Contests / The Next Contest

^Exactly my point.

H2H would be grand. then i could actually participate!

whatever is chosen, make sure you have room for us LL-ers.

No we can't have H2H! It's the DEVIL [/The Waterboy's mom mode :' />

How many people do you actually participate in a High-Rollers?

I mean look at PT3, half the people who play qualified and we probably got less than 10 entries.

Anyone can join hi-rollers.

h2h with smaller maps.

Maybe I'm a little too late to offer a suggestion, but I'd like to see a contest where those who enter have to confuse the judges by making work that disobeys their normal parkmaking traits. The entries would be released anonymously and the judges would have to piece together in their minds what they know about each player's work to try and figure out who made what given a list of the entrants. Contestants could make works so unique to be unidentifiable, keep judges guessing with numerous styles, copy somebody else, or make what appears to be somebody else's imitation of their own work. All entries would be sent to one person and released to the judges of the contest all at once to have them go mad, debating between themselves and working as a group to figure out who did what.

Either that, or we could have an H2h version of the same idea where teams select parkmakers to try this out round by round with one or two players each time. If a parkmaker is discovered by a certain percentage of the public voting, then they would be forced to sit out for a certain number of rounds. Instead of simply team on team, it would be the scammers versus the public during each round, but team vs. team for overall statistics. That way, everybody's part of the contest whether they're actually playing on one of the teams or not, so it's fun for the whole community.

I'll admit that my idea favors shrewdness over RCT skill, but it would be a nice change from the contests we've had so far.

Anyone can join hi-rollers.

Yeah I know, read the next part too. What I was saying was, how many more entries can you expect by letting everyone in as opposed to letting most people in?

Yeah I know, read the next part too. What I was saying was, how many more entries can you expect by letting everyone in as opposed to letting most people in?

I would guess less to be honest.

I don't know how it worked in the past, but to me, a Hi-Rollers wouldn't get as many entries, because people would be scared of all the extremely skilled parkmakers and almost-parkmakers on the site.

At least with PT, you have Prelims, so you gain a little bit of confidence from winning something before entering the finals.

h2h with smaller maps.

I second that!

Smaller maps, smaller teams, less weeks. Bingo!

"MFG"

No! Not till Sarah Palin is proven not to be a witch :' />

^^^ I actually think the prelims create too much of a delay between announcement and building, so I'd think the opposite would hold true. The only thing I think is good about the prelims, is that if people win them, they feel more obligated to enter.

^Yeah, but if you suck like I did, then everybody complains when the admin gives you an invite to the finals on account of you making five (pitiful) attempts. And then said person doesn't even submit a final entry despite numerous statements laced with the intention to get something done. We don't need that fiasco again.

I second that!

Smaller maps, smaller teams, less weeks. Bingo!

"MFG"

Count me in!

I'd do it, although most wouldn't let me since I haven't shown my RCT2 work...

Last time I was in H2H my team lost it's captain and no one tried getting anything done... I still have the H2H park I was working on from back then...

I think we should all build a park themed to the music of Arnold Schoenberg and then submit.

most "atonal" architecture wins.

^I win.

NE's Summer Music Festival

Basically QFTB but with music as the themes for each round. You may have to build a park themed around a certain artist, style, or song.

I suggested the idea to Kumba back when he was still dictator, to which he responded, "I don't like music." I suggested the idea to CP6 not long after, and he said that it might not fly well, due to the fact that not everybody listens to every kind of music. I listen to a wide variety though (excluding hip-hop/r&b/rap), so I think it would be a fun and challenging contest.

I had a similar idea for a music video inspired contest, but I think that this has a better base for a more interesting game. I say that instead of going by musical genre, it could be by the basic type of song. There could be instrumentals, hit songs, themes from movies, video games and television, covers, political songs, mood pieces, spoof songs, holiday tunes, company themes, etc. etc. Instead of straight on matchups, I'd be interested in an ordered judging system where the top half of the entries advance while the bottom ones do not. Considering how people get screwed with seeds and matchups, I think that would be better and it would allow for the contest to be easily foreshortened if remaining contestants grow too tired to work on one final round. In that case, there would be one bigger round and the top four could duke it out. This way, if you were knocked out in one round you'd have the opportunity to replace one of the entries of the contestants above you in order to strengthen your overall position. The best entry would win the spots of whomever drops out of the next round, but the vacant spots are always on the bottom for each round, meaning that over half of the contestants would have to drop out for you to advance any further beyond that point. The contest would be like a top 100 chart except top 64 for the purposes of the game.

For an example:

Say there's eight people in this contest. 4 win round one and make it to round two. Three lost but submitted an entry for the first round and the other forfitted. If only three of the deserved contestants in round two submit an entry, the bottomfeeder contestants have the opportunity to submit their own entry to inherit that spot for the purpose of regaining some lost glory. The winning entry, and only the winning entry displaces the position of the person who failed to submit an entry for that round, sending them back a spot to being the best entry of the last round. This wouldn't completely upset the hierarchy of the first round, however. The top two first round rejects would have priority over the other guy to claim this spot.

The poor bottom guy wouldn't be completely left out, however, because he could claim the bottom spot for the first round and have two "hits on the chart" until he's bumped off by the next time by hierarchy. The amount of contestants decreases each round, but the top entries from previous rounds stay until bumped off completely. The top four hits from the second to last round would determine who gets a parkmaker spot like in previous contests.

I'm not quite sure what to call it and Summer Music Festival wouldn't quite fit, though it won't likely matter since it's an unlikely contest to ever get picked. If my idea is popular enough to get picked, I'm sure somebody will come up with a good name. As for the rest of the rules, the community could sort out the basic guidelines while the panel works on the more in depth details. That's all I have to say on the matter for now. There's no point in saying more as my last idea didn't get as much as a small chuckle.

Edited by Ge-Ride, 15 September 2008 - 09:02 PM.

I can't tell if you're serious.