Paradigm wrote:
I think from following the entrant's blogs and such, those that are building to armies manage to find something both useful to them and suitable to the theme, while those that aren't in the army-building mindset or are looking for a break from 'Yet Another Troops Model' find the themes a good excuse to do something different (see some of the really thematic entries we've had, like Kustomer D or Januine's dioramas, or Midget Gems' theme Ork conversions)
Whoo I got a mention, when the personal life settles down there will be more strange and interesting creations from me
Anyway my 2 cents
So I've been thinking this over and watching the tread for the last few days. Its good we have a chance to provide feedback, it could be opening a can of worms for some areas. I hope people aren't upset if their ideas don't get implemented.
For your original posts points.
Scoring
I'm not in it for the points, though I must say I was ecstatic when I got more than 1. The best painter should always win, something I have accepted because it isn't me. I'm sure there could be a fairer way for distributing points since a couple of times its been really close for 3rd with only 1 or 2 votes in it, seemed a shame that the 4th place didn't get anything extra, like you said that is purely down to the number of entries that where expected. There will always be someone that just misses out.
The points for number of votes has been suggested and also percentages (I've allocated 1 point per percent). Thought I would do a quick add up so you could see what it would look like and how it might change things. Here is the Top 10 on TP^
DCs list and Aldo since he is out of top 10 but has entered quite a few comps to show how the gap between top and lower ranks may change.
From what I can see the total number and total percentage of votes leans more towards those that constantly enter and produce good work get votes but that don't always rank in the top 3 rather than those that occasionally rank in top 3.
If scoring was to change my thoughts are to either add more scoring positions and decrease the point gap between them, e.g 1st = 15, 2nd = 12, 3rd = 9, 4th = 7, 5th = 5, 6th = 4, 7th = 3, 8th = 2 or go with percentages since is probably fairer at the end of the year it will be a percent of the total number of votes cast were as total votes can change a fair bit e.g. Oct = Total Votes : 473, Sept = Total Votes : 411, Dec = Total Votes : 451
Rules
There aren't really many
tbh, I've only seen a few occasions when someone couldn't enter a model, normal due to it being more than base coated.
The few there are and the flexibility of how they are applied is good and makes people not take it too seriously but stops unfairness
Format
I like that its all on Dakka in one place. I have no knowledge for straw polls or anything else so can't really comment on if they would be better or how they might work.
I would love an end of year award ceremony if its not already in the pipeline (The Dakkies?) with maybe a dozen categories. So standard ones like Most Votes, Most improved, but also maybe ones like best interpretation of a theme, best injury/accident/mistake, Most Dakka, Coolest etc. guess we would need a group to agree a short list and then put it to a vote. The winner winning a title for the next year.
My major point is really to thank you, TP^
DC,
BC and everyone that has put your time into entering and organising the competition. Since I feel very much part of it now if you ever need any help or an extra person to collate things since its rapidly expanding or think that you might need someone to help on a busy month I'm more than happy to put my time in as well (RL permitting).
Edit, damn took me a few hours to do this and missed the extra posts where you had decided on Percentages.
