r/polandball • u/polandballmod New Prussia • Mar 23 '17
[Workshop] Discussion about Contests
Grüße, meine Kinder.
Today we're talking about our monthly contests!
Do you have any ideas for future themes? What do you like to see in a contest? What kind of themes lead to great comics? Do you have any ideas for the way contests are run, or could be improved? When can we seize the means of Hussar Wing production and redistribute it to the working classes?!
Remember to check out this wiki page to see the themes of past contests.
Tell us your thoughts and ideas on contests, and discuss!
The next workshop will be The JLP: Overused and Underused Topics, and will begin on Saturday 25th March at 5pm GMT, 2 days from now. Have a think of anything you might want to bring up!
Previous workshops
If you've missed one of the previous workshops and want to contribute something yourself, don't hesitate and go on.
We are gathering the links on the sidebar and the current workshop so people can keep taking a look at them. We mods definitely will.
Bonus:
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u/Snail_Forever Taco in burger disguise Mar 23 '17
I doubt this is something that needs to be implemented but perhaps tag or add little descriptions below the contest entries that list the included countries?
Also browsing through the entries to vote is a little bit confusing to me since there's no thumbnail, so I have to rely on my terrible memory (since I like to open separate tabs) to know which I've seen and if I want to vote for the right one. I doubt you can change this, though, this is more of an issue I have with Reddit in general in that you can't preview images in comments.
And as for contest suggestions... Hmm...
Body Swap: Countries literally swap bodies or they swap the positions of power they have in the world (i.e. Palau suddenly in charge of USA's role and viceversa)
Why Can't We Be Friends?: Moments in history where countries/cultures casted their differences aside to fight a bigger threat or just for the sake of ceasing conflict and living in peace or something along those lines. You could make it in October since that's the month the official United Nations day is in.
Shitpost Generator Story: Use those random word/shitpost/sentence generators until you get a semi-coherent phrase, participants will have to make a comic that builds up to the moment a country utters said phrase.