Week 11 - Updates
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therealljidol I've been listening to people's comments and I asked the Wheel about an adjustment. There was a BIG item that is on the Wheel that I asked if I could just go ahead and bring it out now. The Wheel said no. Which, is probably smart. Let the Wheel have it's time to bring about the chaos on it's own schedule.
The other idea was approved though.
So the antidote is going to be working a little differently. Rather than it staying in the hands of one person, STARTING NOW, that decision is going to be made by the group.
Now you all have a stake in who lives and who dies. It's not just the actions of the killer(s), you will be able to predict their next move and get ahead of them, or fail to protect the next victim!
This will take place before the entry deadline, at the same time you are submitting accusations! So you could actually stop the next death - if you guess the target right!
Just add it to your accusation email (clauderainsrm@gmail.com). Just make sure to let me know which choice is for which thing. :D
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Everyone comes out to Idol for something different. I think that's one of the biggest concepts for people to try to get their heads around. A lot of them fail to do it, because it's easier to assume that everyone is here for the same reason you are. Just like it's easier to think that everyone agrees on what is a good entry/who is the best/who "deserves" what.... these competing believes are at the center of Idol. It's part of what makes me love what has been created here over the last nearly two decades.
I've been thinking a lot lately about why this special event is all twists... part of it was the one just before had hardly any - so it seemed like the next natural step. People complained about the lack of twists. Be there are people who don't like that there are so many. :D Again, it's because people are here for different reasons...
But all of you end up accomplishing the same thing - you write absolutely brilliant entries. Some is fiction. Some non-fiction or poetry... over the years pretty much anything you could think of to create in this space has been created!
The twists were put in place early on for a couple big reasons - (1) to keep things interesting, not only for the contestants to keep you invested, but also the audience who wasn't playing. Also for me! (2) to keep things fair. Especially early on in Idol there were people with massive, active friends groups. There were also people who came in knowing no one. What was to keep someone coming in and just dominating the entire time with no hope for anyone else? Twists. It keeps people on their toes and in a lot of cases it doesn't mean that it's the end of the road for anyone with a more supportive base. It just means that the majority of other contestants need to be OK with their winning. :) Which is it's own secret sauce!
This time was different than most in that I didn't try to make things as fair as possible. I put everything on the Wheel to make it as chaotic as possible, as interesting as possible! It's the one time when even I don't know what's going to happen next!!
I came up with a bunch of ideas, and had the Wheel decide which ones were going forward and which were not. There are some on the scrap heap that I loved and some that got through that I didn't. But that's part of why I kept saying from the moment I came up with the idea, to every single step of the way before sign ups and again over the first couple weeks that this was going to be the Idol version of Calvinball!!!
Honestly, we might end up with predictable winners. Or we might not! My only real hope when it comes to that is that people keep using it as an excuse to write some fantastic entries, to create! Because that's the one thing that everyone can agreed on, that when you show up here you are going to be doing a hell of a lot of writing!!! :)
The other idea was approved though.
So the antidote is going to be working a little differently. Rather than it staying in the hands of one person, STARTING NOW, that decision is going to be made by the group.
Now you all have a stake in who lives and who dies. It's not just the actions of the killer(s), you will be able to predict their next move and get ahead of them, or fail to protect the next victim!
This will take place before the entry deadline, at the same time you are submitting accusations! So you could actually stop the next death - if you guess the target right!
Just add it to your accusation email (clauderainsrm@gmail.com). Just make sure to let me know which choice is for which thing. :D
***
Everyone comes out to Idol for something different. I think that's one of the biggest concepts for people to try to get their heads around. A lot of them fail to do it, because it's easier to assume that everyone is here for the same reason you are. Just like it's easier to think that everyone agrees on what is a good entry/who is the best/who "deserves" what.... these competing believes are at the center of Idol. It's part of what makes me love what has been created here over the last nearly two decades.
I've been thinking a lot lately about why this special event is all twists... part of it was the one just before had hardly any - so it seemed like the next natural step. People complained about the lack of twists. Be there are people who don't like that there are so many. :D Again, it's because people are here for different reasons...
But all of you end up accomplishing the same thing - you write absolutely brilliant entries. Some is fiction. Some non-fiction or poetry... over the years pretty much anything you could think of to create in this space has been created!
The twists were put in place early on for a couple big reasons - (1) to keep things interesting, not only for the contestants to keep you invested, but also the audience who wasn't playing. Also for me! (2) to keep things fair. Especially early on in Idol there were people with massive, active friends groups. There were also people who came in knowing no one. What was to keep someone coming in and just dominating the entire time with no hope for anyone else? Twists. It keeps people on their toes and in a lot of cases it doesn't mean that it's the end of the road for anyone with a more supportive base. It just means that the majority of other contestants need to be OK with their winning. :) Which is it's own secret sauce!
This time was different than most in that I didn't try to make things as fair as possible. I put everything on the Wheel to make it as chaotic as possible, as interesting as possible! It's the one time when even I don't know what's going to happen next!!
I came up with a bunch of ideas, and had the Wheel decide which ones were going forward and which were not. There are some on the scrap heap that I loved and some that got through that I didn't. But that's part of why I kept saying from the moment I came up with the idea, to every single step of the way before sign ups and again over the first couple weeks that this was going to be the Idol version of Calvinball!!!
Honestly, we might end up with predictable winners. Or we might not! My only real hope when it comes to that is that people keep using it as an excuse to write some fantastic entries, to create! Because that's the one thing that everyone can agreed on, that when you show up here you are going to be doing a hell of a lot of writing!!! :)
