It might generate interest to set up an official registry at the start of the contest. What if to enter, you must submit your name, a title, and perhaps a short summary (very short--I'm thinking 3-4 lines, tops) sometime during the first two weeks of January?
That list should be good advertising, and an interesting document in its own right.
Ben
Not a bad idea for a highly organized, professional, contest. But this event isn't
that contest
Which might make this a good time to mention. . .
I
really appreciate some of the suggestions that well-meaning people have been putting forth with regard to event organization and the like — but some well-meaning people need to step back and look at the nature of this contest for a moment. Or two moments. This ain't the WotC Setting Search
This event is an impromptu contest forged in a few short hours on a public message board. I am a
single person with a 40+ hour-a-week job who is happily devoting a not insignificant amount of my free time to this endeavor for
absolutely no gain. As it stands, I'm agreeing to grade game entries (potentially dozens of them) for free, gaining nothing in return for my efforts. I might even throw in a prize for the winner!
That said, given the realities as they exist, as much as I would like to, I am
not going to invest any time or my personal money toward building an official contest website, setting up hosting for all contest submissions, setting up a mail server for participant correspondence, implementing a rigorous submission process that requires checking individual entry forms, etc.
Most popular grassroots design contests don't do any of this until year two (and some of them
never do any of this). There is
absolutely no way that
I will be doing any of these things for
this contest. That said. . . if
this event goes well, anything is possible for
future contests, I imagine
