well I was involved with MWT 4, 5, & 6 and here is what I have for #5:
OK, here we go again.
The battle is as describes in post #1.(Battle of Ilomantsi)
Based on any date of the battle.
Two categories ...
1. Anything goes, provided it is historically accurate.
2. Special: all infantry three player scenario.
Use any historical source available, just be ready to justify the source if challenged.
Scenario submission date is March 1 2016. ( extra time due to thanksgiving and Christmas.)
Have fun!
Steve Swann
When it was all said and done I was the only submitter! I passed it over to LFT. My submission for MWT #4 was tweaked and printed in one of the ESG packs and my submission for #6 never made it in for judging due to new email glitch (argh!).
my memory of the process is:
1. Somebody posts they want another MWT.
2. everyone banters on about what it will be but eventually a particular battle, book chapter, monograph, etc is chose and that is the base source.
3. Somebody becomes the organizer and gets judges together (usually person in #1).
4. Designers are given parameters (see above) and due date.
5. Designers submitted their scenario card info as a text-based Word file and Steve had somebody turn them into a scenario card for judging. a copy of new card sent to designer to make sure all was correct else edits made.
6. the judges after playtesting gave a summary of each and designs were ranked in order from #1 down through however many entries were provided.
it seems to me the more these were done, the number of participants drops off and the winners no longer wanted to post their creations but submit them for publication so the community waited months but never got to see what was made. There was an interesting one done with making a overlay for Boards 10 and 17 that were eventually published by MMP (but lots of wining from usual forum members so experiment will never be redone).
so the person making the request usually makes the rules! Hope that helps.
Vinny
I'm not sure if it was "MwT #6" or not, Vinny - but I know it was the 2017 Scenario Design Contest where your submission ran afoul of not being transmitted due to email glitches.
for the 2017 Scenario Design Contest, the rules were delineated and simple when finalized.
1. Your action was limited to those that took place as described in a single reference item, in this case, an identified free to download and read "Center for US Army Military History- History of US Army Operations in World War II" monograph from the provided link.
2. Your action could only span a limited time frame of dates as outlined in the rules.
3. Your submission required both a reference write up where to find the action in the given reference used, and a separate write up on designer notes as to why you modeled the action in ASL the way you did. An entry without those was considered incomplete.
4. You knew going in who the judging panel was comprised of, in this case, a very well respected ASL scenario designer judging blindly from copies with all traces of identification of the author removed from them by the contest director.
5. A time limit, strictly enforced, for submissions to be received by the contest director.
6. A design requirement that all features must be 100 % official (ie MMP or the old TAHGC published only), in your submission.
Those were the rules, and it was a fun experience, and something I'd strongly consider doing again. IIRC, there were a few good scens created, plus Vinny's failed transmission scen which was also interesting.
Those rules transpired to "fix" most of the previously identified concerns of the earlier MwT contests. IMHO, they did a wonderful job of doing just that.
KRL, Jon H