Thougts on this ??

Thoughts?? Neil sent this to me and I think it is a pretty cool idea. We could have like a Challenge Arena... What do you guys think. See his emai below...

So here's a concept for teamphotoshop that could change the way the fourms work.

What if one designer had the ability to challenge another? Here's how it word work:

Let say I wanted to challenge you. I would click the "challenge" button below your posts (need to crack open your forum code, but not impossible) and when I accepted the callenge the system would pull together two words like "fire chicken" or "running soldier", etc. and both designers have a time limit to post their entries. When posted, the forum posts their votes just like a normal message board.

I this this would be very, very cool.

sounds fine to me.

one question.

Why does it put words together like that?

Random words make it fair, and the more odd the phrase is the harder it is to make a good design. i.e. "Angry man" and "sitting dog" is a lot easier than "Frustrated Airplane" or "computer chicken"

That sounds like amazingly good fun!



What a blast that would be!

AWWWWWWWWESOME!!!!!!!!

word up

bring it on

peace out

Sounds fun. There should also be the option for the person being challenged to decline the challenge though. If they are really busy in finals week or something and don't have time to be making pretty pictures of angry dog computers.

sounds like fun. i'd like to take part if i have time. i am more interested in seeing the results of other people's challenges.

Would we have everyone submit a list of words to be put into the random word generator thingy?

This sounds more and more fun the more I think about it. Reminds me of some projects I had to do in Typography class.

If we wanted it to be really competitive, we could devise a scoring system to be displayed in the user's profile or under the name on every post. How many 'wins' and 'losses' and maybe how many challenges they have declined. I don't think it really needs to be competitive though. I think the real value would be gained from trying to express something through just your art. I learned a lot from doing that in that Typo class, and I think it would be very beneficial to everyone to do this.

Would we allow words to be used? What about photographs? Some similar competition I've seen only allow you to use the computer to do things. No words, photos, scans, etc.

Come on Pank, get this done, I'm excited.....

I say we start without him guys....we should do a few practice runs to make sure it's going to be fun.

BTW Neil, thanks for the great idea.