Idealist Challenge #1

[GreeN!X]

IDEALIST CONTEST #1

What's this? A fairly simple contest where your hero ideas could be recognized and possibly realized in an actual game or could benefit others that would use your ideas. Anyone can join and anyone could win. All you have to do is to create a hero idea based on the theme. This contest is inspired by the Hero Creation Contest in thehelper.net and by the Idealist's Challenge in The Pinoy Resource Society.​ What's the theme? The hero idea should fit in one of the four races of TFT and it should be balanced out to melee heroes. One race, One new hero per user.​ RULES: One hero per contestant. You choose the race in which your hero is affiliated with. No custom races allowed. Your hero must have a brief description. The story must not exceed 50 words since most melee heroes only have simple descriptions. You must state the hero type (e.g. Paladin, Warden) and must have at least 3 proper names. The hero's main attribute must be stated The hero must have a model that fits his purpose/race. The model can be ingame or imported and an ingame image featuring only the hero must be included in the submission. Spell description must be like the melee spell description and your submission should include the icons used by the spell. Ingame or custom icons are allowed. If your spell uses imported icons, you MUST add a link to the icon resource. Your submission must be placed in a pastebin entry and should ONLY be PM'ed to a judge or to the host. This is to provide anonymity until the contest is over. Posting WIPs or spoilers of your work directly (or revealing other authors) before the public voting has finished is strictly prohibited. Posting one will cause you to be disqualified. If you want to post WIPs of your work for whatever reason, send a link of your pastebin entry to the host (that would be me I suppose) and I will post it anonymously in the contest thread. ​ How will your submision be graded/judged? Once the deadline comes to an end, noone can submit any more submission. I will post a list of the submitted entries that were given before the deadline. The submissions will be scored by the judges and with a public poll that will last for a week. The judges will grade the entries through the following: Synergy - How well does the skills work together? and does this hero fit in its specified race and given description? -- / 25 Creativity and Originality - Is your hero original and well thought out? or is it just a CnP hero? -- / 25 Balance - Is your hero fit to be a new melee hero or is it too overpowered/too weak? -- / 35 Fine Details - Are the descriptions understandable and are typo-less? Does the icons use the right button borders? -- / 15 TOTAL SCORE: --- / 100 After being scored by the judges, they will post a list of the scores but no names shall be mentioned. The submission that got the grade will not be mentioned neither. Contestant 1 Total Score: 100/100 Contestant 2 Total Score: 99/100 Contestant 3 Total Score: 10/100 Etc.​ After the scores are revealed, the host will create a public poll lasting 1 week that would contain all the submitted entries. The author's names will not be revealed yet to prevent voting via popularity or the likes of it. After the voting has ended, the top 20 submissions will receive the following scores. (Will be adjusted depending on the number of submissions.) #1 100 Points #6 75 Points #11 50 Points #16 25 Points #2 95 Points #7 70 Points #12 45 Points #17 20 Points #3 90 Points #8 65 Points #13 40 Points #18 15 Points #4 85 Points #9 60 Points #14 35 Points #19 10 Points #5 80 Points #10 55 Points #15 30 Points #20 5 Points The final scores (Judge's scores + Voting scores/Number of judges + 1)will be tallied and the authors will then be revealed. ​ Are there prizes? I haven't decided what the prizes shouls be but It should be fairly small since this is just a simple contest. But these are my suggestion for he prizes: 20 rep -1st place 14 rep -2nd place 8 rep -3rd place.​ === If you have questions then just post and I'll try to answer asap. Comments and suggestions are really appreciated. ===

 

[Rheiko]

if you use imported model for the hero. You must also add a link to the model resource right?
this is a nice suggestion, idealist challenge huh

 

[Adiktuz]

is this like the contest in our groups where the contestants only post the complete idea?

 

[Rheiko]

yup, it is

This contest is inspired by the Hero Creation Contest in thehelper.net and by the Idealist's Challenge in The Pinoy Resource Society.

 

[Adiktuz]

I know... but I just wanna clarify since he only said "inspired"... inspired is not equal to the same

 

[Rheiko]

hm, ok

 

[GreeN!X]

is this like the contest in our groups where the contestants only post the complete idea?

It's the combination of the contest from thehelper and PRS plus some of my ideas. :3

 

[Rheiko]

i wonder, where are the mods?

 

[Kyrbi0]

Interesting. My favorite parts are where this contest attempts to stick to anonymity, and to Blizzard guidelines. I never really liked flashy AoS heroes anyway.

So is this purely an "idea" contest? Or are we making something in the WE? Also, will we be able to suggest/use the ideal set-up for a hero (i.e. the Dreadlord's Vampiric Aura is schweet... But only when you get to use Ghouls & Abominations. Otherwise it's pretty pathetic. Same with Healing Wave; no slightly-damaged friendlies, no point)?

 

[Brambleclaw]

sounds fun

 

[Rheiko]

@Kyrbi0
From what i've seen at PRS group idealist contest
it is a pure idea, no WE related

@Brambleclaw
it's fun, so yes

 

[GreeN!X]

So is this purely an "idea" contest? Or are we making something in the WE?

Just an idea contest. No more, no less.

Also, will we be able to suggest/use the ideal set-up for a hero (i.e. the Dreadlord's Vampiric Aura is schweet... But only when you get to use Ghouls & Abominations. Otherwise it's pretty pathetic. Same with Healing Wave; no slightly-damaged friendlies, no point)?

You could add an additional info in your submission where you mention those kinds of things.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Just an idea contest. No more, no less.

Ah. Well than that's almost too easy... There are so many of my ideas that don't always work in WE...

 

[Adiktuz]

I think that's the point of this... to give you a broader range of ideas since you're not confined to what can be done in the WE while still sticking to the wc3 idea...

 

[Kyrbi0]

Yeeesssss... I guess. However, I find that all the great ideas in the world don't do very much if they don't contribute in some way or can be turned into in some way, an in-game idea.

What I fear in a contest like this is that the victory will go to the one who can best word their entry, or come up with the most complex one.

 

[Adiktuz]

yeah, that's the innate problem of this kind of contest as it's a pure idea contest...

though of course the judge can, in his judging, somehow apply the "can it be done in wc3?" concept...

 

[GreeN!X]

Bumpzors. Maybe I can host this as an unofficial contest too? xP

 

[Rheiko]

of course you can =P