Building Competition Vote!

[luisc99 (OP)]

This vote will remain open for around 5 days (will close at sometime on the 23rd, I forget which timezone I made it use). It uses STV, so you can rank builds in order of preference. It's a new experimental voting system, it will probably have bugs, and it might not work, but please, vote away!


(If you click through to "see results" after voting you can see the winners at the current time, which will update as more people vote. Only the final result will be valid)

[PengBunny]

For the next build battle it would be a lot cooler to have judges that will remain impartial that grade off of certain criteria/categories like creativity, color, detail, story, and atmosphere.

We could randomly pick judges or pick them based off their ability to build. The process would be a lot more interesting and competitive as the judges will thoroughly work through each plot and individually grade with a rubric as opposed to the system now where players are likely to just vote for their friends without reviewing the ins and outs of every build in the contest. After all judges are finished reviewing a plot you sum all of the grades for each category (1-5, 5 being best) and the plot and player with the highest score wins.

[TheLegend12369]

That's possible, and i think it might work better. Who would you have in mind for judges?

[PengBunny]

People that are interested will work just fine. I know that tenretni, Naomi, and myself are all interested in being judges. Other people could include Frog, Essos, or other esteemed builders. It's good to have a large variety of judges with different specialties so a well rounded opinion on the build can be formed as opposed to it losing because it's one style or the other. Also instead of having the whole group of judges all individually vote on one plot, if we select 2-3 judges then we could easily avoid the issue that comes with having contestants as judges, since their build submission will not be voted on by them but rather the other qualifying judges. This will allow us to easily choose players, in or out of the competition, that show their interest in being a judge.

[TheLegend12369]

That's a good point, we can maybe try to implement that next time.

[TheLegend12369]

We've decided to do a popular vote and a panelist vote, each will get monetary prizes and the panelist vote will be the one awarded the tag in-game.

Theo will be leading the panel of judges, since it was his idea. The panel has six members: Tenretni, Naomi, Yvette, Mali, Livid, and Theodorf. There will be three judges randomly assigned to each plot, and they will each judge the plots on five categories: creativity, theme, detail, story, and atmosphere. Each category will be graded out of 5, with 5 being the highest. Each judges score will be averaged with each others at the end, which will provide the overall score for that build

[Akomine]

I think the judges should vote (in secret) prior to the public voting, to try not to influence eachother.
Maybe this isn't feasible tho, so whatever lol