Star Wars in the Playground Competition (Discussion Thread)

[Viera Champion]

Here is the discussion thread for my first ever running of an ITP competion. As you know, Lord Herman used to do these all the time, but he lost interest in running them soon after I joined the forums. Now they are back so rejoice.

This is my second competition! Yay! All hail me!

The Categories:
•Jedi
•Sith
•Scoundrel
•Trooper
•Droid

Rules and stuff by Lord Herman the Great.

How the contest works

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An ...in the Playground contest is like an election. People are nominated for a category, and then the playground votes for them. The winners get a nice, shiny trophy. The contest is divided into several parts:

Pre-nomination Campaigning
There's usually some time before the nomination thread is put up. In this time, people can already start campaigning for whatever category they want to be nominated for.

Contestants can post a campaign speech in this thread at any time during the contest. If they PM me with a link to the speech and a tagline, I will link to it from this post.

The Nominations
During the nomination round, people can nominate any three people they want for each category. At the end of this round, I count the nominations, and the top three nominees in each category will go on to the next round.

The Polls
In the second voting round, everyone gets to vote for one of the three top nominees in each category. Whoever gets the most votes gets a gold trophy. There are also silver and bronze trophies for second and third place, so if you're one of the final nominees, you're guaranteed to get a prize.

If the top nominee of a category doesn't win in the polls, he or she gets a Magtok Award. It's a small brass statuette of Lord Magtok, the first one to win such a prize. Unless Magtok says it's ok.

The Results
After the results of the contest have been posted, there's some time for the winners to post acceptance speeches, for the losers to complain about the results, and for everyone to suggest a theme for the next round. Also, there are waffles for everyone.

The Rules

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As with every contest, there are a few rules. Please read these; failing to abide by them can result in disqualification, or worse, a stern talking-to.

A - General Rules
1. All forum rules apply as normal in this contest. So no flaming, trolling, or pulling hairs. There may be a lot at stake in this contest, but you are expected to keep it civil.

B - Campaigning
1. Keep all campaigning in this thread and your sig. Do not post in random thread to beg for votes.
1a. Also, don't PM people to ask for votes unless they have given their explicit permission.
2. Mass bribery is not allowed, but you can bribe individuals. So offering to bake a cookie for everyone who votes for you is not allowed, but you can bribe specific people with a cookie.
3. Threats are allowed, but they must be within the forum rules. Threatening to assassinate someone in the Stabbity Death thread is okay, but threatening to derail their play-by-post game is not.
4. Vote trading is not allowed.

C - Nominations
1. You must nominate three people for each category, or abstain from that category.
2. You can't nominate yourself.
3. You can only nominate active board members. It doesn't matter where on these boards they post, as long as they do so regularly. Someone who isn't likely to accept their prize (the Giant, for instance) isn't an eligible nominee.
4. You can't nominate the same person for multiple categories.
4a. Someone can't be a final nominee for multiple categories. If someone has enough votes to be nominated for multiple categories, they only get nominated for the category they have the most votes for.
5. You can only post once in the nomination thread, and that post must include your nominations. Comments should go in the main thread.
6. You can edit your nominations at any time before the nominations are closed. Any nominations edited after that will be ignored.
7. You must post the categories in the correct order.
7a. Any categories you abstain from must be included in your post, with <abstain> written under them.
8. Don't post 'joke' nominations, such as intentionally nominating people for random categories, or nominating non-existant playgrounders. Counting nominations is a lot of work, and I don't have time to dig through piles of poorly conceived jokes.
8a. Nor do I have time to dig through piles of incredibly witty jokes, worthy of William Shakespeare himself.

D - Polls
1. You can only vote for one person per category.
1a. You can abstain from any category you wish.
2. You can't vote for yourself.
3. You can only vote for final nominees, and only in the correct category.
4. You can only post once in the polls thread, and that post must include your votes. Comments should go in the main thread.
5. You can edit your votes at any time before the polls are closed. Any votes edited after that will be ignored.
6. You must post the categories in the correct order.
6a. Any categories you abstain from must be included in your post, with <abstain> written under them.
7. To be included in the polls, you have to accept your nomination by responding to the PM I send you. If you don't accept, or if you don't reply within the specified time, your place in the polls will go to the next person in line.
7a. Only accept your nomination if you intend to run in the polls. Dropping out at a later time is not acceptable, unless for legitimate reasons such as the tragic death of your goldfish.
7b. Specifically, do not drop out or fail to campaign in favour of another contestant. The voters decide who wins, not the contestants among themselves.
7c. Do NOT murder your goldfish just so you can drop out of the contest.
7d. No 'unfortunate accidents' either. I mean it. Leave the fish alone.

Common sense applies. Don't try to rules lawyer these rules.

For now, this thread is here to let people know about the competitions and stuff, but once they actually start, this thread will be used for disussing votes, enticing people to vote for you and so on. The competition timeline is simple. The first week will be nomination week where you nominate people for each position and so on, then that weekend is campaign week, wher the various nominees try to encourage people to vote for them or dicourage voting for others. Then, it's voting week where you vote on the various positions, and finally, the winners will be announced and the glorious trophies will be handed out.

Yadda yadda yadda. Please tell me your ideas here.

Campaign speeches will go her when we get some.

Please invite as many people as you can, the restart of these is still fairly new so we don't have that many people yet. We want these thing to be as big as they used to be.

Attention avatarists! Would you like to be famous and let everyone see your art? Well unlike Lord Herman I can't run contests AND make trophies (cuz I suck at them) so please PM me if you would like to make the trophies. Thanks!

[GrlumpTheElder]

Aha, excelent, another contest.

I wonder which category I would fit in

[Viera Champion]

I was gonna give you advice on which one I thought you should be, but then I decided against it.

[Diva De]

I think I'm pretty Scoundrel-y. I think I'll run in this.

[Viera Champion]

I think I'm pretty Scoundrel-y. I think I'll run in this.

Goody. I welcome you back here princess.

[Szilard]

Why'd I post all these pictures? Just 'cause.

I could use another trophy...
And who has trophies?
Bounty hunters.
And what are Bounty Hunters?
Scoundrels.

Gonna go for Scoundrel in the Playground. Maybe.
I think I'll go for SithITP.
There can be only one...
*cue Duel of Fates*

[Rogue Nine]

Statement: I would definitely approve running for the Droid ITP category, meatbags.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

I have less fat so taht makes me the light vresion. That means I'm a Jedi!

[Blue Ghost]

I will be running for Jedi ITP. Campaign speech coming soon.

[Ramsus]

Crud, a Star Wars one had to happen while I'm still too new for anyone to know around here.

[Rogue Nine]

Crud, a Star Wars one had to happen while I'm still too new for anyone to know around here.

I started after you and I'm planning on campaigning. Do it! Unless you are going for Droid, then bugger off!

[Viera Champion]

Crud, a Star Wars one had to happen while I'm still too new for anyone to know around here.

It's less about how well known you are and more about how much like the position people think you are. Also, if you DO participate, then you will be more well known among the playground and you will be better for the next one.

[GrlumpTheElder]

Crud, a Star Wars one had to happen while I'm still too new for anyone to know around here.

Not true, in my first ITP contest I had only been around for a month or two and I got placed in Barbarian ITP.

[Viera Champion]

Not true, in my first ITP contest I had only been around for a month or two and I got placed in Barbarian ITP.

In my first itP contest I had only been around for a year and I was running it. Oh wait...

[Thufir]

In my first itP contest... oh wait, I've never actually run for anything. None of the categories have really fit me thus far.

[Szilard]

In my first ITP contest I tried running for five categories. Everyone thought I was dumb. So I ran for Frown ITP. I got nominated. No actual trophy though.

[Viera Champion]

This will probably start in like a week. Just got to get the pictures for my trophy maker, then make sure that I get a little more interest in this game.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Did you know that Animals with Light Sabers has ZERO pictures of llamas with lightsabers? I am so disappointed.