Hi all,
The start of April is one of my favourite times of year at TASVideos, as I'm always keen to see what innovative ideas people come up with. As I was thinking about this year's April Fool's submissions, I realized that it would be nice to be able to recognize the time and effort people put into these submissions, many of which stand absolutely no chance of being accepted, but are still valuable for their humor and creativity. So, I would like to propose a new annual award category for best April Fool's submission. Here's how it would work:
Just like other categories, people would nominate candidates for the awards, however in contrast to the other categories, nominees would be submissions, not actual publications. The submissions need not have made stars, moons or even be published at all. They would instead be judged on their humor, creativity or uniqueness. Only submissions with submission dates of March 30th - April 2nd of that year are eligible (to account for any time zone differences).
What do you think? Is there room for this category in the 2018 awards?
Maybe it could be its own separate event, held pretty much after the day? After all, why should we wait 8 months for the awards?
And perhaps there could be more than one award category?
Seriously though, thinking this through to avoid abuse will give you these results:
What about the submissions that take a few weeks to judge? This has happened more than once. So we'd have to wait until every last one is judged, which is fine.
Only rejected submissions can be eligible, since actual good submissions submitted on the day are likely to get a lot of votes otherwise (and the author can choose to cancel the movie, allowing abuse, which is why cancelled submissions are not eligible either).
You can abuse the system by arbitrarily cheating in good runs to make them interesting but also required to be rejected.
There is nothing preventing people submitting past runs with slight changes to maximize their chances of winning.
If you try to make solid rules, make sure you make them really solid, because I will try to exploit every loophole and abuse the system.
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How about an "award that is not an award". Like no trophy, but only a mention somewhere in the forum.
Or maybe a wiki page. I think it would be better to keep this idea as an unofficial thing, like Gruefood Delight where you can find the best April Fools submissions.
How about an "award that is not an award". Like no trophy, but only a mention somewhere in the forum.
Or maybe a wiki page. I think it would be better to keep this idea as an unofficial thing, like Gruefood Delight where you can find the best April Fools submissions.
I like this idea! Similar to Gruefood Delight, judges can put the best submissions into it. Then we don’t have to worry about voting or Masterjun abusing the system. 😀
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Gruefood Delight is and always has been open for any editor to add entries they like to it, it's not something restricted to judges.
And I'm not sure what the value is of creating a new page for fun April Fools submissions, when Gruefood Delight already literally does exactly that.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Since some people have been asking for one, I've added a poll.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
Gruefood Delight is and always has been open for any editor to add entries they like to it, it's not something restricted to judges.
And I'm not sure what the value is of creating a new page for fun April Fools submissions, when Gruefood Delight already literally does exactly that.
Great! I didn’t realize that. In that case Gruefood Delight already has everything I was hoping for. I’d still be for an award, but I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary now.
Voted No.
The whole point of April Fools is that it's a way to goof off and let off some steam and fuck around. If it becomes a competition with winners and losers than it becomes too serious.
Gruefood Delight exists for showcasing any particularly amazing April Fools TASes, anyway.
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Patashu wrote:
The whole point of April Fools is that it's a way to goof off and let off some steam and fuck around. If it becomes a competition with winners and losers than it becomes too serious.
This is a very good point and I fully agree with it. Not everything is suited to be competitive, and April Fools submissions are not something that should be made competitive.
I was indifferent about it before, but this post convinced me.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
Not everything is suited to be competitive, and April Fools submissions are not something that should be made competitive.
I can certainly see the logic in that. It looks like the poll is pretty much one-sided, and we already have a good place for these in Gruefood Delight. I think we can call it a 'No'. and move on.
The whole point of April Fools is that it's a way to goof off and let off some steam and fuck around. If it becomes a competition with winners and losers than it becomes too serious.
Why would it be wrong to celebrate and reward creativity? It doesn't have to become a "competition".
The whole point of April Fools is that it's a way to goof off and let off some steam and fuck around. If it becomes a competition with winners and losers than it becomes too serious.
Why would it be wrong to celebrate and reward creativity? It doesn't have to become a "competition".
Meaning of the word competition:
the activity or condition of striving to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others.
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