Quote Originally Posted by Speed-X View Post
Yeah...I'm not a big fan of that specifically being the point system. It sounds like judges will be worrying more about just doing the correct math and making sure things add up depending on hypothetical values, such as number of participants...and that really takes away from the experience. If a judge has 100 points PER event or even per week just doesnt make any sense for those who find it more logical to use a rubric system

If I'm understanding correctly based on Neo's post, I believe this kind of system in particular will do nothing other than confuse judges.

Yeah...alr8ght. So I re read it. This would greatly interfere with any judges that want to use a rubric system, which especially in regards to art I feel is the most efficient way to do it so that the entrants actually learn what they did right and wrong, yes?

It would make more sense to have a fixed number of points per person per challenge / week. 4 weeks? How about 20 points per person per week?
I don't think it would be too bad and if people work with it a bit, they'll see it's not a complicated thing. Personally, the way I'd work with it is grade and use my own rubric on all the entries first before I award anything. I'd look at those scores and distribute accordingly. When you do it, if it helps, start by evenly dividing the 100 into all the entries, and then take points from the people that didn't do as well and carry them over to the ones that did excellent. It just becomes a matter of tuning the distribution of points to reflect the scores that you gave using your own rubric. I'm also saying 100 points is good because it's a lot more to work with and we won't have this silliness of fractional points like we have constantly had in WARs. If we don't bump up that number, people might be getting things like ".5" ".25" and ".1" point amounts and that's just pesky to deal with decimals like that.

But really, the whole system is to avoid one-sidedness and encourage people to just TRY rather than submit stuff week after week only to watch it lose and get nothing at all week after week to the heavy-weights when it comes to skills. That just makes people feel like they're wasting their time. Trust me, when I graded fan fiction, there were so many occasions where I read great stories, but they were only runner ups. This finally gives me a chance to give them something too! Even though it may not be the lion's share of points, they'll get a fair amount of at least something and it will encourage them to keep at it. This greatly helps those that know that while they may not be in the top three, they can still shoot to do the best to earn as many points as they can.

But yeah, like Sarah said, if people dump in garbage, they may only get 1 point, which in the overall picture, won't be all that helpful. If you lower that scale to 20, well, that means one garbage entry will still walk away with 5% of the total with their one point. And if dozens of people do that, that's bad. That's why I think 100 points per submission period (whether it's each week or every two weeks depending) works best.