Feedback Requested: Best Base in Paragon Contest this Fall

[Blushield]

Hi Everyone!

 

The Vanguard League is getting ready for this Fall's Best Base in Paragon City contest in October, and we'd like to pick your brains a bit.

Currently we judge bases on Theme, Technical Merit and Creativity, e.g. Do you have a well defined theme and are sticking to it? Does the base do interesting or innovative things with the tools and objects we have available? Is it's design creative and unique, or is it one in a long line of common bases?

 

The problem is, with these parameters we sometimes end up comparing apples and oranges. We've tried to address this with Judge's Awards so that bases that resonate with a judge (or two) get looped in, even if they may not have perfect construction or use the existing object set in conventional ways.

 

This time we'd like to try something different. Stealing a idea from cinema awards, we are thinking about establishing some categories that contestants could join. Just like the Oscars have "Best Actor", "Best Supporting Actor", "Best Key Grip" etc., we'd like to add a FEW (no more than 4) categories to the contest, so we can better compare like to like.

 

The question before the house: What should those categories be?

 

For Example: Best RP Base, seems logical and obvious, but what else should we think about?

 

I'm going to leave this thread up for a few weeks, so mull it over and let us know what categories you'd like to see and why.

 

I can't promise we'll use them, and certainly we won't use them all (more than 4 or 5 categories will dilute the prize pool too much). But chime in and contribute your ideas for categories.

 

-Blu

 

[Patti]

Most best use of small space.

Best "city zone."

Best weird and wild.

Best ho-hum normal traditional base like old days.

[Saeletra]

Best new builder? Novice builder?

 

Something to encourage builders with not a lot of experience under their belts or even encourage people to start base building?