Re: New Contest

["steves0000" <steves@...>]

A new contest is a great idea!  Jorge's idea of having the contest
judged by the piecepack community, via wiki or similar, is also a
good idea.

Past contests were judged blindly which I think was important in
order to keep the judging unbiased.  A new contest could be judged by
the piecepack community, blindly, as long as we used a middleman to
receive the contest entries, who would remember the authors, and then
post the game entry file onto the piecepack website.  The game entry
file would describe the game but not include the author's name.
The middleman would simply need to pass on the game entry file (no
proofreading, modifications, or other time-consuming edits/tasks) and
keep track of which authors sent him which game files.  Maybe we
could create a "current contest" folder on the piecepack website
where all members can view the game entries.

I know my idea is just a start, but what do you think?

Stephen Schoessow

P.S  Jorge, I tried to post a response to your Cardinal's Guards
question from work today but it hasn't shown up.  I will repost/fix-
the-problem and get my answer to you tomorrow.




--- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, "mschoessow" <mikeschoessow@...>
wrote:
>
> I like the idea of a new type of contest as proposed by Jorge. Most
of
> the best piecepack games were ones that were designed for competing
in
> past contests.
>
> A question for Dave:
>
> Is there going to be a winner announced for the most recent
contest?
> It has been a very very long time! If you plan to make an
announcement
> I'm willing to wait a bit more. But if not, please let us know so
the
> games, many of which will be very good going by past experience,
can
> be posted. I designed a game for that contest and if the contest is
> cancelled I would like to post my game.
>
> --Mike
>