Here are the proposed changes that have been requested to be made.
#1: Eliminations will be... Eliminated!
The first thing that was sent to me is that if eliminations are all that necessary. I'm on the fence about it. Personally, if we eliminated the eliminations, it would require a cap on entrants. I don't expect my judges to judge 40-50 videos every week, should the contest get that much attention in the future. But, how this would work is similar to how this year's worked. Each round would get a score and drops would result in just a 0 for that round instead of elimination. After that, during the "Finals" only the top 3 score earners would make it through.
#2: Scoring System Revamped
A lot of people asked about why the points were awarded the way they were, and several people said it was convoluted. Many have instead requested that we go to a much simpler 1-10 scale, with 1 being the worst and 10 being the highest. From there, I assign the criteria for a 1-10, similar to a grading rubric on writing prompts, so editors know exactly what we are looking for.
The other suggestion was to just let the judges vote on who should be eliminated, and dump scoring all together. Although if #1 passes, this probably won't work.
#3: Judge Selection
Several asked me why I picked the judges that I picked, and I believe I answered that adequetely. I stand behind my choices, and I believe our judges have done a FANTASTIC job. That being said, several requested that we lower the judges to only 5, and have those judges audition for the part in a main thread, and have the userbase vote on who would be judges.
#4 Timing
One of the biggest complaints/requests came for a better timing of each round. A suggestion was made to have each round more similar to Iron Chef 4, where editors would select a time period [1-3 days instead of a week], where they can edit their video. This would mean that each round would last about 2 weeks, and each editor having to pick by the deadline when to edit, and the rounds cut back to only 5 [4 rounds and a final round].
#5 Dump the Live-Action
Several people seemed uncomfortable with the idea of live-action and non-anime sources. I tend to disagree, since I can count on one hand the number of live-action/non-anime entries. BUT it's something to comment about, and I can understand their position.
#6 Audition
This will DEFINITELY be implemented next year. To compete/signup, editors will have to submit a 30 second audition video freshly edited. This way, we don't have 1/2 the competition drop the first round because they were barely interested in it.
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You may also propose your own changes you would like to make. We're not limited to what I typed!
thats why we have mutiple of them, so we can have different ideas.