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Welcome everyone to the third week of our speculation competition redux. This week's contest is our first complete original for this round of speculation contests. What we're asking you to speculate on this time is the Dream World, and how that will change and expand with the release of Black 2 and White 2.
While Red & Blue were devoid of anything like this outside of catching the legendaries, our first taste of a minigame in Pokémon came in Yellow, with Pikachu's Beach. It's only in more recent times that we've had this area more fully developed, with contests, pokéathlons, the underground, secret bases, and the frontier. The Dream World however came as a complete surprise when it was originally announced. While the mini-games themselves were a little simple, many people found themselves oddly addicted to them. If nothing else, the frequent free Pokémon with special abilities kept them coming back.
For this particular contest, we'll be scoring you two things. Firstly, on accuracy for ideas for new mini-games that they introduce for B2W2. But since that one's practically a complete guess, it's mostly there for tie-break. What we're really interested in are your ideas for how the features of the Dream World may be expanded and/or enhanced. Doesn't have to be a totally new feature, it might just be an existing feature that's been altered and updated somehow.
As before, you're free to make your guesses as outlandish as you like. We've made a few assumptions with how we've written this post here, but you don't have to keep to them. If you think there's going to be no villain teams in the game, or something equally strange, go ahead and say why you think so. At the same time though, keep in mind that it's in your interests to be as precise as possible. Being vague in your answer won't win you any special points. We don't mark you down for what you get wrong, we mark you up for what you get right. Being vague just means you kill your own chances to score points there.
Remember also, while you can discuss things and make as many guesses as you like, only your final guess counts. So if you're the 10th person to suggest the same thing, but the first 9 people changed their minds, and you didn't, then if that ended up being the right answer, you'd win.I hope that's clear enough. If you want to make your guess count, you also need to ensure that you don't edit your post. Doing so will make us simply ignore that post when it comes to figuring out the winners at the end, since it becomes too much of a pain when we have situations where a winner depends on the posting time and who settled on the correct answer first.
This thread will be closed...well, when we feel like it really. Originally we were going to make it at the end of the week, but you know what, I think we may just keep this open right up until the we actually find out what will be in the games. So...no pressure to force yourself, but none of us know when that news will be released, so you probably shouldn't wait too long. When the information is leaked or announced, the thread will be closed immediately, and the closest guess before that happened will win.
It's our intention that this contest thread should not just be a place for everyone to post their guesses for the contest, but also a central place for you to discuss and speculate on this particular point. So don't be afraid to actually post your reasoning and logic here. There's no harm trying to convince everyone else that you're right after all, since it'd just mean that people aren't making different guesses to you, and you'd have the original guess on it anyway.
Good luck everyone!
While Red & Blue were devoid of anything like this outside of catching the legendaries, our first taste of a minigame in Pokémon came in Yellow, with Pikachu's Beach. It's only in more recent times that we've had this area more fully developed, with contests, pokéathlons, the underground, secret bases, and the frontier. The Dream World however came as a complete surprise when it was originally announced. While the mini-games themselves were a little simple, many people found themselves oddly addicted to them. If nothing else, the frequent free Pokémon with special abilities kept them coming back.
For this particular contest, we'll be scoring you two things. Firstly, on accuracy for ideas for new mini-games that they introduce for B2W2. But since that one's practically a complete guess, it's mostly there for tie-break. What we're really interested in are your ideas for how the features of the Dream World may be expanded and/or enhanced. Doesn't have to be a totally new feature, it might just be an existing feature that's been altered and updated somehow.
As before, you're free to make your guesses as outlandish as you like. We've made a few assumptions with how we've written this post here, but you don't have to keep to them. If you think there's going to be no villain teams in the game, or something equally strange, go ahead and say why you think so. At the same time though, keep in mind that it's in your interests to be as precise as possible. Being vague in your answer won't win you any special points. We don't mark you down for what you get wrong, we mark you up for what you get right. Being vague just means you kill your own chances to score points there.
Remember also, while you can discuss things and make as many guesses as you like, only your final guess counts. So if you're the 10th person to suggest the same thing, but the first 9 people changed their minds, and you didn't, then if that ended up being the right answer, you'd win.I hope that's clear enough. If you want to make your guess count, you also need to ensure that you don't edit your post. Doing so will make us simply ignore that post when it comes to figuring out the winners at the end, since it becomes too much of a pain when we have situations where a winner depends on the posting time and who settled on the correct answer first.
This thread will be closed...well, when we feel like it really. Originally we were going to make it at the end of the week, but you know what, I think we may just keep this open right up until the we actually find out what will be in the games. So...no pressure to force yourself, but none of us know when that news will be released, so you probably shouldn't wait too long.
When the information is leaked or announced, the thread will be closed immediately, and the closest guess before that happened will win.It's our intention that this contest thread should not just be a place for everyone to post their guesses for the contest, but also a central place for you to discuss and speculate on this particular point. So don't be afraid to actually post your reasoning and logic here. There's no harm trying to convince everyone else that you're right after all, since it'd just mean that people aren't making different guesses to you, and you'd have the original guess on it anyway.
Good luck everyone!
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