Parsercomp 2.0?

Several people have floated the idea of running ParserComp again.

From the previous organizer, here’s what kind of work goes into running ParserComp: (from here)

[] Community buy-in on the idea
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] Writing submission rules
[] Writing judging rules
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] Posting the rules
[] Advertising the competition to submitters
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] Answering questions from submitters
[] Setting up a system for participants to upload games
[
] Opening the submission system at the appropriate time
[] Closing the submission system at the appropriate time
[
] Advertising the competition for public judging
[] Setting up systems for judges to download games (or play online)
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] Setting up systems for judges to register their votes
[] Opening the download system at the appropriate time
[
] Opening the judging system at the appropriate time
[] Answering questions from judges
[
] Answering questions from interested onlookers
[] Closing the download system at the appropriate time
[
] Closing the judging system at the appropriate time
[] Tallying up votes
[
] Announcing the results
[] Uploading all entries to the IFDB (this takes longer than you think)
[
] Documenting the competition in IFWiki (which other people very kindly did for me)
[*] Distributing prizes (okay, ParserComp didn’t have prizes, but if you have them, they need to be distributed)

If this is run, who is willing to organize it?

When will it run?

How long will it run?

Last Parser Comp succeeded in getting attention for its games, as you can see by the number of IFDB reviews:

https://ifdb.tads.org/search?sortby=rcu&newSortBy.x=0&newSortBy.y=0&searchfor=tag%3Aparsercomp

It ran from December to February (writing-wise):

https://intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=24359&p=128945&hilit=parsercomp#p128945

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