Tabard contest

What it does

The tabards page shows the official tabard and where it came from, the contest under way and the earlier ones. In each contest, members design entries in the designer, the organisers review, the vote happens on Discord through the bot and the winner becomes the official tabard. It carries the guide to build the tabard in the game.

Who sees it

Whoever shares a Discord server with the guild, in any game. Sending an entry takes a character confirmed on the guild's roster. Organising belongs to whoever opens the guild's settings. Accepting, vetoing and saying it was already put on belong to the GM: whoever has a confirmed character in the highest rank.

Where to find it

In tabards, on the guild bar. The contest's announcement on Discord has the button that leads to the designer.

How it should behave

• The limits are: entries from 2 to 30 days, review from 0 to 72 hours, voting from 1 to 14 days, and from 1 to 3 entries and from 1 to 3 votes per member. Up to 4 of the tabard's 5 parts can be locked.
• Opening the entries locks the rules: after that, only the deadlines can be extended, or the contest cancelled. If the start has already passed, all the dates move together up to now.
• A guild has at most one unfinished contest.
• An entry identical to another already sent is refused, and one identical to the current tabard cannot be sent. You can edit until the entries close, and the limit on entries counts the drafts too.
• During the entries, you see only your own entries and the count of the others; the organisers see all. From the review on, everybody sees the entries by the drawn number, without the author if authorship is anonymous. After the vote, authors and votes show.
• With no entries at all, the contest cancels itself. With only one after the review, it wins without a vote.
• A tie at the top: the organisers choose within 48 hours. With no choice, the one sent first wins.
• With the GM's veto on, they have 48 hours to accept or veto. If vetoed, the title goes to the next place and the 48 hours start again. With no answer, it stands.
• Removing an entry takes a reason, which the author gets by DM. During the vote, its votes are erased, and whoever voted for it gets the vote back.
• During the vote, the organisers see, per entry, how many votes came from accounts that joined the server in the last 24 hours, only from 3 up. Nobody sees who voted for what.
• Once decided, the winner becomes the official tabard. It is marked as in the game when the addon reads the same tabard in the game, or when the GM clicks I've put it on in the game.
• With no official tabard, what the addon reads in the game becomes the official one, and follows the game until a contest decides another.
• Votes are secret. 30 days after the decision, or at once if the contest is cancelled, the votes are erased, and only each entry's total stays.

This is not a bug

• You cannot vote on the site: the vote is only on Discord, through the Vote button. Vote on Discord leads to the channel.
• No contest opens without the bot in a guild server: the vote happens there.
• The Create an entry button does not show: the entries have not opened yet, or you have no character confirmed on the guild's roster.
• The organisers see a warning that the roster is more than 14 days old: voters are read from it. The warning locks nothing.

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