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Sneak Peek: New season, New year, New CCC

Sir ArmaMalum·12/1/2014, 8:27:08 PM·4 votes·771 views

Hey all!

If you didn't see already in this post, I'm planning on bringing back the CCC, in a fashion. Unfortunately not this month, I want to pad things out with individuals and I want to wait and see how a few other things pan out that may affect the CCC's future iteration.

tl;dr of linked post: After getting a peek at the MCCC's inner workings and looking at what I interpret the concepting community wanting, I've come to the conclusion that the CCC had it's own place as a showcase or event, whereas the MCCC has it's own unique place as a challenge. I believe by adjusting how the CCC works I can have both events work well in tandem and be a great thing for the concepting community.

#SO

I have an idea for the future of the CCC. I'm going to be talking to individuals and it may (may) be part of a much bigger project I want to tackle (depending on how certain events unfold), but that's about as far as I'll go with dancing around subjects. I want to hear what people think of the initial idea pertaining specifically to the CCC, largely due to the low amount of available visibility in the aforementioned post. Here goes:

Current plan is to change the CCC into the Comunity Concept Showcase. What this means is that I want to move away from a contest and more towards a gathering of conceptors who want to both highlight their own specific creation as well as see the marvelous ideas of others. In other words the CCC before was kind of like a spelling bee, not fierce but still a competition, and I want to move more towards a sort of 'county fair' where people can see the creativity of those around them and encourage others to try it out as well. If that makes sense.

While logistically staying relatively the same as far as scoring and entries are concerned there may be two main changes:

#1. Schedule change

There will be two CCS's every month.

The first being on the second week of a month, this week will be the entry week and the following week will be the judging week, with results announced at the end of the week (Saturday).

The second being on the fourth week of a month, same week distribution, and the first week of the next month being the judging period.

The reason for this is two-fold. A) It separates the inevitable influx of concepts from the CCS and the MCCC, so as each contest doesn't need to have their entrants fight for visibility that week. B) it addresses a concern of inactivity that the CCC had in the past between entry and results (sorry!)

#2. Anonymous Judges

Removing the anonymous judges is more of a side-effect of the increased frequency of contests. Quite simply, I won't have time to round up judges every week, so instead I'll bring in judges and have their names known from the get-go. In my imagining (welcome to suggestions otherwise) these will be people selected by their previous contribution to the CCC and further volunteers will be a guest judge and, if they do well, will get the opportunity to judge when they have time. Ideally I could eventually build a surplus of capable and generally awesome judges that can rotate in and out. If I get enough I'll probably step down as a judge myself and stick to the role of organizer.

Scoring weight will remain relatively unchanged. I feel it's a good representation of a general concept while still being friendly to the inexperienced (which is a priority imho).

#NOTE AGAIN, the CCC will NOT return this month. Sorry.

tl;dr:

  • CCC is coming back next year (a.k.a. next month)
  • CCC will change a bit
  • CCC may be involved in a bigger project of mine
  • I hope to get the CCC in a form that works well with the MCCC and, ideally, synergizes well.
  • Feel free to drop your two cents on what should be done/stopped, etc etc.
  • Questions as well! Questions are great because they help me help you!

4 Comments

BigBenClockTower12/2/2014, 4:08:30 AM2 votes

I'll drop a couple!. :D

1¢: Firstly, every other week is a very TERRIBLE idea. I cannot shovel 3 months of work into 1 week, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this arena. Trash concepts with zero effort will thrive in a system working with such short time limits (especially when the school, work, and life factors are applied), and will not set good standards for the community. While a showcase can work, this move would basically force everyone who wants competition into the very flawed MCCC format. Why flawed?

2¢: As iterated in other posts I've made on this issue, there is simply too much restriction by theme and challenge to foster in any sort of creativity. Each concept created for it as well ends up being very similar because they all incorporate the same ground, which stifles individualism and uniqueness in concepts presented for it (Riot doesn't have a theme or challenge to fit into, and they still have problems with making people completely different, in all senses of the word). Additionally, for those people who spend months (like me) on making their designs perfect, they cannot afford to shoehorn that much work into the small 3 week period the MCCC gives. As mentioned above, work, school, and life must all be considered, and all three do eat into design time (hence the multi-month projects).

3¢: Ultimately, if the competition spirit and philosophy is to be retained, the MCCC needs to heavily consider what made the old CCC attractive. We want to encourage participation, but incredibly strict time limits and requirements combine to make one nasty concoction that I can almost guarantee will turn people (particularly the new designers who may want to try their hand at this) off.

4¢: As for the CCC, a showcase is very thin ice, with cracks already forming before anyone even sets foot on it, and I'm still skeptical how cool it'd be, given that highlights ultimately remain unsatisfying. This is only made worse if I have an awesome concept I spent 3 months on, and can't actually enter it into a serious competition unless I either redesign them from scratch, or settle for a "highlight" that is very unfulfilling, considering the amount of work that was done to make the concept what it is.

5¢ (TL;DR): I would be incredibly wary and careful before we take the CCC into new and shaky territory. As the MCCC is a very narrow and hard-nosed competition alternative, forcing both sides to choose "by-the-book competition that is unnecessarily harsh" or "highlight something rushed but cool for absolutely no reward, mental or physical" is a very, unequivocally, bad idea.

Hey! I made a nickel! XD

Anyways, my cents on the sneak peek here. Again, sorry for the text walls, but the TL;DR doesn't do the post justice. I like the idea here, but the execution given what the CCC and MCCC are/were is very poor. >_<

Vbunnie12/3/2014, 8:49:25 PM1 votes

well then if I dont have to worry about not being a judge umm can I judge maybe? I also have been wanting to unleash my potential baby I mentioned before....you know the one about the elements? I was hoping you could maybe assist me in setting it up or providing your gifs or mention in your hall of fame as prize. Or of course I can create the hall of fame and you the gifs? It might compete with the MCCC but hey it is a free system and mine having most likely less requirements then the MCCC would make sense. I was thinking about adding a lore element to the mix but I was unsure how to introduce this exactly...Um tying it to a faction maybe? or maybe a species...aka race?