Every complex competition has stalled, and died. We, The people of Snarkpit, have had no competitions since HL1 and I feel its time to be overly simplistic. At least where a competition is concerned.

Look fellas, I know that you are picturing a room thats 12 feet by 12 feet or something, BUT I am imagining a room like a football stadium, with all the exits roped off. I envision a race track, where you are "restricted" to the pit zone, but can look longingly into the stands. I crave to see a map that looks like a baseball diamond, where you cannot get off the pitchers mound.

Don't restrict your goals to a boxy thing like your f**king living room.

Crono, I respect you more than you know, but your over complicating the concept into the grave, and I refuse to allow it to die because it needs to be more demanding.

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Make up your mind!

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I think that this is payback for all the razzing I have given you over the years.

All I ask is, do not over complicate this. The concept is open to interpretation restricted by only your imagination and no exits.

I see nothing more to add, or base this thing upon. You do, no one else does... Yet.

It has never mattered before whether you understood the context of one of my replies. Why should it matter now?

? quoting BlisTer

(even though my experience with snarkpit competitions hasnt been the best one ).

With only 13 votes and just 9 of those sure fired "Yes" I think thats the least of our worries.

Seems either people want to make mountains out of mole hills, or.... Some people just want every competition to fail.

To tell the truth, I am running out of ideas to motivate this site. If this doesn't work, I'm through trying.

Prefabland was, at its peak, had a massive amount of hits daily. Its now a defunct website. It died for many of the same reasons Snarkpit is experiencing recently. Think on that awhile.

I'm through trying to promote this idea. If its going to succeed, it needs another voice. I had hoped that mine alone would have been sufficient. But, I am beginning to suspect differently.

/ rant

heh, i wasnt expecting anyone to worry, i was just letting of some steam.. and possibly pointing out that if you want to draw lessons from the previous compo, dont neglect the fact that there might not be enough motivation amongst the judges to judge..

actually orph, you gain my respect for being one of the few around that has the motivation to organize this and boost a new mapping elan into snarkpit.

that's why i say bygones, and i'll try to find time to work on a room.

18 ppl said yes, none said no. if most of those 18 participate, along with a few lurkers, chances are we'll have enough material. now let's see if it can get judged

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i don't see any point in making a half-hearted attempt. nor do i see any point in putting my current maps on hold for a month, just so that i can make a fancy room.

i'm not against it, but i don't imagine i'll be joining in.

standing behind a tree?

or an open vote, possibly a thread where people say what map they think should win, and why, would be better than an anonimous poll, or a select few judges. maybe have a few experienced people to oversee the thread, to ensure the votes have been cast in favour of the map, and not the mapper.

we've established we are going to be judging on creativity and originality. this is going to be a mapping art contest. how do they judge artwork? I dont know, but that is how we should go about it.
I am defitnely in and i think this is a great idea and should go forward. we should pull together quickly sort out judges and begin!

i think the judges should be those we all agree make great maps.

i meant an open vote in a thread, where each person gets one post, to say what map they think should win, and why. maybe even have a vote on 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, with someone doing some fancy number crunching to work out the final results.

i also think there's a lot to be said in favour of limiting the filesize of the entries.