In the long term yes, would help reduce error and possibly allow for automated vote collection...
But meh - it's a lot of effort

REC, if you want to build a code for this go for it. I was just doing this to make it a little easier for the admins to tally votes, but if you can remove the work from admins (the vote tallying process) and make it faster, all the better.

Yeah! im sure we gonna do something about it. I just need to talk with Mark so i can start working on his unfinished codes... We are now 2 web designers inside the staff, so things are going to change! muahahaha

fix the smiley codes

Well! I finally got this idea to make the comp a little bit more interesting and not too long. Please tell me what you think... Remember this is just my idea, i dont have any official info yet...


REGISTRATION
2 weeks

Open a thread and start posting your teams information. Same as last year
Starting: January 9
Finishing: January 29


ELIMINATIONS
4 weeks

Round 1
All vs all. You will have 2 weeks to do a QUICK chop and and see whats your level.
Starting: January 30
Finishing: February 12
Voting: Judges will select the top 20 teams. These 20 team will enter the comp and they dont have to participate in the 2nd round of elimination.


Round 2
All vs all. You will have 2 weeks to do a QUICK chop and and see whats your level.
Starting: February 13
Finishing: February 26
Voting: Judges will select the top 20 teams. These 20 team will enter the comp with the previous 20 of round 1.



GROUPS
4 weeks

40 teams. 8 groups of 5 teams each. the best 2 teams of each group go to 1 vs 1 elimination.

Starting: March 5
Finishing: April 1
Voting: Judges will select the best team of each group. After we open a user voting (without the teams the judges said) to select the other best work of each group.


1 VS 1

16 teams
4 weeks
1 vs 1 battles
users vote

8 teams
4 weeks
1 vs 1 battles
users vote

4 teams
4 weeks
1 vs 1 battles
users vote

2 teams
4 weeks
1 vs 1 final battle
users vote

WINNER!

i like the sound of this, something different and well worth a try
also think we should have a wtb but for a single person, no teams and you battle against your rank so its fair

I think that sounds really good REC. I'm loving the idea of the first two qualifying rounds. I only think that there might be a few too many head to head rounds.

I like that idea form REC.Could be interesting and not boring.

Sounds aweesome - seems to satisfy all the different ideas put forward in some form or another

Well done REC

Just had a read of REC's Idea, I actually quite like the idea of first 2 Elimination rounds.

If everyone agrees on the format, then I'll get on to the Team registration section when I can.

But who's going to be in the judging panel?
Because we are going to need people who are not entering, who have been in the chopping scene for years and not bias to teams.