Thanks for the feedback, its very much appreciated, and will just deal with a bit of it now, don't take any of these replies the wrong way, just good to think through ideas with multiple hungry minds bringing up concerns.

Lets see. First, one of the risks I'd like to avoid is getting to complicated complicated things tend to end up failing spectacularly.

The dual sided badge idea is something I've been wanting to learn to do myself for other reasons(since I'm learning to make badges, i've just gotta get my printer used properly) Last year one of my biggest annoyances was my one sided badges getting flipped constantly in the wind..but anyhow

Having each person with a fully customized badge can make things considerably harder than I initially intended, if everyone has the same base design(maybe with there own name on it) its easier, something big enough to see from a distance and so on.. people would be able to tell at a glance on who is playing the game and who just might have a vory sorta normal badge

The MAIN problem I keep coming back to with badge collecting is getting them back to there original owner before the end of the con.. sure its fun to take the badge of your supper, that's part of the fun, but in my heart I'd like people to have a keepsake as well of the game. This is especially true of personalized badges.(Generic ones people might not care about but if you've gotten your art on the backside, or a signed front of the badge you might not want to lose it


Competition..if we get competitive I KNOW i'm going to come in dead last, I think I need new glasses). Will also assume that all players here are being honest, its easy enough to cheat most of the ideas i've come up with. Being in fun first will be key.. But apart from coming in dead last if we could get a sizable number of folks playing the competition could be fun. Since i'm a carebear sorta person i'd have some sort of prize for every player(This works out well because I just had some vory fridge magnets made up and should have plenty of extras to give out .(This sorta fits under rewards too)

Scoring might need a bit of work from a conceptual angle, Preds are easy of course, but prey.. there are generally two prey mentalities, those that like to feed a pred and those that like to be hunted, it seems strange for a prey (hunt me down) player to go hunting down a pred to try to improve there score. Pred vs pred/prey could always go to the pred on meeting.. but the tricker aspect I see would be handling when two pred/preys meet


In thinking of this, should definitely make rules that you can't go stalking folks for noms when there doing there duty at the artist alley.. (though they could remove there badge at that time as well I assume)..
Winning: The awards could be fun(Though “master of the food chain” sounds better for the pred prey than most varied, depending on how many players we'd have to decided how many categories..but min of 3 seems fitting..

Rewards-I'd like to do this in some form, and I'll torture more folks with the little mementos i'm bringing this year, so could put a vorish mug or two in the prize pool. Winners rolling a die to get first pick of the bigger prizes) Bragging rights are damn fun but not everyone'll be at the sunday night dinner(certainly not sure i'll be there myself, will depend on airfare and probably a lot of things I can't think up right now) So i'd think it might be good for all the players to meet up in some place sunday morning at somepoint for the announcements, giving out prizes.. Would also myself try to give out thankyou gifts to those who help run the thing(The commissioner from your notes for example)

Now something BIG that might be fun to do after the fact, and i'll tentatively offer to do it, is write up a story about the whole thing, people send me there interactions, will write it up simply and should end up reading like a vorish commentary on the whole event..”And later that saturday evening sharky stalked up and pounced an unsuspecting cougar who helped and struggled against the westin's pool before becoming shark food.... adding another notch to Sharkies gut, now numbering 12”

anyhow, glad to have your input Wolf