New Competition Ideas

[lucyjames]

*cross-posted from petsnails.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=comps&action=display&thread=5166&page=1*



So, here are my initial thoughs on snaily competitions...

Monthly, there could be snail photography competition, much like the ones that used to run here, where everyone submits to the organiser a pic of their favourite snail/s for consideration. These would then be voted on or judged by a pre-selected person, and the winner would recieve the glorious title of having the "Snail of The Month" - perhaps The Snail Sanctuary would be willing to provide a winners certificate for this - with name, small version of the pic, and the date....? All the piccies would be sent to the selected person via PM or email and then these would be posted in a thread (or maybe Ade would let us have a section on SnailsOnParade for something like this??? ) and then they are all anonymous - only the organiser knows who they belong to... Then we can either put them up for a vote, or the previous winner could be the guest judge and pick their favourite...?

Then alongside this, we could have a more involved competiton for which the winner receives the fabulous £20 to spend in TarantulaBarn's shop This would be the poetry or snaily craft, and please, other ideas welcome!!!! This could be monthly (if I can figure out the logistics of it!!!) or bi-monthly, and, would most likely be a case of voting for your favourite - unless again, we want to share out judging expertise...!!!

***So peeps, what do you all think???***

[Snail Lover.]

Sounds brilliant, yeah, we just need to make everything clear.

[coyote]

I like the idea of the pics being anonymous. Especially if the winner will be chosen by the general membership instead of by one person.

I have a feeling that a comp once a month might be too frequent, but then, like our little gastropodical friends, I like to take things slowly myself ;D

[lucyjames]

OK, so here is my (mostly) final thought on the competitions... I just want to know what you all think about this plan - and please, pitch in if you have better (which I'm sure you do) ideas ;D



MONTHLY - Snail of The Month
This is going to be the photography competition - on the 1st of every month the thread opens and you can submit your photos to the organizer PRIVATELY - the organizer then collects up all the piccies and after the fortnight's submission time is up, submits them all in a thread, still anonymously, and opens it up for voting... Each member who wants to then votes, again PRIVATELY, for their favorite photo, and at the end of the fortnight's voting period the winner is announced and crowned with their title of the owner of the "Snail of the Month"!!!! There will be a winners certificate for the winning snail with their piccie, name and the date on it ;D

And then we start all over again, lol...



BI-MONTHLY - Snail Competition
This will be the more involved of the competitions - on the 1st of the month, the theme and task will be announced, and will remain open for ONE MONTH to allow people to do this and submit in plenty of time. Then at the end of the same month, the competition closes, and voting opens. Voting will remain open for the second month, and then, at the end of the second month, votes will be collated and the winner announced, and this winner has the fabulous £20 to spend in TarantulaBarn's shop!

Once the winner is announced, the theme/task for the next competition will be announced




Does this sound like a cycle that you can all get involved in on a regular basis?

[coyote]

It looks good to me!

[Rachel]

sounds good whats happening this month, or will you wait till next?

[lucyjames]

I think this month, we'll just have longer to get the project done, that way people can get stuck in straight away ;D

I will get the thread opened up tomorrow I think ;D

I am going with "Make a Snail"!

[Snail Lover.]

When you say "make a snail" how do you mean? like dress them up with hats or something? lol, confused, help me out . x

[lucyjames]

All shall be revealed very soon ;D

[goonius]

sounds good to me

[lucyjames]

Hmmm...

So I am thinking that while we vote on the Snaily Craft competition, we think up things that we can do for the next Snail Comp that will start in August...

Still on the ideas I like alot list are:

Snail Poetry (write a poem with 5 lines only, beginning S, N, A, I, L)

Make something FOR your snails

Captions


Hmmm....other things....

We may as well chuck some ideas around...!!!

[coyote]

Snail poetry sounds like fun

[lucyjames]

It would be just like that ;D

[Rachel]

well there ya go, an example for all

[coyote]

Wow, maybe we already have a winner! ;D