Yep - everyone that wants their scenario considered needs to submit by the end of June 10th (THIS FRIDAY!).  I submitted my board yesterday & we are currently playing a review game on it.

I think I suggested before that once the maps are reviewed & images & xml sent to you & you create the final Pangaea Map w/all the scenarios & it goes live... then we make an announcement in the general forum, start a bunch of public games & promote the contest in the game comments.  We give one month for people to get a chance to play at least one game on all the scenarios, and then we call a vote.  Everyone who has played on every scenario gets to vote.

Still need to decide exactly how the voting will be held.  I think I remember 3 scenarios proposed:

• Instant Run Off : just like the voting on map theme.
• Cross Country style : rank all the scenarios  - 1st place is 1 point, etc.  Total the points & scenario with the least points wins.
• Top 3 : Rank the top three scenarios.  1st place gets 3 points, 2nd 2 points, 3rd 1 point.  Scenario with the most points  wins.

Personally I like the last system the best, because I would like to be able to vote without having to decide where my scenario fits into things, and the other two systems require a voter to rank every scenario.  But I would like to hear other opinions and see if there is a consensus on which voting system to use.

Do you have to play all of the boards to be eligible to vote?

Yes - I think that is only fair.  Although I'm not sure how to really enforce that, and we will mostly have to take people on their honor (although we could spot check someone if we think they are suspicious).

Suggestion for the base board that we will use.  Maybe the primary scenario can be comprised of an image that explains the contest and each board can be a scenario behind that.

Raptor wrote:

Suggestion for the base board that we will use.  Maybe the primary scenario can be comprised of an image that explains the contest and each board can be a scenario behind that.

So for the initial Live version there would just be a "dummy" contest explanation board and all the Scenarios attached.  Then at the completion have a new Version of the board with the winner as the base board (possibly modified), but set as 1/Default in the Scenarios?

Yertle wrote:

Raptor wrote:

Suggestion for the base board that we will use.  Maybe the primary scenario can be comprised of an image that explains the contest and each board can be a scenario behind that.

So for the initial Live version there would just be a "dummy" contest explanation board and all the Scenarios attached.  Then at the completion have a new Version of the board with the winner as the base board (possibly modified), but set as 1/Default in the Scenarios?

I would say that even after the contest is won leaving the dummy page in place would not be bad.  It would be updated to reflect the results and explain the concept.  Each of the top three scenarios could be updated visually with an image of a ribbon in the corner.  I would be happy to throw the dummy page together if you want.

http://www.wargear.net/boards/designer/2404

Quick concept.  Give me your thoughts or tell me to stop.  :)

Raptor wrote:

http://www.wargear.net/boards/designer/2404

Quick concept.  Give me your thoughts or tell me to stop.  :)

with a background image of pangea (on the paper, behind the text)...

as to voting, i say you rank them all (cross country style) - there's only 3 or 4 aren't there?
also, do i really have to play a simulgear game in order to vote? saynosaynosayno...

Against my better judgement, I just joined a SG game in the interest of being an active member of the community by participating in the map throw-down.  I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that SG boards may have a disadvantage where voting is concerned (depending on how the system works).  I will do my best to be fair and impartial, but I have to admit that SG is not my cup of tea.

Raptor - I like where you are headed.  I think for the final release, we need to make sure the thumbnail looks like Pangaea - maybe just grab the image from wikipedia.  Alternatively, if we plan on having more of these contests, maybe an image like you have made would be best.  Then all the contest boards would have a very similar looking thumbnail & would be recognizable as a group.

WT - I'm not sure how many board we will end up with.  I think I've seen 4 go by, but have heard claims from other designers, so we shall see.  If I have to include my own board in my voting, I'll try to be fair, but I'm not going to put it last just to be magnanimous.

M57 - I have to think that if you made an SG board you will probably not have much chance to win.  Kind of sucks to force people to play an SG board just to vote if they are not familiar with SG, but I don't see any other fair way to do it.

Ozyman wrote:  I think I've seen 4 go by, but have heard claims from other designers, so we shall see.

There are 5 in Review stage right now.  Then I have 1 and I wouldn't be surprised if there were a couple of surprise pop-ups tomorrow (I'll actually be surprised if there aren't any we haven't seen).

M57 wrote:

Against my better judgement, I just joined a SG game in the interest of being an active member of the community by participating in the map throw-down.  I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that SG boards may have a disadvantage where voting is concerned (depending on how the system works).  I will do my best to be fair and impartial, but I have to admit that SG is not my cup of tea.

On the other hand, it might also be my chance to win you over.  :)

Kind of sucks to force people to play an SG board just to vote if they are not familiar with SG, but I don't see any other fair way to do it.

Hopefully, being forced to play a single simulgear game won't leave any lasting psychological damage, but the game actually includes a pretty easy escape clause if anyone would like to forfeit early. 

You know what's giving me lasting psychological damage?  Your avatar!

But seriously, I don't mind the SG.  I've only played a few games, so I'm not sure how good of a judge I'll be of it, but from what I saw of your map it looked cool.  In reading your description it says 'Simulgear Version'.   Does that mean there is also a non-simulgear version?

Which brings up another point.  What if someone has 2+ scenarios that they have developed for their Pangaea board?  Do they have to pick one to be their official submission.  Or do voters just have to play at least one of the scenarios & then we vote based on map maker instead of scenario?

 ha ha ha! 

I'd like to make a turn based version as a scenario - not sure if it would work or not.  Good point though - I think there should be one scenario only for the purposes of the contest.  After the contest I might add more scenarios to my board.  At teh very least there will be one with the river stretching across the entire continent. 

Ozyman wrote:

Which brings up another point.  What if someone has 2+ scenarios that they have developed for their Pangaea board?  Do they have to pick one to be their official submission.  Or do voters just have to play at least one of the scenarios & then we vote based on map maker instead of scenario?

This is what I was thinking:

Limit 1 entrance per person.  Other non-entry scenarios may be available to be submitted to be attached to the final board, but only 1 entry.

That would be my vote as well.

Thats what I think as well.  I do want to do a factory version of my board after we are done.

well.... didn't get mine done in time.