Semi-Finals, Round 1 Elimination

[Super Buu]

To be honest, I'm not that disappointed in what we came out with. I know, we lost, but regardless I think the tasks were pretty realistic and feasible. The only other kind of thing I would've liked to do would be expand upon it; ie, include the subject of eliminations, how it's handled, etc. But the task didn't seem to be of that scope (only 3 tasks wouldn't fit an entire competition) and, as Mura pointed out, we were only asked to do those tasks. Within those boundaries, what we had was IMO pretty balanced.

Shortcomings? Really, the biggest one that struck me is that (most likely due to the lack of a deadline, though that could've been a deliberate decision of staff's ) we weren't that motivated to get it done quickly. When you're staff and the members are waiting on the new content you've announced to be finished (KR, anyone? I kid! >_>), you really have to be focused if you want to get the stuff done. Nobody is setting you a 'deadline' - it's simply done in your own time. You have to be self-motivated, and I think we all got a bit bored in that task.

Violet kind of confused me all the way through. It seemed like when we were doing one thing ("Okay, does everyone agree on those three tasks?") she was doing another ("Alright, here's my idea for something else").

Goten I'd say did pretty well. He had a few shortcomings (I thought he was going to organise a time for an AIM chat for our group, but it didn't end up happening Also, when I laid out the three tasks for elaboration, he seemed to think we were doing all three of Violet's for the final task - though that could have just been a random brain fart.) but overall he made up for them with consistent activity. I remember he actually PMed me asking whether or not I wanted to do the final task writeup (since it'd been over a day since I'd accepted to do it) and, though I had an excuse (I'd been travelling all day, with the task not forgotten >_>) I was impressed the way he was trying to keep things organised.

GJ/Bun - didn't seem to fully understand what we were doing at first (thought we'd be the one creating a planet ... though this task can mindfuck you that way) but once he got the hang of it, he did alright. Just didn't seem to contribute that much. He mentioned he had ideas, but they never got to see the light of day, which is a shame.

Murasaki was the one dude who AIMed me more than once in regards to the task, which kept it from going out of mind, and reminded me that we should perhaps press on. I think he contributed pretty consistently, always offering a bit of feedback.

My two candidates for leaving'd probably have to be Violet and Bun, for above reasons.