Guys!
The signing-up phase for our contest has ended!
We have 31 people working on their goals now! Some are traditional, some are less traditional, but they have one thing in common, they are all pretty ambitious or difficult! You can check everyone's goal, the deadlines, and the approach of tracking them in >>HERE<<
Remember that its you, the community, who will be able to choose the top 5!
If you are one of the participants and you think some information given in the table is incorrect, let us know (preferably through the email)!
Good luck guys! Hope the next 45 days will be fun for you!
Remember you can always contact us via Instagram, Discord or Email!
Have you ever set a goal for yourself, but somewhere along the way, you simply lost motivation? We are here to make sure that the motivation stays with you!
Your task is to set a challenging, Tibia-related goal for yourself that you will be able to complete in 45 days, and then, using our discord server, tell the community about the process of reaching it. Why would you share it with the community? Well, here’s the second, innovative part of the contest; the entire Tibian community will be able to judge the works and also win some prizes!
Please make sure you read all the rules, as well as the Q&A carefully. The Q&A will be updated regularly if we receive any questions that will benefit the other participants.
Deadlines:
It begins and ends at the server save (10 a.m. CEST) of these days.
20-25th September - signing up (I Preparatory Phase)
26th September - 9th November - working on the goal (II Final Phase)
10th - 20th November - submitting the goal (II Final Phase)
21st November - 5th December - community voting (Voting rules)
Rules for the contestants
The rules for the contestants are divided into two categories, the preparatory phase, and the final phase
I Preparatory phase
1. You have to choose a goal for yourself that you will be able to accomplish in 45 days.
2. The goal has to be challenging, meaning it cannot be too easy to achieve in 45 days. We also need to remember that what’s challenging for a level 300, might not necessarily be challenging for a level 1000.
Example of a non-challenging goal: Advancing from level 100 to 150 in 45 days.
Example of a challenging goal: Advancing from level 100 to 150 in 45 days as a free account.
Example of a non-challenging goal: Killing 500 Trolls
Example of a challenging goal: Killing 50.000 Trolls
Example of a non-challenging goal: Killing 200 Brachiodemons as level 900
Example of a challenging goal: Killing 200 Brachiodemons as level 300
Moreover, it has to be long-term, meaning that it cannot be something you wanna reach in a short time period (therefore, your goal cannot be “Getting 10 levels in one day”).
3. Your goal can be about levels, skills, achievements, character titles, PvP, bestiary entries, or charm points, but if you have another idea you can also let us know, creativity is very welcome! It can also be something not related to upgrading your character and just some abstract goal (i.e. marrying 300 different characters). However, we would rather omit having money-related goals, as these will be difficult to track and easy to cheat unless you also provide an approach to track it (such as stream with saved vods for example).
4. You have to send the idea of the goal to: tibiagoals.contests@gmail.com till the server save of 25th September.
5. Your mail should contain:
-Character’s name and server (Let us know if you wanna remain anonymous to the public)
-The goal you want to achieve with a few sentences explanation (why do you want to achieve this goal)
-An information on whether you are free acc or premium acc
-A fullscreen screenshot of the current state of the character: Level, bestiary entry, charm points, skills, all depending on what is your goal. If the goal is about bestiary/charm points, we would ask you to move the Cyclopedia window in a way that your character will still be visible on your screen like so:
6. Remember, the more difficult, challenging, and outstanding the goal will be, the bigger chance to win.
7. The goal cannot be something you already achieved! You are meant to achieve it during the 45 days.
II The final phase
1. You have 45 days to complete the goal. After 45 days send an email to tibiagoals.contests@gmail.com with a screenshot showing the current state of your character.
2. While responding to your mail, TG admin will let you know what kind of screenshots you should provide in your final submission (For example a screenshot every 10 levels, etc).
3. When the 45 days pass, you will have extra 10 days to provide screenshots together with a description of the process of reaching the goal and posting it on our discord server. The technique is up to you, you can present your goal in any way you want, as long as you add the screenshots we ask you for in the beginning of the journey. You can make a video (check out the video by our admin for possible inspiration), or a text, whether it be a poem or prose, first or third person, it’s totally up to you (check out the Your Goals section for possible inspiration)!
4. You cannot break Tibia rules while working on your goal.
5. TibiaGoals staff will check the characters on Tibia.com regularly, to see how the progress goes and verify whether the account status didn’t change (for example when your goal is related to being free account and it becomes premmy, you might be disqualified)
6. Your story can be written in English, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. You can also provide multiple language versions, which might be appreciated by the people voting.
7. Your story might eventually end up in our Your Goals section and we will translate it to 5 languages <3
1st place - Golden warrior trophy + choice between Luna, Bronze Necklace, and a Bear doll + 250 Tibia coins (non-transferable)
2nd place - Silver warrior trophy + choice between the two remaining items
3rd place - Bronze warrior trophy + the remaining item
Voting rules
The entire community will be able to vote for their favorite works and choose the top 5 winners, out of which the TibiaGoals staff will choose 3 final winners.
1. The vote will only be valid if you choose at least two works, providing a short (at least 100 words) justification for your choice to both works (minimum 200 words in total then). In the comment you can write how this specific goal differs from others, why did you decide to choose it, how is it better than the others, etc.
2. Your critique should be sent on our discord server, in the channel #Voting-goals (it will be opened once all the participants send their descriptions)
3. Apart from the text, you also need to:
* Provide your character name
* The character has to be at least level 100
* The character cannot be hidden
* Add the names of the people you vote for
4. If we notice that there are comments which are identical or just slightly paraphrased, we will only count the first one as valid
5. If there will be 1 comment in a few language versions added by different players, we will also only count the first one as valid
6. The contestants can also participate in the voting, however, they cannot vote for their own story.
7. Your critique needs to have valid arguments, meaning you cannot say “I choose the work of the player X because its cool”
8. Your text can be written in English, Polish, Spanish or Portuguese.
9. You cannot use verbal attack towards participants. The language of your text has to be proper.
10. Every vote that will follow the rules participates in a lottery. The numbers will be given chronologically (eg. You posted the critique as 4th, your number in the lottery will be 4 and so on)
11. When the voting ends (5th December) we will proceed to count the votes, which means it might take us a few days to publish the top 5.
Q&A
Q1: What if someone’s goal gets accepted earlier than mine? Do they have more time?
A1: No, everyone’s 45 days will count individually, therefore there is no way to have a head start. We will inform you about your deadline (the beginning and the end of your goal-reaching period) in the email.
Q2: What happens if I don’t manage to complete my goal?
A2: It depends on your goal and also how far you would be. If you don’t manage to fulfill your goals in even 70% then your submission might not be valid, however, if you will be relatively close to reaching it and you manage to describe your road in an interesting way that will outshine the competition, your submission still has a chance.
Q3: What happens if I complete my goal before 45 days pass?
A3: If you manage to complete your goal earlier, you can send it to us earlier, emphasizing the fact that you were faster in your description.
Q4: I wasn’t able to play for a few days, do I get extra days?
A4: Sadly, we will need to stick to the 45 days regardless to make it fair to other participants. Extra days could be used to regenerate stamina fully and that would be inequitable
Q5: I have a lot of enemies and I’m afraid they will vote against me, what can I do?
A5: Your final story can be anonymous, you don’t need to provide your character name to the public, even on the screenshots you can cover your name, providing that you send us the real screenshots with your name visible. You would then need to let us know that you would rather remain anonymous and send us your submission (text with screenshots or video) by email, and we will then share it on discord, replacing your name with Anonymous1 etc.
Q6: What if someone will tell their friends to vote for them?
A6: We cannot stop such occurrences from happening; however, we found an approach to make it difficult for such actions to prove successful. First of all, you cannot only vote for one work, you have to choose at least two, therefore, while boosting the work of your friend, you will also need to boost the work of at least one different user. What is more, your vote will only be counted if you write a few sentences about each work you choose, so it’s not just the matter of saying “I vote for X.” We will also be checking if there are no comments that are basically just a paraphrase. This is also why the community will only be able to pick the top 5 works, and will not determine the top 3 winners in the end.
Q7: What if someone else will have the same goal as me?
A7: We will inform you if a goal similar to yours will be already reported and then you can decide whether you still want to do it, or maybe you want to change it a little. Remember though, that even if there will be two similar goals, your roads and experiences, as well as ways to present them to the community will still vary!
Q8: Does my goal have to be related to one character only?
A8: No, you can set a goal to get 5 characters to level 100 for example, however, in this case we would ask you to send us all 5 character names in your email.
Q9: Can I vote anonymously?
A9: Sadly, you cannot vote anonymously. We need to monitor the voters to find any attempts to cheat the voting system.
Q10: What happens if I forget to take screenshots?
A10: We are all human and forgetting is something natural! If you forget once or twice that’s alright, however, the screenshots are important to verify the process of your progress and will also make your final submission look more pleasant to the voters. That being said, it is okay if your final submission will lack 1 or 2 screenshots we requested, but try to provide as many as you can. If you miss out on too many screenshots, and the progress cannot be followed anymore easily, we might decide to exclude your goal from the contest.
cool finally a fansite that doesn't want to give items to their friends
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