If you guys have ever been to sigoftheweek.com, I know they have graphics teams/clans that battle with each other through different little tournies and stuff (1v1's, clan collab, etc...). I totally think we should have that here. It would need it's own sub-forum for Clan Tryouts, Clan Battles, and other shtuff like that (I think the problem will be getting mods for this section, unless the gfx leaders do it), and make their own clan banner tongue.gif.
Basically, anyone can start a gfx clan. They can recruit whoever they would like. All they would have to do is start a topic in the Clan Tryouts about asking for new members. Each team will also have a name that they make-up themselves.
Clans can pretty much do whatever they want with other clans. They can have a clan collab battle, where the whole clan comes up with one Splash Screen that they put up against the other clan's. They could also do 1v1 battles, where each person from one clan goes up against someone else in the other clan (it could be a sig battle, splash, wallpaper, etc...). Overall, there are a lot of fun things that could come out of this.
As for judges of the battles...it would have to be the public.
I hope we can get this here at Codex. It will bring a whole new 'journey' to the graphics section.
Thanks
-Jeff
EDIT: New idea/possible add-on?
I think to try and stop a 'domination clan', as Justin said, I think we can try to have different levels of competition, like Amateur, Intermediate, Pro. It's a chance to prevent a dominating clan but possibly a bit more difficult.
The different skill levels would have to be subforums in the tryouts section. The only problem I think this would bring up is having 'Pro' people trying to get into a lower level.
EDIT: Another little idea. It's hard to explain over the computer, so I'll just give an example.
If the clan's name is...hm...Graphics Soldiers...or something like that, they can edit their display name like...[GS]Jeff. Catch my drift? (lawl). So, the abbreviation can be added in their display name if they would like.