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SEN Tutorial Contest
Deadline: May 12, 2006

Help us out for SENv5 and grab the chance to make tutorials for minerals!

Judging Criteria
Professionalism (20)
Spelling, Grammar Errors, Etc.
Usefullness (20)
Does the reader find your tutorial helpful in the map he is making? Will only StarEdit experts understand this? Is it common knowledge?
New Ideas (20)
Is it a new concept? No tutorials will be accepted that were already hosted in the tutorial database or written by other people!
Length/Depth (20)
Did I spend five minutes or five hours writing it?
Text Colors/Images (20)

Prizes & Themes
*There will be 1 winner choosen for each of the following categories if tutorials are submitted for them. If the tutorials are worthless and don't fit the requriments to be hosted by SEN they will not be accepted. There is a possibility of 2nd place prizes or Noteworthy Mention prizes if the jackpot gets any bigger.

Themes
Triggers: 300 Minerals +Any Additional Min. Sent to Me
Modding: 200 Minerals
Map Design: 200 Minerals
Terrain: 100 Minerals
Common Knowledge: 100 Minerals


Please send the tutorials to me (NeutralArchon) in a Personal Message and/or submit them to the tutorial Database. I will choose the prize winners and post all tutorials after the deadline in a new post.

1 Judge: NeutralArchon (Unless I find someone else I think should judge) (Tutorials in database is a must) (Cooperation from Tutorial Keepers is a must)
Tutorials Recieved: 0

I moved this here for us to debate over whether or not this should be held.

Why does senv5 make any difference? Tutorial system overhaul?

No.

Here at SeN, our main job is told help other people make maps, free of charge. Making Tutorials for minerals is just absurd and stupid.



I also see several flaws in this contest.


So we have to make everyone be able to understand? Quite frankly, most of my Tutorials require you to understand many aspects of Mapmaking before you attempt to do so. Just because it's Advanced triggering doesn't mean that it has to be penalized.


Simplicity is always better than having a long complex Tutorial that 3 people understand.


It seems like he's contradicting himself. He wants profesionalism, but also a rainbow of colors and screenshots of what, triggers that can be written in BBCodes?



So Triggers get more minerals, but the other areas do not? Terrain is already a part of Map Design. Also, what is wrong with Common Knowledge? A new person can't learn something that everybody else does?


1 Judge: NeutralArchon (Unless I find someone else I think should judge) (Tutorials in database is a must) (Cooperation from Tutorial Keepers is a must)
So we only have 1 judge who saying what's good and whatnot.


What does SeNv5 have to do with this? Can't we just put the Tutorials inside our current SeNv4.1 Database? Or can't we improve helping people make maps because we're coding SeNv5? We got Staff members to do this.

Most of these are rhetorical questions directed at NeutralArchon. I either smell a scam or a quick cheap attempt at fame.

Not true. If the new tutorial is better than the old I may just combine the two or remove the old. This contest, like BeeR said, is greatly flawed.

I agree with BeeR and Legacy.