NEW ART COMP

I was wondering as well. I didn't enter mine, and I entered the Calendar Girls contest early on. I haven't had a contest to work on for weeks!

Seems like a few of us have beach scenes on the brain. An idea for a theme?

Food for thought if anyone puts on a Blind Contest again.

When the contest closed, I didn't need several hours to post results; I knew right away who had won because I had been keeping track. It would have only taken a few minutes to compose a forum post with the results. But I had this idea. I thought... what if I put up a side game with an additional pot. The idea would be a guessing game where people would post their best guesses as to who created what. The individual with the most correct guesses would win that pot.

Then it hit me... every artist that entered would guess their own (correctly). Any amateur sleuth could just sit back and, by the process of elimination, patiently wait until the end, slowly gathering the identities of each arbitrary (but not so arbitrary) guess from these artists. The winner would have been the one who guessed last. So I decided not to do that side pot.

But, what if, instead of posting your guesses to the thread, you pm'd them to the host and he or she would post your user name with only the number of correct guesses? That's what I should have done. They could all be fact checked after the reveal, so if the host were dishonest and trying throw points to a friend, the actual person who got the most guesses right could call out the host for the "error".

By the time I figured out the solution, it was a little too late, and I worked very hard at being punctual with the contest, so I didn't want to keep everyone hanging for longer than I said I would with an extension.

I can host one. The same type I did last time (since I don't have a lot of time and I'm a bit lazy)...