[Lucky Louie]

Re-posting my combos. I left out the .25 cent chip originally.

[Feen666]

[babyhawg]

Personally I don't really get the trend of spot progression. To my mind, 99% of casinos don't bother with it. So why should we? It limits creativity and choices. I believe that each chip in a set should be able to look good by itself. And yet not clash with the rest of the set. I'm not really concerned with making the set "match" and color coordinate. As long as each chip has it's own unique edge spot and nothing sticks out like a sore thumb I'm happy.

[VegasMike]

Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff

I've got to agree with some of the other comments here and I think we need some kind of direction here from the contest admins. We're getting real cluttered real fast to the point where I don't really want to get too involved in discussions because it's just going to get lost in submission after submission.

I agree; my submission is buried back on page 8 (i think), leaving it almost no chance of getting found by anyone anymore. The earliest submissions have been tweaked and reposted multiple times; so I don't even know if the chipset I like from page 3 (as an example) is still an option.

It seems the only chance to get any real audience is to keep your chipset near the end of the posting list...

[JonnyRockets]

How about this . . .

Make a seperate topic for 5$, 25$, 100, 500, 1000, 5000 etc. So you start with Reds. people post their red ideas. people vote on favorite COLOR COMBOS (can change edgespots.) whittle that down until you have like 6 favorite red color combos. THen you move onto the next color. etc. then you have 6 of each color . . . and this is where you have to start looking at the different options and how they work as a complete set.

Might make it easier to handle.

Also - for submissions - we'll ask that EVERYONE submits with the same edgespot design. not colors - but design - that way we're narrowing it down to just colors. Edgespots will be decided later after all colors are decided.

Jon

[mizuchaud]

I agree with Babyhawg's comment about casino chips.
Continuity in a chipset seems to be a private custom chipset thing. It looks cool in the case kind of thing.
Campiglia's casino chip book seems fool of sets that don't 'flow' in terms of spot progression and all that. Of course that's old school casino chip stuff.

I guess the question is whether we all are trying to achieve that clean, composed look in this custom set. (form thing)

In terms of continuity in design, I think we tend to overvalue the linear 25 cent through 2500 chip look. We only really see a couple of these chips together at once. I guess that's a function thing.

During a game I usually see two main chip colors in the pot, max.

That's usually why people tend to notice when a new color pops in the pot. ie: "Oh crud, was that a black 100 he just threw in?"


So what will it be: Form or Function?

[mizuchaud]

Johnnyrockets,
Not being able to use any spot pattern seems restrictive to me.
Almost all of the submissions have been practically instinctive. I think a lot of people will chafe at not being able to say 'my red chip needs a 3D14 spot pattern'.

I think people respond to the chip, the whole chip, color, spots, edgespots.
I think isolating the 5,25,100 etc chips would be a good idea though.
People seem to be voting along those lines anyway. Not many people have gotten an 100% approval on a scheme.

I personally keep getting a 'top half is ok, bottom half is not' vote.

Ten?

[JonnyRockets]

Heres an example . . .
each person would get ONE color submission - this is 2.
We'd use the SAME edgespot pattern FOR NOW>

below example is a guy who likes 2 colors on his red chip, also a seperate person who wants only one color - but using the SAME ESGESPOT PATTERN (again - for now.) then once all colors are narrowed down - then theres a seperate forum for people to use the designated colors - and come up with a set of 8 chip edgespot patterns.

So - RED SUBMISSION. (again - you'd only be allowed one - but this is showing 2 - using the same edgespot pattern for making all red submission easier to look at color wise:

Get what I'm saying?

[coyote]

I have two opinions just from looking at these submissions.

A. I really dislike dislike any single color 1/2 inch spots. Reminds me of the standard ASM spots. Pretty boring and along side other alternatives, like 1/4 inch spots, I think the 1/2 dominates the chip too much.

B. For some reason I really really don't like the red white & blue spot pattern that has shown up on the blacks. It's ugly. I just want to play poker, not make a political statement!

[imthatguy]

Originally Posted by JonnyRockets

Heres an example . . .
each person would get ONE color submission - this is 2.
We'd use the SAME edgespot pattern FOR NOW>

below example is a guy who likes 2 colors on his red chip, also a seperate person who wants only one color - but using the SAME ESGESPOT PATTERN (again - for now.) then once all colors are narrowed down - then theres a seperate forum for people to use the designated colors - and come up with a set of 8 chip edgespot patterns.

So - RED SUBMISSION. (again - you'd only be allowed one - but this is showing 2 - using the same edgespot pattern for making all red submission easier to look at color wise:

Get what I'm saying?

I'm not sure that this idea is going to solve the problem as a whole. I thought about suggesting the same idea, but I have to admit, this is only going to fracture the set further. I hink you'd end up with a set that looked odd together, think of the mish-mash that would result from choosing chips based on their singular assets... Dunno know if it'd work, but I'm willing to try anything once...