Aim of the challenge
Teams will blog about their experiences preparing for Pi Wars. The frequency of posts as well as subject matter will be taken into account. Posts can be on a variety of topics such as:
- Information about team members
- The design process
- Build progress
- Programming progress
- Testing progress
- Photo galleries
Rules
- You must use a blogging platform that supplies an RSS feed. This is to make the judging of the blogs manageable!
- There are many blog platforms out there that you can use, for example:
- Blog URLs should be submitted as soon as possible after acceptance into the competition to mike@recantha.co.uk. Where possible, please give your RSS feed address as well – it saves Mike hunting for it!
- Although blog posts can be publicised over Facebook or Twitter, please note that neither Facebook nor Twitter will be accepted as a blogging platform as RSS feeds are not possible from these sources.
- YouTube can be used for video blogging. However, you will still need an RSS-enabled blog of some sort to link to/embed those videos.
Ranking and points
Points will be awarded by an expert judge out of a maximum of 20. Only one team can be awarded the maximum points but below the maximum, some teams may receive the same points as another. Scores will be multiplied by 5 to give a maximum acquired points total of 100.
Hints
- The blogging ideas listed above are just ideas and teams are encouraged to make the blog as engaging as possible.
- The use of photographs and video is strongly encouraged.