ANSI Showdowns 1) What are ANSI Showdowns? The concept was created in the message bases on Black Thursday, basically created by lasthaus and skatter, and over time ideas contributed by outside artists helped shaped the overall competition. ANSI Showdowns let artists in the scene challenge fellow artists of rival groups to a draw-off, where both artists set their own rules as far as content and time limitations, and use their artistic skills to attempt to out draw one another. 2) Who runs ANSI Showdowns? Nobody really runs the Showdowns themselves, which is what makes this competition different from other ideas that have come up in the scene in the past. Showdowns are one on one competitions. An artist initiates the Showdown by personally contacting them with the proposal. Once the artist being challenge accepts the offer, both artists agree on the any limitations that may apply. Example: Some artists may want color, content, size (25lines/50lines/etc), or time limitations which will be agreed on before the artists begin their drawings. Once the guidelines have been set and approved by each artists, their work will be drawn on their own time and completed before the agreed date and time. Once the draw off is over, each artist will email their own submission to skatter either through Black Thursday, or skatter@gaschamber.net. The art is to be emailed by the artist who created the ANSI in order to guarantee that the opposing artist is unable to cheat. If certain guidelines have been agreed upon, skatter needs to be informed so that submissions can be checked for validity. 3) The only outside involvment will be related to the voting and the score keeping. The voting will be done anonymously by people in the scene by logging into Black Thursday, and accessing the ANSI Showdown menu. There people will be able to view both sumissions by the artists, and vote on their choice for best ANSI. Voting will continue for 1 week only after the submissions have publicy been posted. After the week is over, the votes will be reviewed by skatter, and the winning artist will receive a point on their personal WINS/LOSSES record, as well as a point for the ANSI group that they represent. 4) The scores will stay on record continuously, however once voting ends on a particular showdown, only the 5 most current showdowns will be available for viewing. NOTE, you will NOT be able to vote on a showdown once the voting period has ended! It is extremely important that you check up on Black Thursday to see who is currently featured. There will be no updates for new showdowns, so call back frequently to make sure that you do not miss out on any competitions! 4) Artists have the ability to challenge any other artist, as long as they are from a rival group. Artists from within the same group CAN NOT challenge each other in the Showdowns. Points will only be awarded for rival competitions between groups. 5) NOTE, even though the competition is featured on Black Thursday, this is not an event hosted by Black Thursday, or Revival. ANSI Showdowns are between participating artists, and have no involvement or connection to any affiliate board or ANSI group. 6) Please keep votes honest! Remember this is all for fun, everyone should be able to judge the most deserving winner without bias! The point of ANSI showdowns is only to bring competition and inspiration to the scene and to participating artists with a different edge. This is a way for artists to get to know each other, and continually work to improve their art. We would like to see everyone get involved, so if you are an artist, and have always wondered how you would compare to a fellow artist, now is the time to call them out! SAUCE00Showdown Instructions lazthaus/skatter Revival 20020415lP9