So, how about this:

We'll open sign ups to sign up and collect money and resources to use for two weeks before the competition starts. We will allow you to use a store or a lined animal so long as they being with 0 points and start at 2/3.

So, maybe there could be 4 "categories" this time. Horse (tickets & shows), Horse (no tickets & shows), Dog (tickets & shows), Dog (no tickets & shows) - so people could sign up with their category and then maybe even people could switch from no tickets to tickets within the contest, but not from tickets to no tickets.

It could be judged:

- 40% points
- 10% Name Creativeness (by vote)
- 20% Best Picture/Picture Creativeness (by vote)
- 20% Best Story (by vote)
- 10% Overall Most Popular (by vote)

That way, points matter, but the MAJORITY of the stuff comes from the other side of things. So you'd still have a prayer of winning even if you didn't spend an arm and leg on tickets and shows.

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The rules and details could be:

And then we should have more mini-contests and challenges this time, kind of like cutthroat kitchen (but, you know, less insane). So we could do small contests for mascot-specific entries and they could win either points, or shows, or tickets, or money, or upgrade time (anything to get them closer to the goal). And then, I dunno if anyone would be up for challenges? Like "1 Day without tickets!" or "Everyone loses 5 mill!" ? I'll let everyone weigh in on that one.

And then mostly same rules as last time, but with the above changes: 

1. You must start with a store-age animal, with 0 points. Can be store or lined.

2. There are two categories. The first category can use ANY MEANS POSSIBLE to reach the highest score. This means you can use tickets, private shows, club registries, prize points from contests, anything. The second category CANNOT use tickets and private shows, but can use anything else. Both categories are allowed to buy extra energy.

3. Each animal has to have a name before the contest starts, and must have a story and a NEW picture by the time the contest ends.

Other notes:

Since part of your score is popular vote, it would be a good idea to “advertise” your animal so that you can get the popular vote.

You can get money from either what you have now, but you will also have two weeks to raise it, reserve tickets and shows, prepare, make teams, etc. This time around the cash shop is actually ready and you can use points, HPD, or USD for these items so that should make this all a bit more exciting!

We need at least 3 people/groups/animals in each category for the contest to run, otherwise it won’t be exciting enough. We would prefer if you made teams of at least 3 people, however, we understand that this might keep some people from entering, so I don’t think we will require it, although it would be MUCH easier in a team.

I am also grappling with people being able to enter more than once? So they can enter one animal for each category if they are wanting to? Let me know what you think of this.

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For prizes:

There will be two in each category, one for horse and one for dog. Grand Prize Winners are first place in each category. Second place in each category will also get a prize. And then there will be bonus prizes!

Grand Prize Winners (Tickets & Shows) Will Receive All of the Following:

- A one year upgrade (to be divided however you want)

- A store mate for their animal with the exact same amount of points as the winning animal

- A grand prize winner achievement (for all team members)

Second Place Winners (Tickets & Shows) Will Receive All of the Following:

- A custom store mate with 350,000 points on it

- A 6 month upgrade (to be divided however you want)

- A runner-up achievement (for all team members)

Grand Prize Winners (No Tickets & Shows) Will Receive All of the Following:

- A one year upgrade (to be divided however you want)

- A store mate for their animal with the exact same amount of points as the winning animal

- A grand prize winner achievement (for all team members)

Second Place Winners (No Tickets & Shows) Will Receive All of the Following:

- A custom store mate with 350,000 points on it

- A 6 month upgrade (to be divided however you want)

- A runner-up achievement (for all team members)

All Contestants Will Receive:

- A participant achievement.

BONUS PRIZE:

The person with the overall highest score will get their animal and it’s mate aged back to the store age (3 for horses, 2 for dogs). This will be overall, since each category will be judged on it’s own scores, so the ticket category could have the winner have a 90, but the no tickets category’s winner could have a 100.

BONUS PRIZE TWO:

If an animal makes it to the top of the overall rankings and stays until the end of the contest, they will get 500,000 points added, as well as permanent extra energy (if they do not already have it), and a resurrection pass to use after it retires. If a horse AND a dog make it past #1, then whichever of them got the highest overall score will get the prize.

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What do you think of this/ Any suggestions or improvements we could make? I was thinking the contest length could be 6 weeks for training and stuff again, or maybe we should make it a little longer? Let me know what you want! Also, please post here if you want to participate, what category you want, and if you want a team or not, so we can sort of start figuring out if we have enough interested people to run it!

I know it's all a slightly different set up, but I want this one to be a little more even so that everyone can participate if they want to, and I want it to be more based on actual mascot worthiness, and finally, I want it to be fun so that no one gets bored (hence the challenges suggestion)!

I'M SO IN! WHO WANTS TO TEAM UPPPP? 

*give a little time to me, we'll burn this out

I would love to participate, but I am wondering how one would tell if a dog who is under the category of no shows/no tickets category is actually only being entered in normal shows and no private shows or tickets are being added as a cheat.  If there is a way to tell, then I would gladly participate.  

Belli/Redneck - We can see what shows any animal is entered into or HAS been entered into, so we will be able to check and make sure :). Same with tickets. I'd more than likely want to keep track on a weekly basis which would be no problem.

Bellicus: admins have magical powers and can see these things.. don't worry :p Private shows leave a 'paper trail' of sorts and we're able to trace them.

And agreed, it may be difficult for newer players to afford these things and it could discourage them from entering.. even just the regular extra 10 shows is 10 mil in the store which is a lot for newer players.

edit: oops.. i'm a derp and didn't realize that ther was a second page xD fail

This looks like it will be a lot of fun!

Looks neat! :D

I'd be interested in the no tickets/shows category! Though willing to sell spots for both horse/dogs in my 6 shows & horse tickets will be up for grabs. (Dog tickets are already spoken for)

Ooo this looks like it would be fun. 

Not sure if I'd prefer to do it as a team or as an individual, probably more individual as that's always been my way of doing things. But it would all depend on how teams worked I suppose. xD lol.