Conservapedia talk:Team Contest four

Hmm. "An entry is "entertainment-related" if it relates to a subject not taught as core curriculum in a typical high school or college. This includes articles on sports, popular music, movies, and other entertaining but not necessarily educational subjects." Now at my university, at least, all those are part of the "core curriculum" at various departments. -- AKjeldsen Godspeed! 07:36, 7 January 2008 (EST)
 * I also found that part weird, especially the one about sports (and, in part, music, although we all know that everything that came after church choirs is Satan Music). It appears that "core curriculum" is more of a fixed (and restricting) term in the US:
 * Ironically enough, I don't see "religion", "how homosexuality is wrong", "how atheism is wrong", "how evolution is wrong", or other core CP subjects on those lists. But I bet that Andy will simply redefine "core curriculum" as "everything I think should belong in it", just like he redefines everything else on the fly. --Sid 07:51, 7 January 2008 (EST)
 * Edit to add: Looking at the exceptions, exactly that has already happened: "Full credit will be given for reasonable subjects which are educational but not necessarily taught in a typical school." In other words, copypasting from horribly obscure glossaries is cool, and so is creating entries about what each homophobic organization says about homosexuality. --Sid 07:55, 7 January 2008 (EST)

Suggestion for Fantasy Contest Four
If we decide to do a fantasy contest again (the last one was pretty funny IMO, though it was was basically anarchy) I'd suggest setting it up like the old SmallWorld fantasy (American) football teams of the late '90s (we'll see if anyone but me knows what that means). Basically, everyone starts with a set amount of "payroll" to "spend" on contest participants, and each contest participant at CP is assigned a specific "salary" based on how productive they are. So, for example, suppose the payroll is 50 lulz (that's RW's currency, right?). Andy, being the most prolific scorer, would probably have a salary of 30 lulz or so. An editor who's been about half as productive as Andy up to now might have a salary of 15 lulz. And the homeskollarz that jump on the contest bandwagon but don't actually contribute much of anything could be assigned salaries of 5 lulz. You can have a "team" of any five CP editors, but you can't spend more than your 50 lulz. We'd just need to set the "salaries" for each editor in advance. Person whose team scores the most points (as determined by CP's final tallies, of course, so watch out for unexpected challenges!!) receives a facsimile medal of goatery with a citation for liberal mockery.--Bayesupdate 10:53, 7 January 2008 (EST)
 * Interesting idea. As I was reading I thought, how about we have to buy our lulz in increments of pie donations, but that would too "real world".  Anyway, yes, if we are to take it slightly more "seriously" this time, we need to work everything out before the  co py a n d pas te  fe st  starts.  Do we handicap/set salaries based on past Team Kontest performance or normal editing performance?  The former, I guess?  Set it so the median performer costs 10 lulz? Just thinking out LLoud... human  16:33, 7 January 2008 (EST)

Rationale
The breaking news rationale is off - I mean, that's like saying: "But if you create an ordinary article, but then someone from the other team does a minor edit to it - you've only gained 4 points for your team!"--Danielfolsom 13:02, 12 January 2008 (EST)
 * You mean the reasoning in the article here or their weird "Let's split points" rule? --Sid 13:09, 12 January 2008 (EST)
 * The let's split points thing--Danielfolsom 13:38, 12 January 2008 (EST)
 * Yeah, that one made me frown, too. It's really just there to make sure that sysops get a big advantage, it seems... Imagine a team full of sysops against a team full of non-sysops! --Sid 13:54, 12 January 2008 (EST)
 * Daniel, it's not quite the same - in your example the initial editor gets the same amount of points anyone would. The news thing "half" makes sense - in order for a peon to get points for news, a sysop has to do some "work" (approve it, add it).  I think the key would be for a peon to email the news to a sysop on their own team, to make sure their team gets all six points.  Or, more sensibly, all proposed news could go through a neutral judge, and all that is used gets the same score... human  17:40, 12 January 2008 (EST)

The bickering continues
--Danielfolsom 22:17, 19 January 2008 (EST)
 * Haha. And, teh assfly is thinking of jumpstarting TC5 (TC4b?) between the same two teams (at his talk page, see wigo for link), 'cause he got pwned and wants to win one! human  17:23, 21 January 2008 (EST)