i have a feeling that once i announce the prize we won't have a problem getting entries.
Don't announce the prize then you would just get a bunch of fake entries... I would also never give my address out for you to send me this prize.. for all I know the $10,000 value is the 10% bond I'm going to have to pay for getting caught up in some crap.i never said it was gonna be the contest. just throwing ideas out there trying to brainstorm. if that was the contest in the end then somehow we would just have to live without you guys and girls...
cn
That one I can win, I have a twin brother who wears the badge, see him every other day.
Oh hey me too! (Just not mine.) cn
9000$ proffit not bad
Poultry pics are in the forecast ... cn
i'm not giving away $10k. that's stupid. i'm giving away something that's worth $10k easily though. i'm also not going to announce the exact prize till i have a contest designed.
cn, i've already thrown out the idea of a "frostiest" or "biggest" competition because it just eliminates too many growers. it has to be something where we can get as many of the members involved that want to be involved. one idea i had was you have to post an RIU sign in the most extreme location and take a picture of it. my only issue with picture contests is Adobe Photoshop. i'm pretty versed in that program and it's amazing what you can dream up. i'm beginning to think that it's going to be harder to find the competition than it will be to judge it. lol. i'm sure we'll come up with an idea soon enough though. too many stoners here for one of us not to stumble upon it while in a canna haze...Scoob ... I think you have your work cut out for you. Imo the trouble with "frostiest bud" or equivalent is that it's subjective, and with a prize in the balance that could be a real wedge driver. Same problems with essays or something creative ... one man's Joyce is another man's boxcar graffiti.
A merit-based contest might be easier to administer, because it would be easier (but not necessarily obvious) to designate a winner and defend the choice. But ... merit at what? Weed growing? I'd counsel against that, with my sufficient rationale being weed's less-than-transparent legal status. Gardening otherwise? My worry is that that would bias strongly toward the small number of skilled, experienced gardeners like we get to meet on the gardening subforum.
Now my weakness for recursive thought has suggested to me "what if the undisclosed contest is 'come up with the best contest idea?' " That is attractive to me at so many levels, but I'll have to add that I've probably already lost.
