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.