Scenario design contest?

[Ecthy]

Are there still scenario contests? I think there used to be some. It would be real cool if the best designers of all once again went into competition for an award that can only go to the best of all. One common theme would be necessary to keep the scenarios comparable. The award would include lots of honour and all that

I am of course talking strongly from a customer's point of view. All the cool new scenarios such a contest would produce But then again, looking into this board, there's probably been much too little attention to this game.

I'll probably never get to play a decent scenario on the rise of Brandenburg-Prussia. That would be real cool, with multiple events and all...

[Mercator]

Last summer our last attempt, SDC#5, was made, but that never really took off. So I don't see it happening. There are still people designing scenarios, though.

Perhaps the best we can do is, say, a "Best of 2006". Not really a contest with a theme, but just a review of the best scenarios of this year, possibly including judge/community voting.

[Ecthy]

All I want is a Brandenburg-Prussia rise scenario with multiple events and diplomacy units to simulate their marriage-based expansion. Later on they also waged war, so there's much work to do for YOU.

[techumseh]

I agree with Merc. People these days don't really want to be constrained by rules about what subject they make a scenario about. So that makes it hard to do a
contest in the traditional sense.

However, if you want a Brandenburg scenario, I suggest you give it a try, once you've got your post count up where you want it.

[Ecthy]

That's why I'm saying I'm talking from a customer's point of view. I know I'd play it, but I've never found too much joy trying to create one. I know there are enough people around here more than willing to do it

[Eivind IV]

How about beginning with a best of for 2005? Or even instead of that golden diplomat thing, an annual best of award for 1996-200-?

[Ecthy]

That would not result in new scenarios being created, such as one on the rise of Brandenburg-Prussia for example.

[Eivind IV]

But as Tech pointed out, creators don't want to be constrained by dictated topics, which I believe there is much truth in. There are not as many creators here as back in the hay days, and hencely the few of them left today make scenarios on impulse. I had no interest in the planned contest #5, as I have no interest in India, which was the topic. And it's hard finding a topic everyone is intrigued by. Personally I only make scenarios I would want to play myself, and sadly neither India nor the Prussian one is any of them.

[Ecthy]

I get your point now. IN that case I'll have to do it myself

[techumseh]

Go for it!

[Timor_Leste]

I think that, if there were a contest, the subject should be up to the creator, to do whatever they feel like.

[techumseh]

That's just what most people seem to want to do, but where's the contest? It's not much different from what happens now.

[N35t0r]

Well, IIRC contest #5 was supposed to be based on the MAP of india, and didn't need to be necesarily historical...

[Boco]

Yes, I believe that CurtSibling is still designing the Dalek invasion of India on a slightly modified version of the map.

[curtsibling]

Spike Milligan's classic Dalek sketch springs to mind:

"Put it in the Curry!"