Request a competition

Keep the ideas coming, I do look at them all for ideas. I'll do another array of comps after the photography one.

Don't leave us design heads out I enjoyed the first web design competition, mostly, due to the focus being somewhat cosmetic, but mostly on the structure aspect.

I won't, I liked the design comp too, it was a lot of fun. We'll be running one again soon

Hey there

I haven't seen any market comps. How about a drive traffic to a site challenge. We're launching our new site design soon and would LOve to send tons of trafic to it. We could pay a commision on bookings and offer a prize for the top three leaders.

Also having a seo challenge like someone had a while ago, where you pick a random word that has no results on google/yahoo/others, then see who has the top spot in a month or w/e.

I could maybe see the purpose of the random word competition, but I think the competition to drive traffic to anyone's given site is just a way to take advantage of us. Anyways, IMHO, this could drive people to utilize blacklisted techniques that we probably shouldn't condone.

Well Yes. Some of the participants in this forum are easily amoung the best in the given industries. While the challenge is running the given company would get the traffic and generate some profit. The winners would get a prize and any lead that converts to a booking is paid out as an affiliate.

Can we have another signature competition. i didn't get to compete in the other one.
Thanks

ps: i am ready to be you alll!!!!

Can we get some competitions that aren't graphic based? I mean, I'm pretty good with graphics, but that's only a small part of what I do.
The reason I have been avoiding the competition forum is that it's pretty much all been graphics. I'd like to see some code based competitions.

I realize that the beauty of code is secondary to it's functionality, but the beauty of code is as relative as the beauty of a piece of art, and the language used to solve a particular problem can be considered the medium.
I really want to participate in the competitions, but I'm not a photographer.
How about something for us ugly people?

hehehe@spock "How about something for us ugly people?"


Well, if you can get to me some ideas that would work for the general population (something difficult but not too brain frying) that would involve creating something original, then provide me with your ideas, and I'll get a code based comp up.

Have a look at the kind of guidelines I use for example with the webdesign comp to give you some ideas on how specific I need it to be.

That goes for any other coders with ideas, please suggest your ideas here:
http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic1069.html

As seen in <http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic54361.html>:



Similar mumblings were mumbled in the gargantuan thread.

There are several patterns of coding competitions. In one common pattern, the host specifies a programming language (possibly allowing for use of the some standard library, in the case of languages like C++) and the behavior of the computer program. The winner of the contest is the person who writes the program that solves the program with the shortest program (measured in bytes of code). In a similar version, the winner of the contest is the person who writes the program that solves the problem and runs the fastest.

There are certain problems with these sorts of coding competitions: 'writing the shortest program' is a pretty useless competition, in that nobody learns anything useful from those sorts of competitions. 'Writing the fastest program' is impossible to judge, because speed depends on the particular compiler, processor, and operating system being used.

But ScienceOfSpock's idea (at least I think this was his idea) is great. A competition to write the most 'beautiful' code (as judged by people voting, in the same way that the photography competitions are judged) that solves some particular problem would be good. Good things about this competition:

1. It can let any programming language be used, so that many people can enter.

2. Entries can be used by other people to learn different ways of tackling problems.

3. It exposes people to different programming languages. (I know some people think I have a vested interest in this, considering my previous flames at PHP :->)

4. The problem needed to be solved need not be terribly complicated, so these sorts of competitions would have low barriers of entry.

5. The winner is the person with the 'best' solution, instead of the solution that follows some mildly insane measurement.

6. It would encourage better programming ability. Many questions in the programming forum are along the lines of 'what function in PHP will solve my problem for me?', instead of 'how can I solve my own problem?'.

I think there might be a few difficulties, though. Solutions in some programming languages would automatically be considered ugly, because the programming languages look ugly. For example, any solutions written in Perl, Forth, or even good old C or C++, may appear ugly while being gems underneath the syntax.

I recommend that the submissions be done in a submission thread, not by secret email to some person (as other forums' contests have been held). This will encourage participation. Some people might borrow ideas from others, but that's the whole point of Ozzu.

If submissions are done in such a thread, I'd like submitting multiple entries to be allowed. I'm reminded of the thread that Rabid Dog linked to at some point in time, at <http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic36685.html>. Sometimes it's just fun to offer multiple ways of solving the problem.

The question is, who writes the problems?

I agree. Please read my suggestion in that thread.

You do! :lol:

If you would like a programming comp, then could you make something up (because I have no idea and would probably get it all wrong).

Have a look at the other competition starter pages to get a feel for how I create the rules, try and give it to me in that kind of format. Comps end on a Monday, so pick a Monday which will allow a few weekends for people to work on their entries.

PM me with your final draft and I will put it up and include it in the competition notify list PM which will be going out asap.

If you can't then let me know.

Cheers!
Rose

i would like to see more competitions smaller deadlines

Thanks for the feedback, the reason I give 3 weeks is because a lot of people are very busy and not everyone has time after work on weekdays to work on their entries. I always give at least 2 full weekends for people to either create their entries, snap a photo etc.