Thought I'd say the GOTM contest is on track - never really off track, just a little breather.
As you may or may not realize, the folks who run the Guitar of the Month competition are just nameless longtime forum folks, who have selflessly volunteered their time and efforts (and bandwidth, and hard drive space, and, and... etc).
The brief interruption in the contest was due to a combination of folks getting even more busy in their personal lives, and previously having to take time from already busy personal matters in order to run the contest. So, a little breather space was needed. Time to decompress, and time to get personal things (ie, work, family... ya know..."that" stuff!) settled a little.
The contest is a good one - and the folks who run it believe that to the core! Speaking personally, I never failed to get a thrill or be amazed at the creativity and artisan talent of everyone who submitted instruments.
There is a new (to remain nameless) helper working with staff running the contest. This is a much needed relief. To some, getting online to read and chat is no big deal. For others, sometimes... just looking at the weather map online is a time out. Running the contest involves daily monitoring of things for two weeks a month. Constant checking, updating, copy, pasting, downloading, uploading... has to be done at least once a day. Having a new helper will make things run better.
I'll also say, there is a "ok good" system in place to administer everything, and things were set up to try and keep the contest fair and honest and transparent to everyone - especially those who submitted entries.
On that last item, there were submissions made for December, January, February and even March, that were not used. For December, we had a past runners up contest, no new submissions. For the other months, the contest was "on break".
I personally apologize to anyone who made submissions, expecting them to be in a contest. Actually, it was only two or three people, but all shall remain nameless (to keep the contest fair). There was no slight or bad intent toward any submission. There was a major time crunch in personal affairs of staff, and .. well ... a little bit of feeling burnt out too.
We're recharged!
So let the games... I mean... CONTESTS.... begin!
Thanks everyone! :icon_smile:
As you may or may not realize, the folks who run the Guitar of the Month competition are just nameless longtime forum folks, who have selflessly volunteered their time and efforts (and bandwidth, and hard drive space, and, and... etc).
The brief interruption in the contest was due to a combination of folks getting even more busy in their personal lives, and previously having to take time from already busy personal matters in order to run the contest. So, a little breather space was needed. Time to decompress, and time to get personal things (ie, work, family... ya know..."that" stuff!) settled a little.
The contest is a good one - and the folks who run it believe that to the core! Speaking personally, I never failed to get a thrill or be amazed at the creativity and artisan talent of everyone who submitted instruments.
There is a new (to remain nameless) helper working with staff running the contest. This is a much needed relief. To some, getting online to read and chat is no big deal. For others, sometimes... just looking at the weather map online is a time out. Running the contest involves daily monitoring of things for two weeks a month. Constant checking, updating, copy, pasting, downloading, uploading... has to be done at least once a day. Having a new helper will make things run better.
I'll also say, there is a "ok good" system in place to administer everything, and things were set up to try and keep the contest fair and honest and transparent to everyone - especially those who submitted entries.
On that last item, there were submissions made for December, January, February and even March, that were not used. For December, we had a past runners up contest, no new submissions. For the other months, the contest was "on break".
I personally apologize to anyone who made submissions, expecting them to be in a contest. Actually, it was only two or three people, but all shall remain nameless (to keep the contest fair). There was no slight or bad intent toward any submission. There was a major time crunch in personal affairs of staff, and .. well ... a little bit of feeling burnt out too.
We're recharged!
So let the games... I mean... CONTESTS.... begin!
Thanks everyone! :icon_smile:
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