Poll
Question:
would you?
Option 1: yes
Option 2: no
after talking about tba's Glory days with some people in the chat i got nostalgic and i wanted to see if other people want to see this return
for those who dont know what im talking about: a while ago we used to hold these tournaments where we paired up artists against eachother and have people from the forums submit their vote for who they thought made the better submission, which was either a piece of music, photography, a comic, an animation (if you had the time), literature or whatever.
it used to be a bracket-type tournament where two artists competed against eachother and the winner progressed, but later on we changed it to where we had 3 rounds, and the top most voted on artists progressed to the next round. each round had a theme the contest mod came up with. the contest mod was also in charge of starting the contest threads, counting the votes and kicking people.
Who that will be is not important right now, we'll figure that out later.
so yeah, would you like to see this make a comeback on tba? if you voted yes and you would like to specify, like you have some ideas about rules/conditions/voting system please feel free to post.
yes
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i know i already said this a bunch of times in irc, but i think a character design contest would be a lot of fun. (i think monster people would be a cool theme too, but i could be alone on that)
i also think it would be good if they were all fairly small goals for each round, so things don't fall apart.
previous rules we used to have (as far as i can remember) were:
- votes should at least provide a reason to go with them
- if youve won the previous tournament, you can enter the next one, but cant win
- mods are allowed to enter the tournament
- any media is allowed
i also remember we used to donate money which the winner would win. we should do that again, it makes the contest exciting and people will join (this is NOT an entry fee)
Yeah at the very least it would be cool to just pick a topic for the week/month/whatever and encourage people to submit pieces of whatever media to match the topic, competition or not.
yep
yes
unanimous so far
Quote from: W.A.S.I.M. on July 14, 2012 12:09 PM
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a
why not
there were too many yes votes.
DAMN IT RINGO
yes contests yes
Yay! If they did return I would make an entry :)
i think a better question would be, who would actually participate in the contests if they did return
Quote from: rtil on July 18, 2012 07:15 AM
i think a better question would be, who would actually participate in the contests if they did return
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ok i think the majority of tba wants to have contests again. now all we need is a contest mod
if you like to be one post in this thread and at the end tba will pick one or two. (i dont know how, maybe another poll?)
I would like to be the greatest contest mod to have ever lived.
But will i be able to carry out such a heavy, difficult, and almost impossible responsibility?
It is possible to withstand the furious, raging, violent, wild, and rampageous mobs of TBA?
so what happened? was it the subject matter? wrong time of year? WAS IT MY FAULT?
the fire is dead
im just gonna do another one after this and hopefully this time enough people will join so that we can give the money away at least
the problem is with just about anything - people will say they want to do something, but then when they actually have to do it they realize they have to do something. so they don't.
thats cold
It's true unfortunately. I still think we should give it one more shot though
I will make something next time.
Had a lot of ideas just wasn't quite sure if I wanted to stick through with one.
I would like to have my winnings delivered to
123 Leet Street, USA 01337
Maybe we could try voting on a topic or something, perhaps if a topic is chosen because people like it in particular, they may be more likely to submit something.
Voting is still just a click or typing a sentence.
There's still the matter of putting forth effort into an entry
How to effectively encourage someone to make time out of their busy schedule of browsing youtube, tumblr, reddit and 4chan to draw (,not limited to,) a stick dude
How, Elmo, how?
DAMN right
i always thought money was the best incentive ... it worked for a while
At least we got something.
I don't think the contests should stop just because we're having a slow start, though
New themes, new ideas, let's go
I don't care if chicken can't count votes, http://www.you (http://www.you) tube.com/watch?v=AQ_nNdZtEPE#t=1m44s
Quote from: SHADOWFOX2 on September 3, 2012 02:22 AM
I would like to have my winnings delivered to
123 Leet Street, USA 01337
prematurely declaring yourself the winner gets you -1 vote!!! sorry but dems the rules
:science:
You're just mad because you lost to me. The best artist on TBA.