Caption Contest for competition creation

[Robert Eric]

I think I once saw a caption contest on the competition forum, but since no one is doing one now, would anyone be opposed to me starting one?  It'll be a hell of a lot more interesting than my Programming contest  :

[DGMacphee]

You saw the caption contest in this forum.

I started it.

I shut it down immediately afterwards.

[Robert Eric]

In this forum?

You?

It must not have done so good, eh?

[sergiocornaga]

Caption Contest? What?

[Gilbert]

That thread had been thrown into the eternal void, so no, don't start one.

[MrColossal]

it was shutdown cause i mentioned to DG that it will more than likely be a huge thread with posts that only had a few words in them and multiple posts by people and people saying how funny other quotes were and how other's weren't funny.

with the MSpaint/Photoshop/Programming/Sprite contests, at least that forces someone to make something instead of just posting a series of 4 word captions thought up in 3 minutes

[evenwolf]

Hell I don't think it's such a bad idea.

I think this criteria will minimize eric's concerns:

Devise each caption into a 3 panel strip with blank word bubbles.  

Each entree must fill in all the word bubbles and post the picture.  PSM magazine had a contest much like this.

[Ghormak]

We did a "fill in the speech bubbles comic thiingy" before, and that was very fun. Helm and Butcher, if I remember correctly, each did a comic where we would fill in the blanks.

Thumbs up for EvenWolf's idea. Maybe more than three panels would be even better.

[Robert Eric]

It would be more worth the effort for the person to write a meaningful and humorous caption then upload it to their webspace then write a stupid one and upload it, right?  I was also thinking that people could email me their entries and I would post the best ones.  What do you guys think?

[evenwolf]

here's what I think:



If a serious thread gets started in the comp forum, you are welcome to use this image for the debut contest.