@Ryder @marioguy3 I've had an idea earlier today and I wrote it down on a local text file, which I'm copy/pasting in the spoiler below. This is a hypothetical highly rules technical contest, with everything open up for discussion, it's nothing more than an idea that I'm posting for discussion. I believe the two of you would be interested in discussing it, but everyone's thoughts are welcome of course.bravelion83 wrote: ↑2 weeks ago@Ryder for sure I believe. If other people with high rules knowledge would be interested, they're more than welcome to speak up.If there are enough people interested, maybe even before 2025.
- Keeper (hosts, creates all threads and challenges, CAN also play, knows the identity of each submission)
- Judges (CAN also play, do NOT know the identity of each submission)
- Players
How a round goes:
1. The Keeper creates one challenges, the more technical the better, requiring a high amount of rules knowledge. Some additional optional requirements might be there for bonus points, the number and value of which might be variable or fixed (TBD based on further discussion). The high rules knowledge is the defining trait of this contest, so players are expected to have an adequate familiarity with the CR for sure, maybe the policy documents too (JAR, MTR, IPG)?
2. The Keeper posts the round thread with the challenge and the eventual additional requirements.
3. The players, within a speficied deadline, send blind submissions directly to the Keeper via pm (or any other suitable means TBD with more discussion), who keeps them hidden for the moment (from which the name Keeper). The Keeper might add their own submission too and all Judges can also send a blind submission to the Keeper. Each player may (or may be required to, that's TBD based on discussion) make a post in the round thread saying that they have sent their submission to the Keeper, but WITHOUT posting what their submission is. The Keeper might be required to confirm that they received that player's submission by posting such confirmation in the round thread.
4. After the deadline has passed, the Keeper reveals all the submissions they've received by posting them in the round thread but, and this is key to this hypothetical contest, OMITTING who designed each card, no names yet. Only the cards. At this point, judging begins, according to a given rubric (which may or may not be the same as the MCC one, that's TBD). A judge shouldn't be assigned their own submission to judge in their bracket, but they can be assigned other judges' submissions, and one judge will necessarily be assigned the Keeper's submission. Each submission may need to be assigned to more than one Judge, again, as long as no Judge is assigned their own card to judge. In this case, all submissions must be assigned to the same number of Judges, and at the end of the round (in step 5 below) all the scores received by each submission will be added up to determine the advancing players. Again, the key to make all of this work is that Judges do NOT know who designed the cards they're judging. Only the Keeper knows the identity of the designers at this point, and they must still keep it secret to anybody else (another reason for the Keeper's name: they keep the players' identities secret). The Keeper CANNOT also be a Judge, as they know the identity of the designers. Each Judge judges all cards in their bracket within a specified deadline and posts their scores.
5. Only after all scores for all cards are public, the Keeper reveals who designed each card, and the top N (value of N still TBD) from each bracket advance. If multiple judges have judged the same card, all the scores received by that card will be added up to determine who advances to the next round.
6. Return to 1. for the next round. How many rounds are needed is TBD based on discussion, I can personally see having three rounds each month (one less than the MCC) to allow more time for designing and judging, which will be both inevitably more difficult than in the MCC due to the high rules knowledge required.