Ah yeah, the “submission rules” are simple, but hidden under a long, complicated explanation of the challenge itself. You may submit up to 2 entries, and I’ll take anything with the right techpool and naming convention.
Also, thanks to Knugcab for doing a better job selling the challenge as I ever could. You’ve got the idea behind this down pat, and I appreciate the kind words!
This brings us to 3/10 of the entries needed to start (not counting the host’s 2). With all the challenges going on right now, I know ya’ll are making cars so 'cmon, step right up and toss a copy here!
SO, HOW ABOUT A SLIGHTLY MORE SERIOUS ENTRY?
Meet the 1998 ARVA Kosulya 2.5 DT Crew Cab. Since I was going to make it for a couple of other challenges anyway, why not throw it in here too?
Come on, I know all of you have car files just lying around, some more entries could be nice! 
Knugcab’s doing as much to keep this alive as I am, lol.
I do have a theory as to why interest might be so barren though. I’ve set up a poll, let’s give it 24 hours and see if it confirms my hypothesis.
Here is another commercial entry, this is the 2020 Maxtra Deliver 5 crewvan.
I originally made this for some QFC but forgot to actually send it in.
Ok, seems 24 hours became 48 lol. (Told ya’ll I wasn’t in no hurry)
My theory was that this thread wasn’t being looked at at all, which I guess didn’t really hold up. Sure, 6 voters isn’t a lot, but it there’s interestingly several more people who’ve liked comments recently that didn’t do the poll (including someone who liked the poll itself but didn’t answer it?). So viewership isn’t great, but it is enough.
As for the questions themselves; we are 5/10 people. The at-most 3 entries we could get from the people who said they still want to submit wouldn’t reach quota; but there’s 2 more people who said they want to but can’t.
So leaning into my next theory, for the people who said they can’t submit; is the reason, perhaps, that you’re already on Al-Rima?
Given how long this challenge is going, I may be forced to adopt Al-Rima anyway; so if re-formatting to Al-Rima (and letting existing submissions resubmit) makes the challenge more accessible, it seems like a win-win.
For me personally, this challenge confuses me. I have no idea what to build, and i dont want to go in aimlessly. Also, i dont like building meme cars, i feel like this challenge has had some?..i may be wrong. I will say this though, after seeing the last 2 entries i feel confident in submitting. If i did submit, it would be along the lines of the previous two submissions above. And thats because i have no idea what to make lol.
The thing with this challenge, is that you can make more or less anything you want to, because it is impossible to know what will score the best, since the brief and rules are going to be randomized. Multiple times. So it is more or less a matter of luck, but I am sure that it will be hilarious along the way.
Also, my guess is that it was a mistake to make this challenge a “MLC”. I think people are fed up with the “MLC” meme at the moment and does not look them up at all, hence missing that this was a “meme” challenge that still makes sense.
Good points. Yeah, the brief being “literally anything” does make the challenge seem daunting. I thought it’d be easy for people to just submit things they already have lying around, but I guess that’s not how many like to operate.
Now that we do have submissions though, I agree you should base your entry off of what’s already here; but rather than make something along those lines, I encourage you to make something as different as possible from what you see above (for at least one of your entries). Since each round’s gonna have completely different needs, the more variety & contrast in the entries, the more fun the final reviews will be when each car does radially different each time.
As for the MLC name; I mean, I still feel like this fits under that banner being a meme challenge, and it’s a bit too late to change it, but taking that I may still revise the title so it just says “Mad Libs Challenge” to emphasize this one’s different angle.
Edit: I’ve also updated the OP to clarify the inspirations tab.
Somebody’s techpool is off…
(Imma fix it and play it where it lies)
We’ve now reached the minimum 10 entries needed to start the challenge, with entries from @Knugcab, @HelloHi, @mart1n2005, @06DPA, @Ringu, and @Chief!
Now, the rule I planned earlier was that I’d give about another week from this point (mainly to allow anyone still wanting to enter a last chance to get in. However, since I said that I got pretty busy IRL, and now I’m not sure I could get any writeups done soon anyway. Yet, I’m hesitant to extend submissions even further, both because they’ve already been open for so long, and because I’m worried in the future that Al-Rima could become stable and kick everyone out of Ellisbury.
So stumped once again, I ask your opinion:
I’m leaning towards option 1, but I still wanna know what ya’ll’s think here. Feel free to discuss in thread.
I cannot read the options.
Dangit, why does the formatting here have so many quirks?
Anyway, it should be better now. Thanks for pointing it out.
What are the priorities?
Of the challenge? Those are the judging “Categories” that can be found in the spreadsheet. 7 are randomly generated with each round.
Which ones were generated for this round?
None have been generated yet. The rounds don’t start until submissions close;
(if you want to maximize, either try to meet as many potential categories as you can, or do something with really unique advantages and hope you get lucky)
Um, how do I make a car when I don’t know what the generated words are?
You hope and pray. The Randomness is the point of the challenge. You can either target specific things, throw something random in, or make a generalist.
