[The Dark Star Republic]

Here is a previous IDU Cheese Festival

In 2015, the IDU Cheese Festival will return to the world of NationStates. As always, there will be three prizes:

Best Cheese [open to IDU residents only]
Best Imported Cheese [open to non-IDU residents only]
Best Cheese Related Product [open to IDU and non-IDU residents]

The format will be simple: people submit a description of their cheeses and cheese products, and then we vote on the winners. If people want to do a roleplay relating to the festival that will also be allowed.

I want to keep this simple because regional activity is too low to be overly ambitious. Here are some things we should decide on:

• Do we want to change the format at all?
  
  
• Do we want to conduct the Festival on the IDU forum or on the NS forum?
  
  
• Should we create a jury/panel for voting, or allow all IDU forum members to vote, or something else?
  
  

Any thoughts are welcome.

[Bears Armed]

My opinion:
Same format
IDU forum, but with mentions in the NS forum -- and in members' sigs.
Let all IDU nations vote (with an OOC understanding that any player with more than one nation involved will arrange their votes to balance so that the result is the same as if they only had one single nation voting anyway?)

Do we have a 'tie-breaker' procedure in case [for example] every nation with an entry in the first category votes for its own cheese?

:Bear:

[The Dark Star Republic]

Thank you for the feedback; nonetheless, I can't help but feel the activity of this thread is an argument against holding it on these forums.

[Gnejs]

I think we should try doing this again, at least a few current active IDU members would propably participate, I know I would.

[Sciongrad]

I agree. If there's enough interest, I'm positive we could easily set something up.

[Bears Armed]

Agreed.

I've done a bot of work on this nation's cheeses from time to time, partly because there's one region's long-term delegate who expects to be bribed (IC) with the stuff as their price for approving & supporting GA proposals...

:Bear: