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do you mean location as in where they are IG, or where they live? I don't mind if they're from Worchester, but if they're not in Chard to collect the prize, it might be a tad difficult..

LadyMarshmellow wrote:

do you mean location as in where they are IG, or where they live? I don't mind if they're from Worchester, but if they're not in Chard to collect the prize, it might be a tad difficult..

They will have to be in chard to collect any winnings.

But they can roleplay particpation from anywhere. If they dont win anything it's a non-issue. If they do win, they must come to chard to collect the prize. Seems reasonable to me.

Atri

Atri wrote:

. As already mentioned, I have explained the decision to offer prizes regardless of in game location to Teagan. I reinterate that this IS the way its going be. I am not debating the issue. Next festival, with someone else running it, they can do it their way.

I understand his objection, it would be more fun (and economy enriching and more rp-like) to have people actually in Chard. But I see that the decision has been made, and I respect that- I'll spread the word.

For Chard!
Rebo
A guy who likes to read the little things Atri writes under her name.



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Atri wrote:

All judges will need to decide among themselves how to go about deciding winners [PM, email, msn, whatever] and what the criteria should be. Be prepared to set aside Saturday the 25th for reachcing final decisions and posting the winners in the contest thread early on the 26th, I will then collect the info and consolidate the winners in the welcome thread.

A reminder to those who are tasked with judging or running a contest: It's not too early to begin some cross talk with your fellow judges on how you intend to communitcate and decide on a winner. I am leaving that up to the individual persons involved to decide how best to choose a winner. Participants will be expecting the results on the 26th, so dont get caught with your petticoats down.

Rebo gave me a good idea. PMs and email are souch a clumsy and slow way of communicating with a group of 3 or more, it may be easier [since all the judges are council members] to creat threads HERE in town hall for the poetry and art contests, where the judges can discuss and deliberate. It would be much easier, I think

What do you folks think?

Atri
for Rebo! [winks]

perfect idea. it will work great.
who should crete these threads.

Go at it!

For Chard!
Rebo
*blushes*

when will the events be officially opened and is it possible to have them as sticky. so that people wont need to search for the event they seek. tommorow is d day and im all excited

shanehall16 wrote:

when will the events be officially opened and is it possible to have them as sticky. so that people wont need to search for the event they seek. tommorow is d day and im all excited

I will open all the relevant threads sometime early on Saturday the 18th [perhaps even right after reset following the 17th, late friday night here] I will role play the setting up of each contest, and let the judges follow along with any instructions or rules or welcomes or whatever you deem fit. D day is actually day after tomorrow in my timezone.

It wont be neccessary to sticky them sir. Activity in a thread will auotmatically bump it to the top and i fully expect these threads to be active. I have cleared the plan with Mole, and the censor team shouldnt give any probs unless we need a bouncer.
I will also have hotlinks in the welcome thread linking to all the other threads so no one will have any trouble finding them. They will be in the top 10 threads in chard hall. I assure you.

I am finalizing the prize distribution among the contests and it looks like we enough to award prizes for 1st 2nd and 3rd in every contest. Teagan and I reached an accord and his 100 pound donation will be split up as five 20 pound prizes for first place in each event [as that was the most valuable.]

Scarletwitch is suppose to get back with me soon on what we may need to do to incorporate her banner contest into our event. I will update right after I hear from her.

I will posting the update of the contests, judges, and prize list here sometime tomorrow, maybe later tongiht. And I will let you all have a look at it to see if im arsed up on anything and to review the prize distro. (to make sure I dont have a more valuable prize listed for third than for second, or whatever)

Mike, I know you are a man of few words, but I think it would be nice if you post a short speech of welcome, have fun, etc in the opening thread after I open it, after Cleophas' prayer probably, might thank him for that wonderful prayer blah blah also. Something more than your usual one liners and grunts, dare I hope? lol [winks at mikey sir]

let me know if I am missing anything here, or if you have questions, fire away.

Lady M, can I count on you to drop by each of the threads and do a brief roleplay as spectator [or participant if you like] if activity lulls? Maybe mid week. I will do the same, and I hope my fellow councilors do likewise, just pop in a quick RP post during the festival week to keep the threads lit up.

Where are Ero and Aeryn? I imagine they must be busy with mentor and county loan stuff respectively. And what about our deputy mayor?

Atri
gitten'er duhn

I'm here, (yes I have been working on county loan stuff) what do you need of me.

good to see you Aero

Mmmmk, I'm generally online a couple hours after reset on friday night (work late) but I can probably whip something together then if your really want

MikeBlack wrote:

Mmmmk, I'm generally online a couple hours after reset on friday night (work late) but I can probably whip something together then if your really want

Yes sir, thank you. I do think it would be appropriate for you, as our mayor, to welcome folks with some sort of brief something or other. Something "mayory" lol.

Aeryn ma'am, thank you. I know you have your hand sfull. We have it covered i think. I just hadnt heard from you in a while.

I DO expect you to make few posts here and there in the festival threads next week. In fact I am counting on all the councilors to do that. We need to spur activity by being active.

Once this beast is finally put to bed, I intend to crawl in a hole for a few days and recuperate.

I have asked teagan to do a closing prayer, waiting for confirmation. [will give him the chance to upstage his rival, lol]

I met with scarletwitch in the greenbush tonight, and have some info on the artists guild competing in the art contest. Will share that info in the judges thread later.

Ero has offered to donate 7 wood bushels. Mike sir, can yu let TH collect those from her and let me offer 20 pounds in prizes in their stead?

Also, you mentioned using a grant to do the payouts, if you need me to do that, i can.

So far i think the only prizes that TH is actually responsible for distributing are the 5 x 20 pounders from teagan, and now the 20 pounds from ero, which i plan to divide up into 2 x 10 pound cash prizes. so 7 total.

More updates as h hour approaches

Atri
going to bed
More updates soon.

Our deputy mayor, I'm fairly sure he is away as he requested of me to update this weeks' profession list. He might be back before the end of the festival he might not.

Thorpe

Thanks thorpe sir, i had forgotten about that.



here is the latest lineup:

I need some feedback on the prize distribution. Does it seem equitable and are the biggest prizes at the top?

Art Contest, Rebo, Shanehall, Thorpe
1st 20 pounds teagan,
2nd one free meat rebo,
3rd one free veggie rebo
best banner: 10 pounds [donated to TH by Ero]

Poetry Contest, barerose, thorpe, shanehall
1st 20 pounds in cash, donated by Father Teagan.
2nd two vegetables for only 5 pounds each from Shanehall.
3rd one bottle of milk for only 5 pounds from Barerose.

Archery Competition, Atri
1st 20 pounds, teagan’s donation
2nd discount on trousers from Brigdha AND 10 pounds, ero
3rd one free bread from Mike Black

Cabor Toss, run by atri
1st 20 pounds, Teagan.
2nd one free meat from Atri
3rd one free bread from Mike Black

Log Rolling Competition, run by atri
1st 20 pounds, teagan
2nd one meat for only 10 pounds, Atri
3rd low price on a meal at bridgha’s tavern


Last minute donations are still trickling in, so I amy have to tweak this again.

Mike sir. If you would like me to handle the pay outs on the cash prizes, just grant me 120 pounds and 10 or so woods and I will take care of the transactions.
Atri

Atri

All this looks ok to me except the 1st and 2nd prize for archery. Depending on the discount the trousers AND the 10 pounds might be better than 1st, but depends on the discount. Also 2nd and 3rd prizes for log rolling seem pretty much the same can we adjust that in any way?

My ideas...
Thorpe

This all seems pretty good to me. You have figured everything out very well indeed. I know that this whole thing is going to go over better than a lead zeppelin, lol no quarter given indeed.

Thorpe wrote:

All this looks ok to me except the 1st and 2nd prize for archery. Depending on the discount the trousers AND the 10 pounds might be better than 1st, but depends on the discount. Also 2nd and 3rd prizes for log rolling seem pretty much the same can we adjust that in any way?

My ideas...
Thorpe

Thanks sir. I dont yet know how much of discount brig is offering, as she is yet in seveneoaks and cant pin down an exact figure. [I tried to press her for one, but brig is not a woman that can be pressed, lol] I pulled the 10 pounds from 2nd of the archery, and added it as a separate "bannner category" prize in the art contest.

I am open to suggestions on the 2 and 3 prize at log rolling. Did you have something in mind? How about I add ero's other 10 pound prize to the 10 pound meat, making the 2nd prize have a value of around 17.50?

Also I added wayshakers milk to 1st prize in the archery comp. I figured since that one requires two screenshots per entry, it will be the one that will the most incentive to get people to play. But if you see somewhere else that it might do more good, let me know.

Keep the suggestions coming folks. I can continue to tweak this as needed until reset tonight. After that, its a done deal.


New Prize schedule would look like this:

An Art Contest: Rebo, Shanehall, Thorpe
1st 20 pounds teagan,
2nd one free meat rebo,
3rd one free veggie rebo
Best Banner: 10 pounds, ero

Poetry Contest: barerose, thorpe, shanehall
1st 20 pounds in cash, donated by Father Teagan.
2nd two vegetables for only 5 pounds each from Shanehall.
3rd one bottle of milk for only 5 pounds from Barerose.

Archery Competition, Atri
1st 20 pounds, teagan’s donation AND 1 milk for 5 pounds from wayshaker
2nd discount on trousers from Brigdha
3rd one free bread from Mike Black

Cabor Toss, run by atri
1st 20 pounds, Teagan.
2nd one free meat from Atri
3rd one free bread from Mike Black

Log Rolling Competition, run by atri
1st 20 pounds, teagan
2nd one meat for only 10 pounds, Atri AND 10 pounds from Ero
3rd low price on a meal at bridgha’s tavern


Atri

I think should be alright now. Don't think we would have any complaints anyway but yeah I think it's ok.

Thorpe

Thorpe wrote:

I think should be alright now. Don't think we would have any complaints anyway but yeah I think it's ok.

Thorpe

Thank you sir. I will consider that the final thumbs up then and declare all tweaking completed. I am preparing the opening bits of each thread now. Will kick this thing off right after reset tonight.

Anybody see the new Pulp yet? lol

Atri
tweaked out

Atri wrote:

Anybody see the new Pulp yet? lol

Atri
tweaked out

Yes as a matter of fact I did VERY nice.

The die is cast.

now let's see if this thing makes orbit or explodes on the launch pad.


Atri
nervously hoping for the best

OK team, the thing is underway. Judges, get out there and lay out the rules for the contestants, greet some people. All threads except the dance hall have been opened.

Get busy! lol

Atri

One thing Atri: don't be disappointed if it isn't super popular over night, one thing I've learned about Chard is it takes a while for things to get rolling here. I think it'll be a success, but lets be patient, and try to keep all our councillors active in the role play (the taverns are a hit at the very least)

With a heavy heart I must bid you all a sad goodbye. The Bonnie Hills of m' home have beckoned me home, and it's a call I can't let fall upon deaf ears.
Haste is needed in this, so I fear that I will not be able to attend this grand event, that I was so looking forward to.
Good luck to all of you, for you have all been very dear friends, and I will cherish you always.

Wha- Wha- wh.....what? Rebo feels a great sadness fall over him. He cannot get words out. He is overcome with emotion, and quickly runs out of the room