Map Contest

This is the official page for the Map Contest. The corresponding blog post can be found here.

Rules/Instructions
See: Rules (Map Contest)

General Announcements
Since I have gotten no rebuttals to my adoption, I have received permission from LG to adopt the Map Contest. Yay! ~ Upvoteanthology

News
April 6th, 2015: The Map Contest will be starting again under new management.

April 9th, 2015: Due to Cour's return to Chat, I have been alerted that he's not gone for good. However, he has given me permission to run the map contest, since he doesn't have the time to.

April 20th, 2015: The next contest will be the Election Map contest, and you may begin preparing maps now if you please. However, the entry section will not go up until next Monday.

April 20th, 2015: Voting has been opened for "One Big Wank".

April 28th, 2015: The Modern Election contest has been opened.

Moderators

 * Upvoteanthology (Technical Owner, Co-Mod with Cour)
 * CourageousLife (Original Owner, Co-Mod)

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 * Our Southern Neighbor Archive
 * Principia Moderni II Crossover Archive
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 * We Shall Do This For Mother Russia! Archive
 * Pink Stars Are Falling In Lines Archive
 * Pax Americana Archive
 * Day of Infamy Archive
 * Nova Roma Archive
 * The End of the World As We Know It Archive
 * By Odin's Beard Archive
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 * Across the Pond Archive
 * Terra Nova Archive
 * Russian Summer Archive
 * Exile or Death Archive
 * Jigsaw Archive
 * The Wall Archive
 * The Little Guy Archive
 * The Imperial West Archive

Participants
If you are going to make a map for the current contest, please write your name in the area below. It will be reset every contest in order to see who is participating: 15:24, April 30, 2015 (UTC)'''
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 *  There's only one word to describe Scraw,and I'm gonna spell it out for ya. S-A-W-F-T! SSSAAAWWWFFFTTT!!!
 * -Seiga
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Complaints


= Contests =

Contest 24: Modern Election (Monday, April 27th - Monday, May 12)

 * Create an electoral map of any country after the results of an election are released. This election can be a general election (president, prime minister) or a congressional/parliamentary mid-term election.
 * You may use any country you want, so if you want to draw up a map of alternate Turkey, Afghanistan or Mexico, that's perfectly fine.
 * The only provision is that it has to be modern - preferably in the 2005 - 2015 range, but I'd also think it'd be very interesting to depict maps as far back as 1945.

Deadlock (Scraw)
For the 2008 presidential election, John McCain selects Tim Pawlenty as his running mate and also campaigns more extensively in certain states. McCain wins more states than he did in OTL, especially ones where Barack Obama's margin of victory was incredibly low. This results in the Electoral College votes being split 269-269 between Obama and McCain. The election is thrown to Congress, but a President is not selected in time for Inauguration Day. However, the Democratic majority Senate chooses Joe Biden as the Vice President, and he becomes the acting President until a president is selected. After multiple rounds of voting, the House of Representatives chooses Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. However, the entire election proves the many flaws in the Electoral College system, so America starts down the path of ending it and bringing about a new system of electing officials.

Spring Lane ~ Colourful Elections -Seiga


In an alternate 2012 elections, held on December 16th, the had managed to win another successful election, and saw the further decline of the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito coalition; and Yoshihiko Noda from the DPJ remained Prime Minister. The Liberal Democratic Party in this timeline was somewhat similar to OTL's up until the early 1990s when the corruption scandals by the Liberal Democrats was even worse from OTL, and saw a major decline in members. In the 1996 elections, Ichirō Ozawa of the New Frontier Party had won and became the next Prime Minister.

In the Japanese general election of 2005, the Liberal Democrats made a brief comeback and Shinzō Abe managed to become Prime Minister after narrowly defeating Katsuya Okada of the Democratic Party. However, new controversies had arose during Abe's term in office and after another scandal, Abe resigned in 2008. In the 2009 elections, the Democratic Party managed to come back into power again, and managed to achieve better results than OTL, and successfully implemented several of its proposed policies, and also formed a coalition with the Japanese Communist Party.

As of 2014, the current Prime Minister of Japan is Banri Kaieda from the Democratic Party after Yoshihiko Noda resigned due to the term limits of the Presidency of the Democratic Party.

Blues vs Greens (TechnicallyIAmSean)
Quick guide to the colors: more to come
 * Blue: PVV
 * Green: CDA
 * Orange: VVD
 * Red: PVDA
 * Purple: NCP
 * Light Blue: CU
 * Pink: SGP

Contest Suggestions
15:19, April 9, 2015 (UTC)
 * PMIII Crossover - An alternate history within an alternate history--an alternate history occurring within the PMIII map game. —Bfoxius (talk)
 * Last time we tried that, no one participated. Upvote_User_Flag_New.png  April showers,   bring May flowers. Egypt Flag Final 2.png
 * Yeah, seriously. ^^^. PMIII crossovers are not good ideas because A.) it's going to be hard to ponder and theorize how the rest of PM3 will go, and people will lose interest and B.) in-game rivalries and politics seep into the contest. Cookiedamage (talk) 18:46, April 6, 2015 (UTC)
 * Modern Election - Create an electoral map of any country after the results of an election are released. This election can be a general election (president, prime minister) or a congressional/parliamentary mid-term election. You may use any country you want, so if you want to draw up a map of alternate Turkey, Afghanistan or Mexico, that's perfectly fine. I also encourage you all to depict different politicians, parties and ideologies when drawing up the map. EDIT: The only provision is that it has to be modern - preferably in the 2005 - 2015 range, but I'd also think it would be very interesting to depict maps as far back as 1945. Cookiedamage (talk)
 * I'm going to make an election map of North Korea! Toby2: THEY CALL ME Mr. Awesome!!!
 * I also like this idea.
 * I support this idea. Prinsenvlag.svg Hail Sean! (Get a free potato here)
 * Seems interesting. Hellerick [[Image:Flag of Divnogorsk.svg|20px]] 05:47, April 10, 2015 (UTC)
 * War Map - Create a scenario for a war between two or more countries and include maps of territory changes, specific battles, major offensives, battle locations, etc. Vatonica (talk) 02:09, April 8, 2015 (UTC)
 * Prussian-Austrian War - Make a map of a post-Austrian victory at the Battle of Köngingratz, and how the world would butterfly after. Saturn120 12:35, April 10, 2015 (UTC)
 * Post WWII - Pick a POD happening from 1939-1945. Make a map of how the world would be different today, especially focusing on the cold war.
 * Long Lost Brothers - Select a minor power nation, select TWO PODs; one from the Antiquity and another from the past 100 years, wank that country to its greatest extent. -  .....   Because I'm Just... Too... SSSWWWEEEEEETTT!!!