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Re: Proposal: a TOWN building contest!
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Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:03:50 GMT
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Amy Hughes wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.build.contests, Kevin Wilson writes:
> > In the spirit of the recent Classic Space building contest, I'm proposing
> > (and am willing to organise) a building contest for us TOWN junkies.
> 
> Poor timing for me since in your time frame my church will use up most of • my
> pieces. I intend to enter it, though, in the obscene-number-of-pieces
category

Sounds good to me. Better make sure we have that category :-)

> > Scale can be minifig, classic, or other. Fabuland?
> 
> Consistency would be great. I vote for minifig.

I think we could have different scales without too much trouble, and making
it minifig-only excludes people like Gary Istok who build to classic scale.
What do others think?

> > Should this be just buildings, or vehicles as well?
> 
> Keep the number of categories small so there's multiple entries in each. • How
> 'bout...
> 
> Residential (small and large categories, by approx piece count)
Sounds good.... would 1000 pieces make a good cutoff? 1000 pcs is only a
medium-sized model really (like my Victorian House).

> Public, commercial and industrial (churches, Main Street scenes, parks, • etc)
> (small and large categories)

I like adding Public to this - good - but I stll think multi-building
complexes should have their own category.

> Train-related buildings(small and large categories)

> Personal vehicles (1 category)
> Commercial and utility vehicles (including planes) (1 category)

Hmmmm... there's a big difference between what you can do in 4-wide and
what's possible in more than 4-wide, I'd like to see the 2 categories for
each. If we're going to include planes, I really think they need a separate
category.

> Trains (1 category)

Noooooo! Trains need their own separate competition otherwise this will just
get too unweildy!

> Boats/Ships (small and large categories)
> Structures (bridges, etc) (1 category)

I agree

> DAT-only (all types) (small and large categories)

2 choices here, I think: either include both DAT and real-life models in all
teh categories, or split all the categories above by DAT and real-life. I
think if we just have 2 categories for DAT models they would be over-filled
and hard to judge.

Thanks for your input Amy - hope more people speak up soon (if not, this
probably won't fly at all....)

Kevin
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  Re: Proposal: a TOWN building contest!
 
(...) I think we shouldn't let Gary participate at all (coz he'll obviously win). <grin> Kidding, kidding! But he prolly would, too. :-) -Shiri (who *is* actually considering doing something... but what? hmm) XFUT .o-t.fun (26 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: Proposal: a TOWN building contest!
 
(...) How about a military category? KZ (26 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town)

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(...) Poor timing for me since in your time frame my church will use up most of my pieces. I intend to enter it, though, in the obscene-number-of-pieces category :-) (...) Consistency would be great. I vote for minifig. (...) Keep the number of (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town)

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