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where are the contests gone?

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in search of some inspiration (ok,ok, in search of something to copy :P) in the master index i've noticed that almost all the building and ship building contests were from some years ago (the last is from the 2010, it seems to me). Other than that there's some blue vs red contests, but it seems more a vignette contest than a building one.

I'm correct? and, if yes: i'm wondering whats happened to the contests? there was a lack of competitors on the last ones, so they were discontinued?

thanks

marco

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The tournament of retribution (blue vs red) was making comics, indeed it was not a building contest.

You're right, it has been long since there was a real building contest, perhaps a lack of potential competitors would be the cause. pirate_sceptic.gif

(Although I remember the last building contest, there were many competitors back then but that was in 2011...)

In a way it makes sense though, with the POTC line ended LEGO doesn't have an pirate line of sets at the moment which makes it harder for people to collect pirates and gain interest.

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Yeah, there's a suspected lack of enough participants for such a contest, but I believe the Prize pool is quite empty as well and there aren't enough active crewmembers at the moment (although we are working on the last problem).

But it could be nice to have another small contest, perhaps making a great edited photograph of a scene aboard a ship, with some small tag as a prize, which could show us how much interest there would be in a bigger contest.

But as stated above, there are still some problems now that we'll have to overcome.

Nevertheless, I'm sure there will be contests in the future pirate_classic.gif

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Hi,

thanks very much for your replies.

In fact, i haven't considered the lack of new pirate sets to let people gain interest on this line. (probably it's because, i've got a quite good number of old sets..and i'm considering buying some clone ships. - ok, it's almost heresy, i know, but since the fake hulls didn't seem to bad compared to the originals - )

Also, i've not think about the prize pool: for me just a small tag to put under the profile pic is quite enough! Or, at least for me, it's more something to spur to built for fun and to improve (yeah, learning from others better bulders) than something to win :)

Last, i'm happy to know that there wasn't lack of participants, nor last time, and i hope nor in the future.

PS: as usual, sorry for my bad english (i should think to add this phrase as signature :D

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