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Thank God, Tenpercenter, you've decided to approach this chip set from a new perspective. I have stopped following the whole contest because I couldn't imagine designing an inlay for such a mish-mash of chips.

I think the contest rules stipulate that participants can suggest their own color sets, so it is still possible for someone with a coherent idea about chip edgespot coloring to come up with a strong suggestion that works well with their inlay design. In the end, I suspect that is what will happen. Even if the preliminary edgespot/color palette is agreed on and approved, it will I predict not be the best one for the winning inlay.

Nonetheless, since the draconian system of the contest requires a set of colors to be chosen, you might as well do it incrementally.

I do not know how easy it will be to get people to agree on fundamental issues such as -- edge spot progression? if so, in what way? -- and whether colors should be shared or not among chips, etc.

However, here is one thing I would suggest as a way of thinking about this. For a full set like this, the chips break into "chunks", and certain chips act as "pivotal" points joining the chunks.

25c, 1, 5 are a chunk -- usable for home games

5, 25, 100, 500 are a chunk -- typical for tourney chips

500, 1000, 5000 are a chunk -- high-end of tourney

So it is the 5 and the 500 chips that need to act as transition points. That is, you might imagine a way of handling the 25c, 1, 5 so that it seems to make sense, but have the 5 also work as the low end of tourneyland. Similarly, the 500 is a culmination of opening stacks for many tourneys, yet it also needs to work well with the higher tourney chips.

So maybe think about how the 5 chip might "fit" with the 25c and 1 but also "announce" tournament-ness. And think how the 500 chip might work in a similar fashion.

I know this sort of means having to come up with a concept behind the edge spot development. But someone better propose something because the current set seems to lack any motivating design inspiration.

Then again, if it is too hard to do this, why not just have the contest place inlays on solid chip backgrounds. Judge them that way, and then work out a process by which edge spots can be agreed on.