It is with the greatest pleasure that this year I bring you the 4th and annual summer modding contest '09!



FAQs

Is it modding only?
No, feel free to submit special maps to enhance your mod playability, "UMS" maps are a no.
SCMloaded maps are welcome, however, if you just throw me an UMS map your entry will be disqualified.
.trgs are a yes.

Are you going to be judge again and as harsh as the previous times?
I actually was quite mellow on the third one, but this year I feel more of an ass than ever.

What's the purpose of this?
The previous themes were, revive modding, people demanding a contest and modding revolution.
This year is to promote modding again just before it collapses to SCII

How do I join?
By posting here or PMing me that you wish to join. Note that if you join and don't finish your mod I won't do anything for you, but when your children ask you why you never finish stuff you'll feel pretty bad about it (in your heart) so you must start finishing stuff.

Can I join?
Sure, this contest is Clan [MM] style, which means that EVERYONE is allowed to join. I don't care about people being from other countries or being black or women. All I care is that you bring me mods.


Okay, are there any guidelines?
Sure, I don't really like rules so let's make this quick:


Rules:
- Mods must be submitted before the deadline you will have almost 2 long months to submit your mod before june 30th.
As an addition you are provided a counter till deadline: official timer.
- You must say in advance that you are going to participate, if you quit you will have to let me know. But I strongly recommend you not to enrage me by quitting.
- You must not submit an already made mod, neither a mod that It's already in progress. It must be something I don't know it exists.
There has been cases of stupid people sending PMs asking if it was okay to submit their secret on progress project, don't be silly and if I don't know about it just don't tell me or I'll find out, duh!
- Team work is encouraged, however, if you're going to make a team project I don't recommend more than 2 persons. In fact, seeing other SMC examples I will not allow this time more than 3 people working on the same team. One contestant can be in no more than two teams as well.
- No Entry Fees, please don't send me money even if you know my adress.
- You may submit updates, as in post a topic and show us your work and buy the judge and the people. Also read below.
- Contradicting above you should not make you mod public, what if somebody steals your ideas? But if you want to take the risk go for it!


Judging Criteria

Quote

Complexity
Was your mod easy to create? was It hard? It will be taken into consideration.
This will be worth: 15 Points

Content
What exactly did you do? Did you just edit a few units? Was It a TC? If you just modded a zergling you will be judged with that zergling. oh.. just imagine...
This will be worth: 20 Points

Glitchness
How well does your mod run? Does it have Glitches?
This will be worth: 10 points


Originality
Is your mod a copy of another mod? This will be highly evaluated.
This will be worth: 30 points

Fun & Balance
Is Your mod fun? boring? another important thing highly evaluated. Note that balance is an important part of fun.
This will be worth: 15 points

Custom
Here, will be considered if you just modded in game content or if you stopped and took some time to edit bins menus, other graphical stuff and so on. Basically all the things that no one never bothers modding like AI, Terrain...
This will be worth: 10 points

Contestants
A_of-s_t
TriggR_HappE
Urine
Andrew Jackson
TassadarZeratul & ForTheSwarm
FlyingHat
Voyager7456
Polaris
WoaHorde2
New-.Hydrolisk
RISKED911
Black_Dream
DeVouReR & RoryFenrir
[your name here]



Prizes
You didn't expect me to have you entering without motivation to sign in, right?
I'm not going to wait around and expect minerals are returning so I'm coming up with innovative prizes ideas.

First place:
- 5 custom sprites*, just for you to enhance your mod after the contest.
- The possibility of being invited to Clan [MM]
- Possible SeN Store Items**
- A large resource package full with graphics effects
Second place:
- 3 custom sprites*, just for you to enhance your mod after the contest.
- Possible SeN Store Items**
- A small resource package full with graphics effects
Third place:
- 1 custom sprite*, just for you to enhance your mod after the contest.
- A small resource package full with graphics effects

As you can see you have tons of prizes that yell at you to sign in, now, do it!



Have fun, sign in and bring me some cool mods!
The winner mod will be featured and played in the next mod night after the coronation, the second place will be played in the mod night after that.



*The custom model sprites will be revealed to the public before the deadline or short time after it.
**SeN Store prizes are still uncorfirmed but if Moose/IP aprove first place will get name color and PM +100 while second place will get PM +50.

Please reconsider required signups.

There's also quite a few grammar and spelling errors. If you want me to fix them, please tell me and I will do so. Otherwise, please fix them yourself.

As I said, having people to sign up is the only way I can know the team members, and how many mods to expect. There's no possible way for me to know how many people will be actually making something if they can't at least say "I'm in" in the topic.
Requiring sign ups help me organize and control contestants. It's not even hard to say you're going to be participating via the topic.
Also, are you going to provide the contest the sen store prizes or should they be taken out?

I am in as a solo contestent, however, if someone wants to help me with .grps, how can I deny them?

Count me in

Quote from Corbo[MM]

how many mods to expect.

More like a list of how many people signed up but never finished anything.
Signups never work out and they're useless because they tell you nothing.

Having said that... SIGN ME UP.

It's not even spring yet.

Quote from A_of-s_t[MM]

I am in as a solo contestent, however, if someone wants to help me with .grps, how can I deny them?

Depending on what you're doing I might be able to help. Contact me on AIM/MSN.

I'm in as solo until me and A_of-s_t discuss what he has in mind.

Edit: Also Corbo I don't know when summer is for you but my spring break doesn't even happen till next week. Around here summer doesn't start till June, and ends in August. But whatever.

ForTheSwarm and I are in as a team.

I'm in as a solo man.

Just for the record, the summer modding contests never takke place on summer

The first one was hosted in plain november

I think just to avoid the problems later, you should extend the deadline to june 30th.

That way everyone already gets an extension. Plus, then I can give them a current FG to use...

For the record, the season Spring begins in late March.

Retirement sucks. You can count me in on this modding melee. Besides, I need a good excuse for not doing anything over Spring Break.

Quote from Polaris[MM]

Retirement sucks. You can count me in on this modding melee. Besides, I need a good excuse for not doing anything over Spring Break.

Everyone know that you can never really retire from modding...

Everyone comes back to SeN eventually. You can't run away. Voy, Syphon and Mesk left ages ago and they're still coming back.

I came back because I still had something to finish. That's what it ends up drumming down to. After AO, though, that cycle will be broken forever.

Quote from DiscipleOfAdun[MM]

I think just to avoid the problems later, you should extend the deadline to june 30th.

That way everyone already gets an extension. Plus, then I can give them a current FG to use...

Don't do that to us again Last time you did this during a contest everyone waited so long for FG that almost noone actually had anything to present

Yeah, I'm just going to start modding for 1.15.1 tomorrow. That's the only patch I have offsets for anyway >.> (O.o, yes, that means I'm making a plugin, bitch!).

Quote from Killer_Kow[MM]

Quote from DiscipleOfAdun[MM]

I think just to avoid the problems later, you should extend the deadline to june 30th.

That way everyone already gets an extension. Plus, then I can give them a current FG to use...

Don't do that to us again Last time you did this during a contest everyone waited so long for FG that almost noone actually had anything to present

XD. It'll be done soon enough. Not 100% done, but I can get it to a working, releasable point with like...30 man-hours of work. But I think I need about 70 man-hours to get it to a more complete point. But the first one is good enough for most people...

Plus, I wanna actually participate this time around...