Quote Originally Posted by HKim View Post
Just building on the ideas put forth by Trainer17 and Phantasm.

I like the term of camps. We might be well served moving away from the terminology used during the War to give this all a new spin.
I really don't want this to die so... *casts Revive.*

I like the idea of having two camps, but riddle me this. What if those two "camps" were alliances with separate teams as a part of them? So what if we had something like this:

SUN ALLIANCE
Team A
Team B
Team C

MOON ALLIANCE
Team D
Team E
Team F

Or something along those lines. This way, you still have two separate alliances, but people are still free to create internal teams based on a unique theme that catches their interest, although for scoring purposes, all the points A, B, and C earn all get added together for Sun and same goes for D, E, and F for Moon.

In RP terms, going back to your previous example, let's just say there's an anomaly where during the day, humans are normal, but during the night, they become Pokémon (or Pokémorphs as a kind of lycanthropy). We could also make sure the team traits are similar, such as the Sun Alliance teams wanting to undo the anomalous effects of this nightly transformation while Moon Alliance teams wish to embrace it, make it permanent, and put an end to humanity (the only thing I'm wary about is figuring out the passage of time and what hour it is in the RP itself in relation to world location, since that's always an ambiguous detail, but with some creative tweaking I think we can figure something out). Meanwhile, within these alliances, teams have their own personal goals that can be worked toward. For example, you could have Team Flora, a nature-loving, grass-type team as a Sun Alliance team while Team Nox, a dark/ghost/poison type team that loves the darkness be a Moon Alliance team. To add to that, Team Firestorm could be a fire-type, chaotic-good team for the Sun Alliance while Team Dusk could be a Moon Alliance team that uses ninja-like tactics, covert operations, sabotage, and stealth stuff.

Events... to combat the problems of the WAR we faced last year, I'd say only have no more than two sections going on at once with a two-week submission time (RP being the exception, that's always going on). So let's say Creative Writing and Graphic Art go on for two weeks, followed by URPG and Drawn Art for weeks 3 and 4, followed by Humor and Showdown for weeks 5 and 6, and so on. That way, submission times feel a lot more sane, judging panels can be larger with fewer sections going on at once, and judges don't get worn down from running the same section for so many weeks. Two weeks is a lot easier on the brain. I think having Sun and Moon or Morning and Night themes would be great ideas, and we could try to work those in as best as possible. It would be easier since sections would only be running for two weeks, so there would only be one judging criteria to go with: Sun and Moon!

And if people don't want points, hey, we can do tokens instead. But if we do go with points, I say significantly jack up the number of points awarded. As in judges assign 100 points to be distributed among all the entries, so someone could get at least something for participating. First place could get something like 35, second place 25, third place 15, fourth could get 10, and others could get 5 or whatever. That way, people could feel like they're at least winning something even if they're not a part of the top three.

So... how would people feel about that?