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Xash Contest Board
"Bring Your Venue Contests To Life"
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Copyright (c) 2026 by (CTS) Carlyle Theas Solutions
https://www.carlyletheassolutions.com
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The Xash Contest Board is a fully-integrated, web-synchronized solution for running club contests (e.g., "Best in Black", "Cutest Couple").
Online manual:
https://carlyletheassolutions.com/xash-contestboard.php
NOTE: The Xash Contest Board requires an existing Xash installation.
You can obtain Xash, our club management system, here:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/CTS-Xash-The-Club-Management-System/22664149
Features
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✩ Four Contest Phases: Automatically guides your venue through Inactive, Entries (Registration), Voting, and Winner/Payout phases.
✩ Web-Managed Configuration: Adjust settings like prize structures, voter limits, text colors, and custom textures on the fly via the Xash Web Page.
✩ Flexible Prize Modes: Supports Winner Takes All, Top 3 Split (with custom percentages), or Proportional Payout based on vote shares.
✩ Multi-Vote & Vote Reallocation: Voters can be allowed to cast multiple votes (up to 10). If all of their votes have been cast, they can choose to dynamically change and reallocate their votes.
✩ Phase-Specific Rotating Messages: Features a customizable text display strip that shows different rotating messages for each phase (No Contest, Ongoing, Voting, and Announcing Winners) with configurable page-flip speeds.
✩ Presence Checks: Optionally removes contestants who are not present in the region when voting starts, ensuring only active participants can win.
✩ Intelligent Tie-Breaking: Automatically splits the first, second, and third-place prizes equally among tied contestants.
✩ Inworld Pot Contributions: Visitors can pay the board directly to increase the prize pot. If a contest is canceled or deactivated, contributions are refunded automatically to the respective contributors.
✩ Custom Blacklists: Features web-managed blacklists for both contestants (blocking registration) and voters (blocking voting) to prevent griefing.
✩ Winner Announcements: Publicly announces winner rankings in local chat with configurable delay intervals between announcements to prevent text flooding.
✩ Staff List Sync: Automatically synchronizes with the management team defined in your Xash dashboard.
- Club Contest Board
- Integrates with Xash, the CTS club system
- Flexible configuration options
- Shows profile pictures and display names
- Flexible management and access options
A modern, web-based board, at last!
Been waiting for this one! And it meets and exceeds all expectations. Most of the contest boards out there are based on old designs, where you must update data via notecards one at a time. This one is integrated into a club system where all the staff data is centralized on a web site, and goodness that makes it all so much easier.
The board does all the expected functions (host opening contest for entry, opening for voting, announcing winners, etc.), but in addition has a lot of customization available so you can tailor it to your own club. I particularly like the voting options, which allow not only Everyone or Group voting, but Staff-only voting, to assist with alt-contest-crasher issues.
It comes on a plain panel, so you can add your own frame or mounting to match your club decor. She also provides a rather nifty 3D online frame building tool, so you can make a frame to fit, and upload it to SL.
We have used several contest boards over the years and they were all lacking in one thing or another. We've finally found the keeper!
