Card Competition To My Delight

(09-05-2008 04:02 PM)Tommy2funny Wrote:  

(09-05-2008 02:40 AM)Enatai Wrote:  This sounds a lot like the card competition with all the casual fun sucked out of it. Not that I hate the idea of a competition with prizes, I just dislike the idea of a competition with broad restrictions based on color, AND a deadline- Perhaps the most useless thing on the Fantasy Card forum, which gets a... How shall I put this... Moderate amount of activity, but definitely not enough to merit a deadline of any sort.

I need some sort of deadline if I didn't then what would be the point of making it a prize given competition. Putting the rules in helps to limit some of the super wacky cards. Stuff like: 4grey mana cast frying pan and hit your daddy in the face. Just goofy stuff. It's fun and there are plenty of these fun threads in this forum already. The thread here maybe moderate and have restrictions but the prizes won't be. As far as color goes thats really not a restriction it is simply a category, the ability behind each category are the restrictions. Also Many of the card Ideas in the forum are a way to destroy destroy destroy. Thought it would be fun to see a useful way of helping your enemy out to get to the destroy destroy destroy point.

Being Generous is my main focus here and I don't believe the rules are that bad. Most just make sure you only get 1 shot.

I have no arguments with the idea of prizes for cool fantasy cards, that would be awesome (but perhaps they would be small, in the spirit of fantasy card making), but to put a time limit of only a month on the fantasy card forum shows a general lack of understanding of the way the fantasy CMC card community really runs. All of it is casual, all of it is for fun to see who can make really interesting cards. I think if you were to do a competition like this you need to loosen up the rules and restrictions a bit.

As for your argument that

Quote:I need some sort of deadline if I didn't then what would be the point of making it a prize given competition. Putting the rules in helps to limit some of the super wacky cards. Stuff like: 4grey mana cast frying pan and hit your daddy in the face.

, it again shows a major misunderstanding between you and the rest of this fantasy card community. Are there cards that exist like that? Yes. Are they really very common outside of one or two threads made just for fun? Actually, not really. More often than not cards could pass for legit CMC material if they're made quite well with everything in mind when they're made.

Time also does not make competitions degrade into a bunch of plebians making cards like "Create unique STUPID." That isn't how it works. It's almost insulting that you'd be accusing basically the whole forum of that. It's all in good fun, and you're making assumptions in gigantic leaps and bounds. Rules are fine, so long as you make them reasonable for the people who are likely to be in this tournament, and so far you aren't being very understanding of your target participants.

You also need to define your terms. I'm not saying I won't consider, I'm just saying I won't consider if the rules aren't changed to be more open and understanding of the forum you're making it in.