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First up, congratulations to all of the winners and the members who entered. I have been completely blown away by the success (on both numbers and quality) of the entries. Also, a huge and public thanks to Tas, without whom this would not have happened at all, thanks!
To address a few points:
My personal opinions are that the prize preference worked very well. It did take a while to get sorted out, and was a little laborious, but I do feel that it did its job well, leveling the board but not restricting the freedom of people entering.
I also feel that the categories worked well, although I think that we should tighten up on the definition to make it more obvious what category any given entry should belong to (for example the Battle Group category).
My own thoughts for the 2004 competition is to hold it at the end of the year, in around the same time as the 2003. This worked well at the end of Summer and I liked the timing. There will not be a Gothic category, however I am considering a Gothic competition, but this will depend on a few conversations with the Yahoo group who also hold an annual Gothic competition.
There seem to be two main issues brough up, pictures and voting.
Voting first. I agree that things were a little complex and drawn out. However, currently I am unsure of exactly what we can do about this. The three alternatives seem to be:
Use a group voting system - this will suffer similar problems as there is a limit to the number of options for the polls there as well.
Vote here - with the same issues.
Other option - this could work, but would open the voting up to anyone, and restricting the number of times a person can vote would be difficult.
One point is that I felt that the three weeks allowed for voting was too long. Would the same voting with a single week for voting solve the problems, or is the system itself that causes the comments?
If anyone has any thoughts or solutions to this, I would love to hear them.
The heats were organised on a 'first come, first served' system, which resulted in people submitting entries in batches, and these batches being together in voting heats. This was less than perfect, and a better system should be in place for the next competition for the comments.
Pictures. There was a limit to the size of the picture in memory, not dimensions. This was done to help those downloading the pictures on 56K modems. I dont know if increasing the size will be a good thing. I do think that we should allow more than a single picture per entry, and be clear on this point.
Thanks again guys, and please keep commenting and letting Tas (and I) know what you think and how to make 2004 even better!
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) In that situation it is difficult to avoid competing against oneself. Also one could argue that this could be abused as you could be sure to be in every single heat of the competition if the entries were spread out.
