I'm dead tired and will proceed on being so for a relatively extended period of time, so sorry for the poor contribution.
First: 10/10 thread Larfen. Master leadershipdude, this is what ORMO should be about.
Second: My mind works exactly like these paragraphs I'm quoting from pusga.
Originally Posted by
pusga
i judge replays by 2 scales. execution and idea. idea refers to what you are doing, execution refers to how well you are doing it.
i can only evaluate execution if the idea is somewhat clear, since objectives and goals are not universal and etc.
execution, i usually judge that one pretty straight forward. when looking at execution i usually try to see if the idea is achieved (objective), and if the idea is achieved in a way that looks good (subjective).
if an idea is not very good, then i will not really care if you managed to achieve the idea
Third: I was going to go on about my idea of what makes a replay a "great replay" but I re-read pusga's post and this hit me
hard god damn... As cliché-cringy as it inevitably sounds (can't phrase it in any other way right now), that is so sad and true.
Originally Posted by
pusga
of course, this implies that i do not think that everything in toribash is possible. i used to be that "endless possibilities WOW" guy, but not anymore really. i take into account people's ability to dedicate time and effort into replays, which brings in a less accurate factor into the mix. it is not really possible to accurately determine if a replay is "great", but i try.
Fourth (such a stupid way to write a response but too late to change it now): Ideas are what make a replay great. Replays with great ideas are what make a replay-maker great. (I'm omitting "in my opinion" on this paragraph and so forth because it's obviously implied since I'm not that kind of douche)
Of course that in a competition execution is to be valued, and quite a bit so. Though at an ORMO level I feel that execution is expected to be flawless anyway, and that doesn't make every replay that we make "great" (well, at least when you normalize expectations to the general organization members).
Some of Dafe's (iirc, it was a lifetime ago from my current point of view) replays were remarkably simple in execution but still wow'd me completely when I was playing a ton, because of those weird and so out-of-the-box ideas.
It's also why I voted against Jingles on the final rounds he was in, during the last cup (no offense obviously Jingles, you're top top
top notch), since I felt he sometimes lacked a brilliant idea to top his stuff off. Also that's why it's a great idea to have an heterogeneous judge panel, which was fortunately the case there.
I'll try to make more points following this train of thought some time later as this goes on, but as a concluding remark: this is a great thread