A new PubTalk game idea! Opinions wanted!

[Everlong]

So, I've been wracking my brains for some time now trying to figure out a new game to get people more involved on Pubtalkforum. WWE-Club was at its best when the WCSF, the roundtables, the debate league, the graphics league and the WWDG were all going, because there was so much for people to choose from.

I was talking to Steve, and he's helped me flesh out the idea a bit better, but I'd love to get more feedback from you guys, as well as finding out whether you'd be interested in taking part.

This idea takes some aspects of PCW/WCSF, WWDG and the debate league and mixes them all together. The general idea:

-People would complete SHORT (think, 5 page absolute maximum, likely much shorter) writing prompts about certain topics. These prompts could be on any topic, including things like "write a promo in the style of The Rock given x situation" or "you wake up, discover it's the apocalypse and you have x items available to you. what steps would you take to ensure your survival for at least a week?" Literally any kind of topic you can imagine.

-These would either happen in individual battles or in group rumbles. Anyone involved in a battle has to write the same prompt as anyone else taking part. The way we choose the prompts hasn't been decided yet but it'd probably either voted on, chosen by winners or chosen by mods.

-You get points for completing/winning prompts. Winners of prompts will be chosen by popular vote after being posted by a moderator so that you cannot see who wrote what.

-The game takes place in seasons that last a certain number of weeks. You must complete a certain number of prompts within that time to qualify for the final standings. There will also be a maximum number... maybe just the same number. You can do these all pretty quickly or spread them out over the season, whatever works best for your personal schedule.

-Whoever is atop the leaderboard after the first season will be our champion. We'll likely have special privileges within the game for the champion, as well as rep prizes for people who complete challenges and finish in certain positions on the leaderboard at the end of the season.



So that's the rough idea right now. What i'd like is ideas from everyone about how else this could work, and a general idea as to who would be interested. It'd be a lot of fun to get a big chunk of the board involved with this, and I think it wouldn't take up too much time in general for people who want to contribute. The fact that there are so many potential topics means that you don't have to be a wrestling or sports fan to find topics that you can write about. And of course, it's completely up to you when you want to participate, so long as you meet the seasonal requirement (if you want to qualify for the leaderboard).

Let me know!

[prophet]

Anything that would generate discussion/activity you can sign me up for!

[PorkChop]

Count me in.

[KaiserGlider]

This sounds like it will be awesome. I always wanted to do something like this for PCW but couldn't think of anything. I'm in.

[Hanley!]

I'd actually advise keeping the page count well below 5, at least at first. To get as many people in as possible, and so everyone will be willing to read everyone's stuff without getting bored.

I don't think there's a real need to exclude people from the leaderboard unless they complete a certain amount either. People who compete less will naturally not score as highly anyway, and it wouldn't really take any extra time to count these extra scores.

If anything an upper limit might be more important to keep things fair. Like maybe when judging a season, if there were 20 rounds, you could base the final scores off everyone's best 10 (or however many they participated in, if they did less than 10).

One of the cool things about the game would be that even people who weren't bothered contributing originally, might be pulled into the discussion after the entries are posted. In that way, it could involve a lot more members of the site than e-feds typically would.

I kinda like the idea of scoring bonus points for correctly guessing who wrote what also, but that could maybe be saved for once people have settled into the game a bit more.

[Everlong]

I'd actually advise keeping the page count well below 5, at least at first. To get as many people in as possible, and so everyone will be willing to read everyone's stuff without getting bored.

Yeah, I think more likely would just be a few paragraphs. It wouldn't need to be anything extremely long. People are more than able to be creative with just a few paragraphs.

I don't think there's a real need to exclude people from the leaderboard unless they complete a certain amount either. People who compete less will naturally not score as highly anyway, and it wouldn't really take any extra time to count these extra scores.

Yeah, this makes sense. Forget the minimum number then. But I do agree that a maximum is probably necessary.

I kinda like the idea of scoring bonus points for correctly guessing who wrote what also, but that could maybe be saved for once people have settled into the game a bit more.

Yeah I like that too, although I think we'd probably have to reserve that for competitions involving more than just a couple people. But still, that'd be fun.

I take it you're in, @Hanley! ?

[Hanley!]

Yeah, I'm in. Anything for a bit of activity outside of the fucking sports section.

I love all you guys, but you need to develop some nerdier hobbies. This used to be a wrestling forum, dammit.

[Everlong]

I love all you guys, but you need to develop some nerdier hobbies.

But nobody else here engages in birdwatching

Also if this were a real pub I'd be teaching all of you bitches how to play Sheepshead or Coup or Avalon or some shit like that.

[Everlong]

Also, name ideas for the game are welcome because I have literally zero.

[DBSoT]

I am in. Can't we just call it Pub Talk. A name that matches the site itself.

[SortaCreative]

Sounds like a larf.

[Everlong]

I am in. Can't we just call it Pub Talk. A name that matches the site itself.

I dig it!

[Str8Shooter]

Yeah I'm in, although I read that and am still confused, so maybe I'm too dumb to play

[Everlong]

Yeah I'm in, although I read that and am still confused, so maybe I'm too dumb to play

I promise it's way less confusing than I made it sound The only reason it sounds so confusing right now is because there's still a lot of logistics to figure out. This was just to give a really general idea of how it might work and to gauge interest.

[Everlong]

So far we have:

prophet
Porkchop
Kaiser
Hanley
Taj
Str8Shooter
DBSoT

who else?!

[Messiah]

So far we have:

prophet
Porkchop
Kaiser
Hanley
Taj
Str8Shooter
DBSoT
Messiah

who else?!

[BSM]

I'll probably do it from time to time. Most likely won't be involved in every competition. (Or even all that many)

[CubsIn5]

Yeah this sounds fun, count me in!

[Taveus]

I'll give this a go. I've really wanted to get back into writing and I've thought a couple of times about signing up for PCW. That and I want to beat Hanley at something.

[AkydefGoldberg]

Yeah I'm in, although I read that and am still confused, so maybe I'm too dumb to play

In the same boat but yeah I'll it a go