Forum:SH:Welcome to Predict the Madness

Hi everyone. If you haven't seen it yet, Wikia and Wookieepedia have teamed up with Lucasfilm for Predict the Madness, part of the StarWars.com This is Madness character tournament. Last year, Predict the Madness was held on Star Wars Fanpedia. When some of the admins here visited the Wikia office in San Francisco, though, they said they wanted contests like Predict the Madness to be held here. We were happy to oblige. Therefore, welcome to the 2015 Predict the Madness tournament!

People will be able to create their brackets beginning today until the morning of next Monday, March 16th. We expect a ton of brackets to be created. Once voting begins on StarWars.com, we will update the brackets at the end of each StarWars.com round to indicate which brackets had correct guesses and which brackets had incorrect guesses. In the end, the most correct brackets will be entered for a chance to win awesome prizes from SMS Audio (the contest's sponsor) and Sideshow Collectibles.

Here are two quick points I wanted to bring up, since there's going to be a crazy amount of activity on Wookieepedia:


 * Recent Changes. This is going to be flooded with bracket creations and account creations. This will only affect Wookieepedia from today until next Monday. During that time, when you want to just see the regular content that's being created and edited, you can use the filters on Recent Changes to hide account creations, bracket submissions, and article comments. That may seem slightly inconvenient, but it's a fair deal considering the massive exposure and account creation that will take place.
 * Support Programming. In addition to the contest proper, we'll have some support programming going on over the next month for the duration of This is Madness and Predict the Madness. This will include a trivia contest as well as a few character videos.

I also want to take a moment to thank the Wookieepedia administrators for being such great partners in getting all of this set up. There were lots of things that needed to be done for this contest that were outside the norm for Wookieepedia&mdash;you can see article comments on the contest page and the brackets!&mdash;and they were more than accommodating for everything. We're all psyched for this tournament and all of the activity and exposure that Wookieepedia will gain from it, especially since we're linked to from StarWars.com in a very prominent way right now.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask in the Discussion section. I'll answer whatever questions I can. Thanks! - Brandon Rhea (talk) 18:55, March 9, 2015 (UTC)