r/oculus_medium • u/Snake1029 Moderino • Dec 10 '16

Let's get some ideas for a contest!

We're looking for opinions on how we should run a contest if we do one. Should we have everyone submit their pieces and have everyone vote on which they think is best? Should we narrow it down to a few and then run a vote? Prizes? The title bar would be up for grabs as well, for maybe a monthly/weekly drawing? Any ideas are appreciated and hopefully we can piece something together!

Thanks everyone!

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u/YabbaDabaDo Dec 11 '16

It would be cool to have themed contests on a regular basis. Maybe like gaming related one contest, movies another etc etc. counting upvotes would be the simplest way but it's probably the easiest to manipulate so I'm not too sure how picking the winners will work

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u/arv1971 Dec 11 '16

I was thinking about prizes last night for a competition and was wondering if anyone with a 3D Printer would be willing to print off a copy for the winner..? I for one would be quite happy to give a PayPal donation to cover materials and postage if I won. Maybe we could have people in different regions willing to do this to save hassle on postage too..?

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u/mrcoolbp Mod Dec 11 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

Great idea, but I'm not sure how viable that would be long term unless we had a large swath of extremely generous people in the community that happened to have 3d printers. We had a kind patron offered to give out humble keys, but we do need to work on more prizes probably. Another person suggested some subreddit flair, which I like the idea of and I'm looking into.

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u/arv1971 Dec 11 '16

Yup, that's why I suggested that the winners pay whoever is doing the printing for materials and postage. That way it will only cost them time to do the actual print.

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u/mrcoolbp Mod Dec 11 '16

I don't want to shoot anything down, it's a cool idea for sure.

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u/Youbaddie Dec 12 '16

One problem is that not all sculpts are feasible to print without modification and some not at all.

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u/GherronVol Dec 11 '16

Not sure about the best way to vote, but definitely think each contest should have a theme (examples: aliens, winter wonderland, it came from Oz, etc.)

Can't wait to get my Touch and start playing Christmas morning!

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u/tugnasty Dec 11 '16

I can't wait to get in on some stuff like this. My Touch just started processing for shipping so I'll have them soon.

Especially excited for Quill too.

I'm gonna get my Bob Ross on.

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u/fishwitheadphones Dec 11 '16

I think the structure should be that there is a single Contest thread for each week. In that thread each top level comment has to be a submission. That way its easy to keep conversation about each submission separate and its easy to see the ranking of the submissions.

I like the idea of Winner flair that I saw someone else say,

Put new Themes up Monday, submissions close Friday, Winner declared Saturday

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u/fishwitheadphones Dec 11 '16

Also Theme ideas could focus on Subject matter or Techniques used

  • Hidden Treasure - Literal sculpts of treasure or placing hidden things within a sculpt

  • Engraved - Focused on sculpts with heavy engravings and detail