[Sidepot]

Here are the Epiphany contest details in a nutshell:



There are 3 stages:

• Track design phase (1 prize = 300 custom chips)
• Rolling edge design phase (1 prize = 300 custom chips)
• Overall chip design phase (3 prizes 1000, 500, and 300 custom chips)

A new ceramic chip design tool Sidepot has commissioned X-Files and Johnny5 to work on will be unveiled shortly, and can be utilized by contestants in the Overall Chip Design stage of the contest. Track and rolling edge design submissions from the earlier stages will be incoporated into the tool.

Additionally, any interested Participant will be able to pre-purchase chip sets (300-chip minimum) of the winning design, or if they submitted a design to the contest on their own custom design, at a discounted pre-pay price of $0.50 per chip (roughly 35% off retail pricing) for a period of 30-days from the announcement of the Contest winner.

Sidepot Gaming Company is the producer of Epiphany custom ceramic chips. We consider the chips to be 2nd tier ceramics. While they do not come close to matching the quality of our Archetype chips, but they have an attractive price point for a customized ceramic poker chip.

Here's a re-post of the rules in case some of you are having trouble finding them:

EPIPHANY CONTEST RULES:

Eligibility is open to all ChipTalk Members - The participation in the Contest is open to all new and existing ChipTalk Members. This includes anyone with a ChipTalk.net user name. No more than one design submission to each of the three stages (chip track design stage, rolling edge design stage, and the final overall chip design stage) of the Contest is allowed per person.

A generic style design is preferred for all three Contest stages - Generic, in this context, simply means not having a fantasy theme. The only prevalent theme should be that of luxury, style, opulence, or something signifying high class.

Full and exclusive rights to design submissions belong to Sidepot – By submitting a design to the Contest, Contestants are giving the rights to their design to the Contest sponsor, Sidepot. The full and exclusive rights of all design submissions will remain the property of Sidepot, and may be utilized for any business purpose at the sole discretion of Sidepot.

The Contest will consist of 3 stages – The first two stages are intended to create a wide selection of chip track and rolling edge designs, which will be loaded into a ceramic chip design tool that can be used by all contestants, regardless of their design sophistication level, to compete in the final stage, the overall chip design stage.

• • Stage 1: Chip track design phase – Following a public discussion of the likes and dislikes of existing ceramic chip track design, there will be a call for Contestant submissions. All seconded Contestant submissions will go onto the voting rounds, where a winning design will be chosen by a series of face-offs. A prize will be awarded to the winning Contestant, and a large sample of the top finisher’s designs will be added to the chip design tool.

• • Stage 2: Chip rolling edge design phase – Following a public discussion of the likes and dislikes of existing ceramic chip rolling edge design, there will be a call for Contestant submissions. All seconded Contestant submissions will go onto the voting rounds, where a winning design will be chosen by a series of face-offs. A prize will be awarded to the winning Contestant, and a large sample of the top finisher’s designs will be added to the chip design tool.

• • Stage 3: Overall chip design phase – After a brief delay necessary to get the best designs from Stages 1 and 2 into the chip design tool, there will be a call for Contestant submissions for the overall chip design phase, which will be submitted privately to both Sidepot and a ChipTalk administrative representative. Design submissions may use the existing track and rolling edge designs, or their own new designs at the discretion of each Contestant. Once all design submissions are collected, there will be a simultaneous unveiling. All seconded Contestant submissions from this unveiling will go onto the voting rounds, where a winning design will be chosen by a series of face-offs. A prize will be awarded to the top three Contestants, and, at Sidepot’s sole discretion, a large sample of the top finisher’s designs may be made available to the general public for their own custom chips via Sidepot’s website. Additionally, any new track and rolling edge designs unveiled for the first time in this final stage may be added to the chip design tool and made available to the general public for their own custom chips via Sidepot’s website.

-Stephan

[WolfPack]

ok I have to ask, what is a "chip track"?

[Nexttime]

Originally Posted by Sidepot

Full and exclusive rights to design submissions belong to Sidepot – By submitting a design to the Contest, Contestants are giving the rights to their design to the Contest sponsor, Sidepot. The full and exclusive rights of all design submissions will remain the property of Sidepot, and may be utilized for any business purpose at the sole discretion of Sidepot.

Even if I don't win any prizes you keep the exclusive rights to my design, right? If my design doesn't win I can't use it anywhere else without your permission?

Just want to be clear.

[Sidepot]

Kind of... you transfer the exclusive rights to your design by submitting to the contest. This includes rolling edge design submissions, chip track design submissions, and complete chip design submissions. You can also get chips made on your design, or any of the winning designs.

To explain, we need the to have rights to the first two (rolling edge and chip track designs) to build them into the tool for other contestants and other chip designers to use, for the contest and after the contest for customers to use. Other contestants may use your designs from the first two stages for the final overall chip design phase.

Now, these are the governing rules of the contest. Our intent is to simply accumulate a menu of designs and make them available to people looking for custom ceramic chips. The track and rolling edge designs will also be available on a tool on ChipTalk. While you can understand we don't necessarily want competitors utilizing our menu of designs, if a design submitter came to us and requested to use his design for a personal chip set with another manufacturer, of course I wouldn't have any problem allowing this.

I hope this clarifies everything.

-Stephan

[Sidepot]

Originally Posted by WolfPack

ok I have to ask, what is a "chip track"?

It's everything outside of the center area of a ceramic chip - kind of like a ceramic chip's equivalent of a mold design and edge spot configuration of a clay chip. The tool will make this clearer, and I'll be posting sizes shortly.

-Stephan

[WolfPack]

Originally Posted by Sidepot

It's everything outside of the center area of a ceramic chip - kind of like a ceramic chip's equivalent of a mold design and edge spot configuration of a clay chip. The tool will make this clearer, and I'll be posting sizes shortly.

-Stephan

ok so like the edge spots.

[Nexttime]

Originally Posted by Sidepot

While you can understand we don't necessarily want competitors utilizing our menu of designs, if a design submitter came to us and requested to use his design for a personal chip set with another manufacturer, of course I wouldn't have any problem allowing this.

I hope this clarifies everything.

-Stephan

I think I get what you are going for, the edges, etc. used by the design tool. The reason I asked is that I had someone create some original cartoon characters to use on custom chips. Would participating in the contest preclude me from using those characters on chips with a different design than those used in the contest submission?

[tikipirate]

Awesome, sounds like a cool contest! Any idea when the software will be up?

[Sidepot]

Originally Posted by Nexttime

I think I get what you are going for, the edges, etc. used by the design tool. The reason I asked is that I had someone create some original cartoon characters to use on custom chips. Would participating in the contest preclude me from using those characters on chips with a different design than those used in the contest submission?

No, even though we may *have the rights* to your design once submitted, if you wanted to use that design with us or another manufacturer (even for clay chips) for your own personal set of custom chips, we'd be fine with that. Still, if it's submitted to the contest, the design may become available to other CT members or Sidepot customers for use with their own custom chips - so there may be chip 'like' yours out there.

Does this clarify?

-Stephan

[Sidepot]

Originally Posted by WolfPack

ok so like the edge spots.

Not exactly. I'll use this Archetype chip to explain it better:



Everything outside of the central wreath design would be considered the *chip track design*. It kind of starts with the innermost thin black line concentric circle. The inner design is roughly 3/4th of an inch on this chip, so this would be a track design for a 3/4ths *inlay* (for lack of a better term) on a ceramic chip. I'll have to confirm this with X-Files and Johnny5, but I believe the tool is being set-up to accommodate 3/4ths inch, 1 inch, and 1 1/4 inch ceramic *inlay* designs, so you can submit your chip track design in any of those sizes.

Does this clarify what a track design is?

-Stephan