Summer Spectacular Prizes/food for thought

[beth]

PERSONALLY i think you're all being a bit ******* greedy. in what other competition anywhere does it have prizes like this. in my eyes it should just be first/second/third on winning team and then overall points scorer.

it's a team game, if your team don't step up then soz... try hard next year to rally morale/get more active members.

and the yellow team thing is silly for the exact reason mike said.

[lawrawrrr]

but how on earth is it fair that if no active members join the team that you are FORCED TO JOIN because of your department you're penalised on prizes???

looking back i think the top 3 on the first team should receive the best prizes, then top3 on 2nd team slightly lower prizes etc etc then an extra prize to the overall top scorer.

i know that xmas bonanza 2010 was run that way (wooo 2nd top scorer overall) and looking back at old hxss prizes it seems to run a little bit that way.

it was the same last year but Mike was the AGM for that as well so it's not surprising it didn't change for this year...

[Inseriousity.]

I'd have changed it if feedback brought it up but you didn't win last year so it's not surprising you didn't bring it up then. I do agree with beth to a point, the prize system could be made fairer but ultimately, it's also a team competition and if your team isn't up to scratch and you want to win the big prizes then it's up to you (and the other active members of your team) to keep things going, rally the troops and recruit those very members you think shouldn't win points.

[Foregetfuhl]

It will ultimately be something that will be looked into for next year. To be honest I don't agree with the prizes this year at all. 1) Far to much for the top three anyway. 2) It isn't fair at all. 3) I like how it was set out in 2011. I think the teams need a bit of sorting out as well with all of the bigger departments being split rather than just HabboxLive. Hopefully come HxSS 2014 we can have it a little more fairer and with the teams being more thought out rather than plonked by department.

[Yawn]

i loved the team spirit which towards the end turned into team rivalry

[lawrawrrr]

I'd have changed it if feedback brought it up but you didn't win last year so it's not surprising you didn't bring it up then. I do agree with beth to a point, the prize system could be made fairer but ultimately, it's also a team competition and if your team isn't up to scratch and you want to win the big prizes then it's up to you (and the other active members of your team) to keep things going, rally the troops and recruit those very members you think shouldn't win points.

jesus christ how petty do you think i am? i didn't really play last year and i wasn't really interested in how habbox was running because i was so disillusioned by that stage.

the thing is i tried my damned hardest to "rally" my team to play but 9 times out of 10 i was met with "cba" etc etc.

When you're FORCED into a team, you may not like your teammates or something, and therefore not want to play, but the way the prizes are at the moment, you're basically stuffed if you're not in the team with the active players (which is quite often the Events department, or the one all the 'popular' people join and encourage others to).

I mean that issue would solve itself if people weren't forced into teams the way they are, or divided more equally but that's another point entirely.

And I never said they shouldn't win points, I said it's extremely difficult to judge whether a member is active or just a one-off winner, which is the point of a fifth team - so if they do continue to play (after encouragement from teams) then their points can be transferred to a proper team rather than clog up each team with 100 inactive players! This would be like when @Plumest; started to play, me getting to know her and encouraging her to stay online and adding her on skype to keep her motivated, we'd do that BEFORE she chose a team.

I just think it makes it easier to judge what teams are full.

[Plumest]

oh hi i was mentioned!!!@@@

[Inseriousity.]

The majority of people wouldn't bother encouraging them to stay so you're ultimately making them more likely to be a one-off winner, which was my whole point.

[Plumest]

Next year, you should have everyone who want sto join like, be assigned to a team. First person to join gets red, second blue, third black, fourth green, etc etc etc. So that not all of the active people are on a certain team.

[lawrawrrr]

I just think it makes it far too difficult to confirm how many people are active on teams to regulate team size.

And I'm not saying people CAN'T choose teams, just when events hosts are done, they ask:
"Are you on a HxSS team?"
"No"
"Would you like to? This is what HxSS is...."
"No"

- on the 'yellow' team.

if they DO want to join a team and get more involved then they can! it would also be possible for Jade, or whoever is agm next year, to relegate people with one win who don't look likely they're coming back to the yellow team which would make it easier to regulate team size.