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Overview
The competition is based on a participant model, where all entries are public
web sites that are reviewed by participants. The objective is that the competition
be an active learning experience where the participants are members of a community engaging in a global
dialog.
Members of the community serve a dual role as both competitor and juror. Reflecting this
dual role, the members will be organized into two groups, where each serves as a jury for the other. The group you are in is your competition
group, and the other group is your review group. You compete against
the members of your competition group, attempting to produce a design that will
be chosen over theirs. You review the members of your review group, seeking to
select the most worthy entrant through voting. Voting will proceed in a series
of stages until a winner is chosen for each group.
The two-group organization separates the members you are evaluating from those you are competing against, so that the votes you cast do not influence
the outcome of your project. See Frequently Asked Questions for details about the voting process.
Here are the basic steps for participation:
- Register via the registration
form. During registration,
you will select an alias to that will used to identify the project on
the ACADIA competition site.
Deadline: November 1, 2001, 22:00 GMT.
- Send in your entry fee via
surface mail or
PayPal. (student entries must also send in documentation of
student status, see the
registration instructions). When ACADIA receives your fee
and/or documentation, we will send you an email notice that you can
activate your entry.
Deadline: Received by ACADIA before November 15, 2001.
- When your entry web site is ready for public
viewing, activate it via the
activation form. Activation will
link your entry from the competition web site and create a discussion area for
other participants to comment on your entry. Entries must be activated before
the deadline in order to participate.
Deadline: November 28, 2001, 22:00 GMT.
- During the voting periods, vote for the top entries on your ballot.
There are three two-week voting periods during the competition, when you will
have access to a ballot including a random subset of entries from your review group. Failure
to submit a ballot during a voting period disqualifies a member from further
participation.
Deadline: See schedule.
Rules
- All competition submittals will be web sites
hosted on any Internet server. The submittals will be linked from the ACADIA Competition
Site.
- A competition member may be a team of individuals. The team composition may change over the course
of the competition.
- Shortly after the activation deadline, the pool of competition entries will
be divided into two groups, where members from each group will evaluate
and vote on entries from the other group. The groups will be called 'Group 1',
and 'Group A'.
- Votes will be held in three stages. Each stage
requires each member to evaluate a random subset of entries from the other group and
cast votes for the top-ranking projects in that subset. At each stage,
there will be one ballot per member.
- Ballots will be organized so that no two ballots have the same set of entries.
The entries on ballots will be listed in random order.
- Members who advance in a stage will
be free to invite non-advancing members to join them in continuing the competition.
- Participation in voting is integral to the competition
process. Any member who fails to vote during a voting period will be disqualified
from further participation.
- Detailed information concerning votes and balloting will be treated as confidential.
- The ACADIA Competition Committee
is responsible for determining ballot groupings, tallying votes, and identifying
advancing entries. Members will be notified of their status by email, and advancing
entries at each stage will be posted on the ACADIA Competition Site.
- ACADIA reserves the right to revoke
the participation of any member whose behavior it deems inappropriate or disruptive.
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