CWC modification competition

Hey,

I've been doing a fair bit of work lately, in setting up a local Nerf Community. I still haven't managed to get anything permanent organised yet, due to work commitments, and the inability to find a couple other adults to help out when I'm unavailable. So far, we've had a couple of small wars within Scouts and Youth Group, so progress is being made.

What does this mean... Well, I thought it was time to give a bit back to the online community, and not just my local community. So, here we have it...

The CWC modification competition.

Rules are as follows:

Rules -

No home-mades. Home-mades may be mounted inside a Nerf shell etc.

Entry must contain pictures of the blaster.

Entry must contain a brief explanation/write-up of modifications completed.

All blaster paint jobs must be war-legal (ie: no black blaster's etc)

Blasters will be scored accordingly -
Originality: 0/5
Cosmetics: 0/5
Practicality: 0/5
Difficulty: 0/5 (meaning, 5 = too easy, 0 = too hard)
Range: 0/5 (pertaining to standard modded ranges from particular blaster)

Any member/admin/donator/merchant/organiser may enter, but must reside in Australia to receive prizes.

Judging Panel - Clunk, WinterStrike, 2120, Lefty,

You may enter only 2 blasters.

Deadline is the 23rd of September, 2011. Judging will commence after this.

I'll be giving away prizes for a few different categories:

Best overall blaster

Best Springer

Best Air Blaster

Best war practical blaster

Best Newb modification

Best original/craziest modification

Best paint-job

Best Simple Modification ie: least amount of tooling used

CWC Encouragement Award

Still not certain about what the prizes will be, but so far I'm looking at:

CWC LED clear maverick with BT spring upgrade, AR's, Roulette etc etc
CWC logo 18-rd Stampede clips
Tasco 4 x 20 scope
Tasco 3-7 x 20 scope
A Red Dot Scope of some description
Foam Sports Heavy Sili darts
CWC Stinger darts
CWC Stampede Voltage upgrade kit
CWC LS brass breech

Depending on the number of entries, I'll dig through my wares to see what else I have that may be interesting.

Whilst I'm allowing people to enter two blaster's, every entrant will only be able to win one prize (just to keep it fair).

Here's an example of what we're looking for with the write-up:

CWC LongShot Mod
Installed 9/16" Brass Breech
Added X spring/s
Teflon tape and after-market o-ring to improve plunger head seal
Hot-glue to fill deadspace in brass bolt
Boltsled reinforced with alu brackets and wire
Butt-stock reinforced with conduit to prevent collapsing
Installed external pump-action grip
Added red-laser sighting module and forward-clicky activation switch near clip release
Replaced catch spring with beefier unit
Range - ???ft with ??? degree elevation


Please post all entries here: http://www.oznerf.com/t3673-cwc-modification-competition-entries-only-commenting-will-result-in-a-7-day-ban#66415

Any entries posted in this thread will be disregarded.

Cheers,

Can a homemade be placed inside a Nerf Blaster or can it only be an integration for something else?

I'm aiming for the encouragement award

Seriously though, this is a great idea. Keen to see what everyone can come up with.

yeh Lilbro, I can't see why you can't enter a home-made inside of a Nerf shell.

As long as it looks like something you could use at a war.

Otherwise, replacement plunger tube's etc wouldn't be allowed.

Cheers,

Not sure if I missed this but who judges the blasters? Is it community based voting?

No, it won't be a community-based event. There will be a judging panel comprised of people who haven't entered a blaster. Obviously, myself being one, but I still haven't finalised the other judges.

Cheers,

Very cool idea mate. Might just be the motivation I need to actually finish some of my projects.

Excellent, I shall definitely be putting in my latest hunter project in here . . .

Hey Clunk,

I love the idea. Though perhaps I'd add a my 2 cents regarding the criteria.
I think pictures should take heavy precedence over write-ups. Or even having a video. Very hard to judge something on a few photos, and practicability will be better determined if relative to someone trying to shoot it, reload it, etc.

I wouldn't mind helping out in some of the categories, especially the best newb mod LOL that's something close to my heart.. perhaps a modification that doesn't require a dremel or other electrical tools would be the criteria..

When is the deadline?

Should have read more....

2120 wrote:Hey Clunk,

I love the idea. Though perhaps I'd add a my 2 cents regarding the criteria.
I think pictures should take heavy precedence over write-ups. Or even having a video. Very hard to judge something on a few photos, and practicability will be better determined if relative to someone trying to shoot it, reload it, etc.

I wouldn't mind helping out in some of the categories, especially the best newb mod LOL that's something close to my heart.. perhaps a modification that doesn't require a dremel or other electrical tools would be the criteria..

Yeh, I don't want a big concentration on the write-up, more so on pic's. I will accept vids as an addition to the pic's.

For the Write-up, I'm looking for something like this:

LongShot Mod
Installed 9/16" Brass Breech
Added X spring/s
Teflon tape and after-market o-ring to improve plunger head seal
Hot-glue to fill deadspace in brass bolt
Boltsled reinforced with alu brackets and wire
Butt-stock reinforced with conduit to prevent collapsing
Installed external pump-action grip
Added red-laser sighting module and forward-clicky activation switch near clip release
Replaced catch spring with beefier unit
Range - ?? ft with ?? degree elevation

This just allows better consideration for the level of effort and/or technical skills involved in the mod. I don't want people's life story about said modification.

As for the newb section - I'm more leaning towards people that haven't modded much, as opposed to limiting tooling.
Being a tradesman myself, I can appreciate those people who want to have the best tools they can afford (I also know what it's like to make shit work with whatever you've got lying around - I do have my MacGyver scout badge..)
More so, I'm catering for those newb's who are thinking it's not worth entering, when they have to compete against people with a lot more skills and/or disposable income.
I do like your ideas though, so I'm going to include Best Simple Mod.

I'm still working out the judging panel, but if anyone does want to express interest, just send me a PM. Obviously, you won't be able to submit an entry if you're going to be helping judge it.

Fixed my post, just need to hunt down my old pics now.

Swatsonia wrote:Fixed my post, just need to hunt down my old pics now.

No problems mate, I've updated the first post to make the entry requirements a bit clearer.

Nice work too, btw.

Cheers,

I consider this to be a great thing you're doing. I don't think anyone could argue that. I'd like to put up my hand for judging as I definitely won't be entering since I'm fail at modding but yet have seen more mods IRL than most ever will.

Winterstrike wrote:I consider this to be a great thing you're doing. I don't think anyone could argue that. I'd like to put up my hand for judging as I definitely won't be entering since I'm fail at modding but yet have seen more mods IRL than most ever will.

You're hired mate.

I have a simple plan for judging. I'd like to get a panel of 5, and get each judge to decide on their favourite for each category, once the competition has closed. Then, the blaster with the most votes in each category is the winner.

I'll work something out if there's a tie. Depending on the amount of entries, I may even look at a 1st and 2nd prize in any category where the votes are tied.

Thanks again for your input. It'd be appreciated if you posted this up on AN too - as I'm aiming at the entire Australian Nerf community. Obviously though, people will need to be a member on here to post their entry. Anyway, it's up to you if you'd like to post the link.

Cheers,

I definitely will, I'll even help chip in for prizes if needs be. We can run all sorts of things together, whatever helps the community out is good. As a judge, I'd like to say that a video will really help score points with judging as we can see how it's used, fired, etc. I also award points for durability, so if you can drop your gun onto hard concrete from five feet without it breaking that will score points with this particular judge(I'm rather clumsy).

Well, if it stops raining I might be able to paint some of my blasters and see how it goes.

Not sure about how mine will stack up against other people's, but I have nothing to lose and everything to gain!

Cool idea, keen to see what everyone comes up with

False wrote:Well, if it stops raining I might be able to paint some of my blasters and see how it goes.

Not sure about how mine will stack up against other people's, but I have nothing to lose and everything to gain!

That's exactly the attitude that I'm looking for mate. Most people have something on their workbench. It doesn't take much extra effort to take a few pic's and do a brief write-up of mod's completed. As you said, nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Hopefully the weather clears up for you mate. You'd have to think you'd get a few days of good weather in the next 4 weeks...

Cheers,

Righto, as per normal, nothing can get done around here without flaming from the usual suspects. So, to address a few topic's:

1. Range - if people bothered to read the judging criteria, they would realise that range will be taken in to consideration in reference to standard ranges from that particular modification. There is no category whatsoever for longest shooting blaster. The range category allows for judging on dead-space removal, plunger seal effectiveness etc etc, which are all signs of people going that extra mile with their project's.

2. The title CWC Modification Competition - This comp. is not being organised by OzNerf, or any other Nerf forum site. I'm running it through OzNerf, as that is the online community that I'm referring to in my first post. At this stage, all prizes are being donated by myself, which has been funded by my sales and commission's through CWC (which, for all the hater's, is a registered business...).

3. Biase against AN member's - this is another little trolling effort, that is being wasted on myself. I have had interest expressed by two member's of AN to be judges, which I have accepted, so I'm unsure as to how that can be biased...

4. The competition is "full of sh#t" - well, that's just the attitude I'd expect from a few select people. No one is forcing anybody to enter, this has been set-up as a bit of fun, and for member's to show-off their modding skills.

Cheers,

Great idea Clunk. I hope to have mine ready when its time.

boosted6 wrote:Great idea Clunk. I hope to have mine ready when its time.

haha - I'm sure you'll make the dealine mate. I figured you would enter your octo for sure, or are you still doing the paint job?!?

Cheers,

No Not the Octo, will be finishing the other one with the speed loader.

Just the paint job to do. Once winter is over...

May as well give it a shot. I'll see what I come up with. Just to get this straight, do the mods have to be war legal (eg singled Titan etc.) and also can I have integrations?

Hey clunk, I'm thinking of ratching up the entry requirement in terms of detail, information in order to give us judges better opportunities to judge properly. I agree with WS, some kind of video evidence needs to be mandatory. It might be hard to upload... but pics I feel are insufficient in judging some of the criteria.

danerfdude wrote:May as well give it a shot. I'll see what I come up with. Just to get this straight, do the mods have to be war legal (eg singled Titan etc.) and also can I have integrations?

For the majority of categories, it doesn't need to be war legal. Integrations are fine.

2120 wrote:Hey clunk, I'm thinking of ratching up the entry requirement in terms of detail, information in order to give us judges better opportunities to judge properly. I agree with WS, some kind of video evidence needs to be mandatory. It might be hard to upload... but pics I feel are insufficient in judging some of the criteria.

If you want to mate, go right ahead. I understand where you're coming from, but I won't make video's mandatory. I'm sure there's a few people who don't have access to cam-corder's, and I don't want anyone to miss out on entering due to something like that. If people want to include a video with their entry, that's fine by me, as long as it's to the point, and not their life-story on film.

Cheers,

Basically, I'm suggesting there needs to be set 'requirements' as to the entry so be able to be judged. Just comparing holdentem's and rocafix's posts just then, you can definitely see the possible disparities in the entries. I would be able to more accurately judge the latter, whilst the former has 1 picture and 23 words. Shadownerfer's post 'style' is even worse.

Judges can only 'judge' what's in front of them, not make any assumptions based on this person's age, previous modding abilities, reputation in the forum, etc.

Perhaps a little guideline in the original post, e.g.

"Please ensure for the sake of the judging, that you have sufficient pictures from different angles of the blaster to support any textual information you have added. Video is optional, but it is highly encouraged.

If you have posted a separate thread for your mod, please attach a link."

I get what you're saying man but I'm pretty sure people will realise their mod will be more presentable if they put more effort into the submission.
By making the rules of submission too strict it will just limit the number of entries.
The real purpose of this comp is just to encourage everyone to get their creative modding juices flowing so that we have more cool, unique content here.

well I've tried to have some compromise from clunk's points.. hence the stuff in quotations in my last post. I don't think my revised suggestion has been too strict. Best we give them some guidelines than nothing at all.

Also I understand the intentions of clunk starting this, I'm just talking about it from a judging perspective.

2120 wrote:

Judges can only 'judge' what's in front of them, not make any assumptions based on this person's age, previous modding abilities, reputation in the forum, etc.

Agree 100%. Obviously, the more effort put in to the submission, will result in a higher possible scoring of the actual modification.

When it comes to the best newb mod and encouragement award, the person's age, mod abilities will come in to play. I'm not concerned with their reputation.

Cheers,

... so weird question. Does the Nerf Unity Power System count as one blaster, or three?

Three blaster's mate, but it would only count as one entry.

Same goes if anyone wants to enter a modular system. ie: longshot with modular barricade attachment etc etc.

Cheers,

Come on guys n girls,

We've had 12 entries in less than a week. I'm positive there's a lot more member's out there with modded blaster's that would stand a pretty good chance of winning one of the categories!!!

Cheers,

If my parts come in i'll be entering my bbb. Otherwise I have a good looking nf but cant get pics up on here. I have some on face book though. Just needs a lick of paint.

Yeah Clunk,
Working on my entry. Should be entered soon.