Post your Competition ideas here!

[SpikeSpiegel]

My Competition idea is to finish the Elements Triathlon.

At last, we have new COs.

More informations will follow...

 

[dawn to dusk]

competitions are making a magnificent return with MS paint comp 7 and the new Christmas comp but we would still like your ideas. so post them here! they may turn into real competitions down the line!

[Dm]

Folks, give this some use. We're open for ideas any time.

[eljoemo]

I'd like to see another screenshot competition, but I had a slightly different Idea. Saying, "You must have a field full of Crimson Dragons", means that everyone is chasing the same thing, and although people will be creative with their methods, it ultimately comes down to who can do it fastest, which comes down to who will see it and will complete it fastest. So why not say, "Show us a screenshot of an amazing field layout" or something of that ilk, which allows for creativity in completing and also allows a community vote, instead of who can do these the fastest.

[Torriku]

Design a card meant to combo with a card assigned to you.

[ARTHANASIOS]

Folks, give this some use. We're open for ideas any time.

In here...

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/competitions/desing-a-competition-voting/

...except for the winning competition (Elements the Film-Competition) where we have to design a movie poster and post it here, there is the Paint-With-Element competition which had a similar competition held into the distant past (in here) as well as the Ecosystem sybmission. These two competitons ideas can be fun if hosted.

Another suggestion:
 Do NOT held just a single competition for a week and next week a new one, and then a new one etc.
 Imho, hosting a dozen competitions and keep them ongoing for months is going to have the following advantages:
* Keep the community more interested (there will always be an ongoing competiton).
* Greater variety (if one of the running competitions do not interest a person, the other 2 or 3 currently running competitions will probably catch his/her attention).
* The Competitions section is going to look much more active than it looks right now.

Other than that, keep up your great work, guys!

[dawn to dusk]

Another suggestion:
 Do NOT held just a single competition for a week and next week a new one, and then a new one etc.
 Imho, hosting a dozen competitions and keep them ongoing for months is going to have the following advantages:
* Keep the community more interested (there will always be an ongoing competiton).
* Greater variety (if one of the running competitions do not interest a person, the other 2 or 3 currently running competitions will probably catch his/her attention).
* The Competitions section is going to look much more active than it looks right now.

Interesting... The only problem with it is that players, after making their submission, will wait months to see a result. By that time, they may have already left the forums and not be able to know they won...
Especially at this time with the community being fragile atm (no updates/PvP), the increase in people leaving is only going to increase.

It is a very good idea, however, with the current state of the forums, it may not be the most practical right now.

[Dm]

Welp, thanks for the thoughts

But that should go into the Feedback thread, not the Ideas thread.

Regardless..

Do NOT held just a single competition for a week and next week a new one, and then a new one etc.
 Imho, hosting a dozen competitions and keep them ongoing for months is going to have the following advantages:
* Keep the community more interested (there will always be an ongoing competiton).
* Greater variety (if one of the running competitions do not interest a person, the other 2 or 3 currently running competitions will probably catch his/her attention).
* The Competitions section is going to look much more active than it looks right now.

While hosting "a dozen competitions" and "keep them ongoing for months" seems to have these advantages, one of us will have to be monitoring the competition for these months. Since months are quite a long time, our timers will either be pretty long and people might either delay joining or, by joining too early, will forget about the voting, and won't vote. (This is also why we already talk about the voting threads all around, including chat.)

Greater variety does seem legit (Yeah, we're on our third Art Comp), but we're trying to get a good cycle going of having an art comp, a writing comp, a deck comp, a card comp, etc, going through a cycle as to keep people interested.

It'll be more active, but it'll be a bit more of a hassle to maintain. Although that's only if it's a "dozen" comps. I guess we can attempt to run some more simultaneously, but it shouldn't be an absurd number.

[Torriku]

Take a poem such as this:

Spoiler for Hidden:

In the calm nights peace,
Wind shifts its breeze.
Crickets sing their tranquil tune,
Cloaked in the moonlit trees.
Grass swaying in harmony,
Tickling the sleeping .
All is quiet in the cloak of night.

And have people design a deck based around it.

Such as it talks about being cloaked and moonlit trees, so maybe a  / swarm, using cloaks.


Or for a deck comp same thing in reverse, write a poem around a deck.

[Submachine]

2 Competition Ideas:

Name That Pokemon!

Rules: pick a famous forum member and create an art about him. This art can either be a drawing, a song or a tale. The drawing cannot contain exact copies of forum avatars or favorite elements of the member, which would obviously relate to them. Also, the song or the tale cannot contain his name, or his forum achievements that would again, too obviously point to that member. However, some of the member's catchphrases and usual feelings can be referred to.

The art which gets the most correct tips on who is the art about, wins. Too obvious arts are disqualified.

Haiku Madness

Write insane haikus. That is all.

[Fippe94]

A Card Design Competition:
Design a new Rare Weapon for any element!
The winning card(s) will be added to OEtG for people to actually play with.

[Drake_XIV]

A Card Design Competition, where the winning card(s) will be added to OEtG so people can actually play with them.

You'd need to make a theme, though.

Unless you start considering all competition winners