Match contest?
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Because the purpose of mapping contests is to produce maps everyone can enjoy and help mappers to become better and make even more enjoyable maps. A gameplay contest is nothing more than ego-inflation. Fine if you do it with friends, just for fun, but it makes little sense on a scale as large as the whole Message Board.
I think nothing about you. But really, many MS players don't even have a board membership. I doubt you'll reach the clientèle you want. You have much better chances trying to organize it via the MS.
Just because it's possible doesn't mean that it's a good idea. It's perfectly fine to compete against friends online, but nothing good can come of an "official" match or race competition. The OLDC challenges people to create and invent. Something like this would just inspire pointless bragging.
This isn't some sort of personal attack on you. He's just explaining why the idea isn't worth pursuing.
Back when the SigSev Cafe was still active, we had a few netgame competitions that came out with some considerable success. We could try it here, but there's no guarantee it'll work as well; Cafe had a smaller community, it was basically assumed that most people participating were intelligible and would be able to make it. How it's organized and how long-term or large-scale it plans on being are all important aspects to hosting contests that will actually work out.
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I remember the contests, they were a lot of fun. I remember a couple contests being canceled due to last minute drop outs. :<
It would be nice to have a contest. There would be a lot of challenging people to be against. Like all contests, they don't always work out in the end. :| I also have a feeling people that didn't sign up would just join out of no where.
If it's stupid, why are you doing it?
We've told you that already, so please read what we said.
Well, Mystic, in my experience hosting contests, we didn't host long-term tournaments but instead two-hour-long contests, in which case we had kind of a Mario Kart style "grand prix" setup. For instance, when we were playing circuit maps, at the end we would tally up the placements of each match to see who had the lowest average.
In essence, it is just a glorified netgame, but it's also more competitive, and at the time it was a good way for me to get some feedback when I was putting together the Best of OLDC.
In essence, it is just a glorified netgame, but it's also more competitive, and at the time it was a good way for me to get some feedback when I was putting together the Best of OLDC.
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