PXFIRE Planning General Chat

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Hey guys! After discussing with the other admins, we thought it might be cool to have a planning council, rather than just having a couple of people help out!

So welcome @EmeraldSky, @LKWayvern, @Born, @Caite-chan, @Morzone, @Spiderc, @Speed-X and @Sacred Fire! This forum is only visible to you guys and to the admins.

In this forum we can plan out exactly how this event will work. Feel free to make new threads if you come up with something you'd like to discuss or an idea you had, as then it won't get lost in this general chat thread!

If you're not sure how to help then just post around in here and give us your ideas and opinions! Later on we can delegate specific tasks to people, once we get to that point :)

@Neo Emolga, @Suicune's Fire and I will have the final say on stuff if it ever gets to that point, but we hope that we can all discuss things and come up with a plan together. :D To get us started, here is a list of things we need to sort out. We are aiming to hold this event sometime in JULY.

Here is a brief to do list to give us some idea of where to get started. Feel free to post if you'd like me to add something to it! (I will probably get Caite to help with organising this list and keeping track of our ideas! xD)

THINGS TO DO

• Finalise rules
  
  • Team rules
  • Judging/scoring rules for each event
  • Rewards for participating
  • Any other rules
• Determine which events are included
  
  • Finalise list of major events
  • Come up with participation only events and how they will work
  • Potential team event?
• Organise judging
  
  • Hold judge sign-ups
  • Select judges
  • Have judges submit their theme/challenges for each week of the event before PXFIRE begins
• Create official threads
  
  • Rules thread
  • Participant sign-up thread
  • Judge sign-up thread
  • Scoring thread
  • One thread for each event

And here is the original proposal:

Spoiler:

GOALS

• An event that everyone can participate in, but
• Maintain a level of competitiveness which drives activity
• Improve forum activity without draining everyone for the next 3 months XD

TIMELINE
4 weeks of events. Different challenges may last for more than 1 week.
To occur in July

TEAMS

• Individuals sign up for PXFIRE and state which sections they are likely to participate in.
• At the end of sign ups, members are distributed semi-randomly into teams with an effort made to spread skill among the different sections.
• Where possible, each team will have the same number of members.
• Each team will have a leader and possibly coleader. Those interested in leading a team can indicate this on their sign up form. Team leaders will be chosen by the PXFIRE leaders.
• Once members are assigned to a team, the team works together to develop a name and theme. The leaders will be in charge of pulling it together and making sure their team is ready by the start date.
• Members who join after PXFIRE begins will be assigned randomly to a team, keeping the numbers as even as possible.

SECTIONS

• Challenges from the following sections will be included: drawing, graphic art, spriting, roleplaying, creative writing, comics, showdown battling, humour.
• Additional, random pop-up challenges offering only participation prizes may also be offered, such as puzzles or games.
• Some sections may run multiple challenges throughout the 3-4 week period and some may have only one challenge, etc.

JUDGING

• Judges should provide feedback to all participants after each challenge and must have a clear grading rubric.
• Judges will be assigned 100 points to distribute among the entries, with the best entry receiving the biggest share of points, etc. Each entry must receive at least 1 point, but it is otherwise up to the judge to distribute.
• Judging could potentially include other awards such as "people's choice", "most improved", etc.that do not give out any points, but that members can vote on as an extra thing so more people can get recognition.
• Judges cannot participate in their section, but will receive points for submitting their judging each week in a timely manner.
• Judges should submit their 4 week plan for their section (number of challenges, what each challenge is) before PXFIRE begins.

Feel free to chat in here about whatever! But if you'd like to bring up a major discussion/idea please do post a new thread. We can use this whole board 8D