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WPL Integration

Goals

To integrate to the point where there's no burden of work on any single individual or group of individuals.
To keep the same fun, exciting, and driving forces in play that made Seasons 1-4 such a success while considering all potential improvements.

Urge participants to work together to get advice on composing and post processing their photographs before the challenge. Strictly forbidden users to edit other's photographs for entry.

Team voting will be prohibited. Users will see their team's submissions beside their own on the voting pages.
Teams will be given one private forum thread per season. These threads would be accessible to SC, but not constantly monitored.

Should teams from the previous season get preferential treatment as far as getting into the next Season?

Should existing Season 4 teams be Grandfathered in?
Should we disband teams after each season?
Should we limit new teams to people who weren't together the previous season? (If scalvert and kirbic are on a team in Season 4, they can't be on a team together in Season 5, but can be on the same team in Season 6).

Number of teams? The public poll results suggest 412 Members are definitely interested in joining a team and 170 Members might be. The poll was limited to Members only, but there are only 5 Registered Users participating in Season 4. We'd need 59 teams to support all “definite” Members and 84 teams to support all “Definite” and “Maybe” members.

Process Idea: (Langdon) What I had in mind: (1) Someone wants to lead a team, so they post to the forums and get 6 other people interested. (2) The team leader uses a “Create Team” interface that asks for all necessary details (team name, logo, list of 6 non-lead members. (3) An invitiation is sent to all 6 other members who must accept the request before the team is created officially. (4) Upon acceptance from all 6 members, the team is officially created and added to the season. (5) We announce that team creation will open on say March 1st at midnight… everyone who wants to participate should be around to create their teams as spots could fill up quickly. (6) Once the team limit is hit, access to the team creation interface let's everyone know that this season is full and offers users a way to sign up to the free agent list.