Hello. As the MDC organizer, I was planning to do one this year, but since there were no updates and not very many new maps (at least in the field of CTF and DM) I didn't think there would be much interest.
It troubles me a bit that no one asked me about this, or sent an email on here or the DE forums. Even though I may have "dropped the ball" this year by not hosting one, I would still think that others would need permission; I was still planning it after all. I wasn't inactive either; I was reading the forums but not posting. Because I didn't think that there was much mapping going on, I was waiting for a good moment to start again.
However, I might be willing to take the back seat on this one. I might try to code a website, but probably not since there is such short notice. I would also give the steampunk weapons as prizes (if everyone is OK with that) and make the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place skins if no one else is.
A few things we should probably do better this time: we need a better system of ratings. Instead of e-mailing it to me, if we had a website we could edit the posts on the site with the ratings. That way, I would not have to interpret each of the MDC judges' ratings, which was a huge problem last year.
Also, I think we should have a German section (again, if we have a website). This would HUGELY expand the amount of entries we get. However, we would need someone to translate the rules and final judging in to German.
Finally, we need a better way to contact eachother. One way we could do this is to start an IRC channel, instead of sending emails. This would also allow users to ask more questions without commenting in the thread.
I need to figure out something to put here.