[PXFIRE] Welcome to your summer event: POKEMON CROSSFIRE!

[Neo Emolga]

So how exactly are we going to tally up points? It seems like this event focuses on the effort of the individual WITH the team, rather than the effort of the individual as basically being the same entity as the team, which I like a lot. It's good we're giving points to even those that don't make it in the top 3, that way to promote participation. Plus, if we at least give everyone a chance to score, an individual's points will still add up even if they don't win which could give them a serious edge. Which is awesome!

Points work a little differently this time around. Here, judges get 100 points to award, distributed among ALL entries however they choose, but unlike before, every entry will be getting at least some measure of that. So let's say I'm judging fan fiction and there's six submissions. The entries I think are the best will get more points than the ones that I think could have been a bit better. But overall, the awarding of points will look something like this example:

ENTRY 1: 28 Points (a VERY good submission)
ENTRY 2: 23 Points (Good)
ENTRY 3: 18 Points
ENTRY 4: 15 Points
ENTRY 5: 10 Points (could have been better)
ENTRY 6: 6 Points (really not great at all)
TOTAL = 100

This is just an example and I'm sure there will be lots of variances depending on how the judge exactly wants to handle this. Personally, I don't see myself handing out points less than 10 too often, but it's up to the discretion of the judge. Still, even if you had a really bad entry, YOU STILL GET SOMETHING! Unlike before where you got nothing at all if you just couldn't break into the top three. And if you were constantly up against powerhouse players, it was awfully discouraging and resulted in people not even wanting to bother. But here, you get at LEAST SOMETHING just for TRYING. That's a big difference from what the WAR did.

Bear in mind, Nekomata was really the one who came up with this idea and I kind of tweaked it around a bit by bumping up the points awarded to a much higher number so judges have more room to work with. I think it could work pretty well and it should encourage a lot more people to participate.

Maybe we could make a 2-point system.

There are "medal" points for winning 1st 2nd 3rd for a week,

and there are "team points" based on how many team members actually participate in the various activities.

Then the points could be tallied separately, giving teams two ways to win. Tat way it doesn't become too unbalanced by the people who are good across the board, like it was in WAR.

I would say just stick to one. My thing with this is it kind of deviates from why we changed the point system in the first place. Second, two scoring systems = a LOT more work for judges. That's hard because it already takes time to review and grade submissions.

And that's another thing we'd like to see as well. Judges need to justify awarded points with at least some feedback for every entry. Not "results: Submission A - 3 Points, B - 2 Points, C - 1 Points, have a nice day." There's got to be something that explains that and why the judge felt Submission A was better than B and so on. We're not asking for a huge narrative about every bitty detail, but at least a good paragraph of explanation is important.