Should I bring back competitions?

Started by seeker June 13th, 2011 11:02 AM
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seeker

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Hey guys, as some of you may know, I'm the host of both Icon of the week and Signature of the week. Lately I've been avoiding opening them since they've been dead each week. So in saying that, I have some things to explain, then I wish to get some feedback.

I'm mostly going to talk about SotW here. I'm thinking of dropping it, and starting a brand new competition. I'm thinking of changing Signature of the Week to Tag of the Fortnight. Simply because we don't get enough entrants, and also because I think signature was always a sort of odd name. For TotF I'm also going to set up a sort of Hall of Fame thread or index. This will start from the first TotF, but I'm thinking of doing the same for IotW along the way.

So guys, what are your thoughts? Do you have any suggestions or ideas to add?

Also, for those of you who are new to G&P or Competitions, they are held in the Competitions sub-forum.

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Sounds good to me. I'd really like to see both competitions active again, now that's I'm relatively okay at icons and attempting to become so at tags. I kind of see it as a way to give myself a bit of perspective.
/not making sense
But yeah, if it's no trouble for you then I think it would be fun. :3
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seeker

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Sounds good to me. I'd really like to see both competitions active again, now that's I'm relatively okay at icons and attempting to become so at tags. I kind of see it as a way to give myself a bit of perspective.
/not making sense
But yeah, if it's no trouble for you then I think it would be fun. :3
From experience, SotW/IotW helped me get better and such, so it'd be no harm!

Yes. I would enter. I didn't even know we ever had SotW and IotW.
Well you see, that's just it, how do you think we could advertise it in future? Since I think people would enter if they knew a little more about it.

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Well... a lot of us have blogs, and of course there are signatures to put things in. And perhaps an announcement or two? I don't really know, there doesn't seem to be many ways of advertising.
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A good way is always shameless advertising. Look around in the gallery's and when somebody has good tags or icons or are saying they want to be better just VM them and tell them that they should enter.

I would definitely enter because I'm not too great at tags and maybe somebody would VM me or look in my gallery if they saw I needed some help.

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I would like to join in them again. Sometimes I dont join them, as I cant get the theme right or sometimes overall lazyness.

Did you / Do you advertise in the G&P section? Or you can do what nica & some other PPC people. Just VM people, preferably regulars in the G&P section.

seeker

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I reckon that I could VM the regulars again, post a blog, post in TCTI, add it to my signature, get an announcement up. You guys can help too of course!

So I'm thinking of starting the new competitions again within the next few days, so once they're up, you can all shamelessly advertise!

I have time to work on G&P again, to get activity flowing, I think this is the first protocol. Then getting a graphics school up.

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I like this idea. <3; I'd help out and do whatever I can. Shameless advertising isn't new for me and I'm sure it'll work. :D;

Graphic school! I want that to start asap! ;;

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I reall thinky you should, it'd be fun, plus hopefully we can promote it, probably through an announcement?

Also, if you need any help with hosting any, I'd be happy to help. Just a suggestion. :)
I think the hall of fame sounds good, also.

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I'd love to see some of the contests back. I'd probably enter the Icon and Photography ones although my heart isn't into tags that much now days.

I'm guessing that the key to the number of people entering the contests depends on the theme of the contest itself - looking at how "Celebrity" was quite a popular theme.
I admit I do prefer challenging themes but maybe easier themes would mean more people entering?


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seeker

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Just saying, this isn't about the Photography competition. I didn't host that, so you can talk to Forever about that one. I suppose it was just too dead to be honest.

As for hosting, I'll host them again, but I cant get them up right away. Reason being is that I need to get a new prefix added, and get a place for the Hall of Fame sorted before I do anything. So sorry about that Dr. Kotov, but there's method to my madness. Not to mention the fact that I had reason to check if people actually cared about competitions since no one was entering. And for those of you interested, IOTW is open for another 6 days or so.

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So sorry about that Dr. Kotov, but there's method to my madness.
[IOTW] #42 - Fashion

Shakespeare; nicely said.
I wonder whether half of the people who posted here would enter the IOTW competition going on, that would elicit a nice filter for judgement. Oh, wait, it appears they have, and just today. Good job.

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quixotic

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I think when you bring back ToTW you could keep the 'Freestyle' theme for more than just the first week. Perhaps even just one more week, but it allows more people to join without being daunted by a theme, and if they find they enjoy being part of the competition, they have more of a probability to try again the next time even if the theme isn't their favourite.
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Yeah, I think the fortnight idea would work a lot better, since it gives people a lot more time to enter (obviously), and especially since it takes me a while to get into a signature-making mood. There's one thing I disagree with though, I think it should be SOTF not TOTF. Signature naturally makes much more sense. I just don't understand why some people use 'tag' instead of signature. Other than that, I'm fine with it, it's best to try and fail than not try at all.

As for icons, I'm not interested, but you might as well try that as well, there's nothing to lose.


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seeker

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Actually I would disagree. A signature is what you put below your post, it could be any number of things. People tend to have the slight mis-conception at times that Signature of the Week can consist of text, CSS, and other mediums which do not necessarily relate to graphics at all. Signature is not an actual graphics term, it's actually slang, started by forums. Whereas the actual term for what you'd be making in previous SOTW's was actually a tag. Signature is actually a kind of redundant saying to be honest. On top of that, I want to start a whole new chapter on the book of competitions, so that I can get a hall of fame going and such. I'll be making a new emblem for example. So I don't want people confused about SotW and then SotF. So, really it simply makes a universal clarity if we go with my suggestion.

At any rate, I was thinking the same thing about it being freestyle for a while. But I might do an investigation as to what were the most popular SotW categories, as people often rather some direction when it comes to entries. Sometimes we can have loads of entries in a freestyle theme, other times we can have like, 2. With that said I'll probably start it off with freestyle again.

So starting tonight I should probably get this approved by higher staff, get the prefix of [TotF] added as well as making an emblem and either open up the competition tonight or tomorrow if all bodes well. But of course, not everything happens according to estimation. Though as I said, IotW is still open.

As a footnote, would anyone display any interest in Large Art of the Fortnight? This would basically be for LP's and wallpaper styled entires. Though I doubt there would be a copious amount of entries. So I could possibly make it monthly? But meh. Thoughts?

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quixotic

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I don't know if I'd enter Large Piece competition every week, maybe just from time to time, but yeah, it's a good idea. Although I agree not many people will enter them unless the themes are really friendly...

Another idea, on another graphics forum, the have a rotating competition where I think it is every fortnight or a month or whatever, but it changes from tag, to LP, to icon each time it is held. I think something like this could work (without LP probably) because it means sometimes there will be two themes going, so if someone is turned off by a theme that they have absolutely no intention of entering, they might enter one with a different theme that happens to be on at the same time.
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quixotic

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No, like you have IoTW and ToTW going as normal, and ON TOP of those two, there is a separate, additional thread for a rotating contest which is held maybe every fortnight which one fortnight is tags, then the next time it is icons (and LPs if you want to add that too) just so there are more competitions to enter. Obviously we would need lots of entries in the regular competitions to warrant such a thing, but yeah.
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