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Does Quake Need Its Own "Cacowards" Style Yearly Awards

Posted by DaZ on 2015/05/08 13:48:43

So I've (slowly) been making my way through the Cacowards over the last year and it got me thinking.

Because I don't really follow the Doom community at all, having a resource that brings the absolute best of the best to the forefront each year is incredibly useful!

So would, and how, would such an "awards show" work for Quake? Some questions:

1) Are there enough releases to make an awards show possible and/or useful?

2) What would the format be? Top 10 maps? Top 10 maps + mods? Source ports?

3) How would they be selected? Open poll? Peer review?

4) Where and how would it be presented? A new website? A new column on an existing website?

I would be really interested in hearing opinions on this as it is something I would quite enjoy working on. With Quake's 20 year anniversary coming up next year it would be a lovely time to have such a resource (with backdated years perhaps!) to show to the larger gaming audience that might come back to quake if there was a nicely presented and respected way to bring the best content to the top.

Discuss!

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#26 posted by FifthElephant on 2015/05/12 22:36:54

and I think the quake facebook page is good at highlighting stuff too.

The community is fragmented with no one site the main focus so having all these different areas across the web pointing to the cool stuff is nice.

In all truth I doubt Quake will ever reach the engagement that Doom reaches.

#27 posted by gb on 2015/05/12 22:38:30

Sure, I'm just saying we should network more, especially when it comes to events of any sort.

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#28 posted by DaZ on 2015/05/13 00:01:41

off topic : How on earth do you submit news to quakeone.com ? I looked for ages to submit news for map jam 5 but couldn't find out how :P I ended up sending some sort of form or email but no idea if anyone read it!

it would be great if we can orchestrate something large and cool between all the Quake sites for the 20th birthday next year. Each site could specialise in whatever they do best and we could tie it all together with social media and some sort of guide.

Daz

#29 posted by gb on 2015/05/13 00:46:29

There is no form or anything (to my knowledge anyway, the forum system is ancient, confuddled and due for an overhaul.) You should contact one of the people who write news, which currently are mainly myself, talisa and mindzy. If you post a thread with something like [news-request] in the title (probably in the "finished works" subforum), I will see it and news it, as well.

I'm usually quicker about mapping news, the delay last time was just due to me being ill.

I would totally welcome it if people submitted their own news articles.

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