Congratulations and Feedback on the Spectacular

Yes I know I'm several days late, but I still think its fairly relevant topic.

A massive massive congratulations to the management teams on continuing the tradition of making this Summer Spectacular bigger and better than its predecessors. The addition of the automatically updating signatures, the greater number of events, and the points landmarks are indicators of the bigger and better for me. I'm not sure about participation numbers compared, or a comparison of the boost it gave HxF and Hx, but needless to say it was substantial.

So I think all involved, particularly the organizers and executive team deserve a huge round of applause for their efforts, from what I could see all the participants were enjoying it and anticipating the next day's events. There was some sourness here and there, but unfortunately that will always accompany competition, the mood was overall very upbeat.

But there's a reason this isn't in Thank You and Congratulations. In years past there have been feedback threads that in my opinion have been very helpful in making future Spectaculars better.

My big suggestion relates to team leaders. There is a GM and three AGMs, and there are four teams. I think each GM should lead a team and be very visible. If one AGM/GM is unable to be around/active/visible, pick a very well-known and visible manager to lead the team. Their names and reputation will draw people to each team, making for more even teams. Also, they will be able to see if there is an unevenness and sort it out. I don't think that it will cause claims of unfairness, as it's been done before and worked out.

My other suggestion, leading from this year's use of a backend-based signature system, is a simple calendar with a layout of each day and hours (11AM to 1 AM the next day as an example) and a certain number of users (all managers, AGMs, and Senior EOs for example) could access it to add or delete events to make it the most updated calendar available. Then users could go to a redirect (ie: www.habbox.com.hxssevents) and it would be displayed. It would save having to peruse the thread which is imperfect, and would allow more users to edit it, as opposed to having to give moderation rights to any non-administrators.

If you have other suggestions, feedback, or opinions on my suggestions feel free to reply.

I would agree with everything you said there nvr. It's already been suggested to have one AGM and the GM for each team and I think that would draw more people to the teams etc. I think it would be far more practical in the sense that the person is known. If I'm honest, I would hardly said I was the most known person around the forums (I'm more known on Habbo imho). :P

I think that there needs to be more advertisment for the forum side of things. There were 12 competitions to enter this year as well as a quest but I think the ones who actually came to Habbox or the ones who are the "HxL Listeners (nothing else, just purely listen to HxL)" from HxSS didn't realise it existed! It's a difficult task to make but I think, having said that, quite a few people did sign up and enter these because they realised that. There's always room for improvement.

Overall I think the Organisers did a great job and that can't be argued with. It's a hard job planning as well so well done to the Executive team. I also would like to say it was brilliant to have that signature thingymebob, I think this was better than other years because you'd get the points update after a full day, and although that this still happened with individual points, the total points were updated far more frequently.

Great HxSS in general.

Thanks for the thread Nvr and your comments are appreciated. The two weeks were a bit hectic for many people!

I think having the GM/AGM's leading the teams is a very good suggestion and hopefully next year most of us are here and not gone away either for the 1st or 2nd week of HxSS haha. The signatures this year was a great feature and I think many people loved it and were all using them in their signatures around the forum, I do like the idea you have mentioned in regards of a calender script. Hopefully with a easier back end and something that can be updated/edited easily by certain people.

We did have a site section on HxSS but I feel this was neglected sadly and wasn't updated as much as I would of liked throughout the two weeks and this is something what we should really improve on next time we either do HxSS or any other big events. Your calender idea would be a easier solution to manage the timetables and have it at "www.habbox.com/hxss" or something similar.

I do think everyone did a great job helping out and making sure HxSS was a successful and anyone who helped is a big credit and is really appreciated. I've said thanks in many threads aimed at people for this years and let's just hope next time it's even a better success. Shame the Red team lost though, RED TEAM FTW Haha.

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Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx

The signatures this year was a great feature and I think many people loved it and were all using them in their signatures around the forum

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Matt, who was it again that said we shouldn't use these this year? Just saying :P

I really like the idea of having [A]GM's leading the four teams, some of us never got the opportunity (:'() and it wouldn't really show any favouritism amongst the department managers especially if some team leaders have already lead a team in a previous year which could be seen as unfair on new / other department managers who would also like to have a go at leading a team.

As Matt said the site side of things was let down pretty majorly this year which is down to me however Carlsta did a fantastic job at keeping it as up to date as he could. A script like you said could have been used on the forum and on the site and updated from one place which as Matt said would be a much better idea and a great solution to the problem of that.

On Habbo it was great to see quiet a few non-Habbo users getting in on the events and actually winning points and prizes this year and on several occasions I did notice that there wasn't just people from the UK in the events which can't be a bad thing?I certainly think though that a slightly longer amount of time planning HxSS this year did benefit us and showed that it could be even better than had previously been anticipated in previous years. Perhaps next year, after now knowing what we do with a bit more planning time those mistakes can be rectified and the show can go on to become even bigger and better for following generations of Habbo users.

Even though I hardly went to any events, I saw some forum users who hardly go on turning up (such as Ryan :P) but yeah, it sounded fun! I really liked the signatures, thanks to David for them. :)

I think HxSS is kinda getting boring though, perhaps have a different theme next year (already suggested it to Matt ;)).