README: Mapping Challenge Rules

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The leader running the challenge will post when the closing date and time is and normally you get a couple of posts notifying people of a day to go. Often it is late because we have life / work commitments but once its closed then the challenge threads get locked and the voting poll is put up. So you can start a map on the last day and work on it right up to the wire so long as you get your final updates in before the thread gets locked. Often tho its better to work on it a bit through the month or else people wont follow it and appreciate the map. But if you were to put in a super map on the last day then its possible it could win. You would need to show that you did the map yourself with some progress images as well.

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The leader running the challenge will post when the closing date and time is and normally you get a couple of posts notifying people of a day to go. Often it is late because we have life / work commitments but once its closed then the challenge threads get locked and the voting poll is put up. So you can start a map on the last day and work on it right up to the wire so long as you get your final updates in before the thread gets locked. Often tho its better to work on it a bit through the month or else people wont follow it and appreciate the map. But if you were to put in a super map on the last day then its possible it could win. You would need to show that you did the map yourself with some progress images as well.

Sorry, I'm confused... you said you can post a map on the last day, but the rules says 5 days :

Each month a mapping topic or concept will be announced and entries must be received 5 days before the end of the month. Judging will take place during those last 5 days, and a winner will be announced within that time frame.

The following procedures must be followed in order to join the mapping challenge.
[LIST][*]Entry deadline - Entries for each Challenge must be posted prior to the last five days of that particular Challenges month.

So, which is it ?

[Falconius]

Sorry, I'm confused... you said you can post a map on the last day, but the rules says 5 days :



So, which is it ?

Honestly the rule you quoted looks antiquated to me. It hasn't gone that way for a long time. The way that reads is the quote reads is that 5 days before the end of the month the contest is closed and threads locked and then voting begins. The way it works now is generally on the last of the month the contest closes and the threads are locked. The only real difference seems to be that voting closes faster (I fell like 3 days? generally) and the time frames. ie it's pretty much the same but those 5 days have been shortened and moved to the end of the month (ie the beginning of the next month).