Make It So 2010
The original Make It So: The Search for the Next Assistant Game Designer began with applications in October 2010. A total of twenty (20) applications were received and all twenty (20) applicants were invited to participate. In Phase I, four (4) teams of contestants competed in head to head matches, with the Bajoran Team versus the Cardassian Team, and the Klingon Team against the Romulan Team. After each challenge, one member from each losing team was eliminated.
For Phase II, the teams were reshuffled into just two teams that continued to compete against each other, with the losing team each week losing a member. When just six (6) contestants remained, the competition switched to individual challenges and eliminations until just three (3) remained. These top 3 competed in The Final Challenge saw the top contestants manage their own design team as they build a fifteen (15) card boutique expansion.
Roster
Phase I
Each of the four teams (Bajoran, Cardassian, Klingon and Romulan) are listed below. Teams began the compeition with five (5) members each. Each contestant's name, message board handle, age and hometown is listed. In addition, each contestant is listed with their favorite affiliation, the affiliations they best undersood and least understood, and the affiliation they felt needed the most help to become Tier 1. The team leader appears in bold, and any eliminated team members appear in strikethrough text.
| Bajoran Team (3-1) | |||||||
| Contestant | trekcc.org Handle | Age | Hometown | Favorite | Best | Worst | Neediest |
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| Darren Lacoste | dlacoste | 35 | Orlando, Florida |  | |  |  |
| Matthew Hayes | karonofborg13 | 39 | West Fargo, North Dakota | or  | | |  |
| George Meadows III | theECH | 38 | Richmond, Virginia | | |  | |
| Keith Morris | Foreman | 30 | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |  | |  | |
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| Cardassian Team (1-3) | |||||||
| Contestant | trekcc.org Handle | Age | Hometown | Favorite | Best | Worst | Neediest |
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| Conno Hendriksen | WeyounsLastClone | 28 | Zwolle, The Netherlands | |  | | or |
| Isaiah Nordhagen | grandnagusmorn | 23 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | | | | |
| Moorhead, Minnesota |  or  | All | | | |||
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In the first phase of the competition, teams will be paired against each other directly. The Bajoran Team will compete against the Cardassian Team, while the Klingon Team competes against the Romulan team.
| Klingon Team (1-3) | |||||||
| Contestant | trekcc.org Handle | Age | Hometown | Favorite | Best | Worst | Neediest |
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| Torbjorn Lindquist | Linkan | 34 | Ostersund, Sweden | | | | |
| Blake Mandalis | Devoras | 27 | Ada, Ohio | | | | |
| Rochester, Minnesota | | | | | |||
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| Romulan Team (3-1) | |||||||
| Contestant | trekcc.org Handle | Age | Hometown | Favorite | Best | Worst | Neediest |
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| Daniel Giddings | Danny | 28 | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK | | | | |
| Tyler Fultz | DJStormtrooper42 | 24 | Kaiserslautern, Germany | | | | |
| Kevin Jaeger | Hoss-Drone | 28 | Sioux Falls, South Dakota | | | | |
| Nathan Miracle | GooeyChewie | 25 | Charlotte, North Carolina | | | | |
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Phase II
During Phase II of the competition, two teams (Borg and Federation) competed directly against one another - unlike in Phase I, where there were two sets of opposing teams. Both teams are listed below. Teams began this phase of the competition with six (6) members each. Each contestant's name, message board handle, age and hometown is listed, as well as their original team. The team leader appears in bold, and any eliminated team member appears in strikethrough text.
| Borg Team (3-2) | |||||||
| Contestant | trekcc.org Handle | Age | Hometown | Phase I Team | Favorite | Best | Worst |
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| Nathan Miracle | GooeyChewie | 25 | Charlotte, North Carolina | Romulan | | | |
| Daniel Giddings | Danny | 28 | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK | Romulan | | | |
| Tyler Fultz | DJStormtrooper42 | 24 | Kaiserslautern, Germany | Romulan | | | |
| Torbjorn Lindquist | Linkan | 34 | Ostersund, Sweden | Klingon | | | |
| Ada, Ohio | Klingon | | | | |||
| Sioux Falls, South Dakota | Romulan | | | | |||
| Federation Team (2-3) | |||||||
| Contestant | trekcc.org Handle | Age | Hometown | Phase I Team | Favorite | Best | Worst |
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| Keith Morris | Foreman | 30 | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | Bajoran | | | |
| Conno Hendriksen | WeyounsLastClone | 28 | Zwolle, The Netherlands | Cardassian | | | |
| Darren Lacoste | dlacoste | 35 | Orlando, Florida | Bajoran | | | |
| Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Cardassian | | | | |||
| Richmond, Virginia | Bajoran | | | | |||
| West Fargo, North Dakota | Bajoran | or | | ||||
Phase III
In Phase III, contestants competed against each other, but could still call upon their teammates for feedback and support. Eliminated team members appears in strikethrough text.
| The Semi-Finalists | ||||||||
| Contestant | trekcc.org Handle | Age | Hometown | Phase I Team | Phase II Team | Favorite | Best | Worst |
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| Keith Morris | Foreman | 30 | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | Bajoran | Federation | | | |
| Zwolle, The Netherlands | Cardassian | Federation | | | | |||
| Charlotte, North Carolina | Romulan | Borg | | | | |||
| Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK | Romulan | Borg | | | | |||
| Orlando, Florida | Bajoran | Federation | | | | |||
| Kaiserslautern, Germany | Romulan | Borg | | | | |||
| Ostersund, Sweden | Klingon | Borg | | | | |||
Challenges
The challenges for Make It So were designed to test the contestant's knowledge of the rules, the strengths and weaknesses of each affiliation, and their understanding of how the game works and should develop. In addition, challenges were about teamwork, time management, and communication. Challenges often were designed to test or illustrate the understanding of specific game concepts, both in general and specific to Second Edition.
| Phase I Challenges | |||||||||
| Details | Bajoran vs. Cardassian | Klingon vs. Romulan | |||||||
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| # | Start Date | Name | Guest Judge | Winner | BotW | Nominated (Eliminated) | Winner | BotW | Nominated (Eliminated) |
| 1 | 14 Jan 2010 | The Dual Dilemma Dilemma | N/A | Bajoran | WeyounsLastClone | Peers (Taurnil) | Romulan | Devoras | EL1TE (Mogor) |
| 2 | 28 Jan 2010 | The Mission Mission | Matt Kirk (CaptMDKirk) | Bajoran | WeyounsLastClone | Peers (bhosp) | Klingon | GooeyChewie | DJStormtrooper42 (prylardurden) |
| 3 | 9 Feb 2010 | The Word is the Key | N/A | Cardassian | Foreman | theECH (Bass) | Romulan | Linkan | Devoras (EL1TE) |
| 4 | 22 Feb 2010 | Choose Your Own Adventure | N/A | Bajoran | WeyounsLastClone | grandnagusmorn (Peers) | Romulan | Linkan | Devoras (ikeya) |
| Phase II Challenges | ||||||
| Details | Results | |||||
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| # | Start Date | Name | Guest Judge | Winner | BotW | Nominated (Eliminated) |
| 5 | 12 Mar 2010 | The Expansion Blues | John Corbett (KillerB) | Borg | WeyounsLastClone | dlacoste (karonofborg13) |
| 6 | 24 Mar 2010 | Imagine | Johnny Holeva (jjh) | Federation | GooeyChewie | Devoras (Hoss-Drone) |
| 7 | 6 Apr 2010 | Not Inspired By Ferengi | Chris Lobban (Maelwys) | Borg | Foreman | grandnagusmorn (theECH) |
| 8 | 27 Apr 2010 | There's Something About Meta | Neil Timmons (ntimmons) | Borg | Foreman | dlacoste (grandnagusmorn) |
| 9 | 13 May 2010 | Read Between the Lines | Section 31 (SirDan & SirRogue) | Federation | DJstormtrooper42 | Linkan (Devoras) |
| 10 | 26 May 2010 | Reborn/Delivery | N/A | Federation | DJstormtrooper42 | N/A |
| Phase III Challenges | ||||||
| Details | Results | |||||
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| # | Start Date | Name | Guest Judge | Winner | Eliminations (2) | |
| 11 | 24 Jun 2010 | Tradition! | N/A | GooeyChewie | Danny & Linkan | |
| 12 | 06 July 2010 | No I In Team | N/A | GooeyChewie | dlacoste & DJstormtrooper | |
| Final | 19 July 2010 | The Final Challenge | N/A | Foreman | GooeyChewie & WeyounsLastClone | |
Challenge #1: The Dual Dilemma Dilemma
The design team has decided to make the use of dual dilemmas riskier. Design a fifteen card "expansion" that makes the use of dual dilemmas more risky, with at least one card for each affiliation and sub-affiliation (except 
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Challenge #2: The Mission Mission
Design at least six (6) non-headquarters missions with gametext, one for each of the six weakest affiliations or sub-affiliations.
Challenge #3: The Word is the Key
Create six (6) events, each of which references or works with an existing keyword that your team feels is underused. You must select at least three different existing keywords.
Challenge #4: Choose Your Own Adventure
Create a thematic cycle of six (6) cards (1 Dilemma, 1 Equipment/Event/Interrupt, 1 Personnel, 1 Ship, plus 2 more cards of any types) that are drawn from the same Star Trek story (an episode, multi-episode arc or movie).
Challenge #5: The Expansion Blues
Create your vision of the Xindi without creating a new affiliation. You must create at least one (1) equipment/event/interrupt, one (1) personnel and one (1) ship and must create a total of exactly nine (9) cards.
Challenge #6: Imagine
Create nine (9) cards, each based on one of the following images selected by the Art Team:
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Challenge #7: Not Inspired by Ferengi
Create six (6) cards that take advantage of the following hypothetical ruling: personnel are now present with themselves.
Challenge #8: There's Something About Meta
Create nine (9) cards that are designed to adjust the current meta-game, such that at least one (1) of your cards hurts a existing strong deck, and at least one (1) of your cards boosts an existing weak deck.
Challenge #9: Read Between the Lines
Create updated versions of the listed cards based on the feedback provided by your playtest teams.
Challenge #10: Reborn/Delivery
Former contestants (members of Team Non-Aligned) are given one final chance to rejoin the game with Challenge #10.1, Reborn: Create a cycle of affiliated cards (limit one per affiliation or sub-affiliation) that adapt the function of an existing 2E equipment, event, or interrupt specifically for that affiliation or sub-affiliation's themes and mechanics..
At the same time, the Borg Team and the Federation Team vie for their final victory as they prepare their final, forty-five (45) card virtual expansion with Challenge #10.2: Delivery.
Challenge #11: Tradition!
Create three (3) cards based on or inspired by one of the many traditions in Second Edition.
Challenge #12: No I In Team
Create a "team" in the same vein as those that appeared in Allegiance.
The Final Challenge
As the Lead Designer of your own team, create a fifteen card boutique expansion designed to be released before (and legal at) the World Championship.