On 6/6/20 9:59 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > Thanks for the offer, but I am happy to handle it as usual. I’ve been > knocking around a few ideas, but I don’t have any particularly good ones yet, > so I’m very open to ideas. The only thought that I’ve had that I thought was > even worth sharing was some sort of academic tournament either as a > NaNoWriMo-style event for writing scholarship about Agora or as a strai > competition for producing the best scholarship.
Hmm.. a scholarship contest sounds interesting, but I worry about it resulting in some people's work not being recognized within a flood of others. I think work should be judged based off of itself, not based on comparison to other works published at the same time. > > > I see that R. Lee has proposed Flabby Bird. I don’t plan to run any > tournament in that format because it would require significant activity > off-list. +1 for things being on list -- Jason Cobb