Hey BR staff. I just wanted to reply and let you know what I, the team leader for the front running team at the moment, thinks of this event. Apparently a lot of people have been giving you flac for this, and I just want you to know that I think this idea and event were great.
You let us know ahead of time that we should rely on short threads to get us through, if someone wants to complain about not being able to- they probably should have taken that as a clue not to sign up, or try to pack more actions into each post to make up for the time lost in between posts. If someone wants to complain about not being able to complete long posts, they need to remember it was their choice to do so.
Finally, you gave everyone what I think was more than enough time to finish it. My team waited over a day before we moved on from our thread and we still finished in time. But it does bring up a good point and my one suggestion.
People need to step it up and decide to be a team leader or not. I saw a LOT of people asking to be added to teams, which is fine, but this indecision is why more teams were not formed. If you want to be on a team, make a team! There are enough people that someone will want to be on a team with you, don't put yourself down or think no one will want to. And as a team leader who made this mistake, here is the other important thing to keep in mind that I didn't realize- not everyone is in the same timezone or has the same schedule as you. Talk to your team members before you finalize plans. It's important to communicate, and if you haven't been able to get in contact with them since you sent in your team form chances are you won't after the event starts.
My suggestion for this is simple, people who want to be added onto teams should just post a blurb about themselves. Contact info, timezone/times you're online and active. That way team leaders can pick potential members based on who they could create the fastest thread with, and share ideas with. This certainly isn't a problem on the fault of the staff, but of myself as team leader for not thinking about this and ending up losing two team members in the first day of the event. Although this worked out well for Dirk and Alanna so I'm hardly complaining.
ANYWAY, this was rambling and I'm really sorry about that but I had a lot of feelings and ideas buzzing around in my head about this event. I think it was a great idea, and that you guys did really well execution-wise for letting everyone choose their own basic plot. I don't think you guys did anything wrong, in fact I congratulate you for what I think is a fairly original idea. I'd definitely participate in another event like this one, although I'd take the precautionary measures before hand and probably keep my group to 2 or 3.
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