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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4595033" data-attributes="member: 13892">Not a bad idea for a highly organized, professional, contest. But this event isn't that contest <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> 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 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />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! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />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. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> 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 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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