I love this and commend you for running it shoop. Well done bud.
Thank you and I think it will be fun and hopefully get people more involved in the clan world.
I have a couple of questions for clarification. What do you mean by 3 bonus points for predicting the CC5 winner. You just want us to name the clan or provide a score too. Is there a place to make those predictions yet, or is that yet to come? I'm not quite sure I understand.
Because CC5 is considered the most important clan event there is a bonus available. These 3 points will be added to any score achieved for the cc final. Predictions can be entered when the finals thread is opened up. You will predict the score just like any other clan war.
Also, is it important to make a unique prediction or can multiple people make the same prediction?
Multiple people can make the same prediction. If we have enough entrants there won't be any way around that.
I have one concern that I hope can be addressed upfront, as I suspect applies to a lot of people. A lot of things like this come along and there is much interest up front and then as time goes by you miss a couple and fall behind and you feel like there is no point to play anymore anymore. In the end you have 5 diehards playing for the full year.
This is definitely a possibility and things we have seen lately in cc. However, the leaderboard will also be broken down into quarterly segments with other prizes available that have not been announced. I also intend to be running this for more than just this year so there will be a new chance. There are also bonus points available for the leagues. These leagues will not finish until towards the end of the first year. Clan wars also generally take 2-3 months to finish, so there should be a lot of open predictions that can let you catch up.
May I be so bold as to ask a couple of questions and make a couple of suggestions regarding this concern?
That is what this thread is for. I hope that more people will ask questions or make recommendations. I put this together with the help of Icepack, but with everyone chiming in this event can only get better.
What type of notification will we have as new events are listed? Will I have to remember to keep checking the threads for new contests? Is it possible that a mass pm could be sent each time there is a new war/contest? My request sounds like a big venture on the surface, but I know that if you have all the names on a spreadsheet, then it's real simple to copy and paste the works into a pm address box. I'd be willing to offer assistance if needed.
Yes, I will do the mass pm thing to all members that have previously entered a prediction, unless they pm that they do not want, when predictions for an event can be made.
Addressing this same issue, can we ensure that there is a significant "minimum" time for each event, i.e. if it's less than two weeks then you can't list it (preferably longer)?
I can only list from the time the thread is created until the war actually starts. This varies amongst clan, but generally threads are made at least 10 days before the start of a war. If I pm that predictions are open, this should be sufficient time. In general if people don't post in the first few days the likelihood is they won't post at all
Could we have a maximum number of events you can play? If you anticipate 100 wars in a year, then only allow participation in 80. Then there isn't such an incentive to simply quit, if you do miss a few.
I am not in favor of this. I think it should be pretty easy to follow and make predictions for every event. This would also make it a lot harder to keep track of for me.
Finally, one observation - I notice that when events similar to this are run for one month, they usually offer a GA medal. I would have expected that when the event is for a full year, that there would be several GA medals. There could be different categories to win, like most wins, most underdog wins, most scores dead on, etc. etc. restrictions could be in place to prevent one person from winning too many or even two for that matter. I suspect it would create a more exciting Scoreboard and more interest and I am not sure there is a downside. I appreciate that you don't want to hand those medals out like candy, but the opposite problem is no good either.
As I have discussed with Icepack there will be other prizes available, both on a quarterly structure and annually. What these are, and what these will be for is still a work in progress. Maybe Ice can answer this question more completely. We will also have categories so suggestions are welcome.
Also please tell your clanmates and friends to keep the predictions coming. It would be great to get some serious involvement.
thanks for organizing!
