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Re: Lego Design Contest?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:27:23 GMT
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Mike Stanley writes:

I'd be happy to come up with a theme/prompt and offer a prize at some
point.

Great to hear it.


Sounds like a cool thing to get lots of people into, both as
builders and judges, etc.

And that is precisely the idea I'm looking for.

I have already been warned of burning out the participants if competition
rounds are too frequent.  While I would like to have a number of rounds,
burnout is a problem.  To counteract this I'm thinking of having an amorphous
topic followed by two topics with piece and or size limitations then another
large topic.  I'm also concidering making an entire round 6 weeks from topic
announcement to announcing the winners.  one month of design and submission,
then 1/2 a month of voting.  Does that sound a bit better?

Scooter
DML6@po.cwru.edu



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  Re: Lego Design Contest?
 
(...) That sounds great. I wouldn't be worried about burnout as much as I would just not giving people enough time to work up and complete a design. But I think this works for that. (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Lego Design Contest?
 
(...) Just my US$.02, obviously, but I think that's still a bit short time. I normally have a build, photograph, process, scan, post on the web turnaround at two to three months. Of course, if I was planning on joining a contest, I would probably (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Lego Design Contest?
 
(...) I'd be happy to come up with a theme/prompt and offer a prize at some point. Sounds like a cool thing to get lots of people into, both as builders and judges, etc. (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)

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