Just after the launch of many new projects, including CrazyGadget and Wesk's GC Nano, comes the 8th Summer Building Competition! As always, first time modders and enthusiasts alike are all welcomed to enter their projects and show off their skills! This year however, we've decided to spice up the prizes a bit...
Information
The 2023 Summer Building Competition officially begins June 1st and ends October 1st. Projects started in the month of May will be allowed as entries. After concluding the community will vote and results will be revealed shortly after.
Keeping with tradition, there will be three categories each entry will be voted on. Each category counts as one vote - meaning if someone voted for the same entry in all three categories, that entry would gain 3 votes overall.
Rules
Our goal each year is to make the contest as fair as possible for everyone participating and we hope that these rules achieve that goal. By reading through the list of contest rules found below, you’re helping to ensure that all involved in the contest has a good experience.
By registering for the contest, you’re letting us know that you agree to the rules stated above. Breaking the rules (namely the first one) put you at risk of being disqualified from the contest and banned from BitBuilt events and or services. Any necessary punishment is decided by BitBuilt staff and is final. When in doubt about anything, reach out to myself, @CrashBash or a staff member on the forums / Discord and we will advise you or direct you to someone who can aid you.1. All work must be done by you and only you. Commissions involving your contest project are not allowed at any point throughout the duration of the contest while you remain a participant. This includes board trimming, PCB design, case design, wiring of any kind, etc. If you are unsure of what this includes, please ask before going ahead with it to prevent you from being disqualified.
2. A worklog with pictures must be made on the forums. A piece of paper or index card must also be visible in photographs with some variation of “BitBuilt 2023 Summer Building Competition” along with your forum username displayed on it.
3. At the end of the contest, a video of your project is required and must be submitted along with your final contest submission. This video must include a demo of all aspects of the project along with the features listed in your submission as to prove their functionality. Any project found lacking video proof of any features will not have those features listed alongside their project during voting in order to keep things fair.
4. Your entry must not be an entry from previous years completed or otherwise. It must have been started in or after May of 2023.
5. When making your thread select the "Worklog" prefix. Once your entry is complete and also has your submission video, edit the original post to change the prefix to "Completed".
A tip of advice: Remember your peers will be voting for you. Making a clean work log and or a spending time on your entry video may prove beneficial in portraying your submission to voters!
Registration
In order to register, you must first log in, go to your account dropdown menu, and click “Account Upgrades”.
After that, you can click “Purchase” under the Available Upgrades section and pay the $2 entry fee. Once you have paid the fee, you will automatically be given a banner to denote that you are a contestant in the Competition!
Once you are ready make your worklog in the 2023 Summer Contest subforum. See rule 5 for thread prefix rules.
Make sure to pay attention to the stickies here on the forums as well as the Discord Channel. Any and all new information, such as the prizes, will be announced in those places respectively.
Good luck to all!
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2023-09-30: Important update!
We're reaching final submission time and there's not many completed entries. In order to allow for there to be sufficient competition during the voting phase we're extending the submission and winner announcement dates back one week.
We understand, however, this is not fair to those who finish on time. As a result, anyone who finishes on time will receive a 20% "bonus" to their votes when counting votes to choose a winner.
~Crash
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2023-10-08: Voting Link:
BitBuilt Summer 2023 Contest Voting
Respond below to vote for the competition entries that, in your opinion, best fulfill each voting section detailed below. Full rules and details are available here: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/bitbuilts-2023-summer-building-competition.5710/ See the list of completed projects...
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