Hi, so, first I don't mean to offend anyone in particular who helped on the competition with this suggestion, just giving feedback.
For this years Anniversary Competition, (the writing and drawing), I think that the prompt was a bit weird. Now, I know that to be truly creative, you should be able to turn even the weirdest of prompts into something that will put someone on the edge of their seats, however I think this years prompt of "Why do you think players have enjoyed this server for all these years?" does limit some areas of how creative you can be as it is very caged in in terms of what you can do with it. First of all, the prompt seems heavily directed to a essay format rather than a story or a long poem: there is very little conflict or interest you can cause story-line wise for such a prompt. It does also not seem much of a fun prompt to have, as it is very factual and opinion based, this means that some players may have seen the prompt at first glance and not given it a second thought (I have talked to a few people who said the same). It also limits some players in the fact that newer students will not know of some of the older developments of the server and how it has changed over the years. Last year's prompt was simply 'Potterworld' which, in my opinion, may be too broad but still opens loads of different gates and possibilities that allows very diverse entries and competitors. This year's theme also seems very odd for the image as images are far less descriptive, in my opinion, than a writing piece and a factual, essay style question does not seem fitting for a simple screenshot of the server. The Categories also seem weird as "Creative" and "Best Interpretation" are very similar and interchangeable, especially due to the limits of the prompt. It would be easier for the students to have more definitive lines between the categories. It also seems sort of strange for this to be the competition that awards players the Droobledoll as it covers only one area of Potterworld, which is the writing and drawing side (which could be argued aren't even really server related) and doesn't let players who are talented in other areas (such as parkour, duelling, determination, quests-completing or flying) show their potential and ability.
I'd like to hear other ppls opinions and if anyone has any counter points I'd be up to see them
Obviously, this year's competition is set in stone but I was just suggesting for the future.
For this years Anniversary Competition, (the writing and drawing), I think that the prompt was a bit weird. Now, I know that to be truly creative, you should be able to turn even the weirdest of prompts into something that will put someone on the edge of their seats, however I think this years prompt of "Why do you think players have enjoyed this server for all these years?" does limit some areas of how creative you can be as it is very caged in in terms of what you can do with it. First of all, the prompt seems heavily directed to a essay format rather than a story or a long poem: there is very little conflict or interest you can cause story-line wise for such a prompt. It does also not seem much of a fun prompt to have, as it is very factual and opinion based, this means that some players may have seen the prompt at first glance and not given it a second thought (I have talked to a few people who said the same). It also limits some players in the fact that newer students will not know of some of the older developments of the server and how it has changed over the years. Last year's prompt was simply 'Potterworld' which, in my opinion, may be too broad but still opens loads of different gates and possibilities that allows very diverse entries and competitors. This year's theme also seems very odd for the image as images are far less descriptive, in my opinion, than a writing piece and a factual, essay style question does not seem fitting for a simple screenshot of the server. The Categories also seem weird as "Creative" and "Best Interpretation" are very similar and interchangeable, especially due to the limits of the prompt. It would be easier for the students to have more definitive lines between the categories. It also seems sort of strange for this to be the competition that awards players the Droobledoll as it covers only one area of Potterworld, which is the writing and drawing side (which could be argued aren't even really server related) and doesn't let players who are talented in other areas (such as parkour, duelling, determination, quests-completing or flying) show their potential and ability.
I'd like to hear other ppls opinions and if anyone has any counter points I'd be up to see them
Obviously, this year's competition is set in stone but I was just suggesting for the future.
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