Samwesty999
22 May 2009, 07:00 PM
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Introduction
Welcome to competition/reality-show called ‘The MCCP Apprentice’. If you have seen the British, American or Irish TV show called ‘The Apprentice’, then you should know how to play/compete.
A very quick summary if you are too lazy to read the rest of this post
There will be 3 teams at the start of the competition, who I set a new forum-related task for every few days. From the loosing team, forumers can vote for who they think didn't perform well and should be fired. This will continue every few days until there is a winner.
Please read the rest of this thread if you want to know all the details and exactly how the competition works.
How the competition will be played
Out of all the applications, me and my panel will choose 30 contestants to take part in the competition. I will then split the 30 contestants into 3 teams; one called ‘Team A’, one called 'Team B' and the other called ‘Team C’. Later on in the task when there are less contestants, I will split the contestants into 2 teams.
The competition begins when I choose a task for the groups to carry out. The task could be anything related to the forum.
Example 1: The task might be to set up a signature shop, which includes designing them, making them and issuing them to forumer’s who request them. The team to sell the most signatures would be the winner of that task.
Example 2: Another task might be to create a role-play. Me, my special helpers and a guest expert will then analyze the description, storyline and imagination of each role-play. The role-play which I think is the best will win that task.
For each task, I will choose a project manager who manages the team and has the final say in decisions.
Getting fired
After the task they have carried out is finished, I will then announce (with help from my panel) which team(s) won and which team lost.
Everyone in the loosing team will then have to explain why they shouldn’t be fired and how it wasn’t their fault that the team lost. There will then be a voting poll, in which forumers can vote who should be fired. The number of contestants fired varies from each task, ranging from 8 on the 1st task to 2 on the 5th task.
A new task will be created every 3 or 4 days and a specific number of contestants will be fired on each task, until there is only 1 contestant left, who would then be the winner of the competition. Please don’t feel like it is something personal if you are fired.
Switching around the teams
On each task, I might switch the teams round a bit, so that I can see how different contestants get on together and so that is doesn’t get boring.
Team communication
There will be 3 threads created for each team to discuss ideas, to arrange their task and to set it up. A xat may make things more complicated, so one won't be needed for the time being.
Time limit and how long the competition will take
For each task, I will allow up to 3 or 4 days until it finishes and a team wins. As long as each task takes 3 or 4 days, my estimate is that the competition will be finished in less than a month - it definitely won’t exceed over one month.
The Panel and Guest experts
I will be choosing 4 forumers to help me in what would be known as 'The Panel'. Please don’t ask or apply to be in the panel because I will contact you if I want you to be one. Basically the panel assist me in choosing candidates, setting tasks, reporting back to me/everyone else and choosing which task won.
For specific tasks, I may take on board 1 or 2 guest experts to help choose a winning team (see example somewhere above) e.g. If the role-play creating task becomes one, then I will ask for advice from an expert role-player.
Fairness
This competition will be as fair as possible. When I select the 30 contestants that I want to compete, me and my panel won’t just be choosing those that are ‘well known’. Although I want some well known forumers to compete in order to make it interesting, I will also be closely looking at the applications and choosing from there.
The prize
I haven’t chosen a prize for the winner yet, but I will try to make it as good as I can. I could be a signature/avatar that I get someone to make, or maybe even to get an infraction/warning reversed if Dracophile gives permission. There is one prize I can guarantee you will receive; the privilege to have won.
Application form
Why do you think you should be chosen:
What skills on this forum do you have (e.g. role-playing, art, poetry, making successful threads etc):
Do you think you could win and why:
Do you think you are good working in a team:
Rate your activity on the forum out of 10:
Why I think this competition would be a good idea
It offers a huge variety as all tasks will be completely different. Each task focus' on a specific part of the forum, which will be different every few days. This means that a wide range of forum areas and aspects could be included e.g. role-plays, artwork, avvy shops, clubs, parties, newspapers, stories, making youtube videos, GFX teams, penguin art, sig shops, poems/songs and creating specific threads. This would make it less boring and some real good work could be produced by the teams who carry out the tasks, showing the attributes of all the contestants. I feel this competition will bring lots of forumer's talent and skills together, creating a huge amount of variety. Hopefully, this competition will bring certain forum areas/aspects back to life e.g. GFX teams and newspapers. Obviously, tasks won't be just based on the things I mentioned in this paragraph - there will hopefully be lots more.
How everyone takes part
Me who runs the competition
4 people in the panel who help make decisions
Guest experts who I may hire for particular tasks to help make decisions
30 contestants who take part in winning the competition
Everyone else will be able to vote on who they think should be fired
The month-plan of the competition
Look here to see how many people will be fired on each task and how long each task will take.
Application process
1st Forumers can start submitting their applications
2nd This will be the last day of applications being submitted
Task 1
3rd The contestants will be chosen - The 30 contestants will be split into 3 groups – They can begin working on their task/assignment
4th They can work on their task/assignment
5th They can work on their task/assignment
6th They must hand in their task/assignment – The loosing team will be announced - 8 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 2
7th The 22 remaining contestants will be split into 3 fairly even groups - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
8th They can work on their task/assignment
9th They can work on their task/assignment
10th They must hand in their task/assignment – The losing team will be announced - 5 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 3
11th The 17 remaining contestants will be split into 2 fairly even groups - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
12th They can work on their task/assignment
13th They can work on their task/assignment
14th They must hand in their task/assignment – The losing team will be announced - 6 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 4
15th The 11 remaining contestants will be split into 2 fairly even groups - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
16th They can work on their task/assignment
17th They can work on their task/assignment
18th They must hand in their task/assignment – The loosing team will be announced - 3 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 5
19th The 8 remaining contestants will be split into 2 even groups - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
20th They can work on their task/assignment
21st They must hand in their task/assignment – The losing team will be announced - 2 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 6
22nd The 6 remaining contestants will be split into 2 even groups - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
23rd They can work on their task/assignment
24th They must hand in their task/assignment – The losing team will be announced - 2 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 7
25th 4 contestants will be left - They will then work individually and not in teams - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
26th They can work on their task/assignment
27th They must hand in their task/assignment - The 3 losing contests will be announced and fired
Task 8
28th The 2 individual contests will be given a new task/assignment - They can begin working on their task/assignment
29th They must hand in their task/assignment
30th The winner of the competition will be announced
Note: When contestants hand their tasks/assignment in or finish them, it must be by a specific time deadline.
This deadline will be:
4:00pmPST
5:00pmMST
6:00pmCST
7:00pmEST
12:00amGMT
If you live in a different time zone, then hopefully you can work yours out by looking at the times above.
I feel these time zones are the best for this competition. Most forumers live in these time zones and should be able to get their tasks/assignments finished by then. This deadline doesn’t mean that everyone in the team has to be up until that time, it just means that the task/assignment should be handed in by then. The earlier you hand it in or finish it, the better.
If your tasks/assignments aren’t finished or handed in by this deadline, then it is very likely you will be the losing team, unless another team hasn’t finished/handed-in theirs either.
Introduction
Welcome to competition/reality-show called ‘The MCCP Apprentice’. If you have seen the British, American or Irish TV show called ‘The Apprentice’, then you should know how to play/compete.
A very quick summary if you are too lazy to read the rest of this post
There will be 3 teams at the start of the competition, who I set a new forum-related task for every few days. From the loosing team, forumers can vote for who they think didn't perform well and should be fired. This will continue every few days until there is a winner.
Please read the rest of this thread if you want to know all the details and exactly how the competition works.
How the competition will be played
Out of all the applications, me and my panel will choose 30 contestants to take part in the competition. I will then split the 30 contestants into 3 teams; one called ‘Team A’, one called 'Team B' and the other called ‘Team C’. Later on in the task when there are less contestants, I will split the contestants into 2 teams.
The competition begins when I choose a task for the groups to carry out. The task could be anything related to the forum.
Example 1: The task might be to set up a signature shop, which includes designing them, making them and issuing them to forumer’s who request them. The team to sell the most signatures would be the winner of that task.
Example 2: Another task might be to create a role-play. Me, my special helpers and a guest expert will then analyze the description, storyline and imagination of each role-play. The role-play which I think is the best will win that task.
For each task, I will choose a project manager who manages the team and has the final say in decisions.
Getting fired
After the task they have carried out is finished, I will then announce (with help from my panel) which team(s) won and which team lost.
Everyone in the loosing team will then have to explain why they shouldn’t be fired and how it wasn’t their fault that the team lost. There will then be a voting poll, in which forumers can vote who should be fired. The number of contestants fired varies from each task, ranging from 8 on the 1st task to 2 on the 5th task.
A new task will be created every 3 or 4 days and a specific number of contestants will be fired on each task, until there is only 1 contestant left, who would then be the winner of the competition. Please don’t feel like it is something personal if you are fired.
Switching around the teams
On each task, I might switch the teams round a bit, so that I can see how different contestants get on together and so that is doesn’t get boring.
Team communication
There will be 3 threads created for each team to discuss ideas, to arrange their task and to set it up. A xat may make things more complicated, so one won't be needed for the time being.
Time limit and how long the competition will take
For each task, I will allow up to 3 or 4 days until it finishes and a team wins. As long as each task takes 3 or 4 days, my estimate is that the competition will be finished in less than a month - it definitely won’t exceed over one month.
The Panel and Guest experts
I will be choosing 4 forumers to help me in what would be known as 'The Panel'. Please don’t ask or apply to be in the panel because I will contact you if I want you to be one. Basically the panel assist me in choosing candidates, setting tasks, reporting back to me/everyone else and choosing which task won.
For specific tasks, I may take on board 1 or 2 guest experts to help choose a winning team (see example somewhere above) e.g. If the role-play creating task becomes one, then I will ask for advice from an expert role-player.
Fairness
This competition will be as fair as possible. When I select the 30 contestants that I want to compete, me and my panel won’t just be choosing those that are ‘well known’. Although I want some well known forumers to compete in order to make it interesting, I will also be closely looking at the applications and choosing from there.
The prize
I haven’t chosen a prize for the winner yet, but I will try to make it as good as I can. I could be a signature/avatar that I get someone to make, or maybe even to get an infraction/warning reversed if Dracophile gives permission. There is one prize I can guarantee you will receive; the privilege to have won.
Application form
Why do you think you should be chosen:
What skills on this forum do you have (e.g. role-playing, art, poetry, making successful threads etc):
Do you think you could win and why:
Do you think you are good working in a team:
Rate your activity on the forum out of 10:
Why I think this competition would be a good idea
It offers a huge variety as all tasks will be completely different. Each task focus' on a specific part of the forum, which will be different every few days. This means that a wide range of forum areas and aspects could be included e.g. role-plays, artwork, avvy shops, clubs, parties, newspapers, stories, making youtube videos, GFX teams, penguin art, sig shops, poems/songs and creating specific threads. This would make it less boring and some real good work could be produced by the teams who carry out the tasks, showing the attributes of all the contestants. I feel this competition will bring lots of forumer's talent and skills together, creating a huge amount of variety. Hopefully, this competition will bring certain forum areas/aspects back to life e.g. GFX teams and newspapers. Obviously, tasks won't be just based on the things I mentioned in this paragraph - there will hopefully be lots more.
How everyone takes part
Me who runs the competition
4 people in the panel who help make decisions
Guest experts who I may hire for particular tasks to help make decisions
30 contestants who take part in winning the competition
Everyone else will be able to vote on who they think should be fired
The month-plan of the competition
Look here to see how many people will be fired on each task and how long each task will take.
Application process
1st Forumers can start submitting their applications
2nd This will be the last day of applications being submitted
Task 1
3rd The contestants will be chosen - The 30 contestants will be split into 3 groups – They can begin working on their task/assignment
4th They can work on their task/assignment
5th They can work on their task/assignment
6th They must hand in their task/assignment – The loosing team will be announced - 8 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 2
7th The 22 remaining contestants will be split into 3 fairly even groups - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
8th They can work on their task/assignment
9th They can work on their task/assignment
10th They must hand in their task/assignment – The losing team will be announced - 5 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 3
11th The 17 remaining contestants will be split into 2 fairly even groups - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
12th They can work on their task/assignment
13th They can work on their task/assignment
14th They must hand in their task/assignment – The losing team will be announced - 6 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 4
15th The 11 remaining contestants will be split into 2 fairly even groups - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
16th They can work on their task/assignment
17th They can work on their task/assignment
18th They must hand in their task/assignment – The loosing team will be announced - 3 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 5
19th The 8 remaining contestants will be split into 2 even groups - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
20th They can work on their task/assignment
21st They must hand in their task/assignment – The losing team will be announced - 2 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 6
22nd The 6 remaining contestants will be split into 2 even groups - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
23rd They can work on their task/assignment
24th They must hand in their task/assignment – The losing team will be announced - 2 people from the losing team will be fired
Task 7
25th 4 contestants will be left - They will then work individually and not in teams - A new task will be set - They can begin working on their task/assignment
26th They can work on their task/assignment
27th They must hand in their task/assignment - The 3 losing contests will be announced and fired
Task 8
28th The 2 individual contests will be given a new task/assignment - They can begin working on their task/assignment
29th They must hand in their task/assignment
30th The winner of the competition will be announced
Note: When contestants hand their tasks/assignment in or finish them, it must be by a specific time deadline.
This deadline will be:
4:00pmPST
5:00pmMST
6:00pmCST
7:00pmEST
12:00amGMT
If you live in a different time zone, then hopefully you can work yours out by looking at the times above.
I feel these time zones are the best for this competition. Most forumers live in these time zones and should be able to get their tasks/assignments finished by then. This deadline doesn’t mean that everyone in the team has to be up until that time, it just means that the task/assignment should be handed in by then. The earlier you hand it in or finish it, the better.
If your tasks/assignments aren’t finished or handed in by this deadline, then it is very likely you will be the losing team, unless another team hasn’t finished/handed-in theirs either.