans ended. I propose they come back. Even though I know some people have trouble committing to things once they sign up (me included), it would bring activity back to the battle board.


Heres what I'm thinking:

It could be added as a sub-board called "Rosters". People could start their own clans, each clan with a roster of 4 members recruited by the clan's leader. Then in the "Clan Battle" sub-board, clan leaders could challenge other clans leaders, detailing on which type of battle is going to take place. There are 3 different types of battles:

• Collab - Each member of their clan contributes to one large piece. Each clan submits one piece.
  
  
• Team Versus
  Each member of the clan creates one piece of work, (it does not have to be a large piece, could be a signature or avatar or some other piece of art) Then each member gets pitted against one other. If your piece gets rated higher, your team receives one point. First to 3 points wins the match. Ex: Clan A challenges Clan B, leaders agree to a signature battle. Each member then submits a piece to the moderator of the board. The moderator decides which members get pitted against each other. Clan A's 1st member beats Clan B's 1st member thus earning 1 point. (If the score breaks even 2-2 then there will be a sudden death round where each clan picks a member to represent their clan in one last round.)
  
  
• Cage Match
  Both clans pick one member that they believe will perform best in a certain subject. (Much like how the battle board works now.)
  

All judging will be done by a select group of judges decided by the moderator of the board. These judges do not change.

The clans could keep track of their win-loss record on their roster sign-up page.


Tell me what you think of this idea.

[jongos]

there isn't enough active designers now.

in the future I think it would be good though.

[M i s s i o N]

jongos said:

there isn't enough active designers now.

in the future I think it would be good though.

There are actually quite a few. Most don't post though, since their is rarely anything to post about these days. Such as the art group members. There are quite a few that don't post. But if you look at graphics as a competing sport, where your actually competing against other designers then I'm sure we could get some people from deviantART. Besides, who doesn't want to prove that their the best designer?

[jongos]

Me:

there isn't enough active designers now.

You:

There are actually quite a few. Most don't post though, since their is rarely anything to post about these days.

Please read my statement again, then re-read yours slowly.

[M i s s i o N]

jongos said:

Me:

there isn't enough active designers now.

You:

There are actually quite a few. Most don't post though, since their is rarely anything to post about these days.

Please read my statement again, then re-read yours slowly.

Yeah, I'm a little slow, sorry. I meant that they make art to put on the main website, but they don't post. Maybe if art was a contest like this they would get involved and post.

[jongos]

exi1e said:

jongos said:

Me:


You:


Please read my statement again, then re-read yours slowly.

Yeah, I'm a little slow, sorry. I meant that they make art to put on the main website, but they don't post. Maybe if art was a contest like this they would get involved and post.

nah, it's ok, it's not a big deal.

as i said i think it would be nice with people involved, otherwise it would be bad. and now i'm sleeping.

[mrsmiley]

I'd suggest we begin with reviving the boards, then when we have many active designers contributing, we can consider this idea.

[Admin]

The battle board is going to be completely different in a few days.

There are way too many opportunities for competition around the forum; half the reason no one participates is becoming winner of one does very little. Adding another competition would just further de-value all of the other billions of types of recognition people get. When our SOTW board hardly ever has two pages worth of signatures - you know, those things that take less than an hour to make - I really question any new types of competitions. Hence why the Battle Board is moving towards becoming less competitive and more practice.

It was a nice, well-thought out idea. It just wouldn't work on the board right now.