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Challenge One - Themed Decoration

At a Glance

Your Community Leader will be submitting pictures of up to 4 player-decorated houses per game. How those delegates are chosen is up to the Community Leader to decide. For Pirate101, houses will be Tavern themed. For Wizard101, they will be Magical Library themed. We *strongly* encourage a wide interpretation of the themes and taking a unique approach to decorating your house. Submissions are due September 21st 10pm CT.

General Tournament Reminders

This is one of 4 total challenges that will happen throughout the CSC. The top 4 communities for each challenge will win a number of Standing Points depending on their position in the top 4. At the end of the Tournament, the community (in each game) with the most Standing Points will win the Ultimate Prize: Each game will have a mount-variant added that is themed after the winning community + all the winning participants will receive a similarly themed trophy housing item!

For each challenge, the top 4 communities will also receive 5-15 1-month memberships! Communities can compete in both games, and there are a total of 288 1-month memberships to win!

Challenge Details

Your Community Leader will be submitting pictures of up to 4 player-decorated houses per game. How those delegates are chosen is up to the Community Leader to decide.

For Pirate101, your theme is: Tavern.
For Wizard101, your theme is: Magical Library.

We *strongly* encourage a wide interpretation of the themes and taking a unique approach to decorating your house. Submissions are due September 21st 10pm CT.

We are asking for the best themed housing decorators to show us what they can do! For each game, there are two categories for this challenge. UnRestricted(UR) and Free-to-play(F2P).

Your community may submit up to 3 pictures per submission
Your community may have up to 3 UR submissions and 1 F2P submission
Unrestricted = You may use any items, houses, etc. But remember, more does not always mean better.
F2P = You may ONLY use houses and items obtained with GOLD
F2P may use any items purchased from the Bazaar. HOWEVER, because many housing items may be purchased with crowns then sold in the Bazaar, we will give slight preference to F2P submissions that make clever use of housing items that did NOT originate from "Crown purchased item -> Bazaar". We hope this discourages players from purchasing housing items to instantly sell to a F2P decorator waiting in the Bazaar to make a quick "legal" purchase.

Which delegates your Community Leader decides to submit is up to them. They may host a mini-decoration contest, a community vote, a random decision, etc. The specific rules and details of that decision making process are 100% up to the Community Leader and are NOT subject to interference by KingsIsle unless community guidelines and/or general tournament rules are violated.

Challenge Scoring

Once all submissions have been sent in by Community Leaders, - Reminder: Deadline is September 21st, 10pm - the community team at KingsIsle will choose the best UR submission from each community. All UR submissions will be ranked against each other. All F2P submissions will be ranked against each other.

We will rank both categories separately. Your goal is to obtain the lowest rank possible in each category. Your ranks in each category are added together to make your Challenge Score. The lowest score wins, so 1st place is best place!
If both your categories obtain 1st place, your Challenge Score will be calculated: 1+1 = 2, aka the best possible score. Here's an example scenario:

Community 1: Your UR gets 3rd place, and your F2P gets 10th place. Thus, your Challenge Score is 3+10= 13.
Community 2: Your UR gets 1st place, and your F2P gets 2nd place. Thus, your Challenge Score is 1+2= 3.
Community 3: Your UR gets 2nd place, and your F2P gets 1st place. Thus, your Challenge Score is ALSO 2+1= 3.
Community 4: Your UR gets 8th place, and your F2P gets 10th place. Thus, your Challenge Score is 8+10= 18.

As you can see, Example 2 and 3 are tied for the win. Ties will be won by the community with the better UR score. So in this scenario, Community 2 wins.

Challenge FAQ's

Q. I'd like to show off my house but I'm not a delegate for my community. How can I do that? A. We'd love to see your house! Post pictures on Twitter with the hashtag #SpiralCupHouse. These tweets will not count as official submissions, but we'd love to see your work nonetheless!

Q. What is the difference between an Unrestricted(UR) and F2P (Free to Play) player in this challenge?
A. Unrestricted players have the option of using houses (and housing items) that can be purchased through the Crowns Shop or Bundles. A F2P player will only be able to submit a house decorated with F2P items you earn in game or purchased at the bazaar, not through the Crowns Shop or Bundles. Reminder: we will give slight preference to F2P submissions that make clever use of housing items that did NOT originate from "Crown purchased item -> Bazaar". We hope this discourages players from purchasing housing items to instantly sell to a F2P decorator waiting in the Bazaar to make a quick "legal" purchase.

Q. How can I help my community if I am not a chosen delegate for this challenge?
A. You can either help the chosen delegates with their house or try and get bonus points! Remember, the best work of art and best meme of the challenge are each worth 1 Standing Point!

Q. What counts as a F2P item/house and what counts as "allowed but not in the spirit of F2P"
A. This is an important question, as we are giving slight preference to F2P submissions that stay within the spirit of F2P. For example: While you may technically obtain a guild house using a 100% F2P account, you have to obtain max level to start a guild. Thus, this is technically allowed but not "in the spirit of F2P" as there are very, very few 100% F2P accounts with a max level character.

Q. What about codes or items obtained during extended free-content periods?
A. Allowed, but since a player cannot start an account today and freely obtain those items, we consider them to not be in spirit of F2P.

Q. Are houses from the Crown shop that cost gold allowed and in spirit?
A. Since they are purchasable with gold and available without needing to involve Crowns or Membership at any point, yes.

Q. What about [x niche scenario]?
A. You'll need to use your best judgement or DM Hawkules/Kyle. If a player can start an account today and obtain an item without spending a dime on membership or Crowns, that item or house is allowed and within the spirit of F2P. If a F2P player must obtain a large number of levels outside the normal range gained by playing all F2P content like the guild house, then you can assume it is legal but not in the spirit of F2P.

Q. How big of an impact will this "slight preference" be?
A. If you use a small number of "not in spirit" items you should easily rely on your decorating skills to be the decision maker. If your F2P submission has a significant portion of "not in spirit" items, you'll need a pretty outstanding house to overcome a great one that's in spirit.