Lost Video Island Portal

Aislynn · Author: Aislynn :: Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:43 am

You know, honestly, I've never figured out why the contests and the CPs have to be all tied up into one like that... You could do the best vid of your life but if you don't win, place or show, then you don't get a CP. Yet if you would've just submitted the vid to the site, you might've gotten it.

I thought the CPs are supposed to be a measure of a vid's own quality. But the contest system turns it into a matter of how well your vid measured up against somebody else's vid. How many vids that currently have CPs wouldn't have them if you made them compete for it and only let the top 3 have CPs?

I mean, hasn't there ever been a time in the contests when you guys thought ANY vid that didn't win one of the top 3 spots was worthy of a CP anyway? Do you really only get 3 "good" vids in each contest?

So, any thought ever been given to making it so that the contest entries are NOT automatically submitted to the site? I know that I'm very glad that my first contest entry isn't staring me in the face all the time (since it was before this current system). I'm sure there's a ton of reasons why this is stupider than a square wheel but I'll throw it out here anyway. What would be wrong with this:

1) Submit your contest entry.

2) The contest is judged and the top 3 go onto the site and get CPs.

3) All the other entries then can either be submitted to the site like a "regular" vid (and therefore be eligible to be judged for a CP on its own merit, not by how it stacks up against other vids) or the vidder can opt to just let their vid just "fade away."

Now, I know that would basically mean that some vids would be dealt with twice; once by being judged in the contest, then again when it was judged for a CP. But that just seems a bit more fair to me.

Again, I'm sure there's some fatal logistical flaw in that idea. But isn't there something along that order that could be done?

Okay, now please commence to tell me all the utterly obvious reasons why that's completely impossible and/or improbable. I feel like a moron for asking but that's just something that's always slightly bugged me.

*cringes in corner*