(Dec. 13, 2024 8:01 PM)Frisk291 Wrote: (Dec. 13, 2024 6:16 PM)DRTACOS Wrote: Everybody be honest here like this post if you agree
Age and requirements
I beg to differ with some the age/requirements. The age does not come across as fair when you take the test if you are under age however there should be a new mininum of 10 years.
Test questions
I agree with crisis Crusher we should actually have new questions focused around a organizers duties. We could have a essay on these new questions maybe 500.
Failed Test
30 days is long. Especially if it's a Thanksgiving break. When you fail you should at least be told 1 of the questions you got wrong.
If something backfires whose fault is it?
If something goes wrong it should be the organizers fault for not accounting for weather. However if the forecast is 90 degrees and it goes down 60 degrees it could be his fault depending on the situation.
There could be a job interview
The job interview could be a review of if you know how to work the system. Like knowing how to work challonge. How to post as an organizer.
Don't have discord?
Some of us like me don't want discord and really don't care for it. So we should drop the interview entirely.
Organizer Test
Sometimes you get one wrong and you don't get the title/role. So maybe not 90% answers right. Maybe 85% right or higher. I myself know how frustrating it is.
How all of this fits into one point of interest.
With 85% right you can get the role however without you would get the a hint at the one you got wrong.
For getting questions wrong there's no way to know if you even got one wrong. If I'm not mistaken it never mentions anything about the percent of questions you need to pass. Even if we did know the percent to pass, lowering the percentage just results in less competent people passing. I do agree on the staff being more transparent with the Quiz but there's no need to lower the correct answer requirements.
The Quiz page says it requires 9/10 (90%) correct answers. I would
assume that not telling what questions you get wrong is probably to prevent people from trying to brute-force the quiz without studying at all, but who knows. It would be interesting to hear the reasoning behind it, if the staff team were able to share.
(Dec. 13, 2024 6:16 PM)DRTACOS Wrote: Everybody be honest here like this post if you agree
Age and requirements
I beg to differ with some the age/requirements. The age does not come across as fair when you take the test if you are under age however there should be a new mininum of 10 years.
Test questions
I agree with crisis Crusher we should actually have new questions focused around a organizers duties. We could have a essay on these new questions maybe 500.
Failed Test
30 days is long. Especially if it's a Thanksgiving break. When you fail you should at least be told 1 of the questions you got wrong.
If something backfires whose fault is it?
If something goes wrong it should be the organizers fault for not accounting for weather. However if the forecast is 90 degrees and it goes down 60 degrees it could be his fault depending on the situation.
There could be a job interview
The job interview could be a review of if you know how to work the system. Like knowing how to work challonge. How to post as an organizer.
Don't have discord?
Some of us like me don't want discord and really don't care for it. So we should drop the interview entirely.
Organizer Test
Sometimes you get one wrong and you don't get the title/role. So maybe not 90% answers right. Maybe 85% right or higher. I myself know how frustrating it is.
How all of this fits into one point of interest.
With 85% right you can get the role however without you would get the a hint at the one you got wrong.
1. The minimum age requirement (from the "Become an Organizer" page) is 13, which is the same as for the majority of social media sites, including Discord. I think this is perfectly fair, and considering how immature I was at 13 it honestly seems pretty lenient. If it weren't for the requirement that Organizers under 18 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian, I might even say that it's
too lenient.
The age requirement has nothing to do with whether or not you are able to pass the quiz, it's entirely to do with
going out, meeting people, and physically hosting a tournament.
2. Like Frisk said, an essay in place of the interview wouldn't work because of generative AI. Besides, an essay can't replace an interview; that's why you have job interviews and aren't just hired off of what your resume says.
As for the questions themselves... it's a mixed bag. On the one hand, I think it makes sense that the organizer quiz should help people be prepared to, well, organize an event. On the other hand, I think that if prospective organizers can't prove that they understand the rules of the game and how to judge, then there'd be little difference between a WBO tournament and those Gamestop events that Hasbro did.
3. 30 days is fine, it prevents application spam and limits how many quizzes the staff have to review at once. It also gives you plenty of time to slow down and study up! If you're impatient, you'll just make more mistakes. The quiz is open-book with no time limit, it's more lenient than most school quizzes are.
4. Some things are within the Organizer's control, other things fall on the players that signed up, and some things are out of anyone's control. Putting the Organizer in charge of the weather is, quite frankly, simply absurd. Tournaments are oftentimes planned out several weeks in advance, far beyond what weather forecasts can predict.
That being said, I believe it
does fall on the Organizer to monitor the weather and be prepared to cancel the tournament and notify participants if it is being hosted outdoors during the rainy season. However, the participants are
also responsible for checking the event page (and the community discord, if your area has one) for updates, as well as dropping themselves from the tournament or notifying the Organizer if they can no longer attend.
5. That's... basically the point of the interview they currently do. They already do this, it's half of what this whole thread was about: getting feedback on the quiz and the interview.
6. Some people not having Discord is... actually not a terrible point, I wonder if it would be possible for the staff team to branch out to Zoom or Google Meets; although that may be even more resource-demanding. You also suggest dropping the interviews entirely, which... you literally just suggested that
they should have interviews in your previous point.
7 & 8. Again, the quiz isn't about just getting a fancy role or title, it's part of the process of
being allowed to host tournaments on the WBO. To be honest, I'm kind of surprised that the quiz is only 10 questions. Maybe if there were more questions, they could decrease the % needed to pass and/or ask for your reasoning behind incorrect answers during the interview? Which would also require more staff resources.