retired_butterflygirl15

I will copy the rules from there:
Facepack competition
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Ok, the prize is not the main factor here , but here it goes:

I am starting a new competition, here are the rules:

1) Find one random (?) team in unplayable league - here is example - Pakhtakor (Uzbekistan)
2) Make a facepack for this team
3) Put it in sotritoutsi.net and post link in this thread
4) The competition ends 31.01.2005 10:05 GMT
5) Facepack should be added after 24.01.2005 10:05 GMT
6) I will choose on lucky winner who gets 3 GMail invites and Worldwide fame (or maybe not).

It would be a good idea to use ratings system of Sortitoutsi.net, but I can not trust it

OK, I was bored and this competition may not be as exciting as I would like it to be, but I was bored with 8 Arsenal, 8 Man Utd facepacks etc hosted in this site. People: create facepacks for clubs that does not have them. Arsenal and Man Utd already have excellent facepacks for all their players - why not make a facepack for Albanian champions instead? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

If you wan to participate, gead to Sortitoutsi.net forums and login/register there. I will not accept entries here. You have to submit them at Sortitoutsi.net.

I posted it here so that we all can get more quality facepacks.

Norfolk_boy

There is a bit of a flaw in this competition.

Picking a random team in an unplayable league to make a face pack for is a bit daft. Sure there will be some other face packs knocking around but face packs that are essentially worthless to most people.

To see the facepack the actual players need to be in the game. I take your example of Pakhtakor. In my game only 5 players are 'real' players and of those only 2 seem to match with the ID's in the .xml file of the Pakhtakor pack. Unless you run a 'huge' or at a push 'large' database then the faces won't show because the real players are not there.

Surely the faces of players in playable leagues is more worthwhile and indeed more needed? If your goal is to have less man utd and arsenal face packs then perhaps it would be better to find out which playable clubs have not yet been face packed and organise people from the community to cover these teams.

With this competition there will be more facepacks but will they be ones that people want?

rebecca.melton

How about they have to design a facepack for a team from the bottom league of the major countries, France, England, Spain, Italy etc. This way you get more facepacks and many people play as lower league managers, or support teams for a lower level so it is useful either way?

retired_butterflygirl15

Thank you for your feedback. I wii take thai in acount in possible future facepack contests.
You are right about these unpopular clubs they do not get their players loaded in normal size database game. But if someone from Uzbekistam (just an example) loads all Uzbekh players in the game? Ge gets all these facepacks - (BTW - I used editor to track all these ID - they are all correct). Why did I chose this Uzbekistan's club? i was jus playing around with my idea.

I have collected about 20 000 facepacks and do not think that there is still potential in England/Spain/Italy/Germany. This way I wanted to encourage people doing other facepacks.

Why do we have zero Canadian facepacks? I think that there are some canadians loaded in normal database size.

trev

Why not make facepacks for maltese teams? none exist at the moment and i guess they would be good for this competition

retired_butterflygirl15

That's it. This compo is to please people like you - why not Maltese teams? If you have some basic facepack skills, you may participate and submit your work. If not, try to find some websites with player photos and ask someone else to make a facepack.

retired_o0obubblietonio0o

Malta has been covered by Alan A Wadge or something like that, link is there

retired_Jason R Cardwel

There are some major teams still not covered, like the brazilian sides Corinthians or S.Paulo (a good facepack) and there are not many argentinian teams as well as portuguese (in the last few days some teams were covered but still missing others). Brasil and Argentina are 2 main countries about football and Portugal had the Euro and the cHampions league title at the moment. I tottaly agree peoplo should focus in facepacks 4 teams thar R not covered.

rytm2323

To be honest, over at Susie we are getting new clubs ina t a phenomenal rate. I think some of the ideas that you guys have suggested are quite good tbh. I will certainly think about aranging FacePack competitions to make, for example, clubs for Conference, or Scottish Div 3, or French lower leagues or whatever. Good ideas guys.

GillsMan
sortitoutsi.net Moderator

retired_Jason R Cardwel

Gillsman

Congratulations for the work done in sortitoutsi. Great job for FM community.

don't know if possible but maybe there's a way to rearranje the site.
For insteance allowing to search by date. Let's say i'm looking for english facepacks. There's over 140 right now and it gets a little confusing looking by name. Same in the ones that don't fit any category.
And i must state that Brasil, Argentina and Portugal should be better covered, more than scotish 3 div or french lower leagues.

Any new facepack is wellcome thought.