That's definitely been the case.

2008 was the last year we had the old way and saw roughly 80 entries:
http://www.tacticalwargames.net/archive ... index.html

09 was the first anonymous year and saw just over half of that at 47 entries:
http://www.tacticalwargames.net/archive ... index.html

Last year was smaller still with 30 entries:
http://www.tacticalwargames.net/archive ... index.html

What would people think of a hybrid? Have a thread open where people can post if they like. But if they rather be anonymous, e-mail it in and I'll post it on the thread.

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GothiComp has seen more entries.

With all respect but taccom has seen less people then years before due the SG decline overall. Plus GothiComp did a lot more advertising on other forums. Something which did not happen so much for EpiComp.

I think email entry = more entries.

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Image restriction is something that can be changed as required.

Forum accounts were on required where they were actually required. By this, I mean that they were required for submissions under the old system as you needed to be a member to post your picture. The newer system does not require submitters to be members here. Voting has always required membership of the forums, for the same reasons. I would hope that people painting Epic for the competition would be signed up here and participating in other ways as well, but I dont want to require it as I am very aware that the Epic community expands way past the TacCmd borders.

As for Doug, did he get back to you yet? I can drop him a text or call and ask him if you like. PM me and let me know.



I dont think that we can necessarily judge the popularity of the method via the number of submissions. As has been pointed out, there are many factors at work here. However, I have to admit that having a thread is a constant reminder of the time ticking away to get entries in. Just so long as people dont see a particularly great entry and get put off submitting their own. So, how about having a submission thread, but restricting the best pictures until the end?

I have to admit that I would be largely against two methods of submitting pictures. It gets overly complex. As an alternative, if we have a thread and someone really wanted to stay anonymous, I could post the pictures on their behalf.

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I'm not concerned that people will want to stay anonymous; it's their best work and they should (and I assume would) be proud of it. I'm concerned by the possibility that adding names to the posts will skew results because "FraggleKiller always does awesome work, and he's a pretty cool guy, so he'll get my vote!". I'd suggest doing email submission and having them posted in the thread by a third party, or the organizer, if that weren't a huge effort to whatever poor soul got stuck with it, or Dave.

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I guess that could be the best of both worlds, so long as Dave/whoever is ok with posting up photos up as they come in.

From where I'm standing that seems to be the worst of both worlds. It's the extra work coupled with what people are calling a lack of "shock factor", ie seeing the results trickle in rather than having them posted all at once.

I'm of a mind to just stick with anonymous submission via e-mail but with more advertising on other boards. If we're still not getting better numbers though we'll revisit it next year.

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i'm new to the boards. But I must agree with dave that if i where anticipating a competition a big unveil with everything at once would be way cooler. There would be so much to look at all at once, and pieces wouldn't be picked apart over a week or two and just gotten used too before the vote. I remember waiting for my white dwarf some 10 years ago, just to drool over all the gamesday winners, and seeing them all at once was awesome.

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