August 2025: The Final Heatwave contest (rules and discussion)

General Discussion The Final Heatwave Contest
,
21

Well it was pretty obvious that exactly that happened in the topic about the yoga in realm12 last night

Thanks for clarifying and I trust that you make sure that the contest will be fair for each apartment :hugs:

1 Like
22

Regarding this case, tenants are aware their votes don’t count. So I guess girls are just enjoying the fun :woman_dancing::woman_dancing:

But overall, if user tries same thing, or tenant pretends to be a regular user, that’s definitely a manipulation

1 Like
23

They didn’t try to pretend to be someone else. It was very transparent who voted. So from this side all okay :wink:

1 Like
24

Ah sure, just extending example for possible cases in future so people don’t get wrong ideas :joy:

2 Likes
26

They have to be incentivised to enjoy summer & have parties? I realised that the younger generation isn’t at all interested in partying like my generation back in the day.

1 Like
27

Well the only places with an outside area to enjoy are realm12, realm30 and realm56

1 Like
28

Just not on this site, but I’ve realised here in the UK, the younger generation is not out like my generation was. They work out at the gym and then go back home.

Before we saw a proper outdoor facility in the realms, parties were still hosted.

1 Like
29

The concept of this competition was made in good faith and potentially should have been embraced by some more participants. As previously mentioned by Jabbath only three realms have outdoor spaces to host BBQ’s parties etc.

I don’t know if it is a lack of interest by a lot of participants that this idea hasn’t yet taken up the interest that the headline contest should have generated.

1 Like
30

Might be a mixture of many factors:

  • Not having the space for doing that (Outside area)
  • Not comfortable doing pre planned and pre announced events
  • Risk to invest money in a big party and not getting any ROI
1 Like
31

All those points that you have made are completely logical.

The only competitions that I can recall that had the interest of a lot of Participants were the Halloween Parties/Themes.

As you rightly pointed out the expense of hosting a party will be prohibitive for a lot off the Realms and the resulting return if not enough members watch. It will be disheartening for participants to take the time to try and put on a show for the members not to appreciate their efforts.

1 Like
32

And participants were totally free when and how to do it. If their plan for one day did not work out they simply choose the next day and the viewers did not even notice it as nothing got pre-announced…

Could be even give them a negative reputation and people complaining when they are not able to do what got announced.

2 Likes