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Is anyone allowed to set up unofficial level contests?
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 3:52 am
by Suckerman7 GM
Well, I need to ask something. You know, there was Community Contests. (It ended, sadly.) and after that, most people (Including me) started to create unofficial level contests. And after CC12 ended, no one did contests anymore. Even the monthly LC's made by The Thwomp King stopped. Why did this happen? Because of the strict rules? I want to know. If it's allowed to set up contests, I'm planning the continue the traditions of TTK's Level Contests.
Re: Is anyone allowed to set up unofficial level contests?
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 4:09 am
by Cedur
It's allowed but I really don't recommend you to. They don't get any attention, as there is way too little reward and they're buried under the pile of other topics as they're not stickied. Only the most famed of community members could get a few people to submit at best. People prefer to work on their projects instead.
So yeah the contests stopped because of inactivity. There have been a total of three official contests after CC12 though, varying between 30 and 50 participants.
Re: Is anyone allowed to set up unofficial level contests?
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 5:12 am
by ElectriKong
Unofficial contests are doomed to fail. As Cedur said, this is because no one cares about them anymore and they don't mean much overall. It does not matter what you do, you just cannnot make an unofficial contest that will succeed. I tried to do 3 and even put a twist on the usual formula last time but even despite that only one person actually finished the contest and submitted a level that could be judged, which prevented the contest from continuing to the end.
Your best bet would be to stick around and wait for an official contest to appear (the next one will likely be MAGLX3 that will likely happen next year). We have had 4 official contests since CC12 (Level contest Japan, Great Extravaganza (although this one ended up being a bit of a trainwreck), Super Community Contest and the All-Stars Contest) so they contests have not stopped.
Re: Is anyone allowed to set up unofficial level contests?
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 7:26 am
by Suckerman7 GM
Electriking wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 5:12 am
Unofficial contests are doomed to fail. As Cedur said, this is because no one cares about them anymore and they don't mean much overall. It does not matter what you do, you just cannnot make an unofficial contest that will succeed. I tried to do 3 and even put a twist on the usual formula last time but even despite that only one person actually finished the contest and submitted a level that could be judged, which prevented the contest from continuing to the end.
Your best bet would be to stick around and wait for an official contest to appear (the next one will likely be MAGLX3 that will likely happen next year). We have had 4 official contests since CC12 (Level contest Japan, Great Extravaganza (although this one ended up being a bit of a trainwreck), Super Community Contest and the All-Stars Contest) so they contests have not stopped.
Hmm... OK. Well then, guess I'll warm myself up for MAGLX 3, then.
Re: Is anyone allowed to set up unofficial level contests?
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 10:39 am
by Enjl
They're only doomed to fail because they tend to be carbon copies of Community Contests, with far too little planning or personality behind them.
Re: Is anyone allowed to set up unofficial level contests?
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 10:47 am
by Eri7
I think that unofficial level contests work only if you have a lot of friends that will join it which might attract other people as well.