Willis and I set everything up, and I threw in some sample data for everyone to check out.

http://contest.planetnexuiz.com/

let's actually do something with this.
Tell me if you want to be a judge/participant

I'd like to be a judge. Is it ok to ask here or should I do something else from the site?

niice work, hopefully we will see some awesome maps

looks like a really solid web application that you are building, including nifty URLs and the usage of some sort of "lightbox" or similar image display JS script.

But, sorry, you should move away from the Nexuiz.com design, really.

very nice !
good job.

well, here's some information on how I built it:

* Used a web framework called django.
* Used dojo toolkit (a js toolkit) to spruce it up a bit. Notifications (ex. "your entry has been submitted" appear at the top with a little close button, and that lightbox thing)
* design can be swapped out very easily, thanks to django's template system

Ok, so if you want to be a participant/judge all you need to do is sign up and let me know that you want to be a judge/participant, and I will grant you those permissions.

If anyone wants to be a co-maintainer of the site let me know, I'm looking for one.

I'll enter. Not done mapping for a bit so I'll see what I come up with.

I found a bug where anything under /users/ will return a 404. I'll fix it by tomorrow. It shouldn't take long, but I'm pre-occupied with something else at the moment.

I'm probably going to participate, although judging sounds cool too...

I fixed the problem.

Register at:
http://contest.planetnexuiz.com/users/accounts/register/

then PM me for participant/judge permissions.

I might add in a private message system. It depends on how busy I am though.
Some other ideas include tagging entries, and adding in ajax judging capabilities.

that page looks good ...
If i see that right everyone can post his maps there ... ? and then it will be judged ?

how it works is basically the maintainers of the site create a contest. You enter a map in a contest, and judges rate it based on visuals, and gameplay. The two are averaged into a final X/10 score. All the scores are averaged together in the end to get a final X/10 rating for the entry.

I'd like to implement a more sophisticated algorithm that takes the judge's scale into play, so if a judge tends to submit lower scores, the participant does not suffer. I have no clue how to do this, so any "math experts" would be a great help.

are u planing any awards for the winners of the contests ? ...
Im not thinking on somethin special ... donno ... maybe some certification for the winner with the words "ure the greatest mapper ever - or till the next contest" ... ...