Christmas Galactic Home Show

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Slightly bonkers, very silly, but hopefully a bit of fun to end the year! The theme for the first ever Christmas Galactic Home Show will be “Christmas songs” so pick your favourite tune and start decorating!

Background Info:

Participating decorators will be allocated a house on Christmas Street which is owned and funded by Coz. We have chosen the Barn house – (400 item limit) so you have space to create whatever you want within it. A free private taxi service will be provided so you have safe transport to and from the site whilst you are decorating which runs from just outside Coronet. If you make the commitment to decorate but are later unable to, please give Coz as much notice as possible. You are expected to complete all the deco work yourself. You are welcome to use any item in game to support you to recreate the Christmas song you have chosen in any way. These houses will be the setting for the final event of the year (Get headsets and mikes ready that one is going to be outrageous!)

How to enter:
Contact Coz in discord, or in game to request a house to decorate. Please give her a toon name so that she knows who to put on the entry lists, and admin in the house. You will also need to give her the song title for your house. If you change ideas that’s fine – just make sure you update her prior to the closing date. Coz will then give you the location for the taxi service, add you to a house and you can get decorating.

Judging Info:

The houses will be judged by SR staff. If staff choose to enter, they will be excluded from the judging panel. All judges are asked to ensure that they turn sound on, check spatial chats for call outs or commentaries by player toons or vendors. They are expected to click on items to check whether there is additional relevant information in bio’s, vendor stocks etc. They are reminded not to access the structure management terminal to see who owns the building.

Each judge submits their scores privately. These are then collated and held until all the scores are submitted. They are then made available to the senior team for checking. The decisions made by the judges are final. Staff volunteer considerable time to make this server event successful, and disrespecting them / their decision making will not be tolerated and may result in us ceasing to run decorating events in the future.

Judging Criteria:

Each house will be marked out of 10 for each criteria. Those scores are then totaled for a score from each staff member. Those are recorded and the total scores from all staff are combined to create a final score for each entry.

Creativity – Judges will look at how items are used. This is about using items in unusual ways to create an effect, or another item. This is also about how space is used – this may include making the decision to create additional spaces within the room.

Questions staff will consider:

Have items been used for their intended purpose or repurposed? Repurposing items in a creative way will gain more points. E.g., using wood staffs to create a prison cell.

Have smaller items been used in coordination with others to make a new item entirely?

Has space in the building been used in a creative way to explore the theme?

Theme – Points are awarded for reflecting the theme and how it is maintained through the house. The theme is to recreate a Christmas song – either from the charts, church or anywhere else. You may wish to include items that are mentioned in the song, or use vendors etc to help clarify what judges are seeing.

Questions staff will consider:

Does the decoration fit the theme?

How strongly is the theme reflected in the house?

Are the items in the house named in a way to echo/support the theme?

Overall Feel – Judges will consider the impression and impact of the building and how they contribute to the atmosphere created. Be sure to consider renaming items to help with this. You may also wish to use vendors etc.

Questions staff will consider:

Have items been renamed to contribute to the environment?

Has the space been decorated to reflect the theme?

Is the space clearly organized so that you are able to view elements?

Has the space been used effectively to add to the atmosphere?

Prizes:

First prize:

*A limited-edition Purple Coz Speeder

*A limited-edition Christmas Speeder

*4 top end loots of your choice – e.g. painting, item, schematic, loot item, crystal (please note this excludes animal components etc)

*A hoth droid (decoration only), first place trophy, Galactic Home Show winner’s badge and the Master of Force Shui title.

Second prize:

*A limited-edition Purple Coz Speeder

*A limited-edition Christmas Speeder

*3 top end loots of your choice – e.g. painting, item, schematic, loot item, crystal (please note this excludes animal components etc)

*Second place trophy

Third prize:
*A limited-edition Purple Coz Speeder

*A limited-edition Christmas Speeder

*2 top end loots of your choice – e.g. painting, item, schematic, loot item, crystal (please note this excludes animal components etc)

*Third place trophy

All other entrants will receive a SR coin, a limited edition Christmas Speeder and the Wanted poster for any staff member past or present that is available.

We will also reserve the right to add additional prizes / highly commended ratings if we have a large number of entries.

All houses need to be completed by Friday 13th December 11.59pm PST. The final event of the year will be Sunday 15th December so put the date in your diary now! Judging will run from Sunday 15th to 29th December to give the staff time as they (like you) will have family commitments over that time. We will then hope to announce the winner before the end of 2024!

Please send Coz an in-game mail or message Coz on Discord to enter and receive a waypoint and admin rights for a house on Christmas Street.