WGDC Competition: End of Work Registration Stage

On August 15, we completed the registration of ideas, projects and teams for the WGDC ​​competition. As you have probably noticed, most of the project presentations can be seen by following the link from the main page of the competition .

After long internal consultations, we made such a decision in order to give the competition maximum openness and transparency. At the start of the WGDC, many expressed displeasure that the contest would bring more benefits to Wargaming, which is going to skim the head off fresh ideas than the community. Opening all the cards, we, firstly, exclude the possibility of fraud and any statements in the style of "it is not clear who won." Secondly, we encourage feedback from the authors of the work: the feedback from representatives of the community in the comments is intended to help the authors refine the ideas. Finally, thirdly, we demonstrate that the authors do have intersecting ideas that are on equal starting positions.

Since we, together with Habrom, have already begun the second stage of work selection announced in the starting article about WGDC, on the Participants Projects page you can see not all the works, but only potential candidates for the moment. That is, applicants for prizes can now see the average level of competitors. We are confident that this approach encourages developers to give their best.
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At the same time, we don’t think to forget about those whose projects at the initial stage look a little weaker or they are practically impossible to implement. They will receive notifications about this and will be able to contact our support service to find out the reasons why the work has not yet been accepted and did not fall into a kind of short-list. Thus, the authors will avoid wasting time and effort on obviously losing ideas and projects and will have the opportunity to improve them or change them to more successful ones.

The only risk that we see in such a campaign is the temptation to learn something from other people's ideas or to engage in frank plagiarism. However, such attempts are completely meaningless.

We have already become familiar with all the initial presentations - both more and less powerful ideas at the moment. Any turn to 180 degrees and attempts to start doing something already seen by competitors will be noticed and will result in automatic disqualification. Those who decide to redo the work after feedback from our support service will have to edit the work, updating the project presentations and their description and getting re-moderated. Pass it with plagiarism of other people's work also fail.

Competition is only gaining momentum. We are waiting for comments on the work of the community and the evolution of ideas from the participants.