Post your Competition ideas here!

[Scaredgirl]

Given that my above video competition idea wouldn't get much participation, here's the same thing but as an image editing competition:

• Pick a card idea from the Card Ideas and Art board
• Edit a screenshot to show that card in action
• Use multiple screenshots if required (for spells or creature abilities, for example

Problem with competitions like that one is that they require skills. It's not that bad with images, but only a small percentage of users know how to make videos, and even smaller percentage bothers to spend the time to make one. As anyone who has ever produced videos knows, it takes a lot of time to produce even a 1 minute quality video.

The best way to do art design competitions is to give users free easy-to-use tools. For example we could given them a link to Flame Painter (http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/) and have everyone use that. This way you don't really need any previous editing experience or software. Anyone can just click the link and start making the image.

Internet is full of all kinds of tools that produce images, video, audio etc. We should try to use those as much as possible so more people can join the competitions.

[Xenocidius]

That's basically what I said; the video competition wouldn't get much participation. I know how long it takes to produce a video.

For an image-editing competition like what I just suggested I assume they could use something like Pixlr (http://pixlr.com/editor/), which I've heard good things about, or naturally their own image-editing software.

[Jenkar]

Given that my above video competition idea wouldn't get much participation, here's the same thing but as an image editing competition:

• Pick a card idea from the Card Ideas and Art board
• Edit a screenshot to show that card in action
• Use multiple screenshots if required (for spells or creature abilities, for example

Problem with competitions like that one is that they require skills. It's not that bad with images, but only a small percentage of users know how to make videos, and even smaller percentage bothers to spend the time to make one. As anyone who has ever produced videos knows, it takes a lot of time to produce even a 1 minute quality video.

The best way to do art design competitions is to give users free easy-to-use tools. For example we could given them a link to Flame Painter (http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/) and have everyone use that. This way you don't really need any previous editing experience or software. Anyone can just click the link and start making the image.

Internet is full of all kinds of tools that produce images, video, audio etc. We should try to use those as much as possible so more people can join the competitions.

I'd suggest chat paint. It's sufficient, limited enough so that skills count as a minor thing.

[Xenocidius]

How about a Design a Competition Competition? Winning Competition becomes an actual Competition.

[Kamietsu]

How about a Design a Competition Competition? Winning Competition becomes an actual Competition.

We actually had that one a long time ago. It would be nice to bring it back, though.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

the new painting thing in the new chat can be made into a version of the MS paint competition and the quiz league combined

a mod posts a topic to draw every 5 min or so, and have some bi-standers as voters to determine whose is the best?

[The_Mormegil]

Design a Quest System competition.

Complex, simple, whatever, just make sure it's a good addition to the game. Provide proxies and visuals for bonus effects!

[Amheug-ui Maseuteo]

Find/take pictures of creatures that look as close as possible to Elements creatures. The person with the most that look really close wins.

I quite like the create an element idea from before too.

 

[Djhopper :)]

Seeing as this isn't a PvP idea, I think this is the best place to post it. Deck-building School!
One deck-building challenge every week that forces deck-builders to think out-side the box.

Deck-building school!
Put your deck-building skill to the test!

Players compete to gain prizes for building original, well balanced and effective decks. The player who cultimates the most points wins.

1. HOW TO SIGN UP?
Anyone with a forum account can sign up for this event.
You may sign up whenever you like by posting a deck for this weeks challenge. There is no requirement to post a certain amount of decks and nobody will be removed from this event or get any parisites from it because it is a peaceful competition and the only expectation of anyone who decides to take part is to learn something, have some fun and improve their deck-building skill.


2. GETTING READY
Every week every user may post one legal deck within that weeks deck-building rules  which he/she may change at any point during the week. Take your time making you deck, but don't feel you need to take forever and don't feel that you can't ask around in chat for a little help.

3. Scoring
Every week there will be a deck-building challenge for everyone to complete. There are three catagories you can win: Original, Balanced and Effective. Winning any of these catagories will score you 5 points. 2nd and 3rd place in all catagories will get 3 and 1 points respectively. All judging will be done by someone responsible (Or me if I can't find anyone who wants to help judge)

4. Deck-building Hints and Tips
Deck-building isn't easy as it looks: Once you have an idea, you have to make it as fast, balanced and versitile as you can.

You can find 9 general decks tips here, (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,3329.0.html)
A brilliant QI calculator here, (http://elements.alanbeam.net/qi.php?)
And lots of clever people here. (http://elementscommunity.org/chat/blab.php)

6. WINNER
The player with the most points after 2 months wins, but everyone wins really as long as they come out of it a little bit better.

7. REWARDS
The winner of the event will receive the following forum award icon:

[EmeraldTiger]

I would like for as many people as possible to learn how to do card idea play testing.

We could then see it used for Competitions, Trials and Events.

I would like to suggest a competition or add to next Card Idea War,
 where:
 a player designs a card
Gets points for vote
Gets Points for winning most play test if determined balanced
I will leave additional details to organizers.

[ZephyrPhantom]

I would like for as many people as possible to learn how to do card idea play testing.

We could then see it used for Competitions, Trials and Events.

I would like to suggest a competition or add to next Card Idea War,
 where:
 a player designs a card
Gets points for vote
Gets Points for winning most play test if determined balanced
I will leave additional details to organizers.

Playtesting currently takes a bit more time than a regular PvP match, to say the least. If we were to make a competition around this it would either require a tool or program that shortened the manual work done to be feasible.

CDW seems to be an unsuitable target for this given that additional features seem to take away from the simplicity the community prefers.  If cards are required to be balanced through playtests imbalanced cards could potentially be forced to undergo multiple playtests that require a lot of commitment from the user.

IMHO, it would better to keep this system on the fun side of things at the moment rather than force it into a competitive environment that doesn't need it.

[aceben3]

I just started playing Elements this week but I've been playing MTG forever and I would LOVE to do a draft or booster draft.  So somebody should run another one of those!