Contest / Activity Suggestions

[Jilly]

Have ideas for a new contest or activity that isn't art-related? Post them here! (:

[Nicholas]

Not really sure if this is a contest idea, but since most of us seem to have a recent game and Wi-Fi, we should have tournaments periodically.

And maybe a writing contest. Not really sure what it would be about, I'm thinking of a possible back ground that you or the members come up with, and the person with the best story representing it wins. Obviously this would be decided by the user-base too.

And every month (if possible) I think it would be neat to give whoever brought the most members 1 mil. sP. But this might require an extra step or rule when joining. Like, whoever joins MUST make a welcome topic and state how they found the cult or something.

[shift]

I think we just gotta have 'Dress Like a Pokemon' events. Once a month, maybe, members are challenged to put together a Pokemon-themed HA. The best one gets a prize and is forever immortalized in the Black City Hall of Fame. (And that HA can't be used again.)

I'd like to see a collaborative writing contest of some kind, like an Exquisite Corpse. Not sure how the prizes would work...but maybe you don't need any. Exquisite Corpses are a lot of fun by themselves.

I agree with Nicholas, tournaments are a must! To make them more accessible to all, maybe we could have them on the Shoddy Battle server?

[Jilly]

Great suggestions, guys!

When I saw you mentioned wifi tournaments I added it to the list of things I need mods for. If anyone knows how to and wants to manage those, that would be great. Just submit an application here.

I've never heard of Shoddy Battle, but it sounds like a great alternative to those who cant go on wifi. We'll definitely use that if enough people are interested and don't have access to wifi.

I'm glad I'm not the only one suggesting writing contests, since I'm not good at it at all, haha. Exquisite Corpses sound really interesting and fun, and maybe we can do something like that with art too.

I really like that recruiting idea. I'll put a sticky on the introductions thread telling people to do that.

Pokemon HA contests sound fun and challenging. Make a little HA pokedex, haha.

[Sarah]

There's also a who's that pokemon contest. BUT, you use an excerpt from a pokedex entry. I really love the HA suggestion. I think we should have a random contest, too! Anything pokemon related. Such as making a Pikachu from Popsicle sticks or something.

[Jilly]

Those are fun little ideas. Are we still going to have a cult points system?

[Sarah]

Whichever way of awarding prizes to users is easier and less complicated should be good. I'm not 100%s sure how the point system would work. Would someone keep track of points and then visit a shop and cash in? Whereas, prizes are neat, too, but how would those be awarded as well?

Decisions, decisions! XD

[lantern]

I have a trivia type game that I'm currently working on.
Players would sign up, answer rounds of trivia questions, earn "points" and would be able to spend those "points" to buy prizes. I'd be able to keep the prizes in a shop on Subeta or in the cult safe.

[Jilly]

I think it would be best to have it in a user's shop, since we can put the items into categories from there (How many points they cost, etc). It would be awesome if you could set that up for us. (:

[shift]

Sarah, you'd have to be really clever with rewording Pokedex excerpts to make sure people couldn't just Google it to find the answer.

What do you think of non-cash prizes? Like little badges or trophies? "Trivia Whiz of the Month", that kind of thing.