Summer Spectacular Prizes/food for thought

[Plebings]

i think it's important to keep the team aspect, however why can't the prizes be split a bit more evenly?

say

300c for person with most points
200c for person with 2nd most points
100c for person with 3rd most

on top of

200c for top scoring 1st place team member
150c for top scoring 2nd place team member
100c for top scoring 3rd place team member
50c for top scoring 4th place team member

maybe some bonus prizes for the winning team as well.

now obviously those prizes aren't the be all and end all, but it does seem a bit unfair the way it was handled this year (especially forcing members to join certain teams)

[lemons]

i think the current system is fine the only thing which needs to be sorted out is how depts are allocated into teams

[oli]

i think the current system is fine the only thing which needs to be sorted out is how depts are allocated into teams

this is the main problem
considering you HAD to join the red team to get one of the bigger prizes

[AgnesIO]

You probably should have made this at the start and not at the end, as it does look like a sore loser thing :L Not saying it is, but logically it would have been much more logical to make it at the start.

Anyway, this idea does generally make sense, but I can see the flaw that it makes it less logical to work as a team and just encourages people to join the weakest team to try and win..

[Jurv]

check me winning 2 thrones and 100c in 2k11 :Cool:

[lawrawrrr]

You probably should have made this at the start and not at the end, as it does look like a sore loser thing :L Not saying it is, but logically it would have been much more logical to make it at the start.

Anyway, this idea does generally make sense, but I can see the flaw that it makes it less logical to work as a team and just encourages people to join the weakest team to try and win..

I did bring it up with Jade as soon as she got AGM pretty much but I knew that Mike was extremely likely to shoot me down. It's not a sore loser thing at all and I'm very grateful for my prize (when I get it...........) but it's more of a feedback-for-next-year thing

Like I've said since the first post, I do agree that it diminishess the team element which is why I've suggested higher prizes for the overall team and going down for each team

[Inseriousity.]

I wouldn't have shot you down for that suggestion. I'd have said the same thing graham said then you'd have said what you replied to him and I'd have said yeah we could do that, let me just talk to Matt and work out the numbers.

[lawrawrrr]

But you'd already published it by the time I knew anything about it and my experience with (a)gms is they nearly always shoot things down straight away :p

[Inseriousity.]

'Nearly' being the key word there. I believe there's a disclaimer in the terms and conditions to say that prizes are subject to change in case a) someone suggests a better structure or b) someone donates and we can boost the prize up. I'd have had no issue changing it although the sooner the better. If it was the last day then yeah I'd have said, next year but the first day would've been easy to change it. As for AGMs shooting things down, I explained to managers that my philosophy was similar to time on Dr Who: some things are fixed, I will not budge but the vast majority of things are in flux and up to them to choose as they see fit. If you were always getting shot down then it's just unlucky that all your suggestions were in the former category!

[lawrawrrr]

Oh, I did mention it to Jade on one of her first days but she said she couldn't really change it and I thought it wouldn't affect if I posted this earlier or I would have!


and i was TRYING not to moan too much