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On this thread, I will take suggestions for events to be added to the Weekly Competition. I believe in the past we have been too quick and lenient to adding events, so I will raise the bar this year. The weekly average of participants this year has been around 150. Any event that gets at least 22 recommendations (15% of the weekly average of participants) over the next two weeks (ending 2019/12/08) will get its own poll thread. Note that to count as a recommendation, you must actually post on this thread with a statement that you would like to see the event added. Likes will not count as recommendations - you must actually post the recommendation yourself in order for it to count as one of the 22 needed recommendations.
The poll threads will then be open for about 2 weeks, until December 24. The poll will be worded such that an upvote implies that the voter BOTH wants the event added AND intends to compete in it if possible, while a downvote implies that the voter specifically does not want the event added. At that point, any event that receives at least 30 upvotes (hence over 20% of the weekly average of participants) AND ALSO has more upvotes than downvotes will be eligible to be added to the competition. However, I will add no more than 2 events this year, so if more than 2 events reach this threshold, only the top 2 will be added. I will close the poll threads after the deadline is reached.
Last year, I feel we were too generous adding 4 events. Under no circumstances will I add more than 2 events this year. Also, last year, the only event that would have made it under these stricter requirements would have been 15 puzzle, interestingly. We will see what happens this year.
The poll threads will then be open for about 2 weeks, until December 24. The poll will be worded such that an upvote implies that the voter BOTH wants the event added AND intends to compete in it if possible, while a downvote implies that the voter specifically does not want the event added. At that point, any event that receives at least 30 upvotes (hence over 20% of the weekly average of participants) AND ALSO has more upvotes than downvotes will be eligible to be added to the competition. However, I will add no more than 2 events this year, so if more than 2 events reach this threshold, only the top 2 will be added. I will close the poll threads after the deadline is reached.
Last year, I feel we were too generous adding 4 events. Under no circumstances will I add more than 2 events this year. Also, last year, the only event that would have made it under these stricter requirements would have been 15 puzzle, interestingly. We will see what happens this year.
