Jarrett
Most Obnoxious Member 2016
Your goal for this challenge is to design a new roller coaster for a real world park of your choice. You will have to select a plot of land at a park that is currently unused or holds a ride that could reasonably be removed for whatever logical reason (old, lack of need for it, maybe another park in the chain would benefit from a relocation, ect.) and fit a new roller coaster into that plot.
Guidelines:
*All information known about the future of the area you select has to be CONFIRMED. If nothing's been said, do what you want, but if you do Carowinds, for instance, it HAS to be a giga coaster in the red plot outlined in that satellite picture. What color, manufacturer, and layout it gets is up to you, but it has to be a giga coaster in that plot by Hurler/Rip, Roarin' Rapids. Long story short; if it's been said, it's final, if it's a rumor or speculation, you aren't held to it.
*The plot you select should be a reasonable choice. Ride removals are acceptable, and so are rides being relocated around the park. Just make sure that the rides you choose to remove/relocate are acceptable choices. You're not moving that big B&M hyper across the park, and no matter how much you dislike it, that shiny new B&M probably isn't going anywhere. You're going to be better off selling that old Schwarzkopf or taking a wrecking ball to that old woodie. Or better yet, expand into an unused plot of land!
*You will need to recreate the area near the plot to whatever extent you want. You could just get the terrain right, or recreate the whole park, but it has to show some similarity to the plot you've selected. The more it resembles it, the better!
*The type of coaster you choose for that spot has to be a logical choice for the park. While the confirmed information one obviously overrides this, if you don't know what kind of coaster it will be to whatever extent, make a logical choice. Cedar Fair seems to favor GCI and B&M as a preferred manufacturer, for instance, so one of those would be a more rational choice if you build something for a Cedar Fair park. And Six Flags Magic Mountain got Full Throttle because they needed a good launched coaster before they needed, say, a traditional looping coaster. RMC rehabs of existing wooden coasters ARE allowed.
*Your submission should take the form of a roller coaster announcement video. Usually when a coaster is announced, there is at least a POV rendering and a "fancy"-style announcement video. Exactly how the park you have selected does it should vary (Six Flags and Cedar Fair do pretty cookie cutter-style announcement videos for all of their parks) so make sure to watch a few from that park before editing.
*This should be a given, but any area you choose to build on must be owned by the park.
*If you have any questions, post here or PM me.
Scoring:
*50% of your score will come from a public poll here on SGW.
*50% of your score will be given by an average of scores from 1 to 5 judges, depending on how many want to judge.
-25% comes from quality of the ride and aspects of it.
-10% comes from realism of the area you've selected (I'll ask them to be a bit lenient on this one)
-15% comes from presentation
*I will enable them to give you up to a 5% bonus if you select a park you've never visited before.
Submission:
*Tell me which park you've selected and which part of it. If you want to make sure I know exactly what you're talking about, attach a satellite image of the park with your selected plot outlined.
*I'm having them start threads on SGW and RCTLounge, but this is my first time taking a competition here to CoasterForce. Not sure if I can ask you to start threads or not, so just post your updates in this thread if you can. If a mod could clear this up for me it would make my day.
Tips:
*Google Streetview has a few parks on it. This can be handy for figuring out how certain facades look as well as where everything is.
*Try to follow trends when selecting your opening year. Busch Gardens tends to open sets of sister coasters relatively far apart. Cedar Fair tends to build just one large coaster a year. Six Flags really has none.
*If you move a ride from one park to another to make room for yours, try to specify which park it was moved to.
*Try to watch a few coaster announcement videos to get an idea of what to do.
*Since this contest is technically set in the future, you'll definitely want to lean more towards the current leading edge of the industry, maybe even try to show what could be possible in 3-5 years. I won't accept completely new rides, but I'm fine with current concepts being built on.
Have fun!
Guidelines:
*All information known about the future of the area you select has to be CONFIRMED. If nothing's been said, do what you want, but if you do Carowinds, for instance, it HAS to be a giga coaster in the red plot outlined in that satellite picture. What color, manufacturer, and layout it gets is up to you, but it has to be a giga coaster in that plot by Hurler/Rip, Roarin' Rapids. Long story short; if it's been said, it's final, if it's a rumor or speculation, you aren't held to it.
*The plot you select should be a reasonable choice. Ride removals are acceptable, and so are rides being relocated around the park. Just make sure that the rides you choose to remove/relocate are acceptable choices. You're not moving that big B&M hyper across the park, and no matter how much you dislike it, that shiny new B&M probably isn't going anywhere. You're going to be better off selling that old Schwarzkopf or taking a wrecking ball to that old woodie. Or better yet, expand into an unused plot of land!
*You will need to recreate the area near the plot to whatever extent you want. You could just get the terrain right, or recreate the whole park, but it has to show some similarity to the plot you've selected. The more it resembles it, the better!
*The type of coaster you choose for that spot has to be a logical choice for the park. While the confirmed information one obviously overrides this, if you don't know what kind of coaster it will be to whatever extent, make a logical choice. Cedar Fair seems to favor GCI and B&M as a preferred manufacturer, for instance, so one of those would be a more rational choice if you build something for a Cedar Fair park. And Six Flags Magic Mountain got Full Throttle because they needed a good launched coaster before they needed, say, a traditional looping coaster. RMC rehabs of existing wooden coasters ARE allowed.
*Your submission should take the form of a roller coaster announcement video. Usually when a coaster is announced, there is at least a POV rendering and a "fancy"-style announcement video. Exactly how the park you have selected does it should vary (Six Flags and Cedar Fair do pretty cookie cutter-style announcement videos for all of their parks) so make sure to watch a few from that park before editing.
*This should be a given, but any area you choose to build on must be owned by the park.
*If you have any questions, post here or PM me.
Scoring:
*50% of your score will come from a public poll here on SGW.
*50% of your score will be given by an average of scores from 1 to 5 judges, depending on how many want to judge.
-25% comes from quality of the ride and aspects of it.
-10% comes from realism of the area you've selected (I'll ask them to be a bit lenient on this one)
-15% comes from presentation
*I will enable them to give you up to a 5% bonus if you select a park you've never visited before.
Submission:
*Tell me which park you've selected and which part of it. If you want to make sure I know exactly what you're talking about, attach a satellite image of the park with your selected plot outlined.
*I'm having them start threads on SGW and RCTLounge, but this is my first time taking a competition here to CoasterForce. Not sure if I can ask you to start threads or not, so just post your updates in this thread if you can. If a mod could clear this up for me it would make my day.
Tips:
*Google Streetview has a few parks on it. This can be handy for figuring out how certain facades look as well as where everything is.
*Try to follow trends when selecting your opening year. Busch Gardens tends to open sets of sister coasters relatively far apart. Cedar Fair tends to build just one large coaster a year. Six Flags really has none.
*If you move a ride from one park to another to make room for yours, try to specify which park it was moved to.
*Try to watch a few coaster announcement videos to get an idea of what to do.
*Since this contest is technically set in the future, you'll definitely want to lean more towards the current leading edge of the industry, maybe even try to show what could be possible in 3-5 years. I won't accept completely new rides, but I'm fine with current concepts being built on.
Have fun!
