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Hi guys, just posting some information about my current plans for this event.
General Info
This Anime/Manga Trivia Challenge should function similarly to how the VG Trivia and VGM Trivia have traditionally been hosted. Each day there will be a series of trivia questions or audio clues that participants have to get the answer to. What actually made me interested in wanting to host this event was thinking that perhaps it'd be a cool thing to have people guess the opening themes to anime and kind of celebrating that music. So my focus going into planning was more about the music aspect of anime.
Scheduling
The event will run all days of the event, which should be 15 days unless I'm counting run. I plan on alternating "OST Trivia" and "Other Trivia" so people don't get bored having to do the same thing every day. Answers should be submitted by 11:59pm EST on the day of.
Scoring
Team-based scoring. It's probably going to be similar to VG Trivia or VGM Trivia but I'm currently thinking 10 questions per day, 5 points for each question, and maybe like 5-10 bonus points if you get perfect. All subject to change.
More Specific Stuff
In general, I want the event to get a bit more challenging as we get later into the GT. For the "OST Trivia", I think it'll move from just opening themes to including ending themes to including some BGM from the OST or something.
As for the "Other Trivia", I think it's probably gonna be more miscellaneous stuff. I did want to do more Manga-related things for these days so as to not have the event so "one-sided" in terms of content. I want to shy away from "meta" questions like which studios/publishing companies did which series and more towards the content of the series themselves. The only exception to this is probably some things related to dubs or English localizations. Other ideas I have would be guessing a character based on a picture or silhouette or naming whichever anime/manga a character comes from.
Concerns
One of my concerns regarding this event is the possible spoiling of series it might have on participants (mostly for the non-music parts of the event). To increase difficulty, I was considering including characters that appear later on in a series or things of a similar nature. I don't think a spoiler warning in the event description would suffice, seeing as it's for all anime/manga. I'll probably just proceed as is but I will keep in mind not to ask certain types of questions. If anyone has any thoughts or would like to discuss with me, I'm all open for it.
Another concern I had was related to the representation and difficulty of the trivia. I'm generally not a super big anime watcher, so I'll have to do some research for this event. But the anime/manga that I have the most knowledge about are the most standard Shounen things out there. It may be hard for me to accurately represent the wide range of anime that a "normal" anime watcher may have in this quiz. Something I consider difficult may not be difficult to others, and the opposite is also true. I may consider, say, Vegeta's theme from DBZ to be iconic and easy points, but other people might not because they're too young for DBZ or they don't watch that kind of anime. Perhaps this question goes out to other people who have hosted similar events - what did you end up doing?
General Info
This Anime/Manga Trivia Challenge should function similarly to how the VG Trivia and VGM Trivia have traditionally been hosted. Each day there will be a series of trivia questions or audio clues that participants have to get the answer to. What actually made me interested in wanting to host this event was thinking that perhaps it'd be a cool thing to have people guess the opening themes to anime and kind of celebrating that music. So my focus going into planning was more about the music aspect of anime.
Scheduling
The event will run all days of the event, which should be 15 days unless I'm counting run. I plan on alternating "OST Trivia" and "Other Trivia" so people don't get bored having to do the same thing every day. Answers should be submitted by 11:59pm EST on the day of.
Scoring
Team-based scoring. It's probably going to be similar to VG Trivia or VGM Trivia but I'm currently thinking 10 questions per day, 5 points for each question, and maybe like 5-10 bonus points if you get perfect. All subject to change.
More Specific Stuff
In general, I want the event to get a bit more challenging as we get later into the GT. For the "OST Trivia", I think it'll move from just opening themes to including ending themes to including some BGM from the OST or something.
As for the "Other Trivia", I think it's probably gonna be more miscellaneous stuff. I did want to do more Manga-related things for these days so as to not have the event so "one-sided" in terms of content. I want to shy away from "meta" questions like which studios/publishing companies did which series and more towards the content of the series themselves. The only exception to this is probably some things related to dubs or English localizations. Other ideas I have would be guessing a character based on a picture or silhouette or naming whichever anime/manga a character comes from.
Concerns
One of my concerns regarding this event is the possible spoiling of series it might have on participants (mostly for the non-music parts of the event). To increase difficulty, I was considering including characters that appear later on in a series or things of a similar nature. I don't think a spoiler warning in the event description would suffice, seeing as it's for all anime/manga. I'll probably just proceed as is but I will keep in mind not to ask certain types of questions. If anyone has any thoughts or would like to discuss with me, I'm all open for it.
Another concern I had was related to the representation and difficulty of the trivia. I'm generally not a super big anime watcher, so I'll have to do some research for this event. But the anime/manga that I have the most knowledge about are the most standard Shounen things out there. It may be hard for me to accurately represent the wide range of anime that a "normal" anime watcher may have in this quiz. Something I consider difficult may not be difficult to others, and the opposite is also true. I may consider, say, Vegeta's theme from DBZ to be iconic and easy points, but other people might not because they're too young for DBZ or they don't watch that kind of anime. Perhaps this question goes out to other people who have hosted similar events - what did you end up doing?