MPCC new competition guidelines

Hello, I've got the green light so I will be restarting the MPCC competition. Entries can be submitted from now by sending them to me through PM. Here is how I envision how it would best work.

1. We will keep the format of having the coins split into categories. The categories I propose are:

A - Pacific and Australasia
B - Asia
C - North America
D - South America
E - Africa
F - Middle East
G - Europe
H - Ancients and Exonumia (I've put them together because historically they have been very small sections)

(Ancients determined as pre-1551, the year of the first milled coin)

2. I will use this generalised map for determining which area the coins go into (Asia and central Asia will be grouped together). Remember that this is just a rough guide to help divide up the coins, not a political discussion about where countries should belong...so no arguing about boundaries.



3. The format will be slightly different to previous competitions. Instead of having one round from each category each week, I intend to completely finish 2 sections every 4 weeks, altering the amount of coins in each head to head battle depending on how many coins are entered in the section. Sections A and B will start 30th January 2017, Sections C and D will start 27th February, Sections E and F will start on 27th March, Sections G and H will start on 24th April. This format will mean that each section will run for the same amount of time, no matter how many coins are in it, and won't have the messy situation where some categories finish early because there are less coins and some sections like Europe drag on for months.

4. The rounds will run for one week each from Monday Evening New Zealand time (GMT+12 hours) to Sunday Evening New Zealand time.

5. After the 16 weeks we will have a grand final where the winners for each section duke it out against each other. This will be either a straight round robin run over 3 weeks if there is still plenty of interest in the competition coins down to 4 in the first week, 4 to 2 in the second and then the grand final in the last week). If however the interest has started to wain then the coins will all be put up at once in a royal rumble, winner takes all kind of battle.

6. Entries can be submitted from now and the close-off for the first two sections (Pacific Australasia and Asia) will be on Monday the 23rd January 2017, 1 week before the competition is due to start. The cutoff for the remaining section will be 1 week before they are due to start.

7. You may enter 1 coin per section for a total of 9 coins (You can enter one ancient and one piece of Exonumia even though they are combined into one section).

I can donate some prizes but I hope others can offer up some too. Let me know if you can offer prizes for any of the sections or even a grand prize for the overall winner. But I really hope we can get some consistency in the values of the prizes. I won a section one year and received a couple of coins that you'd pick out of a 5 for a dollar bin, whereas the winner of another section got a reasonably pricey coin. So I would like to make the prizes worth at least US$5.00- US$10.00 so we can get some consistency. So fire away, send me your pics and let's get this show on the road.

How should we prove we have the coins we submit, and do you want the images cropped before we send them, or will you do that?

We will work with the honour system here. Although if anyone can prove that an entry is fraudulent then we will deal with that as it comes. Also the winner of each section may be required to prove they own the coin.

It would be good if you could crop the images before you send them, but I do have a photo editing program so I can crop it if needs be.

OK.
I can also crop photos. Let me know if you need grunt help, Neil.

Am I seeing Mexico as part of North America and Cuba as part of South America?

I am too, only Mexico belongs to North America after USA in Central America.

Technically Central America and the Carribeans are part of North America but for the MPCC contest it makes sense to split it that way as most coins added will be Mexico, US or Canadian and the South American entries are usually fewer.

Yeah, like I said, it's not a statement about geographical boundaries. It's just a simple device for dividing up the coins into reasonably even sections.

I already had my pics remaining from the former failed edition. And I think I'll keep my former contesters for the Americas, which are still following the new way, aka. Central America with South.

Oh, wait... What would be the limit for Antiques?

I think the cutoff for antique coins should be the date when we started moving from hammered coinage to machine produced coinage (milled coins). So any coins pre 1560 can go in the antiques/ancients and anything after can go in the regular competition

We've got some entries in already, keep them coming guys. I also forgot to mention. As organiser I'll enter the competition myself but I will not be voting.

I'll enter in every category once I get a better camera setup together. I have a real beauty for Europe that might actually be a contender, but I'll enter the others as well just to add to the festivities.

Any coin can be a contender. Remember that last year the overall winner was a humble mexican 10 cent coin from the 1940s worth on a couple of dollars

Until when will you accept entries?

Quote: "cncote10"​Until when will you accept entries?

​One week before the category is due to be run. Se point number three in the initial post for the start dates for each category.

Spotted an issue in the beginning day of the contest: not the 28th but the 30th.

Thanks, changed it now

Are tokens exonumia or do they count in their country of origin?

tokens count in with the exonumia

Hi,

Before sending you pictures, I'd like to know which sections these countries belong to: Turkey (Europe or Middle East), Russia (Europe or Asia).

Regards,

Quote: "BSmith"​Hi,
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​Before sending you pictures, I'd like to know which sections these countries belong to: Turkey (Europe or Middle East), Russia (Europe or Asia).
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​Regards,

​Hi, refer to the map in the first post

Hi,
what is a MPCC contest? I read the rules, but I don't completely understand what it is.

It stands for the Most Popular Coin Contest.

It's pretty simple, you send me pictures of your favourite coins that you own, I put the pictures up and the members of the site vote for their favourite coin.

After a few rounds we end up with the favourite coin from each category, and they win a prize which has been donated by members from the site.

We have a grand final where the winners from each category are put against each other and again the members of the site vote for their favourite. We end up with an overall winner who takes out the grand prize.

It's free to enter, you just need to PM me pictures of your coins (you may need to prove that you own the coin if you end up winning) It's lots of fun to see other people's favourite coins.

Quote: "neilithic"​It stands for the Most Popular Coin Contest.
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​It's pretty simple, you send me pictures of your favourite coins that you own, I put the pictures up and the members of the site vote for their favourite coin.
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​After a few rounds we end up with the favourite coin from each category, and they win a prize which has been donated by members from the site.
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​We have a grand final where the winners from each category are put against each other and again the members of the site vote for their favourite. We end up with an overall winner who takes out the grand prize.
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​It's free to enter, you just need to PM me pictures of your coins (you may need to prove that you own the coin if you end up winning) It's lots of fun to see other people's favourite coins.

​Hey Neilithic, I would like to ask that the previous guidelines stated that participants need to be member for more than 3 months and should have at least 30 posts. I want to participate but I don't have 30 posts on the forum but I am a member for more than 3 months. so are those rules still applied or they are discarded in the new guidelines and if they are discarded so now can any member participate regardless of period of membership or amount of posts. Thanking You.

It's open to anyone, as long as you can prove that you own the coins you enter if you happen to win.

I feel already exited somehow
Less than a month to go until the start of the competition.

Yes, and we're starting to get a decent amount of entries now

Are we to vote for the coin we would rather have in our collection, the coin we think is most aesthetically pleasing, the coin that has the better photograph, the coin that is most interesting, the coin that has the best history/story, etc.?

Quote: "ElectronJohn"​Are we to vote for the coin we would rather have in our collection, the coin we think is most aesthetically pleasing, the coin that has the better photograph, the coin that is most interesting, the coin that has the best history/story, etc.?

​Just like politics you can cast your vote based on whatever you like. It's completely up to you