The Return of the Monthly contests
polycounter lvl 9
Hey everyone!
i hope everyone got some rest after the spring event and a ready for the return of the monthly contest
we have some news, we are going to have a physical trophy, the ones with the Greentooth in metal (just need to confirm with Adam)
(shameless copying it from another thread)
we are also trying to get more sponsor to get you guys even more motivated
but we need to decide the theme, i think the reduced hero pool and the single item idea was working really well on the other months but we could also go for 2 categories, with single items and sets
And we are probably going to have the TerrorBlade model to work, i think that could be a great hero for the return
Well, its up to you guys, feel free to suggest and comment as usual
i hope everyone got some rest after the spring event and a ready for the return of the monthly contest
we have some news, we are going to have a physical trophy, the ones with the Greentooth in metal (just need to confirm with Adam)
(shameless copying it from another thread)
we are also trying to get more sponsor to get you guys even more motivated
but we need to decide the theme, i think the reduced hero pool and the single item idea was working really well on the other months but we could also go for 2 categories, with single items and sets
And we are probably going to have the TerrorBlade model to work, i think that could be a great hero for the return
Well, its up to you guys, feel free to suggest and comment as usual
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Legion was patched in shortly after she was added, so hopefully Terror will be the same
If the metal balls are involved now then that is freakin' awesome.
….I mean..Greentooth trophies…..yeah….
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Not gyro guys c'mon >.> and for LC, despite the fact she's new, she has many stuff already.
Why not do something for heros that doesn't have many stuff?
The way I see it, neither of those heroes really has anything yet. LC has an Arcana and one set, and if you look on the workshop, outside of a few weapons she has no singles. This monthly is for singles I believe. Same for Gyro, if you want to count submitted sets instead of single items or accepted items then yeah I'm inclined to agree.
However, we also want to support what you guys are interested in. The other idea that was called out by belkun (A water themed month, with items requested for Slark, Naga Siren, Morphling, Tidehunter, Slardar and possibly Medusa.), is also a possibility if there is a greater demand for that. basically just trying to gauge what you guys are interested in contributing to
Of course, we can always do Terror/Gyro/LC this month and aquatic themed next month too. I just honestly think that LC and Gyro don't have much going for them outside of a handful of set submissions.
just my 2c!
Kunkka has A LOT of stuff though. It would be boring if people just made even more items for him. Medusa isn't really related to water or fishes, but she is slithery and all that stuff, so why not! haha
AP, set, ice, female.
Which means we have to make a set for any hero we like as long as it's a ice themed female hero. If it was SD instead of AP we would get 3 random heroes that matches the rest of the criteria. Ofc there should probably be a lot more factors that comes to play to get relevant heroes. And someone got to make it. I have no idea how to do it =/
They probably will clash, but both are really different from one another. On the monthly contest the goal is to make any item/set that fits the theme, while on the noob challenge the goal is to learn the workshop pipeline using a designated concept, so everyone will essentially do the same item for learning purposes, while on the monthly contest you need to work on original concepts and ideas.
I just had an idea. Why don't we name an equipment instead of a hero? For example we say let's make a "shield". Then people start to do shields for heros that have shield (Dragon Knight, Luna and etc) then the judges or the community chosses let's say the best 5 shields (maybe one per hero) then the winners will submit the 5 items as a collection of shields. Very simmilar to what "Yi" did with her hairstyle collection.
This way the outcome is more community-like
Now similar to this can be applied to themes too (similar to what belkun said). We will name a theme(ice, water, fire , etc) then the winners make a collection out of winning items.
Cheers
If it's about single items I think Reza and Nannou got something. We choose a theme or equipment (pick one for examles: fire theme, ice theme, darkness theme - females, males, beasts - shields, hairs & hats, accessoires) and the best X entries make a collection and publish that in the workshop.
im with bounch on that, she have just 2 sets, i think shadow demon has just one, but who plays shadow demon? hahaha (just joking)
i remember that idea from the last years contest, i like this one =]
we could also go for a random draft, one strength hero, one int and one agi. maube someone start dota on a hangount and stream the random selection =]
the idea is to start on the beggining of the month but we are waiting for the update, that may bring us the terroblade model and some game changing updates that can change how important is one hero
There are many heros that probably doesnt have many stuff due to their designs, like morphling and spectre. And others that you can do awesome things but are not so popular in amounts of content, like Leshrac, Weaver, Slardar, Tidehunter. I don't know, I guess we can encourage to provide more content to those heros by the contest~ just a suggestion.
Personally I like the water theme, and a "no weapons" modifier while still doing a single item. I feel like that forces people to think outside the box more and really try their best to create an interesting look with a single item.
I would like to see just an item contest like last times, so there's no limit on the entries, but ppl with less time can spend it all on one item instead of making a whole set which allready looks way ahead of a single item!
I'm with mango on this, lets just pick heroes, that still need items.
The problem with that is that ppl always rather see items for polpular heroes than the less popular ones
Anyways, in addition to the choice of "fire" or "ice" or other things, we can choose color. We can say, do an item that is mainly red (excluding blood effects) or picking a hero whose color is mainly red.
Well that screenshot is his Metamorphosis ability. just looking at him I see more than one piece. Swords, horns, belt, gauntlets/shoulders, wings... He may not be workshopable right away with the new bloom patch, but he will be added. All new heros are made with workshop in mind.
Also I guess this is a good call, not sure if polycount competition had this before, the theme: shapeshifter. Heroes that can change their form (Lycan, Lone Druid, Terrorblade) sadly we are going to be limited to then~ since brewmaster, dk and undying forms are not avaiable in the workshop.
Anyway, just throwing ideas.
I see it now, I didn't noticed that it was his ability and it he (as he is now) kind of resembles shadow fiend in sf's ulti form.
awesome, huge thanks for the image
lets hope that tomorrow they will release models from terror blade and phoenix =]
So we decided to pick 3 heroes and go for single items, almost the same as when we started the comp almost one year ago
Focusing on heroes with not much set/items
one with a huge potention is Legion Comander, with just one set and one single item in game, its the second most played character at the moment.
So probably will get a lot of visibility on the workshop.
Normally new heroes get some preference from Valve for cosmetic items.
The other one we were thinking was Gyro, newly added and just some items on the files but as far as i know not in game
what about the other one? bunch suggested these with not much items
clinkz, slardar, brew, medusa, morph, shadow demon, and maybe wraith king
Any other suggestions? should we put the heroes up to vote?
Cheers!
I think Legion, Gyro, and Wraith King sound great! Lots of variation between their themes, they all have newly released models, and there is a lot of potential for a pool of really cool items with them.
Aquatic theme and no-crowded items heros we could do in the next months.
I agree that we should try to expand with themes in the coming months though. I think it gets boring real quick when it's just 3 random heroes every month over something like Heads and Shields or the Aquatic hero theme that was thrown around earlier.
Another idea that came to my mind was that why do we need to wait for valve to announce an event? We can set an event ourselves. There are so many countries with their own events. There are many Japanese, Persian, African, South American, Arabic, Egyptian, Italian, Spanish and so on events that we can work on. From what I see we have people from many countries, why not having custom polycount events?
We can even go for events such as April fool and get some immortal items into the game
Cheers
Also, about your second point - stay tuned.
Also make it less boring in a way, the bad side about this is the similar ideas, happens more often. Anyway, I'm just throwing stuff, crazy brainstorm we got here
edit: I see a theme was chosen that has a spread of a few characters, that's great. I just get nervous whenever someone starts focusing the entire polycount crew on a single character!
the idea of making an event is great, we should try to get one month for that, i personally like the april fools, this one in particular could be a good opportunity to force people thinking out of the box but we should try to police us to not good tooooo far
for example, we can try things for wisp or some crazy changes like turning the beastmaster hawk into a dragonfly
im going to create the Thread today when i wake up (february 1st), so you guys have some hours to say if you dont like the picks
about the type of the comp, i think single items are the best for everyone, not allowed to repeat the hero
Cheers!