Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170131064348/@comment-30530552-20170220222214

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

That wouldn't work, in my opinion. Assuming I'm understanding your idea right.

There's a time for OC creation, and a time for judging. The more we give one, the less the other has.

Making one too small, would be unfair. Too litle time for anyone to make a good OC, or even one at all depending on their schedule.....or too little time for the judge to review them all without pressure, or at all depending on their schedule.

Now, there's still 1 week, and supposedly Ark already dealt with his tests so he can now review.

It would be a real problem if he didn't anyway.

As for "the winner's ideas"...2 ways to solve that:

1) Everyone with confidence thinks of something to use as an idea for the next contest, in the case they do win.

2) Everyone mentions some ideas and people vote democratically. Essentially, what I was referring to was making a small shift of a few days based on when stuff was declared.

Let's assume the winner of this contest is named Bruce, and the winner was declared on March 2nd.

Bruce would most likely have to immediately post the new tread with his own competition idea (or the democratic idea, which wouldn't work well since A- there'd be no winner at the point when democracy would normally start and B- it'd be late if it started when there was a winner so that would shift things further).

Normally this competition starts on the 1st of the month up until the 10th of the month, yes? Assuming this scenario were true, the dates would be shifted so that they apply. Assuming he posted on the the 2nd or 3rd, this would bring it to the 12th or 13th.

Once it ends, Bruce would make sure to get the judging done pat and as soon as possible, leaving enough time for more speculation of themes for the new winner and it would come back onto schedule.

This is what I was referring to. I do understand what you're saying, but I think it would be possible if a worst case scenario comes to fruition. Even still, he has a whole week to finish the judging, so I have faith he can finish it.