[quote name='Kafuuka' post='33755' date='Jun 17 2009, 05:42 PM']I also consider the contest to be a success. We originally stated that if we got more than a dozen of participants, we'd give an additional prize to the category winners and we did get 17 valid entries. Sadly we did not reach the 25 mark. I still believe that for a first edition 17 is a good number and that it merits a second edition. Logically that would be held 90 days from now, since then we should have all fresh people in the [10, 100] range. What follows are my observations while organizing and should be helpful to whoever organizes a similar contest in the future. (not saying that I don't want to do it, but three months is a lot of time, and if this ever sees a twentieth edition...)[/quote]
It was a succes considering the contest had almost none publicicty.
I want to thank King Bull, pamplemouse, stormrunner and everyone who pm their adepts to inform them about the contest.
I am sure next one with better publicity will get many more contestants
Just a few ideas for next contest:
About the score system. I don't see a problems with decimals if you can correct the total sum at the end (I dont know the expresion in English, is when you, for example have a result of: 8.6 , that goes to 9.... and 8.4 will remain as 8 )
For evaluating roleplay, which I believe is quite complicated, there could be a anonymus jury to meet the contestant and evaluate them on regular conversations without them knowing.
I am not sure about a new contest for veterans, it will have to be very different from the one from the festival, with many categories as well. I'm sure if it is presented in an original way it could be great
Anyway,
Awiiya, Intrigue, Willhem and Kaf, I know you work really hard on this, so all I have to say is thank you for that, I trully hope we can do this again
K