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    [PXFIRE] Season 2: Judge Applications



    PXFIRE SEASON 2 JUDGE APPLICATIONS

    INTRODUCTION

    Feel like being a section Judge for PXFIRE Season 2? You've come to the right place! If you're not quite sure what it all entails, you can find all the details in the PXFIRE Season 2 Information and Rules thread!

    Becoming a PXFIRE Season 2 section Judge will mean you will have total control (ooh!) over the section for as long as it runs. You decide the rules, you decide what themes and parameters the contestants will work with, and how things run for the section. If you want to challenge your contestants in ways such as the Drawn Art Judge declaring contestants can only use shades of blue, you can do things like that!

    As a reminder, these are the sections we need great Judges for:

    Role Play
    Creative Writing
    Humor
    Caption Contest
    Drawn Art
    Graphic Art
    Pixel Art
    Comics
    Showdown


    JUDGING CREDO

    Just a few things to bear in mind if you want to apply and you become a Judge:

    • Be civil, be reasonable, be fair. As a Judge, you can still be part of a PXFIRE Team and you'll be earning that team points by submitting results on time (though you don't have to be on a team). Your teammates will also be submitting entries. PLEASE be neutral and objective in judging and don't fall into the temptation of giving your teammates more points just because they're on your team. We're trusting you here!
    • Be kind about judging. Some contestants may be trying new things for the first time and might not be rock stars at it. Be careful with your criticism, keep it constructive, and always be on the lookout for things you can suggest for others to improve. Even if a particular submission isn't that great, it feels better for the contestant if you say at least something nice or positive about it in additional to giving them advice for what to improve upon. It's something they could focus more on and target as something to build upon.
    • Please submit results on time. It helps keep the section moving along nicely and it overall helps keep PXFIRE running like a well-oiled machine if each section is running along and in sync with all the others. Plus you get rewarded points for it!


    SUBMISSION FORM

    PART 1 (Only need to fill this out once)

    Name: It's YOU!
    Section you'd like to Judge: Pick the one you'd like to do and/or think you'd be good at handling. You don't have to limit it to one choice, though you will only be selected for one at max!
    What is your availability like from now through July? If you have vacations planned or foresee some time where you might not be active, please let us know! We may need to factor that in for scheduling.
    If selected to be a Judge, would you like your section to be run during the 1st half of PXFIRE or the 2nd Half? This is mainly done on a first come, first serve basis, though it has the potential of being changed if member availability becomes a factor. Excluding Caption Contest, four sections will be active during the first half and the other four will swap out with the others during the second.

    PART 2 (If submitting for more than one section though you can only Judge one section at max), please fill out the bottom questions for each section you're applying for)

    Please note any experience you have with judging/grading things or with giving constructive criticism that would help your judging: Are you applying for Comics and have done comics before? Sure, let us know! We may be looking for people who have a bit more experience in the field to be Judges, but don't let that deter you if you think you can handle judging a section.
    Please outline an example challenge or something you might do for your section You don't actually have to use this exact example challenge if you're selected, we just want to get an idea of what to expect from you if you were to be the Judge for this section.
    Include about 3-5 sentences about how you'd like to run the section and what kinds of ideas you have for it. You don't need to spoil everything and you're totally free to keep your more secretive curveball challenges hidden, but just a general idea of how you would decide to lay things out would be great.

    That's it! Thank you for offering to help support PXFIRE Season 2!

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    Name: Nekomata

    Section you'd like to Judge: Comics, Drawn Art, Spriting

    What is your availability like from now through July?
    - Gonna have a busy summer class, but should have enough time in the week/weekends to judge. Only trip is in mid-August. Will have my tablet then in place of my laptop.

    If selected to be a Judge, would you like your section to be run during the 1st half of PXFIRE or the 2nd Half?
    - No preference!

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    PART 2 - Comics

    Please note any experience you have with judging/grading things or with giving constructive criticism that would help your judging:
    Experience Judging/grading: I'm a Teaching Assistant and grade papers on a regular basis. For Constructive Crit, I'm in an art-based major where we spend a lot of time giving each other critiques.

    Experience in Comics: As of last week, I've been working on PRS for 5 years. (And comics in general even longer!) I've learned a lot about making comics through both my own experience as well as the many published series I've added to my read list over the years.


    Please outline an example challenge or something you might do for your section .
    Example One: Have the members of each team collaborate to create one short comic story. (Scripts, Layouts, etc.)
    Example Two: Have individuals create short comic strips.

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    PART 2 - Comics

    Please note any experience you have with judging/grading things or with giving constructive criticism that would help your judging:
    Experience Judging/grading: I'm a Teaching Assistant and grade papers on a regular basis. For Constructive Crit, I'm in an art-based major where we spend a lot of time giving each other critiques.

    Experience in Drawing: I'm in an art based major and have spent many years drawing and studying various forms of art.

    Please outline an example challenge or something you might do for your section .
    Example One: Pokemon Variant Challenge! Have members take a Pokemon and redesign it to suit a different environment/ecosystem.
    Example Two: Midform Evolutions - What if evolutions were gradual? Design a Pokemon that is midway through the process of evolving.

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    Name: EmeraldSky

    Section you'd like to Judge: Caption Contest

    What is your availability like from now through July? For now, I think I'm good time wise.

    If selected to be a Judge, would you like your section to be run during the 1st half of PXFIRE or the 2nd Half? This is mainly done on a first come, first serve basis, though it has the potential of being changed if member availability becomes a factor. Excluding Caption Contest, four sections will be active during the first half and the other four will swap out with the others during the second.

    No preference.

    PART 2 (If submitting for more than one section though you can only Judge one section at max), please fill out the bottom questions for each section you're applying for)

    Please note any experience you have with judging/grading things or with giving constructive criticism that would help your judging: Are you applying for Comics and have done comics before? Sure, let us know! We may be looking for people who have a bit more experience in the field to be Judges, but don't let that deter you if you think you can handle judging a section.

    I have ran captioning contests before, to some degree of success. I'm also good at writing reviews

    Please outline an example challenge or something you might do for your section You don't actually have to use this exact example challenge if you're selected, we just want to get an idea of what to expect from you if you were to be the Judge for this section.

    Caption story challenges (where a few screenshots might all be from the same episode, the challenge would be to create some kind of coherent story from the shots and the captions)


    Include about 3-5 sentences about how you'd like to run the section and what kinds of ideas you have for it. You don't need to spoil everything and you're totally free to keep your more secretive curveball challenges hidden, but just a general idea of how you would decide to lay things out would be great.

    The rules for the caption contest would be mostly the same from last year--there would be bonuses for creative captions (and you could actually lose points for using the same lame joke we've seen a million times)

    This time, I want to experiment with using multiple screenshots--creating a kind of story out of the caption or a funny "dialogue" between two characters with the captions, to name a couple examples.
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    PART 1 (Only need to fill this out once)

    Name: LKWayvern

    Section you'd like to Judge: Creative Writing

    What is your availability like from now through July?: Should be free the entire time.

    If selected to be a Judge, would you like your section to be run during the 1st half of PXFIRE or the 2nd Half?: No preference.

    PART 2

    Please note any experience you have with judging/grading things or with giving constructive criticism that would help your judging: First and foremost, I judged the Creative Writing category last year. In addition, I have been writing fanfiction and stories in all variety of mediums for several years, and have been a voracious reader for even longer.

    Please outline an example challenge or something you might do for your section:
    Example Challenge: Write a story with the theme of Light.
    Guidelines are that character in the story must create something else, the story must contain the line 'It would have been impossible to know, but that was no excuse for the results.', and there must be a point of view shift at some point in the story.

    Include about 3-5 sentences about how you'd like to run the section and what kinds of ideas you have for it.: Similar to last year, I'd like to judge the competition with a few different categories, such as Character, Plot, Spelling/Grammar, etc. I intend to have the categories weighted, depending on how important I feel they are to the overall story.
    I am unsure how many challenges there will be as of this moment, I'd like to see how many weeks my section will last before I make a decision. At maximum, there will likely only be two.
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    Name: K'sariya
    Section you'd like to Judge: Pixel Art
    What is your availability like from now through July? It's looking good for judging! I should be able to judge things even if I'm on one of my short vacations.
    If selected to be a Judge, would you like your section to be run during the 1st half of PXFIRE or the 2nd Half? 1st half would be best for my vacation schedule!

    Please note any experience you have with judging/grading things or with giving constructive criticism that would help your judging:
    I'm a (once Graphic Design, now) Interactive Design senior--we give constructive criticism and friendly critique on colleague's work every day! My art education has helped me not only be able to point out what makes a piece of art work, but also how and why it makes it work! I'm also an Expert Curator over in URPG--I curate member-submitted art pieces of all skill levels over there, and I really enjoy doing it. All of my curations can be found listed here, and here's an example of a curation of pixel art that I did there! One of a curator's job is to try to curate the work objectively, without making unfair judgments based on their preference of art style, so I have a lot of experience with that, too. I appreciate all art and art styles, and love looking at them and analyzing them. I love showing examples to give my advice context and a visual reference. I love leaving artists with new techniques to try the next time they sit down with a work! I'm a really positive person, and I try to balance what worked and what didn't in a way that keeps artists feeling good about what they did well, and giving them a clear but flexible path on things they can experiment with moving forward!

    Please outline an example challenge or something you might do for your section.
    - I've always thought a "create your own Mega" sprite for an existing Pokemon that doesn't have one would be awesome
    - Environmental spriting - wouldn't have to be large-scale, but maybe small chunks of a scene or an environment, just so people can flex a bit of sprite art beyond figures!

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    Name: Bulbasaur
    Section you'd like to Judge: In order of preference, Caption Contest, Showdown
    What is your availability like from now through July? I will be less available during my Summer class from July 15th to August 15th. I've never taken a class like this, so it might not be too demanding. Other then that, I'm pretty much free.
    If selected to be a Judge, would you like your section to be run during the 1st half of PXFIRE or the 2nd Half? 1st half, please.

    CAPTION CONTEST
    Please note any experience you have with judging/grading things or with giving constructive criticism that would help your judging: I was an assistant instructor at Taekwondo for a few years.
    Please outline an example challenge or something you might do for your section: A basic challenge would simply be me posting a picture, and the competitors captioning it, of course. I'd give specific judging criteria; for example, simply give me a caption that makes me laugh the hardest, or give me the wittiest caption you can offer.
    A different challenge would be taking a random comic strip, and taking out all the words and making the competitors fill them in to make something that makes sense. Again, I would give specific judging criteria.
    Include about 3-5 sentences about how you'd like to run the section and what kinds of ideas you have for it. My main idea was making the pictures not only anime related (even though the description says they have to be anime screenshots), and have a bigger variety of screenshots. I don't think it's fair to only do one specific genre of pictures, since some people don't watch anime. For example, it could be some animal making a funny face, or some historical picture, or even just an anime screenshot!

    SHOWDOWN
    Please note any experience you have with judging/grading things or with giving constructive criticism that would help your judging: In addition to the experience shown in the caption contest application, I ran a Showdown mini-event as part of the Winter Carnival that saw great activity and resurrected the Showdown community.
    Please outline an example challenge or something you might do for your section: My first thought was simply a tournament, but if we have a person from Australia battling a person from the US, it might be tough to see that battle actually happen. So my idea is to a more Winter Carnival-esque style, where you can get up to three wins in a day. I might also add a limit to how many battles can count towards PXFIRE in a day/other time period (for example, if the limit is six battles a day, you can only use wins in your first six battles that day. If you get a win in your seventh battle, it won't count towards your wins. To monitor this, the battlers will declare at the beginning of the battle whether it will count towards PXFIRE or not. Also, I'll have a better server running.).
    Include about 3-5 sentences about how you'd like to run the section and what kinds of ideas you have for it. Like in the Winter Carnival, the battles will be a specific tier (probably OU.) Also like in the Winter Carnival, I'll give bonuses for doing special themes, like winning with a lower tier team, or a monotype team.
    If I do a tournament, I'll try to match people based on time zones, to make it easier for them to meet.

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    Name: Chakramaster

    Section you'd like to Judge: Drawn Art and Graphic Art

    What is your availability like from now through July?: No plans as of yet. Other than work I should be totally free!

    If selected to be a Judge, would you like your section to be run during the 1st half of PXFIRE or the 2nd Half?: First (if selected for both, swap out for 1st AND 2nd)




    PART 2

    Please note any experience you have with judging/grading things or with giving constructive criticism that would help your judging: Criticism is harder to give out than judging for good qualities, but sadly when it must be done it has to be handed down. I try to equate it out so that the one that actually did the best gets what they deserve, but not while completely ignoring the others great works either.

    Please outline an example challenge or something you might do for your section: A short outline would be to create a scene of mystery. A Pokemon that may have found something one could call "beauty in the eye of the beholder."

    Include about 3-5 sentences about how you'd like to run the section and what kinds of ideas you have for it. The idea of it is to make sure everyone has fun. So that everyone will have a chance to show off their skills on a more equal level. A way that everyone can have fun and express something amazing in their own way and showcase their unique skills as an artist.



    The time is upon us...


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    THIS IS YOUR LAST DAY TO APPLY!

    Role-Play and Humor have not gotten any Judge applicants, so if no one applies for them, they're going to be removed from PXFIRE Season 2. As for the others, scheduling and Judge selection will be happening tomorrow. :3

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    On the one hand, I'd like to see a Roleplay section go up, and would be willing to make an attempt at judging it.
    On the other, I'm the only one to volunteer for judging Creative Writing, and while I have run RPs before, I'm hesitant, and don't feel physically capable of accurately judging players in them.
    So, not going to volunteer to judge that. Apologies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LKWayvern View Post
    On the one hand, I'd like to see a Roleplay section go up, and would be willing to make an attempt at judging it.
    On the other, I'm the only one to volunteer for judging Creative Writing, and while I have run RPs before, I'm hesitant, and don't feel physically capable of accurately judging players in them.
    So, not going to volunteer to judge that. Apologies.
    Yeah, that's understandable, especially since one, Roleplay is one of the harder sections to judge and you stepping off Creative Writing would just mean that one goes out instead. But thanks for giving it your thoughts and consideration. :3

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