Hello! After many years entering in these card design competitions, i've found quite some stuff that can be done in order to improve the experience and the quality of said competition. This is not a rant about "I didn't win any contest" type of suggestions, it's just what I would love to see changed for a better and more fair competition besides my personal expereince. So here we go:
Equal opportunity for all entries: Most of the time the first entries get the most votes becasue maybe some forum readers don't want to scroll through many pages. I've seen some awsome, original and creative entries being completely ignored due to the fact that they were the last ones entering their submissions. Some solutions to this could be:
Making competition forums infinite scroll (when reach bottom, load more)
Change the design of the submission thread to be [Name / Card / Vote button] with a compact design in order to save space so more cards can be viewed at once.
Making an initial voting phase similar to final voting with all entries with card and button (this would remove the voting in the submission thread).
Unfortunately, our WCDCs (Weekly Card Design Competitions) are shackled to HearthPwn's regular forum layout. While I cannot say for certain, I think I can confidently guarantee that this will never change, which means we must make do with what we have. Despite the onslaught of good, well-meaning suggestions such as your own :)
We currently implement a scoring system based on what page you fall on, to combat the "no one bothers to look beyond the first page" situation. While it's not perfect, our finalists come from a wide variety of pages and we don't often skip over any-one page. The data suggests that, to some degree, the measures are working.
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Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
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Hello! After many years entering in these card design competitions, i've found quite some stuff that can be done in order to improve the experience and the quality of said competition. This is not a rant about "I didn't win any contest" type of suggestions, it's just what I would love to see changed for a better and more fair competition besides my personal expereince. So here we go:
Unfortunately, our WCDCs (Weekly Card Design Competitions) are shackled to HearthPwn's regular forum layout. While I cannot say for certain, I think I can confidently guarantee that this will never change, which means we must make do with what we have. Despite the onslaught of good, well-meaning suggestions such as your own :)
We currently implement a scoring system based on what page you fall on, to combat the "no one bothers to look beyond the first page" situation. While it's not perfect, our finalists come from a wide variety of pages and we don't often skip over any-one page. The data suggests that, to some degree, the measures are working.
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3